Andy Hallman

Raymond Booth entertained the crowd at the Relay for Life by singing a number of country tunes.

Most participants walked laps inside the Fairfield Middle School during Saturday's Relay for Life, but a select few found more exciting ways to travel. Natalie Brader, left, and her father Charles Brader did cartwheels through the hallway. Natalie did cartwheels for an entire lap and her father did them for half a lap.

The Jefferson County Pork Producers and Cropper Walkers relay team joined forces Saturday to put on the survivor meal at the Jefferson County Relay for Life at the Fairfield Middle School. The Derby family prepared and served the pork for the meal. Pictured are, from left, Donna Derby, Terry Derby and Eden Derby serving a meal to Mike Ledger. Ledger is a member of the Jefferson County Pork Producers and he helped ...

Frequent rain last week produced an all-too-common problem for the city of Fairfield ? wastewater overflows.Approximately 420,000 gallons of untreated wastewater was discharged from the sanitary sewer Friday and Saturday. Wastewater plant superintendent Shawn Worley said the city noted overflows at five sites in town.The surface soil was already saturated at the beginning of last week because of frequent rain ...

This magnolia tree in the 600 block of North Second Street in Fairfield is showing the world its pretty colors as it blooms under the warm glow of the sun.

Khongor Enkhbold and Khasan Bold are masters at solving riddles.The kind of riddles Enkhbold and Bold like to solve are those that require an intimate knowledge of mathematics and computer programming. Enkhbold and Bold are students at Maharishi University of Management, where they both are seeking a master?s degree in computer science. The two regularly compete in online contests with people around the world ...

Cardinal Elementary School near Eldon celebrated ?Ag Day? April 11. The Cardinal High School FFA sponsored the event, which taught children about farm equipment safety, food preparation and a wide variety of animals. Vanessa Lemke, right, took her chinchilla named ?Boomer? to Ag Day, which was especially entertaining to Corbin Humble, left, and Reece Pedersen.

Motorists driving on West Burlington in Fairfield have noticed the former HyVee building has a new marquee, signaling the arrival of a new business.True Value opened its doors March 12. The company had been interested in coming to Fairfield for a long time, and found a suitable building last year.Zach Sobek, the store?s manager, said True Value was interested in Fairfield because it was an ?open market.??True ...

A group of Chileans visited Fairfield Thursday as part of a month-long tour of Iowa sponsored by Rotary International.The group was in Fairfield as part of a Rotary Group Study Exchange visit, whereby a group of Chileans was sent to visit Iowa while a group of Iowans was sent to visit Chile. The purpose of the program is to offer an exchange of understanding and experiences to a group of young professionals from ...

BATAVIA ? The Adam family of Batavia has begun construction on four hog confinement buildings near Batavia after its permit application was approved by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources earlier this week.Shawn Adam of Adam Valley View Farms said a crew is digging a pit for one of the buildings today and concrete will be poured in the pit Saturday.The four hog confinements are being built at two sites, ...

The question of who should provide and who should pay for an ambulance service in Jefferson County has come up at recent public meetings.The Fairfield City Council discussed the ambulance service at its meeting Monday. The city does not contribute to the ambulance service, but it is a member of the ambulance board because of an intergovernmental agreement it signed with the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors ...

A woman who helped design the cameras that have taken photographs on Mars spoke to a few hundred people April 13 at the Argiro Student Center at Maharishi University of Management.Elsa Jensen is the mission operations manager for Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego. She helped develop the science cameras on NASA?s Mars rover, ?Curiosity.?Jensen was born and raised in Denmark. She has had an interest in ...

Jacey Harris places slices of pepperoni on her miniature pizza Thursday at the Community Childcare Center and Preschool in Fairfield. Making pizzas for lunch Thursday was just one of many special activities the children undertook that week, which was the ?Week of Young Children: The Early Years are Learning Years.? The children also made necklaces, wore their clothes backwards one day, wore their pajamas the next ...

Morae Youde, left, and Frank Smith wore fake mustaches Saturday at the Fairfield RAGBRAI Town Rally as they worked a booth where they provided information about becoming a vendor during RAGBRAI.

Isabella Buckley plays with dinosaurs during Mothers? Day Out Preschool this morning at Immanuel Lutheran Church. Classes at the church resumed this week after a fire caused by lightning forced the church to close for a few days last week. A cleaning company cleaned the preschool wing of the church top to bottom. Ozone machines were used to clean the air in the building.