Health care providers representing two physical therapy groups pitched ideas for working with the Fairfield school district athletic/sports programs to the school board Monday.Donal Hill, D.O., affiliated with Jefferson County Health Center, laid the groundwork.?I grew up in Fairfield and appreciate the school district and school board,? said Hill. ?I have a concern about health care in the school sports ...
Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez crafted intoxicating fiction from the fatalism, fantasy, cruelty and heroics of the world that set his mind churning as a child growing up on Colombia's Caribbean coast. One of the most revered and influential writers of his generation, he brought Latin America's charm and maddening contradictions to life in the minds of millions and became the best-known practitioner of ...
A familar character made an appearance at the annual Easter Egg hunt Saturday morning in the ball park in Brighton. Among his friends were, from left, Brody Donaldson, son of Ross and April Donaldson; Rowan Connolly, daughter of Alex and Allison Connolly; and Ava Gillam, daughter of Grant and Angela Gillam.
All six first-year teachers in the Fairfield Community School District received reduction-in-force notices this month, Superintendent Art Sathoff told the school board Monday.The district plans to reduce two individuals, but the master contract language requires specific procedures for a RIF, and one of those procedures is notifying all teachers new to the profession.?Each one is allowed to request a closed ...
Fairfield Community School District was supposed to take Friday off, but because of a snow day earlier in the year, class will be in session.Other area schools will not be in session. Pekin Community School District will not have school Friday but will have school Monday, which it was supposed to have off.Cardinal Community School District will not have class Friday because it is a professional development day ...
An immediate evacuation order was not issued for the ferry that sank off South Korea?s southern coast, likely with scores of people trapped inside, because officers on the bridge were trying to stabilize the vessel after it started to list amid confusion and chaos, a crew member said today.Meanwhile, the coast guard said it was investigating whether the ferry?s captain was one of the first ones off the sinking ...
Fairfield Police Department log of calls received at dispatch Wednesday included:2:29 p.m. caller said neighbor?s doghouse was on fire, very close to the house; thinks charcoal from grill may have blown into dog pen, no dog at home at the time.4:24 p.m. Heather Vorhies was arrested on a warrant for violation of pretrial release.4:55 p.m. Adrian Okakpu, 35, was arrested for simple assault.5:46 p.m. caller ...
State Rep. Curt Hanson, represents Iowa House District 82, which includes most of Jefferson County and Davis and Van Buren counties, in the state Legislature.The passage of budget bills that will enable the state to pay its bills and employees was the focus of legislation this week.The Legislature made significant progress in moving several budget bills to conference committee. When the bills are sent to ...
Secret Service investigators say they are close to gaining a full understanding of the methods hackers used to breach Target?s computer systems last December.But the agency says it could take years to identify the criminals who stole some 40,000 debit and credit card numbers of Target shoppers and other personal information from as many as 70 million people in the pre-Christmas breach.And it may take even ...
Democratic worries about this November?s elections, a lack of Senate votes and House opposition are forcing congressional gun-control supporters to significantly winnow their 2014 agenda, a year after lawmakers scuttled President Barack Obama?s effort to pass new curbs on firearms.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., recently said he needs additional votes before revisiting a proposed expansion of gun sale ...
As political campaigns begin to heat up, the Supreme Court is deciding whether false accusations and mudslinging made during an election can be punished as a crime.Addressing an issue of negative campaigning that now may be a fact of life in American politics, justices will consider a challenge to an Ohio law that bars false statements about political candidates.The case being heard next week has attracted ...
Adam Plagge, Fairfield Economic Development Association executive director, described two requests for enterprise zone applications at Monday?s Jefferson County Board of Supervisors meeting.Emily Kelly and Don Hoelting, neither one present at the meeting, have requested applications for housing to be built in enterprise zones.?The county can designate up to 10 percent of its area as enterprise zones,? said ...
Fairfield Fire Department responded at 2:32 p.m. to 701 W. Broadway Ave., for a doghouse on fire close to a residence. Wind reignited charcoal from the previous night?s grilling and blew sparks into the doghouse, igniting the doghouse. Firefighters extinguished the fire with water and returned to the station at 2:45 p.m.
BURLINGTON (AP) ? The number of hog feeding businesses in southeast Iowa could grow quickly if Des Moines County officials approve all the proposed projects.County officials are considering five different proposals to build animal feeding operations that could hold up to 2,500 hogs, the Burlington Hawk Eye reported. The county is already home to 24 confined animal feeding operations.Jeff Prier, of the state ...
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