Andy Hallman

The Greater Jefferson County Fair promises a week’s worth of thrilling entertainment from June 23-30 at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, with a theme of “Barn in the USA.”

Members of Boy Scout Troop 64 of Fairfield led a flag retirement ceremony at Maasdam Barns on Saturday, which appropriately landed on Flag Day, June 14.

Jefferson County Engineer’s Office is offering to clean cars whose undersides were caked in an asphalt mixture the county applied on Pleasant Plain Road north of Fairfield.

FAIRFIELD – Fairfield resident Don Kramer was honored for his military service with a Quilt of Valor on May 28. …

Powerful trucks filled Fairfield all last week during the Gordon Maney Memorial Dodge Truck Reunion, put on by Matthew Welcher of the Power Wagon Advertiser.

The City of Fairfield plans to lower the water level in Walton Lake this summer to replace a golf cart bridge that failed an inspection.

Fair Field Production’s latest documentary is called “When Maharishi Came to Town,” and it’s about the arrival of Maharishi International University to Fairfield in 1974, setting up shop in the campus vacated by Parsons College the year before.

Fairfield resident Don Kramer was honored for his military service with a Quilt of Valor on May 28.

A jury of 12 Jefferson County residents has returned a not guilty verdict in a trial where former interim ambulance director Judy Heisel was charged with secretly recording a meeting of county officials.

The Pekin and Keota school districts have agreed to share Dave Harper as superintendent for the 2025-26 school year.

The Fairfield Beautification Commission will release 1,500 ladybugs in downtown Fairfield on Friday night, June 6.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds visited Packwood Tuesday afternoon, June 3, for a bill-signing ceremony on legislation that provides financial incentives to volunteer first-responders.

Fairfield’s very own Walter Day is the subject of a new documentary, this one focusing on his singing and songwriting.

Fairfield resident and Agri-Industrial Plastics Co. founder Dick Smith received a special honor from the University of Iowa in May, being named to its list of “Eight Over 80” exceptional alumni.

A Pekin senior who had just graduated high school was killed in a head-on collision last week.