Fairfield News

Fairfield Police Department arrested Steven Mark Pilkington Jr., 31, of 206 E. Hempstead Ave., at 12:19 p.m. Thursday at 51 W. Briggs Ave., (Jefferson County Courthouse). He is charged with disorderly conduct.

Fairfield Cambridge Investment Research employees, including Sean Flattery, Todd Van Pelt, Jeff Voreis, Cody Pool, Seth Cecil, Jessica Hughes, Courtney Belzer, Seth Talbot, Lindsay Lippincott, Meredith Flattery, Mary Arnold, Megan Melllinger, Sara Hawthorne, Andrea Smith, Jodi Bonnett, Erica Voreis and Katie Van Pelt, painted the back and sides of Fairfield Chiropractic building as one of the Fairfield Beautificai...

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office arrested Justin Lee Demoney, 27, of Eddyville, at 9:43 p.m. Thursday at the BP station in Eddyville on warrants for third-degree theft.

There will be monarchs, presidents, prime ministers ? and David Beckham.Today?s opening ceremony for the London Olympics is an A-list affair.Among the 60,000 spectators at Olympic Stadium will be Queen Elizabeth II ? who as head of state will officially open the ceremonies ? along with royals including Prince William and his wife Kate, and Prince Harry.There?s sure to be a sprinkling of showbiz royalty, too, ...

In the first tally of its kind, a federal investigative agency has calculated that at least 719 people, nearly half of them Americans, were killed working on projects to rebuild Iraq following the U.S. invasion in 2003.The toll represents an aspect of the Iraq war that is rarely brought to public attention, overshadowed by the much higher number killed in combat as well as the billions of taxpayer dollars ...

A U.S. bankruptcy court judge has given Harper Brush Works officials 4.5 months to find a buyer, Tracy Vance, executive director of Fairfield Economic and Development Association said today.The 112-year-old broom and brush manufacturing company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May. Attorneys presented two motions in U.S. Bankruptcy Court July 12-13. The first was a cash collateral motion. The second was a ...

The Fairfield Public Safety and Transportation Committee received additional input Wednesday on how to address safety concerns at Bonnifield Lake.The popular local swimming hole at Waterworks Park was closed July 12 after a Batavia man drowned while swimming at the lake. The city council voted 5-1 Monday to reopen the lake, leaving rules of use as they were prior to the drowning.Fairfield Police Captain Dave ...

Fairfield Economic Development Association and the city of Fairfield have offered a vacant building to entice a business to set up shop here.A 4,000- to 6,000-square-feet building in the 100 block of South 23rd Street, first served as Bell?s Honda motorcycle dealership then Chappell Studio/Marathon Foto was housed there. It has set empty since being donated to the city a few years ago, becoming the worse for ...

Someone saw a need and stepped up to fill it. Lisa Greenig?s daughter and granddaughter were visiting recently and went to the Partners for Play playground for a little fun. Greenig was amazed at the weeds that had taken root in spite of the heat dryness. She asked the First Baptist Church youth group to help in the clean-up. About 30 youth committed to help and showed up this morning armed with diggers, hoes, ...

A petition requesting Fairfield prohibit the use of radio frequency water meters and charge no billing costs for residents who have radio-read meters removed was met with little reaction by the Fairfield City Council Monday night.The petition from the Fairfield Coalition for Safe Utility Meters was signed by 1,051 residents and presented to the city council by Simon Davis.Davis said the petition represents ...

The hot weather is continuing. The temperature reached 110 degrees by 2:30 p.m. Monday. It will be ?cooler? Thursday, with a high near 90.

Administrator and CEO Deb Cardin updated Jefferson County Health Center Board of Trustees on the ambulance service situation during a meeting Monday evening at the hospital.Cardin explained the Jefferson County Area Ambulance submitted a letter of intent to the Jefferson County Ambulance Service Agency to terminate its contract with the county effective Sept. 30. She said the Jefferson County Ambulance Service ...