Homecoming ceremony Saturday for returning soldiers
The public is invited to attend a homecoming ceremony for an Ottumwa-based Iowa Army National Guard unit that has been serving in Afghanistan. The ceremony will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Evans...
View ArticleBusinessman enters 2014 Iowa GOP Senate race
DES MOINES (AP) — Former energy company executive Mark Jacobs said Tuesday that he will run as a Republican for Iowa’s open U.S. Senate seat in 2014. Jacobs, 51, announced his plans at a news...
View ArticleIowa troops heading to Kosovo for peacekeeping
More than three dozen Iowa Army National Guard soldiers are being mobilized for peacekeeping duty in southeastern Europe. The National Guard said Monday that a community send-off ceremony is scheduled...
View ArticleSolon students hospitalized after football game against Washington
WATERLOO (GTNS) — Two Solon High School students were hospitalized Thursday night after a rollover accident that officials say was caused in part because of an incident between Solon and Washington...
View ArticleStudy: Kids less fit than their parents were
Today’s kids can’t keep up with their parents. An analysis of studies on millions of children around the world finds they don’t run as fast or as far as their parents did when they were young. On...
View ArticleHome energy assistance available
The Sieda Jefferson County Resource Center is taking applications for its energy assistance program. The program is known as Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, and Sieda began taking...
View ArticleForecasts, warnings spared lives from tornadoes
When a cluster of violent thunderstorms began marching across the Midwest, forecasters were able to draw a bright line on a map showing where the worst of the weather would go. Their uncannily...
View Article150 years later, Lincoln’s speech long remembered
In solemnity, thousands gathered on a central Pennsylvania battlefield park today to honor a speech given 150 years ago that President Abraham Lincoln predicted would not be long remembered. The...
View ArticleIDOT offices close for Thanksgiving holiday
All Iowa Department of Transportation business locations will be closed Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28 and the following day, Nov. 29. Motor Carrier Services’ permit center The IDOT’s Office of Vehicle...
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Taylor works on emergency medical service upgrades
The bipartisan Iowa Legislature’s Emergency Medical Services Study Committee completed two days of discussions on the state of emergency medical services in Iowa, and possible improvements....
View ArticlePublic meeting
THURSDAY Jefferson County Board of Health — Jefferson County Public Health conference room, 7 p.m.: community transformation update; Blue Zone update; immunization billing grant; FY15 budget.
View ArticleOttumwa man trapped in car two days after crash
OTTUMWA – An Ottumwa man is in critical condition after spending two days in his car after he drove off the road Friday. Patrick Allen Douglas, 60, was lifeflighted to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines...
View ArticleVoting underway for literary competition
Local authors are competing to win a writing contest that will be decided by online voting. The contest is the Inkfingerz Writing Competition, sponsored by KRUU and 1st World Publishing, both of...
View ArticleFairfield celebrates education week
American Education Week, celebrated this week, presents Americans with an opportunity to celebrate public education and honor individuals who are making a difference in ensuring that every child...
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Phil Miller to fill vacancy on school board
The Fairfield Community School District Board of Directors heard Monday from four interested residents willing to serve in a vacancy on the school board and the six remaining board members voted to...
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Someone’s in the kitchen
The Fairfield Women’s Club spent Nov. 11 preparing meals as delicious as they were large. The club made 60 chicken casseroles and 60 ham balls for Christmas at the McIlhenny House Dec. 14.
View ArticleRio’s Olympic waterways full of sewage, trash
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s endless beaches and lush tropical forest will be a photographer’s dream during the 2016 Olympics. But zoom in on the likes of once-pristine Guanabara Bay, and...
View ArticleSPORTS BRIEFS: Bowling, basketball, football
Bowling The Breakfast Club- Week 11 Team Name W L 1. The Morning Glory’s 29 15 2. On the Edge 28 16 3. Lucky Charms 26 18 4. Horizons Unlimited 24 20 5. The Bloody Mary’s 23.5 20.5 6. Sweet Rollers 21...
View ArticleCorrection
The following marriage registered at the Jefferson County Courthouse was published Nov. 11 in The Ledger with a mispelled name: Richard Thomas McCarty of Brighton married Cady Ann Lamansky Sept. 28,...
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Varsity girls basketball underway
Eight area teams are now one step closer to playing in the regular season. Fairfield traveled Tuesday to the Pekin Jamboree to face Cardinal High School. The Trojans won the two quarter long scrimmage...
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