Fairfield News

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office received a report of a vehicle/deer accident at 6:35 a.m. Sunday. Ted Diers of Lockridge was driving a 2009 Ford Escape north on Vetch Boulevard, two-tenths of a mile south of 195th Street, when he struck a deer in the road. Estimated damages to his SUV are $3,500.Julie Ann Polson, 36 of 302 W. Broadway Ave., Apt. 6, was arrested at 1200 W. Grimes Ave., at 12:15 a.m. Saturday ...

Fairfield Police Department received a report at 1:27 p.m. Sunday of a vehicle burglarized at University BP gas station, 500 N. Second St.Police responded to an accident at 5:16 p.m. Saturday at West Grimes Avenue and North Ninth Street. Marsha Elkins, 42, of 1300 W. Jackson Ave., No. 7, driving a 2003 Chevrolet Malibu, stopped for a stop sign. Ronald Austin Tedrow, 22, of 100 N. 16th St. No. 12, was driving a ...

Fairfield Fire Department responded to a call at 6:45 p.m. Sunday at 907 N. 12th St., for possible carbon monoxide leak. Measurements showed no leak.

Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States ? an emboldened presence that experts believe is meant to tighten their grip on the world?s most lucrative narcotics market and maximize profits.If left unchecked, authorities say, the cartels? move into the American interior could ...

Open house for Fisher?s retirementAn open house, hosted by Iowa State Bank and Trust Company of Fairfield, will be given in honor of the retirement of Janet Fisher from 2-4 p.m. Friday at the bank?s main office.Fisher has been with the company for 21 years. She began working at Iowa State Bank in 1992 as a teller and became receptionist in 1997.Fisher is looking forward to spending more time with her husband ...

A new business opened in Fairfield in late March, and its sales are already through the roof.Memory Laine is a consignment shop specializing in furniture, wall ornaments, handcrafted items, small décor, collectibles and other antiques at 601 S. 23rd St., in the same building as Creative Edge Master Shop. Michelle Higdon manages the store.The store opened March 19. Higdon said it?s the first consignment shop she ...

The Cure will make their first Lollapalooza appearance in the festival?s more than 20-year history this summer, joining fellow headliners Mumford and Sons, The Killers and Nine Inch Nails, Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell announced Monday.?It is so exciting to have The Cure at Lollapaloooza for the first time because I love The Cure and we?ve never had them,? Farrell, also the lead singer of Jane?s Addiction, ...

More than 6,000 people were killed in the Syrian civil war in March alone, according to a leading activist group that reported it was the deadliest month yet in the 2-year-old conflict.The head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an increase in shelling and clashes around the country led to the high toll, which is incomplete because fighters on both sides tend to underreport their dead.?Both sides ...

Rebecca Bachar teaches children to fly by flapping their ?wings? made of sheets during storytime Thursday at the Fairfield Public Library. Bachar teaches dance lessons in town, and said the movements the children learned were based on a dance by Isadora Duncan.

Emily June Breffle, left, purchases a bottle of honey from Charles Newton at a recent Fairfield Indoor Farmers? Market. Newton said he has raised bees to produce honey for 30 years. The indoor farmers? market is held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Saturday in the Fairfield Senior Citizen Center through April.

Jefferson County?s public health staff invites the community to an open house from 2-4 p.m. Thursday in recognition of Public Health Week.The office, at the corner of Briggs Avenue and Second Street, shares a building with Fairfield?s fire station.?We?re having an open house during Public Health Week to help the community be more aware of our services,? said Chris Estle, administrator.?Public health is part of ...

Although snow remains in select parts of the county, these budding flowers testify to the end of winter and the beginning of spring.