Fairfield News

Fairfield school board approved a contract with Ray and Associates Inc. Monday to conduct a search for a school superintendent.The board had invited four search teams to make presentations about services, fees and the process used to search, screen and recommend applicants to the district. The board interviewed two search teams March 19 and two more March 24, and voted 4-1 to hire Ray and Associates at the end ...

The Jefferson County Fair Board has received $100,000 from local businesses to construct a new building at the fairgrounds.Cambridge Investment Research has donated $50,000 for the new building, and First National Bank of Fairfield and Libertyville Savings Bank are each donating $25,000.The new building will be west of the Jefferson County ISU Extension Office and will include a kitchen and two meeting rooms. ...

Nearly 90 people showed up at today?s Jefferson County Board of Supervisors meeting as news has spread in the community about Heartland Co-op?s proposal to build a 4.4 million bushel storage capacity grain elevator facility at Nutmeg Avenue and Highway 34.All but one person who spoke at the meeting seemed to be against the co-op locating so close to Fairfield or asked why it was trying to locate there and what ...

Week 11, March 28, 2014 Washington County farmers are finding solar energy to be cost effective. I recently joined Agriculture Secretary, Bill Northey, and area legislators on a tour of rural Washington County Solar energy installations. I was amazed by the number and the size of the arrays we visited. We toured installations both large and small; the largest was 60Kw in size, with 200 solar panels, powering 10 ...

Congress will press General Motors CEO Mary Barra and federal regulators about their handling of a safety defect in the Chevrolet Cobalt and other small cars during hearings this week.The hearings will be before a House subcommittee Tuesday and a Senate subcommittee Wednesday.GM has recalled 2.6 million cars for a faulty ignition switch, which it links to 13 deaths.Congress wants to know if it needs to ...

Jefferson County Health Center employees and Community Team members Tana Crane, left, and Matt Hobbs present The Lord?s Cupboard coordinator Laura Cohen with 84 pounds of food and a check for $200 collected by health center employees during the recent Cram the Cupboard drive.

Eligible voters in the Fairfield Community School District will have a chance to go to the polls Tuesday to elect a school board member and vote on the Physical Plant and Equipment Levy.Candidates Stephen Pumphrey and Phil Miller are competing for the spot on the school board. The opening was created in November when school board member Amy Miller resigned to move to Des Moines. Whoever wins Tuesday?s election ...

Danaher Oil joined the 224th Engineer Battalion of the Iowa Army National Guard in becoming the second business to achieve Blue Zones Worksite designation in Fairfield.Both sites are empowering their employees to be happier, healthier and more productive by creating healthier work environments.Representatives from the Blue Zones Project Fairfield team and the Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce presented Danaher ...

The Fairfield Parks and Recreation Department will hold its annual Easter egg hunt at 10 a.m. Saturday at Chautauqua Park.The event is free and is open to all children from pre-school through fifth grade. Children will need to supply their own baskets.Children will be divided into four groups: preschool; kindergarten and first grade; second and third grade; and fourth and fifth grade.The park and rec department...

CEDAR RAPIDS ? KGAN General Manager Glen Callanan is announcing to antenna-TV viewers they need to re-scan their television channels Saturday.In order to better serve its viewers, eastern Iowa?s CBS affiliate will soon upgrade its over-the-air broadcast signal.CBS 2 will turn off its broadcast transmitter during the overnight hours between Friday and Saturday to begin the upgrade process. Following a two-week ...

Hawthorne Direct presented the third entry from its monthly ?Spotlight on Branding? podcast series on March 24.The new podcast, ?Is That Second Screen Complementing Your Television Marketing Campaign?? is presented by Hawthorne Direct?s CEO/founder Tim Hawthorne.To hear this and all future Hawthorne Direct podcasts, visit ~In the new podcast, Tim Hawthorne says with the proliferation of mobile phones, laptops ...

MT. PLEASANT ? Steven E. Titus will be inaugurated as the 29th president of Iowa Wesleyan College during a ceremony at 2:30 p.m. Friday in the Iowa Wesleyan College Chapel Auditorium in Mt. Pleasant.A reception will follow in the Howe Student Activity Center on the college campus.The public is invited to the ceremony and reception.Titus was named president of Iowa Wesleyan College by the board of trustees in ...