Fairfield News

DES MOINES ? Awards totaling $15.7 million have been announced for 45 communities across the state, including Bonaparte.The Iowa Economic Development Authority awarded the Community Development Block Grant funds to support 47 community investment projects. The federally funded grants were awarded for community facilities, flood prevention, infrastructure improvements and single family owner-occupied housing ...

JPMorgan Chase said today that a bad trade had cost the bank $5.8 billion this year, almost triple its original estimate, and raised the prospect that traders had improperly tried to conceal the blunder.?This has shaken our company to the core,? CEO Jamie Dimon said.The bank said managers tied to the bad trade had been dismissed without severance pay and that it planned to revoke two years? worth of pay from ...

The London Olympics are drawing near and British headlines are full of complaints about the weather, commercialization, chaos on the roads and the subway. Is it any wonder that the story of two athletes competing at a simpler games is capturing the public imagination?This summer brings the blazing return of ?Chariots of Fire,? the reality-based story of two British sprinters going for gold in the 1924 Paris ...

Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours set for Thursday at French-Reneker Associates Inc. has been canceled due to the death of Jesse Harl, the son of Jane Anne Harl, an employee at French-Reneker.

Fairfield firefighters and law officials were called to Bonnifield Lake around 7 p.m. today. Jefferson County Sheriff Jerry Droz, who was directing traffic away from the entrance to Waterworks Park, confirmed there had been a drowning. No other information is available. The victim's family members are being notified.

KEOSAUQUA ? This year?s Van Buren County Fair will run Sunday through July 23.Communications judging will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday, although the fair won?t officially kick off until 7:30 p.m. with the traditional gospel-singing program at Roberts Memorial Center.Everyone is welcome to attend and share his or her musical talents as a soloist or by joining in a countywide chorus.The fair opens Monday with the ...

KEOSAUQUA ? The Van Buren County Board of Supervisors began a discussion on possible alternatives and future changes to part-time county officials? health insurance benefits during its weekly meeting Monday.Van Buren County Auditor Jon Finney explained the discussion centered on the possibility of having part-time county officials, such as the supervisors and the county attorney, pay a higher percentage for ...

Fairfield?s D Street, from Burlington Avenue to south of Madison Avenue, will close for street replacement beginning Monday until the start of school, Aug. 22.

DES MOINES (AP) ? Gov. Terry Branstad will hold a public meeting next week on the drought conditions plaguing Iowa this summer.Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds will be joined by other state officials and representatives from the U.S. Department of Agriculture as well as ag and environmental experts at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Mount Pleasant High School.Branstad?s office says the meeting will focus on coordination...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Iowa State University is expected to pass the University of Iowa in enrollment this coming academic year.The Des Moines Register reports Iowa State has trailed the University of Iowa since 1979. Iowa State officials in Ames expect the enrollment to surge past 31,000, topping U of I?s expected total of about 30,800, the same as last fall.The final numbers won?t be reported until September.U of ...

Sadly, the tree was dying, as was another tree nearby in a neighbor?s yard. Both had to be taken down before a strong wind caused one of them to fall on someone?s house. Mark Brown of Brown?s Tree Service used a chain saw to lop off the top of the main trunk, having already denuded the tree of its branches. When a tree is as close to a building as this one, it takes great skill to remove it without damage to the ...

DES MOINES (AP) ?Flags are to be lowered in Iowa to honor a soldier who was killed in Afghanistan last month.The honor is being rendered this weekend as services are held for 25-year-old Army Sgt. James Skalberg Jr.Skalberg was killed on June 27 when an improvised explosive device detonated near a vehicle he was in.Gov. Terry Branstad is ordering that flags under control of the state be flown at half-staff ...