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Mintade for sale
Dallas Grijalva, left, combines mint and lemonade to create “mintade,” which she sells at the Fairfield Farmers’ Market. Grijalva sold her concoction Saturday to Sheri Hasty, center, and her son,...
View ArticleChurches planning vacation Bible school, help for Lord’s Cupboard
First United Methodist Church, First Presbyterian Church and First Lutheran Church are inviting preschoolers through fifth graders to vacation Bible school July 8-12. Vacation Bible school will be...
View ArticleCalendar: June 14, 2013
FRIDAY “Zampogna: The Soul of Southern Italy” film, discussion, pipers’ concert, Café Paradiso, 7 p.m. Part of the All Things Italian Street Festival. “Winnie the Pooh,” presented by Two Roads...
View ArticleCongregate Meals: June 17-21, 2013
The 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...
View ArticleWOB offers season tickets
Way Off Broadway, Iowa’s only professional musical theatre company and the residential company at the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center’s Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts, is...
View ArticleBaird celebrating birthday
Nancy Baird of Fairfield will celebrate her 80th birthday with an open house from 1-3 p.m. June 23 at St. Mary Catholic Church Parish Hall. Mrs. Baird’s children and grandchildren are hosting the open...
View ArticleBlood drives planned, results listed
Several area blood drives have been scheduled by the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center. A blood drive is set from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 21 in the Jefferson County Health Center conference...
View ArticleArt association offers credited class
The Fairfield Art Association, through Great Prairie Area Education Agency, announces a “Painting_Layering Up” class instructed by John Preston and Kella Tschopp from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 8-12....
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Kellers celebrating 25 years of marriage
Robert E. and Connie Keller of Fairfield will celebrate 25 years of marriage with an open house from 2-4 p.m. June 23 at the Fairfield First United Methodist Church. Robert Keller and Connie Green...
View ArticleBoston woman pays $560,000 for two parking spots
Parking is such a precious commodity in Boston that one woman was willing to pay $560,000 for two off-street spaces near her home. Lisa Blumenthal won the spots in the city’s Back Bay neighborhood...
View ArticlePolice
Fairfield Police Department investigated at 6:47 a.m. today the report of sugar poured into a motor vehicle’s gas tank in the 100 block of North Sixth Street. Two 14- and one 16-year-old juvenile...
View ArticleFire
Fairfield Fire Department received an automatic alarm from Fairfield Area Career Academy Lincoln Center (formerly Lincoln Elementary School) at 7:20 a.m. today. It was canceled at 7:21 a.m. today.
View ArticleTown RAGBRAI meeting Monday
Registers Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa, known as RAGBRAI announced in January Fairfield is the last overnight stop on the week-long bike ride. Now, just weeks from the riders’ arrival, July 26,...
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Hear an update
Fairfield Mayor Ed Malloy, left, listens to RAGBRAI Director TJ Juskiewicz address the crowd at 1st Fridays Art Walk June 7 in Central Park. Juskiewicz was one of a team of two dozen RAGBRAI cyclists...
View ArticlePublic meetings
MONDAY Jefferson County Board of Supervisors — Jefferson County Courthouse, first floor boardroom, 9 a.m.; meet with county engineer; consider resolution for Jefferson County to apply to the RPC 15...
View ArticleFitzsimmons, Warriors shut out Highland 4-0
RIVERSIDE — Thomas Fitzsimmons carried a no-hitter through six innings Thursday and the Van Buren baseball team picked up a 4-0 shutout win at Highland. Highland tallied its only hit vs. Fitzsimmons,...
View ArticlePekin takes two from Fairfield in JV softball action
PACKWOOD — Pekin took a pair of games from the Fairfield JV Orange softball team Thursday in Packwood. The Panthers beat Fairfield 8-3 in the first game and held off the Trojans for an 11-8 win in...
View ArticleCardinal wins 16-2 softball rout
DANVILLE — The Cardinal softball team got its head back above .500 with a 16-2, seven-inning rout of Danville Thursday. The Comets, who improved to 9-8 with the victory, finished the game with a pair...
View ArticleComet baseball holds off Falcons
WEST BURLINGTON — Twice West Burlington threatened a comeback in the final two innings Thursday, and both times the Cardinal baseball team turned them away to pick up a 4-2 win in West Burlington. In...
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Bloopers cost Pekin softball in 9-4 home loss
PACKWOOD — Seven errors in the field and another three outs on the base paths had Pekin head coach Bryan Marlay scratching his head Thursday as his players dropped a 9-4 game to visiting Wapello....
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