City hall, library closed Friday Fairfield City Hall and the Fairfield Public Library will be closed from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday for safety training.City hall and the library will be open Monday. Pool closed Wednesday The Roosevelt Aquatic Center will be closed Wednesday.Fairfield Park and Recreation Department director Derik Wulfekuhle explained the indoor pool will be closed for a maintenance issue. ...
WAYLAND (GTNS) ? WACO?s toughest battle Wednesday night in its playoff game at Lynnville-Sully may have been getting to the game.While the Warriors suffered a 28-8 loss to the Hawks in the game at Sully, the Warriors were fortunate to get to the contest.During the trip to the contest, the WACO bus was following a truck carrying particle board. A sudden wind gust caught some of the particle board and threw it ...
Aspirin, one of the world?s oldest and cheapest drugs, has shown remarkable promise in treating colon cancer in people with mutations in a gene that?s thought to play a role in the disease.Among patients with the mutations, those who regularly took aspirin lived longer than those who didn?t, a major study found. Five years after their cancers were diagnosed, 97 percent of the aspirin users were still alive ...
AMES ? The Iowa departments of transportation, education and public safety are joining the National Association for Pupil Transportation in promoting National School Bus Safety Week, which began Monday and continues through Friday.Motorists can expect heightened traffic enforcement directed toward persons who illegally pass stopped school buses during this period.The theme for this year?s educational campaign ...
Maharishi University of Management student Natalie Baginski casts her vote for the Nov. 6 general election in the Argiro Student Center Conference Room on the M.U.M. campus during her lunch hour Thursday. A unique Iowa law allowed citizens to petition for a satellite absentee voting station at the campus site as well as at Fairfield Hy-Vee Food and Drug Store Saturday. Petitions must garner 100 signatures from ...
It?s scratchy, lasts only 78 seconds and features the world?s first recorded blooper.The modern masses can now listen to what experts say is the oldest playable recording of an American voice and the first-ever capturing of a musical performance, thanks to digital advances that allowed the sound to be transferred from flimsy tinfoil to computer.The recording was originally made on a Thomas Edison-invented ...
Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office reported an accident on Highway 34 Fairfield exit 210. Marcia Drish struck at deer as she drove east at 5:52 a.m. today. Damage to her vehicle is estimated at $2,000.
Fairfield Police Department arrested Eric Essary, 40, of Fairfield, at 12:55 a.m. today. He is charged with assault on a police officer, domestic assault and disrupting 911 communications at Leisure Living No. 14.William Clark, 24, of Fairfield was arrested at 11:17 p.m. Wednesday on a trail to the men?s dome on Maharishi University of Management campus, 1000 N. Fourth St., for public intoxication.
Three candidates for two seats on the Nov. 6 ballot for Jefferson County Board of Supervisors answered nine questions posed by moderator Nancy Morrissey, executive director of Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce, Tuesday evening at the Fairfield Public Library.Candidates were asked how actions of the county supervisors impact the incorporated areas in the county, and candidates should provide examples.Democratic ...
Sign dedication Saturday morning Fairfield Beautification Commission is ready to celebrate and dedicate the limestone Fairfield entrance sign on Highway 1 south.A ribbon cutting and dedication is at 10 a.m. Saturday, open to the public. Neighboring First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) has given permission for parking in the church lot Saturday morning.?It?s been a three-year project,? said Nancy ...
Miranda Metcalf, bottom left, leads Fairfield High School students in a cheer Monday during the Trojans? win over Knoxville in the opening round of regional volleyball at FHS. The Trojans will take on Mount Pleasant in the semifinal round Thursday.
Fairfield Police Department took a report at 9:34 a.m. Tuesday that a vehicle was vandalized in the 100 block of South Sixth Street.Adam Lynn Redding, 24, of Libertyville was arrested at 3:12 p.m. Monday in the 100 block of West Burlington Avenue, charged with assault.Police received a report at 4:35 p.m. Thursday about disorderly conduct among three male juveniles reported to have occurred in the 200 block of ...
President Barack Obama asked the Iowans who first voted for him as president to give him another chance to accomplish his goals, including the immigration overhaul that he predicts Republicans will want to accomplish if they are defeated in the White House race.The president kicked off the busiest day of his re-election campaign with an appeal to the Iowa voters who selected him in the first-in-the-nation ...
Iowa Workforce Development is asking regional businesses and industries to sign an agreement to use the National Career Readiness Certificate as a way to document a person?s essential work-related skills.Susie Drish from Region 15, Ottumwa IowaWorks Center, talked with Jefferson County Board of Supervisors at Monday?s supervisors meeting.?Our governor wants as many business tie-ins as possible to promote having ...
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