Cornbelt Cow-Calf Conference focuses on profitable expansion
OTTUMWA — The premier Iowa educational event for cow-calf producers, the Cornbelt Cow-Calf Conference, is set for Saturday at the Bridge View Center in Ottumwa. The conference begins with registration...
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STOCKPORT The Stockport Jam will be 1-4 p.m. Sunday at Heritage Estates. Come for an afternoon of acoustical musical entertainment and bring instruments to play. An offering will be taken to help...
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Jefferson County Fairfield 4-H Clover Kids
JEFFERSON COUNTY FAIRFIELD 4-H CLOVER KIDS The Jefferson County Fairfield 4-H Clover Kids met 5:15-6:15 p.m. Thursday at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds Activity Building. Thirteen members...
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Fairfield Police Department responded to an accident at 6:13 a.m. today. A vehicle was making a left turn from Main Street onto West Washington Avenue, and due to ice on the road, lost control,...
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Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office has received six to eight reports of vandalism to county mailboxes. Sheriff Gregg Morton said mailboxes were knocked down with possibly a baseball bat and/or by...
View ArticleWind continues, cold returns at end of week
The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook for portions of north central Illinois, northwest Illinois, west central Illinois, east central Iowa, northeast Iowa, southeast...
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THURSDAY Libertyville City Council — Libertyville community room, 5:30 p.m.: budget fiscal year 2014-15 workshop; adjourn. Fairfield City Council Property Committee — Fairfield City Hall, 5:30 p.m.:...
View ArticleNo. 15 Kansas beats No. 8 Iowa State
AMES (AP) — Iowa State can shoot it with the best of them, as the Cyclones have shown many times this season. But when those shots don’t fall, Iowa State can struggle. Factor in an opponent that’s...
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Spencer Drish wins another MMA fight
Fairfield native Spencer Drish (front with red shorts and black knee brace) completes a Mixed Martial Arts technique called a Sambo throw on opponent Justin Stevenson Oct. 12 in Knoxville at Midwest...
View ArticlePekin earns huge wins over weekend
It was a perfect weekend of basketball for Pekin. The girls’ and the boys’ team, both won two games, one against WACO and one against IMS. The boys began their weekend with a 79-45 overwhelming of...
View ArticleSPORTS IN BRIEF: MSAE, Cardinal, Van Buren basketball
Overwhelmed MSAE loses to Van Buren The Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment boys’ basketball team was defeated Friday by Van Buren 107-25 in Keosauqua. The ninth ranked Warriors ran out to a...
View ArticleCardinal, Pekin wrestlers compete at Davis County
The Cardinal and Pekin wrestling teams traveled to Davis County to compete in a triangular Thursday. The Panthers lost to the Comets 35-29, to Davis County 54-18, and to Moravia 48-21. 1. Matthew...
View ArticleBowlers beat Washington at home
The Fairfield bowling team is now in the win column after a solid day on the lanes Saturday against Washington. The Trojan varsity boys won 2628-1999 and the varsity girls won 2250-2094 in Fairfield’s...
View ArticleNurses college building to be imploded
DES MOINES (AP) — Officials say explosives will be used to quickly bring down the old nurses college building that sits next to Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines. Des Moines television...
View ArticleDes Moines hatches plan to fight ash borer
DES MOINES (AP) — An 11-year, $10 million Des Moines proposal to fight the insect killer of ash trees focuses on about 13,000 “high impact” ash trees near streets, buildings, parking lots and parks...
View ArticleChamber hosts first legislative breakfast Saturday
The Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce will host the first of three installments of the Chamber’s 2014 Legislative Breakfast Series at 7:30 a.m. Saturday at the Best Western Fairfield Inn. Local...
View ArticlePrevett changes plea to guilty
Terri Ann Prevett pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree theft relating to charges she stole from the Fairfield Professional Clinic while acting as its office manager. Prevett, 57, of Stockport,...
View ArticlePublic health reports influenza deaths
DES MOINES — The Iowa Department of Public Health said an influenza-related death of a healthy Iowa child has been reported. IDPH also has been notified of several probable adult deaths related to...
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Gymnastics program in jeopardy
The Roosevelt Recreation Center may have to shut down its trampoline and gymnastics program at the end of February. An insurance review of the building in December revealed there was not adequate...
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Fairfield Volunteer Center organizing Martin Luther King Day of Service
The Fairfield Volunteer Center is joining forces with The Lord’s Cupboard of Jefferson County to co-sponsor the Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Day of Service to commemorate his life and...
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