Cellist playing for concert association
Amit Peled, acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today, comes to the stage of the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center’s Stephen Sondheim Center for the...
View ArticlePekin Middle School honor roll listed
PACKWOOD — Pekin Middle School officials have announced the names of students who earned recognition on the honor roll for the second quarter of the 2012-13 academic year. Straight A Honor Roll Eighth...
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New bench
This new bench has been installed on the Fairfield Loop Trail, just south of Stone Avenue as the trail meanders toward the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad tracks. It was funded entirely by a...
View ArticleEighth-grade boys blast Aldo Leopold
Cam Baumann netted 20 points with eight rebounds and the Fairfield eighth-grade boys blasted Burlington Aldo Leopold 36-22 Monday in ‘A’ team action. Denver Schultz supplied five points and five...
View ArticleMiddle school girls pick up two wins
BURLINGTON — Fairfield’s seventh-grade girls’ basketball team jumped out to a 20-3 halftime lead and cruised to a 39-6 victory over Burlington Aldo Leopold in ‘A’ action Monday. The ‘A’ team was led...
View ArticleFairfield JV boys storm back for 46-42 win
Alex Crile hit a 3-pointer in the final minute Thursday and the Fairfield JV boys erased a 17-point deficit to claim a 46-42 victory over Iowa City Regina. Crile hit two treys in the contest and...
View ArticleFritz caps undefeated wrestling season
OTTUMWA — Michael Fritz and Trenton Hanen each won three matches Monday as the Fairfield Middle School wrestling team wrapped up its season in Ottumwa. Fritz won by fall in 49 seconds or less in all...
View ArticlePanthers take down Fairfield bowling teams
MOUNT PLEASANT — Consistency, or lack thereof, reared its head Saturday as both the Fairfield bowling teams dropped a pair of Southeast Conference duals to Mount Pleasant at Iris Bowling Center....
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Jump ball
Fairfield sixth-graders Mark Diers, right, and Cooper Drish wrestle for the basketball Monday during a scrimmage at halftime of the Fairfield varsity basketball game vs. Keokuk.
View ArticleStates force jobless to pay needless fees, says report
Jobless Americans are paying millions in unnecessary fees to collect unemployment benefits because of state policies encouraging them to get the money through bank-issued payment cards, according to a...
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Trojans’ offensive woes continue vs. Keokuk
The shots simply weren’t falling Monday for the Fairfield boys’ basketball team, which went 5-for-35 from the field in a 53-24 loss to Keokuk at FHS Gymnasium. “We just couldn’t score. That’s the...
View ArticleThe Capitol Report by Rep. Curt Hanson
Session report for week 2. After I finished work Thursday, I hurried back to Fairfield for my wife’s birthday. The weekend was packed full with the party, constituent work, the Fairfield Chamber...
View ArticleFire
Fairfield Fire Department responded to an automatic alarm Monday at 1007 W. Briggs Ave. A pan left on the stove with the stove on triggered the alarm. Firefighters used a positive pressure fan to...
View ArticlePublic meetings
TUESDAY Jefferson County Conservation Board — Nature Center, Jefferson County Park, approve last month meeting minutes; open discussion period with special interest groups and public; review and...
View ArticleNetwork to showcase Fairfield on reality TV
Fairfield will be the subject of a nationally broadcast television show to air this spring. In fact, it’s not too late to become a cast member on this show, which will feature the top variety acts...
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Youngsters learn about energy conservation at assembly
Pence Elementary School students were energized at Monday’s assembly to take part in a school wide program with a goal to save 2,577 kilowatts of electricity throughout the remainder of the school...
View ArticleBranstad education plan benefits senior teachers
DES MOINES (AP) — Much of the money in Gov. Terry Branstad’s education plan for Iowa would go toward paying bonuses to teachers who take on more responsibilities, the head of the state Department of...
View ArticleMagazine writer tours Fairfield
Susan Spano of Smithsonian Magazine toured Fairfield last weekend as part of her quest to find the 20 best small towns in America. Rustin Lippincott, the executive director of the Fairfield Arts &...
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Foreman family honored
The 2013 Fairfield High School Wrestling Recognition Award was presented to the Foreman family during Saturday’s Southern Iowa Classic wrestling tournament at FHS Gymnasium. In its 13th year, the...
View ArticleTuesday doubleheader postponed
WEST BURLINGTON — Cardinal’s girls/boys basketball doubleheader vs. West Burlington scheduled Tuesday was postponed due to inclement weather. Both games will be made up next Monday.
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