Southeast Iowa Singles is sponsoring its 20th anniversary dance 7:30-11 p.m. Saturday at the Fairfield Eagles Club.It is open to anyone in the community, including couples. Admission is $5.Pizza Ranch is where S.I.S. members can meet for dinner at 6 p.m. prior to the dance.Gary Cahill of Farmington is the dance coordinator.?We?ll have Ned Francis playing live music,? he said. ?He?s popular with our dance ...
A Fairfield man accused of poaching deer will stand trial Friday morning in magistrate court.The Iowa Department of Natural Resources ticketed Jack Henry Schafer, 42, of 2349 Glasgow Road, for no habitat fee, no hunting license, no valid deer license and two counts of unlawful deer possession in December 2010.Schafer is accused of unlawfully taking two whitetail antlerless deer, valued at $1,500 each.
Hunting mourning doves has been legal in Iowa for nearly a year, but the issue still isn?t settled at the Capitol.A Senate subcommittee on Thursday discussed using lead shot ammunition in hunting the birds.The state?s Natural Resources Commission last year unanimously voted to ban the practice, but a legislative committee put the ban on hold.Sen. Dick Dearden, D-Des Moines, says the commission overstepped its ...
Some Iowa lawmakers are concerned about details of the governor?s education reform plan.During a House Education subcommittee meeting Wednesday evening, lawmakers were particularly concerned about how teachers would be evaluated under the bill from Gov. Terry Branstad.Representatives agreed teachers should be evaluated annually as the bill calls for, rather than the current minimum of every three years. But ...
Holly Moore of Fairfield bundles up this morning to fend off the single-digit temperatures, but still manages a smile. ?What else can you do?? she said. A new blanket of snow is in the forecast for Friday.
United Parcel Service driver Aron Zaragoza bundled up a little more, but said the single-digit temperatures in Fairfield this morning weren?t slowing him down any. Zaragoza made his delivery in the downtown area and was on his way.
A strong snow storm is poised to dump several inches of snow on Iowa and other parts of the upper Midwest in what for some will be the first real blast of winter.The National Weather Service in Des Moines is predicting up to 7 inches of snow in northern and eastern Iowa on Friday. It comes after several weeks of unusually warm and dry weather.Forecaster Kevin Skow says the ?bulls-eye? of the storm will likely ...
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) ? Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination and endorsed Newt Gingrich, adding a fresh layer of unpredictability to the campaign two days before the South Carolina primary.?Newt?s not perfect, but who among us is?? Perry said.He called the former House speaker a ?conservative visionary? best suited to replace Barack Obama in ...
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP ? When the Marine unit that suffered the greatest casualties in the 10-year Afghan war returned home last spring, they didn?t rush back to their everyday lives.Instead, the Marine Corps put them into a kind of decompression chamber, keeping them at Camp Pendleton for 90 days with the hope that a slow re-entry into mundane daily life would ease their trauma.The program was just one of ...
The Iowa National Guard couldn?t have met its deployment demands without a state program that pays most of the tuition for returning veterans who enroll in college, the general who heads the organization told lawmakers Wednesday.Maj. Gen Timothy Orr said in his annual speech to the Legislature that Iowa National Guard deployments have been the largest since World War II, and that nearly 15,000 Guard members have ...
In a surprise flip, Rick Santorum edged front-runner Mitt Romney by 34 votes in the final tally of the Iowa caucuses, Republican officials said Thursday. But no winner was declared because some votes still remain missing two weeks after the event?s closest contest ever.The state party initially had declared Romney the victor ? by just 8 votes ? in the first voting for the Republican presidential nomination, ...
Holden Phelps was properly dressed against the cold Wednesday morning and didn?t seem to mind the walk to school. Though the air temperature had risen to 12 degrees by school start time, the wind, although fairly light, made it seem more like 3 degrees. An arctic blast plummeted temperatures to single digits overnight with wind chills below zero today.
The Fairfield Fire Department responded to an alarm at 1 p.m. Wednesday at 904 W. Harrison Ave.
ATLANTA (AP) ? A new government study suggests a lot of teenage girls are clueless about their chances of getting pregnant.In a survey of thousands of teenage mothers who had unintended pregnancies, about a third said they didn?t use birth control because they didn?t believe they could pregnant.Other studies have asked teens about their contraception use and beliefs about pregnancy. But the new report is the ...
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