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Beautification award
The Fairfield Beautification Commission issued a Historic Preservation Award May 17 to Neil Cunningham and Ellen Chenoweth of 902 S. Main St. Pictured are, from left, Lou Bolster, Nancy Morrissey,...
View ArticleJefferson County Cattlemen
JEFFERSON COUNTY CATTLEMEN Jefferson County Cattlemen will be meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at Kokomo’s Bar & Grill. The meeting will be to finalize details for grilling events at the Greater Jefferson...
View ArticleIHCC workshop for ETC Plus 50 set Tuesday
OTTUMWA — Indian Hills Community College will hold an informational workshop 10:30 a.m. to noon Tuesday in Room B of the Community Education Center at the IHCC North Campus at the Ottumwa Airport to...
View ArticlePreston teaching oil pastel classes
The Fairfield Art Association will offer art instruction of a new medium with John Preston. Oil pastel will now be alternated every other week with Preston’s regular soft dusty pastel class. The...
View ArticleTaglauer at World Food Prize institute
Fairfield High School student Trent Taglauer joined other top students from across Iowa last month to explore scientific, agricultural and global career opportunities at the World Food Prize Iowa...
View ArticleStudents recognized for behavior
Fairfield Middle School officials have announced the winners of the school’s Positive Behavior Supports System drawing for May. With the Positive Behavior Supports System, FMS students are rewarded...
View ArticleHabitat, Hometown Rewards team up
Habitat for Humanity has teamed up with Fairfield’s Hometown Rewards program to use the construction of a Habitat for Humanity home as a model in simple, affordable, energy efficient construction....
View ArticleFun, food planned for Birmingham Homecoming
BIRMINGHAM — The Birmingham Homecoming is set June 7-9 in City Park. The Birmingham Lions Club will kick off the annual festivities with a tenderloin supper at 5 p.m. June 7. The prince and princess...
View ArticleTrojan golfers make all-academic team
Trojan senior golfers Ashley Henkel and Kristen Terrell were both recently selected to the Southeast Conference’s all-academic team for 2013, head coach Joe Kruzich said Thursday. To be eligible for...
View ArticleWeather interrupts summer sports schedule
Cancellations and postponements around the Iowa sports world continued into Thursday and Friday, affecting softball and baseball games for Fairfield as well as all other area schools. The Fairfield...
View ArticleLocal athletes perform at summer games
Athletes from Team Fairfield competed in biking and track and field events at the 2013 Special Olympics Summer Games May 23-24 in Ames. The local team was very successful, and the 12 total competitors...
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Fairfield Crush softball hits stride
The Fairfield 14U Crush softball team caught fire in May, recently winning 14 times in a 15-game span after opening the season with a 2-4 record. The local team won its first tournament in Fairfield,...
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Williams wraps up season on state stage
ANKENY — Karley Williams mustn’t care much for the term “sophomore slump,” because the Trojan instead had a breakthrough second season punctuated by a trip to the Class 1A individual tennis...
View ArticleTornadoes touch down in Oklahoma, Arkansas
At least three tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma, including one in Tulsa, and two more hit Arkansas on Thursday as a powerful storm system moved through the middle of the country. At least nine...
View Article‘Bucket list’ item leads to women’s arrest in Fla.
Two longtime friends ended up in jail in central Florida thanks to a “bucket list” that included stealing from a store. Police say 36-year-old Andrea Mobley and 38-year-old Jennifer Morrow face petty...
View ArticleWeather: Topic of news in area
2nd day of severe weather likely DES MOINES (AP) — Southeast Iowans, cleaning up from a stormy night, may be in for the second day of severe weather. More than 1,000 Alliant Energy customers in the...
View ArticleWastewater meeting Tuesday
The Fairfield City Council utility committee will meet 3 p.m. Tuesday at the council chambers at city hall. The meeting will be to discuss improvements to the city’s sewer system. The city is about to...
View ArticleJudge orders 42-year term for Iowa child predator
CEDAR RAPIDS (AP) — A judge sentenced a former Iowa college student to 42 years in prison Thursday for enticing girls across the country to send him sexually explicit photos and then using the images...
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Skunk River floods roads near Brighton
BRIGHTON (GTNS) — As Tonya Myers and Daryl Richardson watched the Skunk River creep out of its banks and toward their home by McKain’s River Access, they saw that the water was rising about 1 inch...
View ArticleSoggy conditions may damage beans
Wet conditions are all too familiar to Jefferson County farmers with the exception of last year, when 2012 was classified as a drought. “Before last year, we had two or three years of wet field...
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