Congregate Meals: March 18-22, 2013
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 Friday at...
View ArticleFairfield School Menu: March 18-22, 2013
Fairfield Community School District has listed its breakfast and lunch menu for the coming week. Monday — breakfast at the middle school and high school: assorted cereals, assorted cereal bars, orange...
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Pence elementary ‘Soars Into Reading!’
A few of Taryn Ryan’s kindergarteners who meet their Week 1 goal pose in front of the “Soar Into Reading” hallway display at Pence Elementary School. For three weeks, Pence students will be keeping a...
View ArticleHealth center auxiliary offers scholarships
The Jefferson County Health Center Auxiliary is now accepting applications for scholarships to be given to high school graduates in the spring. The auxiliary will again be awarding up to four $1,500...
View ArticleTrojan girls' track picks up one win in Pella
PELLA — Fairfield picked up one victory Thursday at the Pekin Indoor in Pella, and head coach Ron Hunerdosse lauded who he called his team’s “usual suspects.” The lone win came in the 4x200 relay,...
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Peterman selected to All-GTNS basketball squad
All 12 of the players named to this year’s All-Golden Triangle News Service team are first-time selections, but for the two men chosen as Coach of the Year, receiving All-GTNS honors is nothing new....
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Elementary students ‘adopt’ grandparents
Local elementary schools have begun to meet with residents from SunnyBrook Living Care Center on what they hope is a monthly basis. The program is known as “adopt-a-grandparent,” which had its...
View ArticleVan Buren County to repave portion of J-40
KEOSAUQUA – The Van Buren County Board of Supervisors accepted the low bid Monday from Norris Construction in Ottumwa to re-pave several miles of J-40. Norris bid $1,068,756. There were four total...
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Body of missing Fairfield woman found
HAMILTON, Ill. — The body of Teresa Bruegge, a long-time resident of Fairfield, was found Wednesday in the Mississippi River, about 3.5 miles north of Hamilton, Ill., which is across the river from...
View ArticleIowa officer stops speedy SUV, helps deliver baby
IOWA CITY (AP) — An Iowa City police officer pulled over a speeding SUV — then helped the driver and his passenger deliver a baby. When Officer Kevin Wolfe stopped the vehicle Sunday night, the driver...
View ArticleClarification on dugout tear-down
Community volunteers will meet at noon Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday to tear down the Little League dugouts. These are different times from what appeared in Thursday’s edition of The Ledger. The Ledger...
View ArticleFairfield High School tour is 2-4 p.m. Sunday
Fairfield High School will be open for tours 2-4 p.m. Sunday to anyone in the community. If interested, stop in at the high school office beginning at 2 p.m. for a tour of the building. The tours are...
View ArticleBridge in Ottumwa to be rebuilt
CHARITON – Replacement of a bridge on Highway 34 over the Des Moines River in Ottumwa will begin Wednesday, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation. The construction will be done in stages...
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Watercolor workshop
Artist John Preston gives a demonstration of painting with watercolors Saturday morning to a group of fellow artists at the Region XII Iowa Artists Competition in the Fairfield Arts & Convention...
View ArticleWine and Chocolate Benefit for Diabetes; seriously?
The Jefferson County Health Center Foundation wine and chocolate tasting fundraiser on March 21, benefiting Diabetes Awareness and Screening, is raising some eyebrows. In moderation, and fitting it...
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Artists’ work advancing to Iowa Artist state competition
The Fairfield Art Association has announced the winners of the Iowa Artists Region XII show held March 9 at the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center. The display of work by all participants...
View ArticleSchool district plans project presentations
Fairfield Community School District has two more public meetings this month to present information about the high school renovation/remodel/addition plan and to answer questions: • 5:30 p.m. Tuesday...
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THURSDAY Jefferson County Soil & Water Conservation District Commissioners — Jefferson County Soil & Water Conservation District Office, 605 S. 23rd Street, Fairfield, 9 a.m.
View ArticleState Patrol
Iowa State Patrol reports Sean A. J. O’Carrol, 19, of Fairfield, was entering Highway 34 from No. 210 on-ramp, westbound, at 7:40 a.m. March 5, when he lost control, ran off the road to the right and...
View ArticleCourt
The following court cases were processed at Jefferson County Clerk of Court: Associate District Court Larry Wayne Money, 29, of 507 N. Main St., Apt. 2, pleaded guilty to operating a motor vehicle...
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