Fairfield News

IOWA CITY (AP) ? Peace activists are marching across eastern Iowa to protest a plan to fly unmanned aircraft from an air base in Des Moines.More than a dozen demonstrators are walking 195 miles from Rock Island, Ill., to Des Moines, to raise awareness about drone strikes. The activists are trying to send a message and raise awareness about the drones, the Iowa City Press-Citizen reported."I do think if there ...

DAVENPORT (AP) ? Firefighters have rescued two children and helped two adults flee a Davenport apartment blaze.The Quad-City Times reports that the fire began around 2:15 a.m. Sunday in one of the first-floor units of a two-story building that has eight apartments.District Chief Robbie Minnaert says firefighters carried two children to safety and used ladders to help two adults get down from the second floor. ...

IOWA CITY (AP) ? Iowa City has reopened North Dubuque Street after flooding forced it to close, but officials are asking motorists to use caution along the heavily traveled road.The city announced Sunday that a receding Iowa River has allowed the city to reopen Dubuque Street between Foster Road and Park Road. However, motorists are still asked to use caution because of a previously scheduled construction ...

CEDAR RAPIDS (AP) ? Cedar Rapids police say they are investigating an assault that sent a 72-year-old man to the hospital.Police said officers were called to the scene at Park Court and 2nd Avenue southeast shortly before 4 a.m. Sunday. The unidentified man was taken to a local hospital for treatment.Authorities say they are still investigating. Anyone with information is urged to call Linn County Crime ...

CLINTON (AP) ? The parent company of Ashford University in Clinton has announced a series of voluntary layoffs due to falling enrollment.KWQC-TV in Davenport reports the parent company, Bridgeport Education, will cut positions to align its employee base with enrollment.Total enrollment at the company's academic institutions, including Ashford, fell to less than 79,000 students this year, compared to nearly ...

RUNNELS (AP) ? Officials will be digging into a sinkhole to see whether it leads to an abandoned mine under the Polk County town of Runnells.A state environmental engineer, Mike Bourland, told The Des Moines Register that there are mines in the area.The sinkhole made its debut about two weeks ago in the front yard of Bob Borg. It was nearly 10 feet deep and around 10 feet wide, gaping just a few yards away from ...

The nonprofit board Orpheum Theatre and Fairfield Film Institute, formed last fall to bring Fairfield?s movie theater back to life, is being dissolved, and plans presented to the community for renovations and showing films are moving forward.?There was always a for-profit and a nonprofit entity,? said building managing owner/partner Chris Johnson of Mandala 6 Land Partners.?The board always intended to hire a ...

The Fairfield community, along with the rest of the United States, celebrated Flag Day Friday.Wagon Wheel Senior Housing hosted a Flag Day ceremony Friday morning in its parking lot. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2271 auxiliary president Joyce Countryman presented a flag to Wagon Wheel site manager Becky Jaeger and the Wagon Wheel residents.Jaeger put the flag on a light pole north of the building during the ...

BRIGHTON (GTNS) ? Due to the weather causing the ground to be wet, the renovation project at Lake Darling is being done backward.Iowa Department of Natural Resources fisheries management biologist Chad Dolan said Thursday that while originally, the project would have removed sediment from the lake first, then move on to roadwork, the wet weather is now making the roadwork easier to do first. Boat ramps, parking ...

IOWA CITY (AP) ? The Iowa Supreme Court has suspended two lawyers for charging excessive fees to a mentally ill Vietnam veteran whose affairs they helped manage for three decades.The court said Keota law partners Donald Laing and Scott Railsback claimed too many hours for managing the conservatorship of John Klein and charged excessive rates for performing services that didn't require legal training. Justices ...

DAVENPORT (AP) ? Managers of a wetlands area near Davenport are turning to goats to rid the area of invasive plants.The Quad-City Times reports facilitator Brian Ritter decided to give goats a try after failing at other efforts to remove invasive plants that crowd out native varieties in the Nahant Marsh area.Ritter says the 24 goats that arrived from Wisconsin in late May have made a huge difference.Naturalist...

Fairfield Fire Department responded at 9:27 a.m. Sunday to 703 E. Pierce Ave., for a limb on a power line. Firefighters stood by for Alliant, and returned to the station by 10:35 a.m.An automatic alarm sounded at 4:32 a.m. Saturday at 2057 Kiowa Ave. The alarm was called off within a minute.