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School board sees design of FHS renovations
Design plans for the Fairfield High School renovation and addition project were shown in a PowerPoint at Monday’s school board meeting by Nick Hildebrandt of StruXture Architects of Waterloo. The...
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Batavia man chronicles comic books
BATAVIA – One would be hard pressed to find a person in Jefferson County who knows more about comic books than John Wells. Wells, of Batavia, has been a comic book fanatic almost as long as he’s been...
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THURSDAY Yard Waste Burning in Fairfield City Limits, daylight hours when wind conditions are appropriate. Information: 472-6193. Arc of Jefferson & Nearby Counties Board of Directors, regular...
View ArticleDNR giving away bow to promote popularity of archery in Iowa
Archery is experiencing a wave of popularity thanks in part to the Hunger Games series and to Iowa’s expanding archery in the schools program, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. In...
View ArticleMount Pleasant tour of homes Sunday
MOUNT PLEASANT — Mount Pleasant’s annual tour of homes hosted by Chapter DD T.T.T. is set for 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Four area homes decorated for the holidays will be open to the public. New this year is a...
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Quilt for NEST
Vickie Malloy, left, presents the baby quilt her husband, Fairfield Mayor Ed Malloy, crafted during a recent Fairfield 1st Fridays Art Walk, to NEST Coordinator Lynne Johnson at the Jefferson County...
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Gingerbread Extravaganza contest entries due Dec. 2-4
Continuing a Fairfield holiday tradition, Fairfield 1st Fridays Art Walk, the Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce and the Fairfield Art Association have once again partnered to present the Gingerbread...
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FRIDAY Maharishi Vedic City Council — Maharishi Vedic City Hall/Peace Palace, 1750 Maharish Center Ave., 3 p.m.: minutes; claims; treasurer’s report; resolution setting date for a public hearing on...
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Churches & Synogogues: November 24-30, 2013
The following houses of worship have submitted calendars for Sunday through Nov. 30. Any Fairfield house of worship wanting to have its calendar for the week of Dec. 1-7 published in The Ledger Nov....
View ArticleThanksgiving dinner; Hebrew lessons, Live nativity
Church serving community Thanksgiving Wednesday LOCKRIDGE — First Augustana Lutheran Church in Lockridge will be serving a Thanksgiving supper from 5-6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Lockridge Community...
View ArticleCalendar: November 22, 2013
FRIDAY Taco Night, Fairfield Eagles Club, 5-7 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous, Fairfield Friends Church, 8 p.m. Narcotics Anonymous, New Life Community Church, 7 p.m. SATURDAY Yard Waste Burning in...
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Holiday pots
Marji Wintroub, left, and Deb DeArmond arrange holiday greenery in the three concrete pots on the southeast corner of the Fairfield square earlier this week. Every year, Oakwood Nursery donates...
View ArticleCongregate Meals: November 25-29, 2013
The Fairfield Senior Citizen Center has listed its menu for the coming week. Meals are served at 11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday at the Fairfield senior center and at noon Monday, Wednesday and...
View ArticleFairfield School Menu: November 25-29, 2013
Fairfield Community School District has listed its breakfast and lunch menu for the coming week. Monday — breakfast at all schools: assorted cereals, cereal bars and Nutri-Grain Bars, orange juice,...
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F.A.C.T. presents ‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’
It’s time to celebrate the holiday season with the Fairfield Area Community Theatre upcoming production of Barbara Robinson’s “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” according to F.A.C.T. President Tim...
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FRIDAY Maharishi Vedic City Council — Maharishi Vedic City Hall/Peace Palace, 1750 Maharish Center Ave., 3 p.m.: minutes; claims; treasurer’s report; resolution setting date for a public hearing on...
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Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office responded to a vehicle accident at 4:37 p.m. Tuesday in Batavia. Wendi Manley of Batavia, driving a 2007 Mercury Milan, stopped at a stop sign, then proceeded to turn...
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Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a burglary at 11:33 a.m. Thursday. A resident in Libertyville reported items were taken sometime between 12:01 a.m. Nov. 11 and 11:59 p.m....
View ArticleNation pauses to remember Kennedy
DALLAS (AP) — Fifty years after John F. Kennedy fell victim to an assassin’s bullet while visiting Texas with his wife, people at home and abroad paused today to remember the 35th president of the...
View ArticleEvolution debate engulfs Texas board of education
AUSTIN, Texas — Long-simmering ideological objections to teaching evolution in Texas boiled over at a late-night meeting, as the Board of Education extended preliminary approval of new science...
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