Fairfield News

Fairfield Community School District has a special election scheduled April 1, that will include one school board seat up for election.Filing papers and information are available at the district?s ~ Center. Candidate papers must be returned to the A/C/T offices by 5 p.m. Friday to have the candidate?s name on the April 1 ballot.Former school board member Amy Miller, elected in 2011, resigned in November.Phil ...

Accusing the West of encouraging an ?unconstitutional coup? in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin said today that Moscow reserves the right to use its military to protect Russians there but hopes it doesn?t have to.The Russian leader?s first comments on Ukraine since its fugitive president fled came as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Kiev to meet with Ukraine?s new government.Putin declared that Western ...

Fairfield Police Department log of dispatch calls Monday included the following:8:24 a.m. caller reported a money scam.11:43 a.m. caller reported receiving threatening texts.12:04 p.m. disorderly conduct reported.1:05 p.m. ministerial alliance provided a one-night stay.

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office arrested Jeffrey Dale Bohnenkamp, 54, of Montrose, at 2:36 a.m. today at Highway 34 and Umber Avenue, Lockridge. He is charged with operating while intoxicated, first offense.Sheriff deputies responded to a deer/vehicle accident at 6:33 p.m. Monday on Brookville Road, Fairfield.

Fairfield Fire Department and Packwood Fire Department responded at 4:46 p.m. Sunday to a structure fire at 1675 Invincible America Blvd., Maharishi Vedic City.A residential building was ablaze on the pandit campus from an unknown source. The fire is under investigation.No one was injured.Fairfield Fire Chief Scott Vaughan said the frigid temperatures froze water hoses, which then had to be brought back to the ...

The budget gurus in Congress have failed for years to find a grand bargain to reduce the government?s long-term debt, so this year they decided to go small.Just 1 percentage point would be shaved from the annual cost-of-living increase in military pensions for veterans under age 62.That strategy failed, too. Congress promptly caved in to pressure from the powerful veterans lobby and voted last month to restore ...

DES MOINES ? Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey announced he will be visiting Van Buren, Jefferson and Washington counties on Thursday.Northey will tour the Van Buren County?s quarry in Keosauqua, meet with Southeast Iowa soil conservation employees in Fairfield, speak to Rotary in Washington and then address the West Fork Crooked Creek Water Quality and Soil Health Initiative kickoff event in Washington....

The Healthier Workforce Center for Excellence is accepting proposals from students, faculty and community-based organizations for pilot project grants.Faculty and students are invited to submit applications for new and creative research that focuses on integrated approaches to worker health. Projects must integrate health protection and health promotion.Funding of up to $5,000 is available for student projects ...

DES MOINES ? Iowa?s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to a post-recession low of 4.2 percent in December from a revised November rate of 4.3 percent.The comparable rate for December 2012 was 5.0 percent.The U.S. unemployment rate for December dropped to 6.7 percent from 7.0 percent in November, as more people left the labor force.?In contrast to the national trend, Iowa made considerable progress ...

OTTUMWA ? United by a common patient-centered culture, a partnership between Heartland Eye Care of Ottumwa and Wolfe Eye Clinic has been established.The partnership combines the strengths of both clinics to provide exceptional medical and surgical eye care to the residents of southeast Iowa. ?A merger was formed with Wolfe Eye Clinic to help broaden the services offered to our patients,? said Gregory Thorgaard ...

The Obama administration said today any Russian threat to Ukraine?s navy would be a ?dangerous escalation? of an extremely tense situation.The State Department said that Washington would hold Moscow directly accountable for such an escalation but did not elaborate on potential consequences. Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, however, that she could not confirm if Russia had in fact made such threats.Earlier ...

The following court cases were processed at Jefferson County Courthouse:Associate District CourtChase Robert Feagins, 30, of Keosauqua, pleaded guilty in Count I, operating while intoxicated, second offense, an aggravated misdemeanor. He was sentenced to two years in prison, to run consecutively with sentence in Count II. All but seven days were suspended. He was placed on two years probation and his license ...