Fairfield News

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ? Holly Maniatty creates music ? for the deaf.Teaming American Sign Language with dance moves and body language, she brings musical performances alive for those who can?t hear. Her clients are a who?s who of rock, pop and hip-hop: Bruce Springsteen, Eminem, Mumford and Sons, Jay-Z, Billy Joel, Marilyn Manson, U2, Beastie Boys and Wu-Tang Clan, to name a few.Along the way, videos of her ...

This morning?s single-digit temperatures have halted most soil preparation work for farmers as the frost and freezing ground make it too hard for fertilizers to penetrate into the soil.?Until it got so cold, farmers were applying anhydrous and nitrogen,? said Jim Jensen, farm management staff with Iowa State University Extension Office in Mount Pleasant.?Farmers also are out fixing any erosion problems, mending ...

Shop foreman Chad Lamansky of Jefferson County Secondary Road Department shared a list of department vehicles and a 10 to 11 year cycle replacement schedule at the board of supervisors meeting Monday.The department has nine (road grader) maintainer vehicles and seven maintainer districts; 12 plow trucks and eight snowplow routes.?I inherited a backlog of replacement cycles and things are getting past due for ...

Fairfield voters will head to the polls Tuesday to decide a race that could not be decided Nov. 5.City councilor Connie Boyer is stepping down from her position on the council. Four candidates sought to replace Boyer, but when the dust settled none of them received 50 percent of the vote necessary to win the election.The two candidates who received the most votes were Patrick Bosold with 535 votes (44 percent) ...

A Fairfield wastewater facility employee, Larry Hanshaw, was taken to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Tuesday for an injury he suffered on the job.Fairfield city administrator Kevin Flanagan said today Hanshaw is in stable condition after an accident left him with a severe head injury.Flanagan said the incident happened mid-morning Tuesday on the grounds of the wastewater treatment facility. ...

WASHINGTON, Iowa (GTNS) ? What started as a traffic stop due to unsafe driving quickly turned into two drug-related arrests when Washington County Sheriff?s deputies allegedly found synthetic marijuana in the vehicle.Jose Angel Urias Jr., 22, of Winfield, was arrested Monday morning at Highway 218 and 320th Street for possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. Charges are pending ...

BALTIMORE (AP) ? Together, the four men sitting handcuffed in a Baltimore courtroom had spent 151 years in prison.Nicholas Marshall-Bey: 34 years on a murder conviction. Salim Sadiki: 37 years after being found guilty of rape. Michael Person: 39 years in the slaying of a bartender. Hercules Williams: 41 years in the death of a man in his living room. Yet, after a short hearing earlier this month, the men did ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? The issue of water fluoridation has bubbled up in Des Moines.A period of public comment runs through Saturday for customers of Des Moines Water Works. CEO Bill Stowe says sentiment is running 3-1 against adding fluoride to water used by more than 500,000 people in the Des Moines area.Dentists and some health experts say fluoridation dramatically reduces tooth decay. Opponents say fluoridation ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) ? Pheasants once drew hundreds of weekend hunters to Fairbury, Neb., each fall, filling the 45 rooms at Randy Brown?s Capri Motel with sportsmen eager to bag their limits.But times have changed. The native grasslands and milo crops that used to dot surrounding Jefferson County have been overtaken by corn and soy crops. Neither provides the shelter that wildlife once enjoyed. This year?s ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? A popular deer donation program is starting up again in Iowa.The state Department of Natural Resources says the program, Help Us Stop Hunger, involves hunters bringing in a whole deer that will be processed into packages of ground meat.The Food Bank of Iowa coordinates the distribution of the meat to local food pantries.Jim Coffey, who coordinates the program, says hunters simultaneously ...

COUNCIL BLUFFS (AP) ? An Iowa man suspected of trying to steal copper is being treated in Omaha, Neb., for a badly burned hand.The Daily Nonpareil says a power pole was cut down northeast of Council Bluffs on Saturday. Pottawattamie County Sheriff Jeff Danker says deputies soon learned that a man in his 40s had been admitted to Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs for treatment of a burned ...

Fairfield Lions Club members taste-test a pot of soup that will be made for their 11th annual fund-raising soup supper and auction Friday at the Fairfield Senior Citizen Center. From left are Edd Felgar, auctioneer; Doug Alexander, food organizer; Jane Bush, food chairwoman; and Don Wallace, donor committee. The chili, chicken noodle soup, ham sandwiches and pies will be served for a free-will offering from ...