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Andy Hallman
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News Nov. 24, 2024 7:47 pm319d ago
Carnegie Historical Museum Research Assistant Charlotte Wright dedicated the past year of her life to researching, finding artifacts and designing an exhibit on local missionaries that is now on display on the museum’s third floor.
News Nov. 25, 2024 11:20 am319d ago
Jim and Teresa Huffman’s popular Christmas event called “Ho Ho Ho Holiday” will be in a new location this year.
News Nov. 18, 2024 11:34 am326d ago
The Fairfield area has loads of events to attend this holiday season.
News Nov. 17, 2024 3:16 pm327d ago
A Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputy was recently honored for helping to save a woman’s life with CPR. Deputy Rusty Simpson received a Heartsaver Hero Award from the American Heart Association a few weeks ago for an incident earlier this fall in which he gave cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to a woman who was unresponsive. Thanks to the timely and dedicated attention she received from Simpson and other first-responders, the woman regained a pulse and has since made a complete recovery.
News Nov. 13, 2024 3:32 pm331d ago
FAIRFIELD – The Fairfield Elks hosted its annual Hoop Shoot at the Fairfield High School on Saturday, Nov. 9. The …
News Nov. 13, 2024 2:59 pm331d ago
Fairfield Middle School students spent Wednesday morning touring local businesses to get a flavor of the jobs that await them after graduation.
News Nov. 14, 2024 9:59 am330d ago
The Fairfield City Council approved the third and final reading of an ordinance to rezone the former Lincoln School as mixed use, which will allow Jim and Teresa Huffman to hold their “Ho Ho Ho Holiday Event” there this season.
News Nov. 12, 2024 3:44 pm332d ago
Sandy Stever has worked in human services for over 50 years, and she’s ready to call it a career.
News Nov. 11, 2024 2:27 pm333d ago
Christy Conner was elected as Jefferson County’s next auditor, and Bart Richmond won his re-election bid as county sheriff.
News Nov. 11, 2024 1:46 pm333d ago
Fairfield High School paid tribute to the area’s veterans on Veterans Day, Monday, Nov. 11, with a ceremony in the Mitcheltree-Slechta-Edgeton Auditorium.
News Nov. 8, 2024 4:57 pm336d ago
A Fairfield family is asking for the public’s help to fundraise for a van to transport their mother who was paralyzed in a car accident.
News Nov. 10, 2024 2:58 pm334d ago
Jefferson County voters approved a ballot measure on Tuesday, Nov. 5 to create an EMS levy to fund the ambulance service.
News Nov. 7, 2024 12:05 pm337d ago
Fairfield High School student Tristen Garretson finished his Eagle Scout project this fall, which included painting the hand railings, parking lot lines and curbs at the Fairfield Community Center.
News Nov. 11, 2024 11:24 am333d ago
Republican Adrian Dickey won his re-election bid to the Iowa Senate and Republican Jeff Shipley was re-elected to the Iowa House of Representatives on Tuesday, Nov. 5.
News Nov. 6, 2024 2:18 pm338d ago
A special guest attended the event at the McElhinny House, and that was U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks. Miller-Meeks was in the midst of a busy day of campaigning for re-election to represent Iowa’s District 1 seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.