Andy Hallman

The Fairfield Community School District honored coach and former teacher Ron Hunerdosse during Monday night’s track meet by naming a relay race and cross country meet after him.

Construction on East Burlington Avenue in Fairfield is forcing traffic to take a detour onto Glasgow Road, but now that road is also under construction, being reduced to one lane of traffic with a pilot car.

Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce held its annual awards banquet on Thursday, April 25, during which two Citizens of the Year were named: Pete Tollenaere and Lori Fry.

A group of homeschool students planted trees in Jefferson County Park’s Zillman’s Hickory Hills Wednesday afternoon, April 24.

The Southeast Iowa Sierra Club hosted a Circular Economy Eco-Fashion Show as part of its Earth Day celebration on Saturday, April 20, at the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center.

Fairfield hosted its Second Annual Renaissance Faire this past Saturday and Sunday, which drew about 2,500 people to the Jefferson County Fairgrounds.

Southeast Iowa Sierra Club hosted an Earth Day celebration that attracted many visitors to the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center on Saturday, April 20.

The Fairfield First United Methodist Church and the Food Bank of Iowa are putting on a benefit concert Friday, April 26 at the Walton Club in Fairfield.

The Fairfield Community School District is accepting bids on its former Lincoln Elementary School building, located at 401 W. Stone Ave.

Just north of Keosauqua sits a row of cabins overlooking the Des Moines River. The development, along Robert Park Road, consists of 32 cabins that are mostly second homes for people who live there in the summer. That was the case for former Fairfield residents Bob and Bonnie Reighard, too, when they purchased their cabin in 2017. But the couple found that they were more comfortable in their new second home, and decided to spruce it up and move there permanently in 2019.

South 32nd Street has seen a flurry of new home construction in recent years. Among the most recent additions to the neighborhood is the home owned by Mike and Jill Lane, who moved in May of 2023. The couple had been living on a gravel road between Batavia and Libertyville, but wanted to be closer to town so their daughters, Maya and Iris, would have a shorter drive to school.

The Fairfield Arbor Committee spent Saturday planting trees in the Carrington Pointe subdivision and in Southwood Park.

Carnegie Historical Museum in Fairfield continues to undergo renovations and improvements in 2024 just as it has in recent years.

The Fairfield Beautification Commission had a terrific turnout for its Street Sweepers Ball on Saturday, April 13.

Fairfield High School Principal Aiddy Phomvisay has announced he will step down at the end of this school year to take a job elsewhere.