USDA approves loans for rural development WASHINGTON ? The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a guaranteed loan of $5,000,000 to Grundy Electric Cooperative Inc. and a guaranteed loan of $24,628,000 to Associated Electric Cooperative Inc.Associated Electric Cooperative will use the funding to build two new substations, one new switching station, and a spare transformer. It will affect Appanoose, ...
Fairfield Police Department received a report at 10:58 a.m. Wednesday of vandalism at 806 W. Adams Ave.Police arrested Roderick Ryan Schmitt, 38, of Stockport at 11:40 a.m. Friday at B Street and Broadway Avenue. He was charged with operating while intoxicated, first offense.Cynthia Louise Meade, 48, of Bonaparte was arrested at 3:22 a.m. Saturday at Sixth Street and Van Buren Avenue. She is charged with ...
Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office reports the arrest of Quartez Lashawn Alexander, 21, of Iowa City at 10:03 p.m. Friday at 1200 W. Grimes Ave., on warrants for possession of a controlled substance, third and subsequent offense, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
A new restaurant renovation project at 111 N. Court St. uncovered an old facade sign for Sterling Market Thursday. The former long-time location of Off Broadway Grill is planned to re-open as a three-level restaurant in February by owner Frances Donald. Sterling Grocery is listed in 1950s Fairfield telephone books at a 52 W. Burlington Ave. location with O.B. Govig as owner. When the business was at the North ...
Fairfield City Council ? Fairfield City Hall council chambers, 7 p.m., consent agenda (approve minutes of Sept. 10, 2012, meeting, approve claims); public forum/appearances; resolutions, action items and ordinances (resolution? canine agreement, action items ? set public hearing for rezoning of 107 W Hempstead Ave., accept Second Street sanitary sewer project as final, accept snow removal storage facility project ...
Fairfield Fire Department responded at 11:58 p.m. Sunday to a rollover on Highway 34 west of Batavia.Logs lining a drive at 704 N. Court St., had to be extinguished at 9 p.m. Sunday.Firefighters responded to a small brush fire at 803 W. Harrison Ave., at 3:22 p.m. Saturday. A trash pile was the origin of the fire, which was extinguished with water in 38 minutes.Firefighters responded to Fairfield High School ...
Chamber unveils new logoThe Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce has anew and revitalized organizational symbol declaring ?Connect. Engage. Prosper.?The three words describe the business community of the Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce, and the new logo helps communicate those characteristics to the world.?A logo is something that offers a first impression of an organization,? Chamber Administrator Nancy ...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ? The median household income in Nebraska and Iowa rose last year, thanks largely to strong agricultural sales, even as the national median income dropped, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday.The report, which compared 2010 data with data collected last year, said Nebraska?s median income grew 1.1 percent in 2011, to $50,296, while Iowa?s grew 0.1 percent, to $49,427. The U.S. ...
Melanie Carlson said her family was greeted by this odd suprise Sunday ... lilacs blooming in September.
Maharishi University of Management officials have announced the university has a highly diverse student body again this year, with the approximately 1,200 students enrolled as of the beginning of September coming from a record 88 different countries.The largest number of students ? 340 ? comes from the United States. That?s followed by Ethiopia, with 218, and China, with 124. Together these three countries ...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. ? EPA is seeking public comment on the Iowa Department of Natural Resources? response to EPA?s initial findings from its informal investigation of DNR?s permit and compliance program for concentrated animal feeding operations.DNR submitted its response to EPA Sept. 11 outlining a number of actions to improve its animal feeding operations program.?Transparency and public involvement are ...
Fairfield Police Department received a report of a vehicle vandalized in the 50 block of East Stone Avenue at 9:22 a.m. Wednesday.Police have a report at 5:08 p.m. Wednesday about a vehicle striking private property in the 500 block of South Second Street.
The nation?s largest cancer center is launching a massive ?moonshot? effort against eight specific forms of the disease, similar to the all-out push for space exploration 50 years ago.The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston expects to spend as much as $3 billion on the project over the next 10 years and already has ?tens of millions? of dollars in gifts to jump start it now, said its ...
Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office arrested Casey James Robert Griffin, 22, of 2323 Highway 1 at home at 9:47 p.m. Thursday on a warrant for conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine (more than 5 grams).
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