Fairfield News

Fairfield Police Department log of calls to dispatch Wednesday, included:11:26 a.m. postal carrier reports being bitten Tuesday by a brown English bull dog in the 600 block of South Sixth Street. His right hand has puncture wounds. He did not seek medical attention. Dog owner, Cameron Cooksey, 603 S. Sixth St., was present and prevented his dogs from further attack. Cooksey said his dogs are not registered with ...

Iowa children are the big winners this week in the Iowa Senate, according to State Sen. Rich Taylor of Mt. Pleasant.?We took two big steps forward for children,? he said. ?First, the Senate voted unanimously to increase the childcare tax credit.?Second, the Senate approved and funded comprehensive anti-bullying legislation to ensure that every Iowa student feels safe and welcome in the classroom,? said Taylor.?...

Fairfield Police Department?s log of dispatch calls received Tuesday, included:4:02 p.m. complaint of loud, boombox music from cars in neighborhood.4:42 p.m. phone harassment reported.Three verbal traffic warnings were given Tuesday; three traffic citations were issued; one written traffic warning was given; and three 911 misdials/hang ups were received.

The Fairfield City Council has had to scale back its efforts to control the use of drench insecticide in the city limits.In February, the council unanimously passed the first reading of an ordinance that would have banned drench insecticides, out of a fear of the insecticides contaminating the ground water and killing bees, birds, squirrels and other animals.However, since the passage of the first reading, the ...

Late last year members of the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition acknowledged that there was little hope Congress would pass much-anticipated legislation granting citizenship to people in the U.S. illegally.So the group stopped lobbying for the bill and shifted to a different approach.Six of its activists last month chained themselves across the entrance to the Travis County jail near Austin to protest its ...

With a hunger to reclaim the governor?s office, Republican voters set out Tuesday to shake up Illinois? Democratic-dominated political order, energized by candidates? talk of taking on unions, unseating ?career politicians? and righting the state?s troubled finances.The talk at polling stations from the Chicago suburbs in the north to the St. Louis suburbs in the southwest was of reversing the state?s indebtednes...

Fairfield Police Department log of dispatch calls for Monday included:3:15 p.m. caller reported two males looked in the resident?s mailbox, then left.11:01 p.m. phone harassment reported.11:01 p.m. complaint about racing and speeding vehicles making noise.Verbal traffic warnings issued: 13.Written traffic warnings issued: 2.One traffic citation given.Two 911 hang-ups or misdials.

The Fairfield Police Department executed a search warrant Saturday at The Snack Shack and seized a number of packages containing synthetic marijuana.According to a press release from the police department, the synthetic marijuana was being sold as potpourri. The police also seized drug paraphernalia. The Snack Shack is located at 102 N. Court St. in Fairfield.As a result of the search warrant, Johnny MacShane ...

The Jefferson County Board of Supervisors took no action Monday on an agenda item to hire financial consultant Jeff Heil of Northland Securities Inc. to work with the county on the proposed Heartland Co-op grain storage and rail shipment operation facility.Supervisor chairman Dick Reed said he was concerned about the railroad underpass on Nutmeg Avenue that narrows to one lane as traffic goes under the railroad ...

Administrators at the pandit campus in Maharishi Vedic City announced that five pandits volunteered to return to their home country after an incident on the morning of March 11 when a group of pandits attacked Jefferson County Sheriff Gregg Morton while he was in his patrol pickup and parked at the campus.Bill Goldstein, spokesman for the organization that sponsors the pandits, the Global Country of World Peace, ...

Superintendent Art Sathoff shared with the school board at Thursday?s work session his recent experience in being recruited to a new job to give board members an understanding of the process and point out options.Sathoff was offered and accepted the superintendent job in Indianola school district. He begins in Indianola July 1.The Fairfield school board is set to accept his resignation at tonight?s school board ...

Fairfield Fire Department responded at 8:20 p.m. Thursday to a gas leak at South Park Street and Madison Avenue. Six firefighters stood by while Alliant attended to the gas leak. They returned to the station at 9:15 p.m.