Fairfield News

Fairfield Police Department?s dispatch log for Thursday, included:1:03 a.m. complaint of disturbing the peace.10:31 a.m. Vera Rhodes was arrested on a warrant.7:02 p.m. Lucy Roe was arrested on a warrant.8:58 p.m. Julie Polson was arrested on a warrant for second degree criminal mischief.

Genet Arede, right, serves a plate of Ethiopian food to Stacy Maurer and Doga Ozesmi Saturday at the Fairfield Farmers Market. Arede?s booth included dishes such as lentil and split pea soup, cabbage, carrots, spinach and a flatbread called Injera. Arede cooks and serves food from her native country every Thursday lunchtime at the Holy Spirit Church. The Fairfield Farmers Market is every from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) ? After 20 years, the nutrition facts label on the back of food packages is getting a makeover.Knowledge about nutrition has evolved since the early 1990s, and the Food and Drug Administration says the labels need to reflect that.Nutritionists and other health experts have their own wish list for label changes.The number of calories should be more prominent, they say, and the amount of added ...

MT. PLEASANT (GTNS) ? Iowa Wesleyan College announced Wednesday it will be closing 16 academic programs and reducing 22 faculty positions and 23 staff positions in a reorganization of academic programs, administrative departments and personnel.IWC?s current faculty numbers 52 professors, and the school now offers 32 majors.The bottom line is that the reorganization is a cost-cutting move.IWC President Steven ...

Heartland Co-op CEO and general manager Tom Hauschel told the Fairfield school board Monday if all the agreements between governmental agencies and the co-op?s board are timely, the co-op could pour concrete in November and have its proposed grain storage elevator facility functioning by October 2015.Hauschel and Todd Phillips, executive vice president of grain and risk management at Heartland, visited with the ...

The Fairfield Water Department responded to a main break Wednesday afternoon on West Jefferson Avenue between Third and Fourth streets. Water filled the street and created a virtual ice rink on West Jefferson. Water superintendent Carl Chandler said the crew was on scene for four to five hours while it dug a hole in the street to get down to the leaky main. Chandler said it was so cold outside members of the crew ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Iowa officials are looking for people to serve as campground hosts at several state parks.The state Department of Natural Resources says the hosts will assist park staff at a designated spot with tasks like helping campers and explaining rules. Hosts will also help with registration and serve as impromptu tour guides.Hosts receive free camping for their work, which also includes cleaning and ...

BUFFALO (AP) ? An occupant and a firefighter have been injured in a house fire in eastern Iowa?s Scott County.The Buffalo Police Department says a woman suffered burns on her hands and face in the fire, which was reported around 4:15 a.m. Wednesday. She was taken to a hospital in Iowa City. Her name wasn?t released.The firefighter was hurt when part of the house ceiling collapsed on him. He is recovering at ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Enrollment in Iowa?s public schools has risen for the second year in a row.The Iowa Education Department said Wednesday that enrollment for the 2013-14 school year rose 0.6 percent above the previous year and totaled nearly 479,000 students.The increases follow 17 years of declining enrollment. Iowa record enrollment was 645,000 students in the 1972-73 school year.Jay Pennington is chief of ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Gov. Terry Branstad says federal authorities must use ?common sense? and reconsider a proposed reduction in the amount of ethanol that must be blended with gasoline.Branstad kicked off a daylong hearing in Des Moines today about the issue. Other supporters of ethanol production are scheduled to speak, including U.S. Reps. Steve King and Tom Latham, and industry representatives from several ...

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito?s responsibilities are familiar to many women: plan her daughter?s May wedding, look out for her elderly parents and concentrate on her day job.The Republican congresswoman from West Virginia is also running for the U.S. Senate.?I?m doing what every woman in America does, I?m multitasking,? Capito says.She?s getting some help from women who?ve been there and done that.The Senate?s 20 ...

Fairfield Fire Department responded with a thermal imager and eight firefighters at 7:10 p.m. Wednesday to assist police, sheriff?s office and EMS search for a missing person around 185th Street and Woodland Drive. Sheriff Gregg Morton said today the person was located about two hours into the search and had not been injured. He could not release any more details because of Health Insurance Portability and ...