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The free AARP tax-aide electronic filing program will be offered again this year at Fairfield Public Library.The library site will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays.Appointments must be made at the site while the preparer is present.In IRS-trained volunteer counselor will be working at the site.The program is administered through the AARP Foundation in cooperation with the IRS.Membership to AARP is ...

Each school month, the Fairfield Elks Lodge sponsors the Fairfield Middle School ?Students of the Month? award to acknowledge positive contributions of students at school ranging from assisting teachers and peers in classroom activities to displaying characteristics as a role model in and out of the classroom.The Students of the Month certificates are awarded after a nomination and voting process is completed by ...

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 Friday at the Lockridge senior center.Monday ? Salisbury steak and gravy, oven-browned potato, broccoli Normandy, diced peaches, orange juice.Tuesday ? beef and bean vegetable soup, saltine crackers, spinach-strawberry ...

Fairfield Community School District has listed its breakfast and lunch menu for the coming week.Monday ? breakfast at all schools: assorted cereals, cereal bars and Nutri-Grain Bars, orange juice, milk. Lunch: hamburger on bun, romaine salad, sweet potato puffs, fruit cocktail, milk; and in addition for high school students: fruit choice and tomatoes.Tuesday ? breakfast at the middle and high schools: assorted ...

PACKWOOD ­? Pekin High School and middle school officials have announced the names of students who earned recognition on the honor roll for the first semester of the 2013-14 academic year.Straight ?A?Students on the straight ?A? honor roll are:Seniors: Eric Adam, Jared Bond, Petie Clubb, Jessica Horras, Cade Millikin, Taiylor Morgan, Hannah Robison, Tiana Slaney, Jenna Swanson and Samantha Wright.Juniors: ...

Fairfield Art of Dance student A?lia Martin, daughter of Allen and Debra Martin, was recently accepted to The Joffrey Ballet Summer School. The Martins drove to Chicago a few weeks ago to attend an audition with hundreds of other students trying for the 150 spots. The program runs for five weeks, and Martin will be in classes eight hours each day. Martin?s other recent credits include passing her Cecchetti Ballet ...

Jubilee Kingdom Gathering?s ?Breaking The Silence? Feb. 15Jubilee Kingdom Gathering will have ?Breaking The Silence? at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Feb. 15 at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds.Interested people can attend any or all of the three sessions. Admission is free, and everyone is welcome.Jubilee Kingdom Gathering will be helping those who attend to find their God-given destiny and to release their full ...

The combination of high winds and areas kept open by waterfowl or aerators have created large pockets of open water on some lakes and is making favorite ice fishing spots either off limits until spring or are requiring extra caution if venturing out.A recent fishing trip to Lake Anita drove the point home. The open water maintained by waterfowl grew from five acres to almost 15 acres following high winds.?Waterf...

Last year, more than 8,000 Iowa taxpayers helped boost wildlife conservation with donations to the Fish and Wildlife Fund on their tax form. It is the third year in a row donations to the fund have increased, a trend Iowa Department of Natural Resources diversity wildlife biologist Stephanie Shepherd hopes to continue in 2014.?The number of Iowans donating to the fund is growing after a 10-year downward trend,? ...

MERCY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCESDES MOINES ? Callie Millard of Agency has been named to the president?s list for the fall 2013 semester at Mercy College of Health Sciences in Des Moines.To qualify for the president?s list, students must attain a grade-point average of 3.75 or higher in their most recent semester for a minimum of six credit hours.???

Fairfield High School senior Jordan Whitney receives a Student of the Month Award from Fairfield Rotary Club president Jodi Kerr, during the organization?s meeting Jan. 17. The Student of the Month Award is granted by the Rotary Club to Fairfield High School and Maharishi School seniors for their achievements in the area of academic performance, extra-curricular activities and outstanding abilities to help others ...

Fairfield Middle School officials have announced the winners of its Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports program drawing for January.The fifth-grade winners were: Tanner Mellott, Chance Swan, Aurora Spray, Blake Metz, Chris Hulett, R.J. Hawkins, Amritha Kuar, Julie Johannes, Zachary Holcomb, Holden Phelps, Chandler Gerleman, Daniel Baldosier, Jeremy Crile, Blair Grunwald and Jacob Hanley.Six-grade ...