The Fairfield Police Department arrested Ray Alfred Curtis Jr., 40, at 801 W. Briggs Ave., at 8:35 p.m. Sunday at his residence for obstruction of emergency communications.
The Jewish springtime Passover holiday is known as a festival of freedom, but its hallmark is a litany of dietary restrictions centered on not eating leavened bread for a week.The rules are so elaborate that chefs who want to observe the ritual law must prepare weeks before, removing every last crumb, buying up new sets of kitchen utensils and planning menus without bread or wheat flour.At Liliyot, one of Tel ...
Session report for week 12. I recently toured the new Iowa Utilities Board building; this building was designed and constructed with the latest energy savings ideas ? Platinum LEED standards.Included in the design are geothermal heating and solar panels, as well as natural lighting and super insulation.Already the building is showing energy savings of 70 percent over a conventionally constructed building, and ...
Session report for week 12. As the session nears an end, there is limited debate, as the easy decisions have already been made. There is only heavy lifting left to do.The three major pieces of legislation left are education reform, mental health reform and property tax reform.It will be interesting to see if the Senate Democrats and the House Republicans will be able to resolve their differences. The way I ...
Eric Shane Essary, 39, 505 W. Washington Ave., Apt. B, was arrested at 1:40 p.m. Tuesday in the 600 block of West Depot Avenue for public intoxication.
The Fairfield Art Association will again grace the city?s downtown nodes with a summer art installation ? this year: ?1st Class Art: CREATIVE DELIVERY.?The art association is inviting adult artists and fine crafts persons to participate in the project by designing new, recycled or entirely self-created mailboxes; they need not adhere to official post office regulations. In fact, the art association encourages ...
Late afternoon sun and warm temperatures with very little wind made for perfect flying in a hot air balloon Sunday. Mike Hadley of Richland hovers his craft just above a cornfield with Fairfield balloonist Terry Hayes riding with him, testing his piloting skills. The men were doing a biennial flight review, which is required of balloon pilots, testing each other on takeoffs, landings, touch-and-go and other ...
Authorities are awaiting autopsy results on a male body found in the Iowa River in Columbus Junction in southeast Iowa.Police say the body was discovered by two fishermen south of the Iowa Highway 70 bridge on Saturday.No other details, including the person?s name and cause of death, have been released.
The Fairfield school board decided it was at a point of needing expert input on costs and building sites during Monday?s work session devoted to the high school facility.Jeri Kunkle said she?d like to know if the most current Shive-Hattery plan could be scaled down and still work.?Maybe we should take this plan and revamp it,? she said. ?The ground studies have been done.?Amy Miller talked with a building ...
These traffic charges were filed with the Jefferson County Clerk of Court:Tanner Evan Metcalf, Batavia, speeding.Sandra Kay Miller, Ottumwa, speeding.Lesa Pauline Waterman, Luray, Mo., speeding.Alexandria Marie Bucher, Ollie, disobeying traffic signal.Joetta Ruthe Lashway, 807 S. Park St., failure to wear a seat belt.Gregory Hillman Lowenberg, 111 Louden Drive, speeding.
ASSOCIATE DISTRICT COURTMichael Allen Critchlow, 52, of Callao, Mo., pleaded guilty to operating while intoxicated-first offense and received a deferred judgment. He was placed on probation for two years. Critchlow also must pay a $1,250 civil penalty.Terry Dean Delay, 38, of Crawfordsville pleaded guilty to operating while intoxicated-first offense and was sentenced to four days in jail. Delay was ordered to ...
A federal judge in Iowa has rejected a lawsuit that sought to expand access to raw milk by challenging a Food and Drug Administration rule that bans interstate shipments of unpasteurized milk.U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett in Sioux City dismissed the two-year-old case filed by a nationwide group of raw milk drinkers, producers, and distributors. The lawsuit contends the FDA rule allowing only pasteurized milk ...
An information technology worker accused of urinating on colleagues? chairs at an office in Iowa has surrendered to police.The Des Moines Register reports that 59-year-old Raymond Foley turned himself in Saturday to face a charge of second-degree criminal mischief.Foley declined to comment to The Associated Press on Tuesday, other than to acknowledge that he no longer works at the Farm Bureau office in West Des ...
Charles Simonyi may still be described as a space tourist even though the Microsoft billionaire has no plans to take a third vacation on the International Space Station and hasn?t hung out in outer space for a few years. He?s still obsessed with space and is heavily involved in the Seattle Museum of Flight?s new space gallery, which is named in the philanthropist?s honor.Since 2002, Simonyi has been running his ...
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