Fairfield News

The following dispositions were released from the Jefferson County Clerk of Court: Associate District CourtRoy Daniel Lahvic III, 30, of Ottumwa pleaded guilty to operating a motor vehicle while license barred ? habitual offender, aggravated misdemeanor. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail, which was suspended. He was placed on two years probation, fined $625 plus a 35 percent surcharge and ordered to pay ...

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office reports a vehicle accident at 1:10 p.m. Monday. Tamara Helen Haile of Packwood was driving a 2000 Saturn LS2 north on Main Street and was unable to stop at a stop sign due to icy road conditions. Lee Alan Conger of Packwood was driving a 2008 Chevrolet Silverado pickup west on Fourth Street and he was unable to avoid a collision due to icy road conditions. The Saturn caused about ...

Hundreds of elderly and disabled New Yorkers who were hurriedly evacuated from seaside nursing homes and assisted living residences after Superstorm Sandy are still in a grim limbo two months later, sleeping on cots in temporary quarters without such comforts as private bathrooms or even regular changes of clothes.Their plight can be seen at places like the Bishop Henry B. Hucles Episcopal Rehabilitation and ...

Santa Claus will make his annual Christmas Eve visit to Fairfield, sponsored by the local Rotary Club, late Monday afternoon.Just as he has almost every year for the past 80, Santa and his entourage will arrive in Central Park between 5:30-6 p.m. to pass out treats to children and to take their last-minute gift wishes.The Christmas Eve ritual begins about 4:30 p.m. when parade, including Santa?s tractor-powered ...

Letters to Santa, old Christmas photos and greetings from area businesses ...Click below to see the full pages.

The Fairfield City Council unanimously accepted the Emergency Power System Project for the city?s wastewater treatment plant as final Monday night at city hall.The $1.2 million project was mandated by the Department of Natural Resources, installing new generators and building an addition to the treatment building with new wiring. Wendler Construction of Amana, Iowa completed the project.The council also ...

Jefferson County Board of Supervisors set a public hearing for 7 p.m. Wednesday in the second-floor courtroom at Jefferson County Courthouse about KK Finisher Site?s construction permit application for a confinement feeding operation.Ryan Robertson?s construction permit application would add 1,476 swine to his 2,200-head operation north of Pleasant Plain.Monday, the board reviewed the required Master Matrix ...

Liberty Subdivision Phase II was approved by the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors Monday after owner Robert Hougher returned for the second week with requested revisions.Last week, Hougher presented his plans for expanding the subdivision at 32nd Street on the north side of Libertyville Road, adding seven lots for sale for development. West Hills Drive goes to his own residence and another privately owned ...

The rumbling of chainsaws and hum of log grinders are echoing through Chautauqua Park this week as crews dismantle 50 of its revered old oak trees.Brown?s Tree Services of Fairfield is racing against the impending winter storm, felling 43 of the trees by noon today, leaving behind massive stumps surrounded by a rubble of logs and brush. While Fairfield park superintendent Pam Craff is perhaps the saddest to see ...

Travel not advised in much of Iowa starting at 8 p.m. AMES ? In advance of forecasted blizzard conditions in the state, the Iowa Department of Transportation is advising motorists travel across the majority of Iowa is not advised from 8 p.m. today through noon Thursday.The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning beginning at 6 p.m. today and continuing through 6 p.m. Thursday. In addition to ...

Fairfield Police Department arrested Anna Shaner, 23, of Fairfield at 10:21 p.m. Tuesday on a warrant for possession of a controlled substance, Xanax.

Worshippers usually leave notes to the Almighty at one of Judaism?s holiest sites. But half a billion dollars?Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, who oversees Jerusalem?s Western Wall, said a worshipper found an envelope at the site Wednesday with 507 checks in the amount of about $1 million each. They were not addressed to anyone, and it?s doubtful they can be cashed.Rabinovitch said most are Nigerian. Israeli police ...