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Delkers announce daughter’s engagement
Dennis and Terri Delker of Fairfield announce the engagement of their daughter Jessica Lynn Delker to Scott Michael Barron, son of Michael and Rhonda Barron of Vinton. The bride-elect is a 2007...
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Fairfield Police Department arrested Stacy Lynn Muntz, 38, of Farmington, and Kimberly Ann Barrows, 38, of Mount Sterling, at 6:02 p.m. Thursday at Walmart; each is charged with disorderly conduct....
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The following court case were processed at Jefferson County Courthouse: District Court Shane Kevin McBride, 25, of 104 ½ N. Court St., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deliver or possession with intent...
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FRIDAY Maharishi Vedic City Council — Maharishi Vedic City Hall/Peace Palace, 1750 Maharishi Center Ave., 3 p.m.: consent agenda; minutes; treasurer’s report; claims; utilities report; roads report;...
View ArticleBranstad leaves on trade mission to India, Japan
DES MOINES (AP) — Gov. Terry Branstad is heading to Japan and India on a trade mission. Branstad departs today. He will first go to Japan for the 2013 Midwest U.S.-Japan Association Conference in...
View ArticleIowa officials launch tool on emerging drugs
DES MOINES (AP) — Iowa officials have launched a communications tool that aims to inform residents about new and emerging drug concerns. The Governor’s Office of Drug Control Policy says the service...
View ArticleInmate mom had been checked twice at hospital
DES MOINES (AP) — Authorities say an inmate who gave birth in Polk County Jail had been checked and discharged twice the same day by a local hospital. The Des Moines Register says no doctors or nurses...
View ArticleIowa drought worsens in hottest week of year
DES MOINES — Drought conditions have worsened across parts of the Midwest in the last week, including in the nation’s leading corn-producing state as Iowa cooked in record-breaking temperatures that...
View ArticleIowa chief’s letter borrows from 1999 Navy speech
IOWA CITY (AP) — A resignation letter from Iowa’s ousted public safety chief contains several passages that are identical, or nearly identical, to a retirement speech given by a Navy captain in 1999,...
View ArticleCRP ground in Jefferson County available for emergency graze
Jefferson County USDA Farm Service Agency County Executive Director Gretchen McLain announced that in response to drought conditions, FSA has authorized emergency grazing use of Conservation Reserve...
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School board candidates make final pitch
The Fairfield Community School District has three of seven board seats expiring next week and one incumbent, Jennifer Anderson, filed to run for re-election and is the only candidate named on the...
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Election day
Pence Elementary School fourth-grader Maison Hopper selects his choice for the student council while inside a voting booth today. The student council will consist of two students from each class. The...
View ArticleManning has record night in NFL opener
DENVER (AP) — Both the NFL opener and Peyton Manning were a little tardy. It was well worth the wait. Manning and the Denver Broncos waited eight long months, then another 33 minutes to get the season...
View ArticleSPORTS BRIEFS: volleyball, cross-country, bowling
Cross-Country The Wildwood Invite took place Thursday in Pekin. Fairfield, Van Buren and Cardinal all competed on what was for many teams the first meet of the year. Pekin’s Austin Fariss finished...
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Mount Pleasant defeats Fairfield in another chapter of rivalry
Icona Pop was playing, which meant it was almost game time. With each passing song the Trojans volleyball team sang more and more as they warmed up. The crowd, containing a student section for the...
View ArticleInvestigation begins in Lockridge shooting
LOCKRIDGE – Law enforcement officials are in the process of interviewing witnesses with information pertaining to the death of David L. Bittner, 46, who died Wednesday night. Bittner, of rural Mount...
View ArticlePekin volunteers sought
PACKWOOD — Pekin Elementary School is looking for volunteers again this year to work with kindergarten through second graders who need a little extra attention. Volunteers in the Friends of Education...
View ArticleP.E.O. Chapter MB
P.E.O. CHAPTER MB Members of P.E.O. Chapter MB will meet at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Fairfield Golf & Country Club.
View ArticleCountry schools; DKG
COUNTRY SCHOOLS The Country Schools reunion will begin at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Batavia Senior Community Center. A cooperative dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m. All former students and teachers of...
View ArticleSquare dance venue changed
Due to extreme heat, the venue for first session of the square dance class has changed. Tonight’s session at Pence Elementary School gym has moved to Morning Star Studio’s ballroom. Continuing...
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