Eldon plans Memorial Day service Monday ELDON ? The city of Eldon will hold its annual Memorial Day service starting between 9:45 and 10 a.m. Monday in the Rock Island City Park.The speaker will be Staff Sgt. Michael Carroll from the United States Marine Corps recruiting office in Ottumwa.Special music will be performed by the Cardinal High School band under the direction of band teacher Luke Miller.The ...
The Fairfield school board set a closed meeting for 7 p.m. June 14 to give superintendent Art Sathoff his annual evaluation.Monday, Sathoff presented handouts to each board member from the Iowa School Board Association and the state?s association of school superintendents that provide guidelines and descriptions of superintendent evaluations.?You will follow the same six standards to evaluate me that I use to ...
The mulched area around the swings at the Partners for Play Playground in O.B. Nelson Park was nearly covered in little maple trees until the Fairfield Park and Recreation Department?s crew of two arrived with their tillers. Wilson Ghent and his co-worker, Levi Amrine, made short work of the seedlings without interrupting the children at play.
The Fairfield Community School District Board of Directors Monday unanimously approved a first-time, two-year master contract for teachers agreed upon by Fairfield Community Education Association and the district negotiating team.It provides an overall wages and benefits package of a 3 percent increase for school year 2012-13, a cost of $249,102; and a 3.04 percent increase in 2013-14.The state average this ...
Oh, to be 2 years old and able to enjoy the simple pleasure of going down a slide. There were many children at the Partners for Play playground at O.B. Nelson Park this morning, among them little Pixie Liles and her 3-year-old brother, Rhyat from Batavia. Their mom said she had brought the children to play Monday when they were in town. They had such a good time they returned to town today just to play.
The Fairfield school board surprised some administrators Monday by not approving a list of individual coach and sponsor contracts for 2012-13.Presented for approval by activities director Jeff Courtright, the list has 73 names, 109 positions and 109 salary amounts. The list includes sports coaches, some who are district teachers and some who are not, department chairs, drama and speech coaches, yearbook and ...
The Fairfield Fire Department was called to a grass fire at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday at 1608 Moss Ave. Seven firefighters used water to extinguish hay bales on fire. Two acres and 10 round hay bales burned, owned by Doug Stewart. The loss was estimated at $400. The cause of the fire was determined to be a campfire not properly extinguished.Firefighters responded to a vehicle accident at 1:44 p.m. Tuesday. Firefighters ...
The Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office responded to an accident at 1:23 p.m. Tuesday on Highway 1 North at Airport Road. Alexander Ray Lee Fitzwater of 808 West Grimes was driving a 1997 Dodge Intrepid north on Highway 1 and did not see a 1992 Oldsmobile Cutlass, driven by Tonia Marie Marasco of 404 S. Fourth St., Apt. 302, driving in front of him and beginning to turn left onto Airport Road. Fitzwater collided ...
A House committee chairman charged today that the CIA and Defense Department jeopardized national security by cooperating too closely with filmmakers producing a movie on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King. R-N.Y., first raised questions about the bin Laden movie last summer, but said newly released documents confirm his suspicions.The filmmakers are director ...
The 2010 census missed more than 1.5 million minorities after struggling to count black Americans, Hispanics, renters and young men, but was mostly accurate.The Census Bureau today released an extensive assessment of its high-stakes, once-a-decade headcount of the U.S. population. Based on a sample survey, the government analysis has been a source of political controversy in the past over whether to ?statisticall...
Jefferson County supervisor chairman Stephen Burgmeier brought out two issues in the county employee?s handbook Monday.?It says employees can carry-over up to 120 hours of compensatory time. That?s a lot of time; that?s three weeks,? he said. ?I think it should be less.?He also wanted clarification about time-sheet policies.A number of employees and department heads attended Monday?s supervisor?s meeting for ...
It takes the work of many hands to keep Fairfield Community School District?s school buildings in tip-top shape, including those of Helen Ferrel, who was busy trimming the shrubbery on the high school lawn Monday morning.
Three Libertyville Elementary School second grade students shared first-place honors in this year?s Libertyville Fire department coloring contest and earned a trip to school in a fire truck. Sophie Stever, left, Grace Sobaski and Logun Cline were picked up at their homes and given a ride to school in the fire truck this morning. The contest is part of the fire department?s ?Adopt a Firefighter? program conducted ...
Pups in her womb, a large eye visible behind the rib cage, one baby stuck in the birth canal: all fossilized evidence that this ancient marine beast, the Ichthyosaur, died in childbirth.Jurassic Mom?s almost certainly painful death is perfectly preserved in a rare fossil skeleton, one of the many unique items that will go on display in the Houston Museum of Natural Science?s $85 million dinosaur hall when it ...
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