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Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office reports a vehicle/deer collision at 10:40 a.m. Monday on old Highway 34 and Nutmeg Avenue.
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Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office reports a vehicle/deer collision at 10:40 a.m. Monday on old Highway 34 and Nutmeg Avenue.
Fairfield school board president Jennifer Anderson proposed restructuring the board?s committees based on a model she learned about in the Indianola Community School District.?I think superintendent Art Sathoff does a good job with the administrative team, but we as board members are not always aware of what is going on,? said Anderson during a work session Monday to set board goals for the 2013-14 school ...
Jefferson County Health Center has been named one of the Top 100 Iowa Workplaces in The Des Moines Register?s third annual report identifying the best places to work and what makes them special.Jefferson County Health Center CEO and administrator Deb Cardin announced the honor to the board of trustees during their meeting Monday evening. She said the Top 100 Iowa Workplaces was printed Sunday in the Des Moines ...
(This story has been revised since its original publication) Delta Zeta sorority has filed a lawsuit against a house in Fairfield for allegedly falsely advertising itself as a Delta Zeta chapter.The house is on Fourth Street near Maharishi University of Management. According to the Associated Press, the national Delta Zeta organization, based in Oxford, Ohio, claims the house in Fairfield is luring young women ...
The shooting lane at Turkey Run Wildlife Area is officially closed.Signs are posted and the earth berm constructed four years ago has been removed. Many issues have contributed to the closing. The most significant of these issues was excessive litter and target debris. Insurance and liability concerns also played a role.The Jefferson County Conservation Board received word from an Iowa Community Assurance Pool ...
Employees of the Area 15 Regional Planning Commission will be driving around Fairfield this week and taking photos of homes and apartments.They will do this to gauge the need for additional housing in the town ? a joint effort between the commission, the city of Fairfield, the Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce and the Fairfield Economic Development Association.Employers in the area have been asked to complete ...
GILBERTVILLE (AP) ? Authorities say a meandering herd of cows on a highway in northeast Iowa caused several vehicles to crash, but no one was seriously injured.The Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office says the cows were across the road early Tuesday on Interstate 380 just south of the Highway 20 interchange when a semitrailer traveling southbound struck at least two of them. The driver told police there were at ...
WATERLOO (AP) ? A 99-year-old Iowa woman who dropped out of a high school in 1932 has finally received her diploma.Audrey Crabtree was surrounded by family and friends on Monday as Waterloo Community Schools presented her with an honorary diploma during an education board meeting.The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports Crabtree dropped out of high school as a senior in 1932 due to an injury and to care for her ...
DES MOINES (AP) ? Several independent family farms in south-central Iowa expect hundreds of people to visit their property as part of an annual open house event.Eight farms will jointly offer the open houses as part of the seventh annual Farm Crawl on Oct. 6. The event has been advertised as a leisurely day where participants can hop from one farm to the next.Organizers hope the invitation to see the farms will ...
DES MOINES (AP) ? Gov. Terry Branstad is seeking to meet with federal officials in Washington to urge them to approve Iowa?s proposal to expand low-income health care, an aide said Wednesday.Health care policy adviser Michael Bousselot said the administration has sought meetings with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and with White House officials. He said plans for those meetings were being ...
IOWA CITY (AP) ? Leaders in Iowa City plan to pony up as much as $400,000 an acre for cropland near the city?s airport to keep it from being developed.The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that the city received a $4.8 million federal grant to buy 12 acres of land to ensure future development doesn?t restrict the approach path to the airport.The cropland is currently assessed at about $31,000, but officials note ...
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) ? An Iowa man who prompted a school lockdown in southeastern South Dakota is facing charges in multiple alleged incidents in the region over the past six weeks.Attorney General Marty Jackley says 32-year-old Scott Hughes, of Akron, Iowa, faces charges including burglary, arson and intentional damage to property.Hughes was arrested Wednesday in Akron after allegedly going on a crime spree and ...
ELDON ? The Cardinal Comets have been celebrating homecoming events this week, culminating in a Friday afternoon parade, Friday?s football game with West Burlington and a Homecoming dance Saturday at school.Seniors Brandon Eklofe and Leea Ostrander were crowned homecoming king and queen Wednesday evening, and Mike Owings and Schylar Conger are homecoming prince and princess.A jersey auction was held in conjuncti...
IOWA CITY (AP) ? An Iowa City teenager has been accused of taking a person?s iPod Touch and later uploading photos of himself onto the victim?s Facebook account.Iowa City police say 19-year-old Ladarrel M. Jones stole the device and other items from a home in July.The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports the iPod Touch owner contacted police in August to report that photos of Jones were on his Facebook account via ...
