Attendees to Sunday night?s ?Celtic Fiddle Festival? at Cafe Paradiso were treated to music by world famous fiddlers and a guitarist. Guitarist Nicholas Quemener (Brittany, France) accompanied fiddlers Kevin Burke (Ireland), Christian Lemaître (Brittany) and André Brunet (Québec, Canada).
Linda Pettit?s Finishing Touch store will be celebrating 30 years in business with an open house from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday at the store on the east side of the Fairfield square.Pettit reminisced she purchased the decorating business from Del Reice Van Winkle, opening for her first day of business on Feb. 23, 1984, in a carriage house at 105 S. Second St. Then, the business moved to its present location ...
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Biofuels made from the leftovers of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global warming in the short term, a study shows, challenging the Obama administration?s conclusions that they are a much cleaner oil alternative and will help combat climate change.A $500,000 study paid for by the federal government and released Sunday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Climate Change ...
BURLINGTON (AP) ? Iowa?s largest insurance provider has accused a southeast Iowa insurance broker of overcharging for its products and has asked the state to investigate the company, Two Rivers Insurance.Potentially as many as 10,500 government employee policies are affected with millions of dollars in premiums at stake, including those in Fairfield and Jefferson County. Jefferson County Attorney Tim Dille said ...
WASHINGTON, Iowa (GTNS) ? The Iowa Court of Appeals affirmed Thomas Lee Hansen Sr.?s conviction on Wednesday.Hansen appealed his November 2012 conviction of second-degree murder. A Washington County jury found him guilty of killing Sharon Kay Gerot. Hansen shot her on May 1, 2011, the jury found.He challenged his conviction arguing ?the sufficiency of evidence of malice aforethought to support the conviction.? ...
MT. PLEASANT (GTNS) ? The safety committee in Henry County is working on ways to make the county safer in order to obtain the Best Practices Award.According to IT/Tech Coordinator (and safety committee member) Derek Wellington, oil storage in the secondary road department?s maintenance shed has gotten the county dinged on safety standards in the past.?The oil storage is one of the reasons we haven?t gotten the ...
Pope John Paul II is rightly credited with having helped bring down communism, of inspiring a new generation of Catholics with a globe-trotting papacy and of explaining church teaching on a range of hot-button issues as Christianity entered its third millennium.But the sexual abuse scandal that festered under his watch remains a stain on his legacy.John Paul and his top advisers failed to grasp the severity of ...
Fairfield Fire Department responded to a grass fire at 11:11 a.m. Saturday at 2077 Nutmeg Ave., the Heartland Co-op property. Trash burning was spread by wind to the grass, and one acre burned. Firefighters extinguished the fire with water and returned to the station at 12:30 p.m.Firefighters received an automatic alarm at 7:53 a.m. for 2237 Highway 34, but all was OK and firefighters returned to the station at ...
DES MOINES ? Iowa?s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate inched up to 4.5 percent in March, primarily driven by another large increase in the state?s labor force.The March jobless rate compared with 4.4 percent for February, and 4.8 percent for March one year ago. Meanwhile, the U.S. unemployment rate for March held steady at 6.7 percent.?The Iowa economy reached a milestone in March, as the state?s total ...
While scientists believe the universe began with a Big Bang, most Americans put a big question mark on the concept, an Associated Press-GfK poll found.Yet when it comes to smoking causing cancer or that a genetic code determines who we are, the doubts disappear.When considering concepts scientists consider truths, Americans have more skepticism than confidence in those that are farther away from our bodies in ...
Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office received a report at 7:28 a.m. Saturday about vandalism, destruction of property in Eldon.Sheriff deputies responded to an accident at 12:07 a.m. Saturday four miles south of Fairfield on Highway 1. Mercedes Allison Counts, 21, of Farmington, was driving a 2008 Pontiac G5 south on Highway 1 when she ran off the right side of the road, the front end of the car dug into the ditch ...
Jeff Craff of Garrison Construction Inc. in Fairfield smooths the surface of freshly poured concrete on an alley north of Fairfield First United Methodist Church. Work on the alley began Wednesday and will last another two to three weeks.
The city of Fairfield has come to an agreement with city administrator Kevin Flanagan about the terms of his severance.The council accepted Flanagan?s resignation at the council meeting Monday, and finalized the agreement with him Thursday when all parties signed the resolution. According to the resolution, the two sides agreed Flanagan?s behavior did not warrant discipline, suspension or termination under the ...
This is a legislative update from Sen. Rich Taylor, representing Henry and Lee counties and portions of Washington and Jefferson counties.This week, the Senate voted to appropriate more than $554 million to ensure safety for Iowans and communities throughout the state by adequately funding our prisons, our courts, the Department of Public Safety, the Attorney General and other agencies and functions of our ...
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