Jefferson County Farm Bureau Women
JEFFERSON COUNTY FARM BUREAU WOMEN The Jefferson County Farm Bureau Women will meet at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Pizza Ranch in Fairfield. Carol Messer will be hostess. Roll-call response will be on the...
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Reunion
From left, Tom Louden Sr., Willard Boyd and Eugene Copeland celebrate at a reunion held Nov. 19 in Fairfield. Louden and Copeland are both graduates of the University of Iowa College of Law, and Boyd...
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Pianist in concert at Sondheim
Joel Brown, professor emeritus of music at Iowa Wesleyan College, will perform a solo piano recital at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 6 at the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center’s Stephen Sondheim Center for the...
View ArticleFHS honor roll announced
Fairfield High School officials have announced the students who earned recognition on the honor roll for the second quarter of the 2013-14 academic year. ‘A’ honor roll Students on the “A” honor roll,...
View ArticlePolice
Fairfield Police Department dispatch log of calls received, included: Wednesday 9:08 a.m. investigate criminal mischief complaint; resident in 600 block of South Third Street had a tire slashed around...
View ArticleFire
Fairfield Fire Department responded at 1:06 p.m. Wednesday to a grass fire reported at 2151 185th St. Two acres of set aside land burned; ashes blown by the wind from a fire pit into the grass...
View ArticleObama hopes myRA will be first step on retirement
Even proponents of President Barack Obama’s new retirement savings program readily concede it won’t be a cure-all for a nation of people who are saving far too little for their golden years. Many...
View ArticleNo. 16 Iowa State falls to No. 6 Kansas, 92-81
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Fred Hoiberg has walked into Allen Fieldhouse to face Kansas enough times as a player and coach to anticipate what would happen to Iowa State on Wednesday night. First, the...
View ArticlePekin boys continue win streak, girls fall to Mediapolis
The Pekin boys’ basketball team continued its strong season by beating Mediapolis 65-30 Tuesday and pushing its winning streak to 13 games. Pekin (13-1) held Mediapolis scoreless in the first quarter....
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Tournament champs crowned in Washington
Fairfield seventh grade girls’ basketball players won the Washington Tournament Saturday. After beating Ottumwa and Oskaloosa, the girls defeated Washington in the final game 29-24. The girls, from...
View ArticleBowling team continues recent success
The Fairfield bowling team traveled to face Louisa-Muscatine Tuesday. The Trojans boys’ and girls’ varsity teams pulled out victories. “The big difference tonight is we were able to make our spares,”...
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Comets taking aim at another state championship
Cheyenne Phillips was used to shooting a different kind of bow. School bows don’t have sights or releases. Her fifth grade self watched her peers shoot single round 30s and 35s (out of a possible 50...
View ArticleFormer Iowa County treasurer charged with theft
MARENGO (AP) — A former county treasurer in eastern Iowa has been accused of stealing more than $62,000 from the county for several years. The Iowa County Sheriff’s Office says Kimberly J. Tanke has...
View ArticleIowa court to hear pastor’s sex exploitation case
DES MOINES (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court will review a ruling that ordered a new trial for a former Iowa pastor accused of sexually preying on female parishioners. The court said Wednesday it has...
View ArticleIowa woman dies from overheating at group home
MARION (AP) — State records say a mentally disabled woman overheated and died inside a Marion group home that had been heat-treated for bedbugs. The Des Moines Register says 61-year-old Rhonda Skoog...
View ArticlePanel OKs fuel tax increase, but effort may stall
DES MOINES (AP) — A proposal to raise Iowa’s fuel taxes won preliminary approval from lawmakers in the Iowa House Wednesday, but it is not clear if the measure can garner wider approval in the...
View ArticlePackwood barn lost to fire today
A barn just north of Packwood was destroyed by fire earlier today. The barn, located on Jim Yule’s farm at 1028 Packwood Road, caught fire at 12:10 a.m. today and was a total loss. Pieces of farm...
View ArticleHigh school considers trimesters, longer classes
Fairfield High School will see facility changes through the next two years with construction and renovations, and the daily structure of classes also may change, but not because of building...
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Fairfield to be featured on national TV
In the past few years, Fairfield has been in the national spotlight as numerous television programs and magazines have publicized what makes this town such a great place to live. This year appears to...
View ArticleArea will have snow, some wind, today, Saturday
The National Weather Service in the Quad Cities has issued a winter weather advisory for snow in effect from 6 p.m. today to 6 p.m. Saturday. A developing winter storm system over the plains will...
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