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Fairfield Fire Department received a call at 12:13 p.m. Wednesday about a field/grass fire at 2674 Kolo Ave. The call was canceled.
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Fairfield Fire Department received a call at 12:13 p.m. Wednesday about a field/grass fire at 2674 Kolo Ave. The call was canceled.
Shopping can be fun when you get to ride in a car(t) and listen to a teddy bear sing the ?Alphabet Song.? Almost 2-year-old Shaddaiah Frantz looks suspiciously at the camera as she plays with the bear held by her sister, 4 year-old Serenity Frantz, Wednesday at Hy-Vee Food and Drug Store.
MOUNT PLEASANT ? ?It will get very quiet in Iowa. People who have a crop will not gloat, will not revel in their luck,? said Wayne Humphreys, former national vice president of Future Farmers of America. ?And people who have a problem, they will internalize it and they will get despondent and withdraw.?Humphreys farms corn near Columbus Junction and brought stalks from his fields to the Tuesday morning forum at ...
Fairfield school district?s technology department followed school board guidelines this past year to reduce expenditures and will continue to replace aging computers at low cost.Director Mark Cremer reported at Monday?s school board meeting his department spent about $190,000 less in the 2011-12 school year than the previous 2010-11 year.?That was accomplished with district-wide support,? said Cremer. ?We cut ...
EVANSDALE (AP) ? An FBI dive team from Los Angeles may join other law enforcement officers investigating the disappearance of two young cousins in northeast Iowa, an agency spokeswoman said Wednesday.Elizabeth Collins, 8, and Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, were last seen Friday at their grandmother?s house in Evansdale, a suburb of Waterloo. Their bicycles and Elizabeth?s purse were found later that day at nearby ...
Fairfield public works department recently finished prepping chip seal streets for new seal coating.Because the process includes adding new gravel, conditions can become dusty during and after the prep process, public works director Bisgard said. This has prompted several complaints from residents. New seal coat began going down this week and the process should be completed fairly quickly, Bisgard said.Seal ...
ASSOCIATE DISTRICT COURTRegeno Daniel Collado Jr. 31 of Las Vegas, Nev., pleaded guilty to violation of a no contact order. He was sentenced to two days in jail, orders to pay court costs and court appointed attorney fees if any.Shane Allen Hemm, 29 of Batavia pleaded guilty to operating without a valid license, a simple misdemeanor. He was fined $200 plus a 35 percent surcharge and ordered to pay court costs ...
Home construction is making a long-awaited recovery that could help energize the U.S. economy.From areas like Phoenix that are finally arising from the housing bust to cities like Chicago and Minneapolis where strong economies have lifted demand, residential construction is healthier than it?s been than at any time since sales and prices collapsed five years ago.Builders are responding to interest from buyers ...
Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office reports two deer-vehicle accidents.Pablo Antonio Garrido of 1702 Rukmapura Park, No. 16, was driving a 2012 Toyota Prius south on Jasmine Avenue when he struck a deer in the roadway at 8:38 p.m., causing an estimated $1,500 damage to the car.Miguel Piedra of Columbus Junction was driving a 1997 Toyota 4-Runner south on Pleasant Plain Road when he struck a deer in the roadway at ...
Fairfield Police Department responded to an accident at 3:22 p.m. Tuesday at 806 Highland St. David Andrew Fleming of 1005 S. Park Ave. parked his 1992 Mercury Tracer station wagon on the side of the road. It started rolling down hill with no one inside. It struck the side of the house at 806 Highland St., causing an estimated $2,000 in damages.
This special 20-page section inserted in today?s edition of The Fairfield Ledger includes results of the 2012 Greater Jefferson County Fair 4-H and FFA competitions and photos of the winners.
Fairfield school board members peppered Shive-Hattery Architect and Engineering representatives with questions Monday, trying to sort out responsibility for a possible $45,386 change order charge for work at the middle school.?We?ve run into serious issues in the geo-thermal well field, not necessarily issues we were able to predict,? said Chuck Hildenbrand from Shive-Hattery.He and co-worker Michelle Huggins ...
Two of George Sales? hobbies go hand in hand ? sort of. George and his wife Marge like to watch the birds. They have feeders and a couple of places for them to get water. Marge was filling the birdbath twice a day these hot days, so George used his other hobby of inventing useful gadgets to rig up an automatic birdbath. As he demonstrated how it works, Sales explained how using a toilet float and other miscellaneo...
Fairfield Police Department responded to an accident at 7:28 p.m. Monday at 227th Street and Highway 1. Courtney Lea Lowery, 28 of Keosauqua, was driving a 2008 Toyota Highlander south on Highway 1, following a 1987 Ford truck driven by Thomas Wayne Yocham, 49 of Hillsboro, and owned by Winn Corp. of Fairfield. The truck swung out wide to make a right turn west onto 227th Street. Lowery did not see the turn ...
