Fairfield News

Linda Lewiston recalls the rich fragrance of ripe fruit, cow manure and the sight of smog blanketing dirt roads as symbols of her unconventional homecoming.?I was in a foreign country, but it was home,? said Lewiston. ?Everybody knew me.?Lewiston was traveling to Laos for the first time, to the village of Thabok where her mother, Khamfone Sysouchanh grew up. The trip was a graduation gift from her mother after ...

The Jefferson County Health Center had a good July to start its new fiscal year.?July was a very good month,? chief financial officer Gene Irwin told the board of trustees Monday. ?It?s unusual for this kind of activity in July. ? About everything is above budget and above where it was at this time last year.?In its budget for the new fiscal year, the health center had expected July to end at a negative ...

The Fairfield Community School District announced this afternoon it will be dismissing students at 1:30 Friday because of the hot weather.Classes will begin at normal times Friday.No afternoon pre-kindergarten classes will be held Friday.According to the National Weather Service of the Quad Cities, Friday's forecast calls for sunny and a high of 91, although Friday night's forecast includes a 60 percent chance ...

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office arrested Cody Dean Brombaugh, 19, of Stockport at 1:24 a.m. today in the 300 block of West Kirkwood Avenue. He is charged with operating under the influence, first offense.Jerry Albert Vorhies, 60, of 106 W. Fillmore Ave, was arrested at 1:05 a.m. Wednesday at Court Street and Adams Avenue, charged with operating under the influence, third offense.

Growers in key farm states punished by the nation?s worst drought in two generations welcomed recent rains that at least for a time soaked their parched crops and eased the dryness. But with Hurricane Isaac?s remnants crawling their way, some farmers wonder whether too much relief is on the horizon.Forecasters expect Isaac, which since making landfall Monday on the Gulf Coast has been downgraded to a tropical ...

Iowa tied for the second-highest average American College Test composite score among states testing more than half of students in the Class of 2012.Fairfield High School is excited to share the recently released report from ACT showing FHS?s composite scores were again well above Iowa?s state average composite scores for English, math, reading and science, said principal Aaron Becker.FHS?s composite score was ...

Fairfield Police Department arrested Jerry Aileen Purvis, 62, of Ottumwa at 12:05 a.m. Wednesday at 1200 W. Grimes Avenue. Purvis is charged with fifth-degree theft (under $200) and fourth-degree theft ($200 to $500) and ongoing criminal conduct. The arrest is the result of an investigation into theft/bad checks.

Rhoda Martin, left, sells cantaloupes from her family farm to Fairfield residents Andrew and Gina Josephs at the Fairfield Farmers? Market Wednesday afternoon in Howard Park. A strain of salmonella sickening people in 22 states and killing two Kentucky residents has been tied to tainted cantaloupe from Chamberlain Farms in Indiana. Martin hadn?t noticed a change in sales Wednesday regardless of the news. Andrew ...

A 100-year-old man backed his car on to a sidewalk and hit 11 people, including nine children, across from an elementary school in South Los Angeles just after classes had ended Wednesday, authorities said.Four of the children were in critical condition when firefighters arrived but they were stabilized and were in serious condition at a hospital, city fire Capt. Jaime Moore said. Everyone was expected to ...

Four-year-old Jared Clemons, at top, looks up into the tree as though contemplating a higher climb, while his seven year-old brother Joseph climbs higher in the opposite direction. The boys were on their recess break from their home school studies when spotted playing.

Hawthorne Direct and Agri-Industrial Plastics, long time neighbors with adjacent land and buildings on Grimes Avenue, are announcing a major business transaction benefiting both firms.Agri-Industrial Plastics, a rapidly growing custom industrial blow molder, is expanding its warehousing capabilities in Fairfield and acquiring more land for future growth. With 62,000 square feet of excess warehouse space sitting ...

Tyler James Webster, age 33, of 2104 185th St. remains in the Jefferson County Jail today charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Buddy Lee Frisbie, age 32, also of Fairfield.Jefferson County Law Center received a 911 call at 7:28 p.m. Saturday reporting a shooting at 2469 Marigold Blvd., near the Fairfield Wastewater Treatment Plant southeast of town.According to documents filed with the ...