If you have ever been snipe hunting, you probably don?t believe there really is such a bird. Pictured above is a Snipe, a common shorebird with an extremely long bill that it uses to probe in the muc for small invertebrates. It is so well camouflaged that it is not not often seen before it flushes from the grass. This one was seen near a small pond on a March birding trip to Mount Pleasant.
DES MOINES (AP) ? Despite an education summit, meetings around the state and long legislative hearings, legislative leaders acknowledge big changes to Iowa?s education system are unlikely this session.Gov. Terry Branstad said last summer that an education overhaul would be one of his top priorities for the Legislature, and he and Education Department Director Jason Glass invested a vast amount of time on the ...
JOHNSTON Iowa (AP) ?Despite the Legislature?s partisan divide, the chairmen of key budget committees said they?re confident that lawmakers will agree to a spending plan and close a budget gap of up to $300 million relatively quickly.Speaking Friday on the Iowa Public Television program ?Iowa Press,? Rep. Scott Raecker, R-Urbandale, and Sen. Bob Dvorsky, D-Coralville, agreed they ultimately would reach a deal. ...
The Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office arrested Theodore William Love, 28, of College Springs at 5:32 p.m. Friday at 1200 W. Grimes Ave. for violation of his pretrial release.The sheriff?s office responded to an accident at 11:52 p.m. Friday on Highway 34. A 2010 Chevy Impala driven by Caitlin Mae Robertson of Dallas City, Ill., was eastbound when it struck a deer. Estimated damages to the vehicle are $3,500.
These traffic charges were filed with the Jefferson County Clerk of Court:Douglas Raymond Hotek, Waterloo, speeding.Cortney Lynn Marschuetz, St. Louis, speeding.Nyssa Elizabeth Hixson, Burlington, speeding.Robert William Reeder, 1899 Larch Ave., failure to stop at a stop sign.
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 ...
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