Fairfield News

Come heat, humidity or high water, the 66th Annual Greater Jefferson County Fair will open Wednesday and continue through July 1.This year?s fair theme, ?Roundin? Down to Fair Time,? was submitted by Dakota McElderry and Danielle Smith. It was selected from four entries.While the fair does not officially open until Wednesday, pre-fair activities began today. Conference judging for 4-H and Clover Kids projects ...

Fairfield Police Department received a report at 9:46 p.m. Saturday of harassment on the square.Police received a harassment report from someone else at 8:20 p.m. Saturday.Police received a report of child endangerment at 6:24 p.m. Saturday in the 700 block of North Ninth Street.Police received a report of disturbance of the peace at 1:58 a.m. Saturday at Fairfield Park Apartments.Police received a report of ...

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office arrested Jayme Lee Liles, 30, of Batavia, at her home at 9:01 p.m. Saturday on warrants for contempt of court and violation of a restraining order.William Joseph Morris, 38 of Mount Pleasant was arrested at Burlington Avenue and Glasgow Road at 2:31 a.m. Saturday. He is charged with operating while intoxicated, second offense.The sheriff?s office reports a deer/vehicle accident ...

Cambridge Investment Research Inc. has started its official summer internship program, The Next Step, for 2013.The Next Step is designed to provide insight into specific departmental positions within the home office, as well as an overview about the financial services industry and Cambridge as a leading independent broker-dealer.?We received resumes from 600 applicants, a 50 percent increase from a year ago, ...

AMES ? The Iowa Department of Transportation will be closing offices on the Fourth of July holiday.All business locations will be closed July 4.All Iowa D.O.T. driver?s license stations will be closed Thursday, July 4, and will reopen Friday, July 5, at 8:30 a.m.The Iowa D.O.T.?s Office of Vehicle and Motor Carrier Services, normally open Monday through Friday, will close at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 3, and ...

Fairfield Fire Department investigated an alarm at Logan Apartments at 6:39 a.m. Sunday. Firefighters reset the alarm and returned to the station at 6:58 a.m.Firefighters responded to 2155 Pine Ave. at 4:56 p.m. Saturday for a valve that popped off a 1,000 gallons propane tank. Firefighters cooled the tank with water hoses, determined the valve on the tank was bad, and returned to the station by 5:50 p.m.

LITTLE COLORADO RIVER GORGE, Ariz. (AP) ? Nik Wallenda studied the plunging walls of the Little Colorado River Gorge before stepping out on a quarter-mile tightrope cable. ?Whoo! That?s an amazing view.?With that observation, the aerialist embarked Sunday afternoon on a walk without a safety net or harness, 1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River Gorge in northeastern Arizona.The successful, 22-minute walk ...

COUNCIL BLUFFS (AP) ? A Council Bluffs family of three adults was arrested Wednesday on kidnapping charges after the father's 20-year-old son claimed he was severely burned and abused for several years, according to an affidavit.The court document said the son, who ran away from home around March, was at times starved, chained with a dog leash and forced to sleep while standing.The son told authorities that his ...

BRITT (AP) ? A federal report says a crop-dusting pilot had been distracted by using his cellphone just before fatally crashing in northern Iowa last year.Pilot John Larson, of Buffalo Center, died about eight hours after his plane crashed into a cornfield three miles northeast of Britt on July 17, 2012. Authorities say the plane struck a power line, clipped a power pole and then crashed.The National Transportat...

Fairfield High School Class of 2013 answered 18 questions about their school, their educational experience and teachers in the annual exit survey before graduating.Monday, school board member Jeri Kunkle said a couple responses concerned her.The statement: Fairfield High School maintained a drug-free environment, could be answered with ? excellent, good, average, below average, needs improvement and no response....

Waterworks Park will be closed next week from Tuesday through Friday and re-open Saturday, June 29.The city will be doing work at the park with heavy machinery. Fairfield parks and recreational department director Derik Wulfekuhle deemed the heavy machinery would present a problem for pedestrians and has ordered the park?s closure.

IOWA CITY (AP) ? Days after two Iowa girls were kidnapped, a national group that provided faith-based counseling to their abductor before his release from prison was putting a public relations plan in motion and preparing to protect its image, records released Thursday show.A Prison Fellowship vice president sent a prepared statement to the Iowa Department of Corrections that he said would be made public only if ...