Fairfield News

Nick Higgins waits with a spoon ready to stir the pasta as Katherine Mueller pours it into the boiling water in the consumer living kitchen at Fairfield High School. At right, Adam Mueller opens a jar of pasta sauce. The Future Business Leaders of America students were practicing for their upcoming Pasta Night Friday. Serving a variety of pastas for the fundraiser begins at 5 p.m. in the high school commons ...

Jefferson County Compensation Board meets for the first time regarding fiscal year 2013-14 at 9 a.m. Dec. 14, in the conference room on third floor of Jefferson County Courthouse.Six community members are appointed to four-year terms to sit on the compensation board, which studies about 25 factors to make salary recommendations to Jefferson County Board of Supervisors.?We make the recommendation, and it?s up to ...

A special election Tuesday in the 10-county region served by Indian Hills Community College allows the college to continuing collecting a tax levy to purchase instructional equipment.The 6 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value levy has been in place about 20 years and a majority of ?yes? votes continues this levy for another 10 years.Jefferson County had a light turn out with 74 total votes cast, according...

CEDAR RAPIDS (AP) ? When Iowa farmers were done harvesting this year?s drought-stunted 2012 corn crop this fall, many of them didn?t stop there.They returned to the fields to chop and rake the dried cornstalks into round bales that, at first glance, don?t look much different from hay bales.The material is known as corn stover. Experts say farmers began harvesting more of it in the last few years of rising hay ...

MONROE, Ga. (AP) ? The woman who was listed as the world?s oldest person died Tuesday in a Georgia nursing home at age 116.Besse Cooper died peacefully Tuesday afternoon in Monroe, according to her son Sidney Cooper. Monroe is about 45 miles east of Atlanta.Cooper said his mother had been ill recently with a stomach virus, then felt better on Monday. On Tuesday he said she had her hair set and watched a ...

Thanks to a tip from Ledger reader Ron Meyers, the swans on a local pond were found preparing to rest, and had not taken flight. Of the eight on the pond, five had their heads tucked under their wings, two were diving for food and one spread his wings while admiring his reflection in the water. They apparently were just resting for a few hours as they did not remain long.

Pence Elementary School and Fairfield Middle School were under a Level I lock down for approximately 10 minutes today around lunch time. A Level I lock down is defined as a possible threat in the community not directly related to the school, for example, a robbery suspect in the area. In this case a suspicious individual was noted in the vicinity of Fairfield Middle School. Under a Level I lock down students stay ...

An inmate was executed Wednesday after being convicted of murdering two 13-year-old girls in a ghost town where they were raped, strangled and stabbed before being dumped in a partly flooded mine shaft.Richard Dale Stokley, 60, was put to death at a prison in Florence two decades after he and another man were convicted of murdering Mandy Meyers and Mary Snyder in 1991 in rural Cochise County.The execution of ...

Fairfield Police Department arrested Clifford Eugene Williams, 36, of Ottumwa at 7:33 a.m. Tuesday in the Kum and Go parking lot. He is charged with two counts of interference with official acts (police officer, EMT, firefighter) and public intoxication ? enhanced.

Former Maharishi University of Management student Ceyrena Kay returned to Fairfield with a fresh eye in 2006 to find a campus in need of an artistic and practical plan.?I came back and saw a campus in limbo,? she said. ?They?d torn down old buildings and had built new buildings, but it didn?t feel like there was much of a plan of how the outdoor spaces should come together as a coherent campus identity.?Kay had ...

In 2013, the Jefferson County Conservation Board will celebrate its 40th anniversary, said director Dennis Lewiston.Lewiston shared JCCB?s annual report, covering fiscal year July 1, 2011, to June 30, 2012, with the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors Monday.?It was at the general election in 1972 that the citizens of Jefferson County voted to establish a county conservation board,? Lewiston wrote in his ...

Citigroup said Wednesday that it will cut 11,000 jobs, a bold early move by new CEO Michael Corbat.The cuts amount to about 4 percent of Citi?s workforce. The bulk of them, about 6,200 jobs, will come from Citi?s consumer banking unit, which handles everyday functions like branches and checking accounts.Citi said that it will sell or scale back consumer operations in Pakistan, Paraguay, Romania, Turkey and ...