Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office reports two deer/vehicle accidents.At 5:55 p.m. Thursday a 1996 Mercury Mystique hit a deer in the 2700 block of Stockport Road.At 5:32 p.m. a 2007 Buick Lucerne hit a deer in the 1200 block of Highway 1.
Fairfield Police Department received a report at 9:45 p.m. Thursday about tires slashed on a vehicle. The owner said the slashing occurred sometime between 8 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. Thursday. He replaced the tires for $62.
Federal agencies will provide better and more accessible information about matters such as long-term weather prospects and soil moisture levels under a program designed to help communities prepare for future droughts and respond more effectively when they happen, Obama administration officials said Thursday.The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will lead the ...
MUSCATINE (AP) ? A coal-fueled power plant in eastern Iowa has closed and will be demolished to make way for green space.The Muscatine Journal reports that the CIPCO Fair Station near Montpelier burned the last of its coal on Nov. 2. The closure of the station will mean the loss of 23 jobs.Kathy Breheny, a spokeswoman for the cooperative, says the plant is closing because it was built in the 1960s and isn?t ...
According to two foreign exchange students at the Fairfield High School, the United States is radically different from their home countries.Federico Ferretti, from Italy, and Akmaral ?Marika? Abduraimova, from Kyrgyzstan, have been in Fairfield since mid-August and they will stay here the entire school year.Ferretti comes from the city of 30,000 called Fabriano. Abduraimova grew up in a big city called Jalalabad...
Fairfield City Council member Michael Halley and Fairfield Sustainability Coordinator Scott Timm were invited by Iowa Department of Natural Resources to attend a conference in Burlington Thursday to share their expertise.?We were invited to speak to a group of more than 100 arborists, city officials and city foresters about Fairfield?s Urban Tree Plan,? said Halley. ?The DNR likes how Fairfield is conducting an ...
DUBUQUE (AP) ? The Dubuque City Council is considering applying for nearly $100 million in state tax incentives as part of a huge flood-mitigation project that could stretch over more than 20 years.City officials estimate the Bee Branch Creek restoration project, which will cost nearly $180 million, could prevent an estimated $582 million in damages over its 100-year design life. It includes enhancing sewer ...
ANKENY (AP) ? State officials say Iowa has averaged more than 1,000 motorcycle crashes annually over the last five years, including about 50 fatalities.Des Moines television station KCCI says some of those crashes resulted in traumatic brain injuries.Officials at a leading care facility for those types of injuries say they?ve seen an unusually high number of cases this fall. Seven motorcyclists have been ...
DAVENPORT (AP) ? Officials at St. Ambrose University in Davenport have reduced the scale of a planned athletic complex, but nearby residents remain unhappy about the proposal.The Quad-City Times reports neighbors met with officials at the private university Thursday to discuss the revised plans.St. Ambrose initially had proposed a 5,000-seat football stadium that drew complaints from residents.The new plan ...
The Fairfield City Council is pushing for duplexes and apartments to create separate water lines and meters for each tenant in the building.City Administrator Kevin Flanagan and water superintendent Carl Chandler explained the city?s predicament to the council. If a duplex only has one meter and one of the occupants isn?t paying for water, the city can?t shut the water off to the house because it?s not fair to ...
The city of Fairfield was honored Oct. 28 with a ?Best Practices Award? and $1,000 from the Iowa Municipalities Workers? Compensation Association. City clerk Joy Messer, center, accepted the award on behalf of the city from IMWCA president Bob Shepherd, left, and Ed Morrison, the organization?s loss control representative. Messer said the city formed a safety committee a few years ago which meets once a month. ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Fears that insurance exchanges that are the linchpin of President Barack Obama?s federal health care overhaul wouldn?t attract the young, healthy people needed to make them financially viable are being heightened by the early results of signups in several states.If it becomes a trend, that could lead to increases in insurance premiums and deductibles next year. Along with the paltry enrollment ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? An airport security officer lay helplessly bleeding after a gunman opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport as paramedics waited 150 yards away because police had not declared the terminal safe to enter, according to two law enforcement officials.It would be 33 minutes before Transportation Security Administration Officer Gerardo Hernandez, who was about 20 feet from an exit, would be ...
Jefferson County Engineer Scott Cline gave an update Tuesday to the board of supervisors about the cost, $12.8 million, to bring county paved roads up to 85 percent service level or better.?I asked Scott what it would cost to bring all of our hard surface roads up to grade A condition,? said supervisor Dick Reed.Cline outlined several projects and breakdown of costs using maps with highlighted roads showing ...
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