Fairfield News

Two teams of students competed in an eight-team indoor soccer league in January, with both teams making it to the final and earning first and secon place.The students were competing against teams from Iowa City, Washington, and Ottumwa. Team manager Neo Parim said there was a strong contingent of players of Mexican origin who tried to dominate through a very physical style of play, which added to the challenge.Both

The Southeast Iowa Super Conference has announced the 2008-09 all-conference teams, landing Pekin?s Cody Millikin and Trey Sathoff and Van Buren?s Jordan Hervey on the first team. In just his freshman season, Sathoff led the Panthers with 14.5 points per game and second on the team with 5.7 rebounds per game behind 8.3 from Millikin. Millikin shot 54 percent from the field and averaged 14.3 points on the year on his

PACKWOOD ? Wapello?s Taylor Jacobsmeier treated the fans in Packwood and the Pekin boy?s basketball team to a shooting clinic in the first half of Thursday night?s District 10 semifinal. Pekin put on a clinic of their own in the second half.Jacobsmeier hit 9-11 shots from the field in the opening two quarters totaling 22 of Wapello?s 26 points in the half, but when he cooled off, it was the steadfast Panthers left

This is the first in a two-part series on the Miller family and immigration. A 13-year-old Fairfield boy realized other people needed birthday presents more than he did.Chaiden Miller, son of Dan and Annalisa Miller and a seventh-grader at Maharishi School, celebrated his birthday Aug. 9. Instead of bringing him gifts, he instructed his friends to bring donations for immigrants affected by the Immigration and ...

Officials in the Iowa Department of Natural Resources are accepting comments on the agency's proposed hunting and fishing license fee increases.The proposal would put the cost of an annual resident hunting or fishing license at $20, an increase of $3.The proposed fees do not include the vendor or convenience fee added where the licenses are sold.The proposed fee schedule for all hunting, fishing and trapping ...

OTTUMWA ? One person is dead and at least two others injured in separate shootings Friday in Ottumwa, including a shootout between suspects and law enforcement officers.The Ottumwa Police Department issued a news release on the incident but is withholding the names of the subjects involved.At 1:42 p.m. Friday, the Ottumwa Police Department received a call reporting shots fired at 831 S. Lillian St. in Ottumwa. ...

The Iowa Department of Public Health announced last week the first reported 2018 Iowa death associated with West Nile virus in an elderly adult (81-plus years of age) from central Iowa.A second case of human West Nile virus infection has also been reported in a Palo Alto County adult (61 to 80 years of age) male who has recovered.?West Nile virus is in Iowa,? said IDPH Deputy epidemiologist, Dr. Ann Garvey. ...

The Iowa Smokefree Air Act turned 10 years old July 1, 2018.Iowa is one of 25 states that have enacted comprehensive smoke-free laws addressing secondhand smoke exposure in workplaces, restaurants and bars.Iowa Gov. Chet Culver signed the Smokefree Air Act into law in 2008. On the Act's five-year anniversary, a poll by the American Cancer Society Action Network found 82 percent of registered Iowa voters ...

Forty years ago this summer saw one of the worst fires in Fairfield's history. The Eclipse BIG-E Lumber Company at North Fourth Street and West Lowe Avenue burned down. The arson fire occurred at approximately 10:40 p.m. the night of Sunday, June 18, 1978. Photographer Mort Gaines captured this image of the lumberyard burning. Gaines said he remembered that the fire was so hot that it peeled paint off a fire ...

Two Mt. Pleasant men have been arrested and charged with felony burglary following a year-and-a-half investigation into a home invasion that resulted in several stolen firearms.According to police reports, the Mt. Pleasant Police Department responded to a burglary at 1000 W. Washington St. in Mt. Pleasant on April 27, 2017. It was determined the suspects had stolen numerous guns and other items.Following a ...

A Fairfield woman was arrested Wednesday and charged with stealing an automobile.Cheyenne Rae Brown, 20, was charged with second degree theft and operating a vehicle without a valid driver's license.A subject in the 1200 block of Brookville Road alerted law enforcement that a vehicle was taken from his residence at 4:22 a.m. Wednesday. Just seven minutes later, a Jefferson County Sheriff's deputy located the ...

Working four jobs at once starts to wear on a person.That's why Jeff Six has decided he wants to reduce that number by one. At the end of this month, Jeff Six will retire from the Fairfield Fire Department after 28 years.Six is retiring to spend more time with his wife, Katie. He also wants to devote his attention to the 34th Army Band, which he has been in for 35 years, and is hoping for five more. He has his ...