Fairfield News

You can finish that sentence in many ways, but the best finish was visible this morning on County road H33/South 32nd St. near St. Mary Catholic Church. The finish to the sentence would be: ?? cars park on the side of the road and folks sit in their lawn chairs to watch 240 tractors go by.? Tractors and their drivers with the Red Rock Threshers over-nighted at the Greater Jefferson County Fairgrounds and headed ...

Jefferson County Ambulance Service Agency approved and issued a request for proposal Wednesday, opening the bid process to secure a new ambulance provider for the county.The action was necessitated when co-owners of the current provider, Jefferson County Area Ambulance, submitted a letter of intent to the ambulance board July 5, indicating due to an inability to meet contractual obligations, they will terminate ...

Virginia Kopp holds up a nearly perfect tomato with no blemishes and perfectly ripe as she harvested from the family tomato patch. The vines were planted May 11 and are just starting to yield. Kopp said she cans juice, stew, salsa and anything else you can do with tomatoes. ?We?ve been watering them,? she added, which allowed for the good condition of the plants.

Children?s librarian Jessi Garchik read the story of Cinderella prior to playtime during this morning?s storytime at Fairfield Public Library. When the story was finished one youngster offered to help stack the pillows on which the children sat during the story. He then joined the others playing with various sized balls and hula-hoops.

DES MOINES (AP) ? The Ankeny school district has filed a lawsuit against its former superintendent, claiming he misled officials about whether he had a new job lined up when he negotiated a $176,000 exit agreement.The lawsuit was filed this week in Polk County District Court against Matthew Wendt, The Des Moines Register said.Wendt was offered a job in May as superintendent in the Oswego, Ill., school district. ...

Bill Luko, co-owner of Jefferson County Area Ambulance, told the Jefferson County Ambulance Service Agency Wednesday things at the company are ?looking up? following the resignation of co-owner Ray Rex from daily operations.Rex agreed to step down from his day-to-day duties in July amid complaints from crew members. Characterizing daily interactions with Rex as ?demoralizing,? employees told the ambulance board ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Gov. Terry Branstad has named two new judges to the district court bench in Iowa.Branstad on Wednesday appointed Larry McLellan to the 5th Judicial District, which covers 16 counties in central and southern Iowa, including Polk County.McLellan, of West Des Moines, was in private practice. He will fill a vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Donna Paulsen.Branstad has also named Joel ...

From left, Dakota Wages, Nicole Harris and Robert Allen check out the DVD and Blue Ray titles at the Fairfield Public Library. According to library director Rebecca Huggins, Everybody?s Whole Foods donated its entire movie rental collection to Fairfield Public Library for the free use of its cardholders. Out of 1,200 donated items, approximately 400 are Blu-Ray and 800 are DVD. Given the expanded size of the ...

A long-lost message in a bottle has resurfaced 35 years after a Vermont boy sent it off in a favorite swimming hole.The glass bottle with a note was found recently near the Bellows Falls dam by 14-year-old Justin Shepard. It was missing its cork, but there was still enough information inside it to track down the writer, Sean Keown.Years ago, Keown and a pal shipped bottles containing notes down the White River ...

Greater Jefferson County Foundation is sponsoring a video competition with a $500 award for best video produced by an individual, company or organization that will represent and promote the Greater Jefferson County Foundation on its website.Entries will be accepted through Sept. 20. The winner will be announced in October.Rules are:? Entries must be at least 90 seconds but not longer than four minutes.? ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) ? Federal weather forecasters predict the unusually hot dry weather that has gripped much of the nation will linger into fall, especially for the parched heartland.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration?s outlook for August through October shows that nearly every state likely will have hotter than normal temperatures. Much of the Midwest is likely to be drier than normal, ...

Fairfield Police Department arrested Bhavani Rose Hazel Walker, 23 of 1786 Highway 1, at home at 9:51 p.m. Wednesday on warrants for unlawful possession of drug or device.