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Youth Honor Choir
Eighteen Fairfield Middle School students, including the seventh- and eighth-graders in the top photo and the fifth- and sixth-graders in the bottom photo, were selected to participate in the...
View ArticleSPORTS IN BRIEF: Fairfield basketball, Pekin wrestling
Pekin wrestlers fall to Highland The Pekin wrestling team lost to Highland 39-18 Thursday. Trenton Conger (220), Michael Hadley (285) and Scott Entsminger (182) each earned six points by forfeit....
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Ide Gymnastics takes third place in Des Moines
Ide Gymnastics competed in the Team Gymnastics Academy Tum-Bowl VIII in Des Moines on Jan. 12. The team got an overall third place. The team is, from left, front row: Ashlyn Elmore, Trista Benedict,...
View ArticleEx-Cowboy Brent gets 180 days in jail, probation
DALLAS (AP) — Former Dallas Cowboys player Josh Brent was sentenced Friday to 180 days in jail and 10 years of probation for a drunken car crash that killed his friend and teammate, Jerry Brown. Brent...
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Early lead gives Panthers win over Trojans
Down 42-12, Fairfield’s Bryce Lunsford started the comeback. When Lunsford (160) pinned Mt. Pleasant’s Josh Larson, it gave the Trojan wrestling team a chance to salvage a tie out of the Panthers’...
View ArticleNew prep football district assignments announced
A trip to Davenport is in the Fairfield football team’s near future. New districts were assigned Thursday for Iowa high schools. The Trojans were placed in Class 3A District 5. Fairfield’s usual...
View ArticlePolice
Fairfield Police Department’s dispatch log for Thursday, included: 1:03 a.m. complaint of disturbing the peace. 10:31 a.m. Vera Rhodes was arrested on a warrant. 7:02 p.m. Lucy Roe was arrested on a...
View ArticleFire
Fairfield Fire Department responded to 708 Orchard Place at 8:28 a.m. today on a report of a burning smell in the house near the furnace. After investigating, firefighters returned to the station at...
View ArticleFDA says nutrition facts label will get a makeover
WASHINGTON (AP) — After 20 years, the nutrition facts label on the back of food packages is getting a makeover. Knowledge about nutrition has evolved since the early 1990s, and the Food and Drug...
View ArticleCDL drivers need to self-certify with IDOT by Thursday
Every commercial driver’s license holder is required to self-certify to the type of driving they do, interstate or intrastate, and if applicable, submit a copy of their Medical Examiner’s Certificate...
View ArticleCapitol Comments by Rep. Curt Hanson
State Representative Curt Hanson represents Iowa House District 82, which includes most of Jefferson County and Davis and Van Buren counties, in the state Legislature. Tuesday, many Legislators...
View ArticleAnother surge of artic air arrives Sunday afternoon
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...
View ArticlePublic meetings
MONDAY Jefferson County Board of Supervisors — Jefferson County Courthouse, first floor meeting room, 8 a.m.: meet with Public Health regarding fiscal year 2015 county budget request. Jefferson County...
View ArticleWayland man leads police on high-speed chase
WAYLAND [GTNS] – A Wayland man has been charged with felony eluding as well as a slew of misdemeanor charges after leading Washington County Sheriff’s deputies and Iowa State troopers on a high-speed...
View ArticleAlumni perplexed by Iowa Wesleyan cuts
MT. PLEASANT (GTNS) – Shocked, upset and confused. That sums up the feelings of some Iowa Wesleyan College alumni regarding the program, faculty and staff cuts announced this week. College officials...
View ArticleSchool may try to save some ash trees for shade
The Fairfield school board heard an update about Fairfield High School’s upcoming renovation and addition project at Monday’s school board meeting and will hold a public hearing and a special meeting...
View ArticleLocals reach out to help homeless man in Fairfield
The Fairfield Police Department and The Fairfield Ledger have received feedback from the community about a dispatch call entry regarding a homeless man published in the police report in Wednesday’s...
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Panelists share experience with drugs, alcohol
The harmful effects of drugs and alcohol were the focus of a panel Thursday night in the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center. The Jefferson County Alcohol Consumption Task Force and First Resources...
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Half century
The student body of Washington Elementary School celebrated principal Jeff Eeling’s 50th birthday Thursday by dressing in black. Eeling and the students give the camera a big 5-0 hand sign.
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A night in Paris
Attendees to the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center’s fundraiser Saturday were treated to a number of performances including a dancing number featuring, from left, Madison Soupiset, Cheyenne...
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