Fairfield News

DES MOINES ? Iowa Workforce Development is rapidly deploying access points across the state to bring workforce services closer to Iowans.Nearly 200 of the 520 access points across Iowa are in libraries. More libraries will add access points this year. With Iowa Library Services supporting libraries as they add access points, the partnership with libraries across the state is strengthened for the benefit of all ...

The Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce will kick off its 2012 Legislative Breakfast series at 7:30 a.m. Saturday at the Best Western Fairfield Inn.The chamber is taking reservations from members, members? employees, spouses and guests through Friday for the first of three scheduled breakfasts, ?but the sooner the better so we can get a headcount to Best Western,? said Lori Knox a the chamber.Reservations can be ...

Author, speaker and consultant Jamie Vollmer will be in Fairfield Jan. 23 presenting ?The Power to Change: Improving Schooling in America.?The presentation, 7:45-9:15 p.m., is free and open to the public in Festival Hall at the Argiro Center on the Maharishi University of Management campus.Vollmer is the kick-off guest speaker for the first in a series of presentations on educational change, hosted by the ...

A rural Jefferson County couple brought the county?s New Year?s baby home Thursday.Magnus Saxon, son of Marcus and Shanti Chatfield, was born at 3:15 a.m. Tuesday in University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City. This first-born weighed 7 pounds, 1.7 ounces and is 20 inches long. He is the grandson of Larry and BB Rail of Fairfield and Erwin Chatfield of Tularosa, N.M., and Vivian Smith of Mountain Home, ...

Perry Hopf, husband of Sharon Hopf who was reported missing more than a week ago, choked back tears as he read a prepared statement to members of local media this morning, pleading for the return of his wife.Hopf?s daughter Vanessa, Sharon?s cousins Ron and Shelli Sojka and B.J. Franklin of the Horizons Survivors program all comforted Perry Hopf as he read the statement. He stood at the microphone stand and ...

The Fairfield school district made budget cuts last year, projecting $973,600 in savings this year.The district actually realized a savings of $1.035 million in its fiscal year 2012 budget to date, or $61,432 more than anticipated.?We wanted to see if we actually saved the amount of money we anticipated in making these cuts,? Kim Sheets, district business manager, told the finance committee Thursday night.Sheet...

A single-car accident in Jefferson County claimed the life of a Mount Pleasant man Thursday.At approximately 5:23 p.m., 31-year-old Bradley Ryan Goodrich was eastbound on Highway 34, west of the Highway 1 exit, in a 2008 Chrysler Sebring when his vehicle left the roadway and entered the south ditch, according to a crash report from the Iowa State Patrol.Goodrich was transported to Jefferson County Health Center ...

The 2012 Live Healthy Iowa Kids/Governor?s Challenge has 20,083 participants registered on 801 teams.The numbers have substantially surpassed the previous year?s participant numbers by nearly double. With the event kicking off Tuesday, there?s still plenty of time to register.?With our participant numbers as high as they are, this is a great contribution toward helping make Iowa the healthiest state in the ...

An attorney representing Gov. Terry Branstad and his staff in a discrimination lawsuit has agreed to a $325 an hour payment, which the state treasurer has said is four times the going rate for outside attorney assistance.Iowa Workers Compensation Commissioner Chris Godfrey accused Branstad of wrongfully cutting his salary after he declined to resign. Godfrey also says he was singled out because he?s gay.The Des ...

Three northern Iowa economic development groups are merging into a streamlined organization.The Mason City and Clear Lake economic development groups were entities of the North Iowa Corridor Economic Development Corp. They?re formally disbanding and merging into the North Iowa Corridor group.North Iowa Corridor group executive director Brent Willett says the mergers formalize the joint efforts the three groups ...

Some offices will be closed Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.No mail will be delivered. The Fairfield Ledger will, however, be published.The Jefferson County Clerk of Court?s Office and Jefferson County Attorney?s Office will be closed. All other Jefferson County offices will be open.Fairfield city offices also will be open Monday.Area senior meal sites are closed Monday.Fairfield and Pekin ...

Traveling along North Fourth Street, it?s hard to miss a new landmark just north of the railroad tracks.On the south side of the Amy Ram commercial building, 504 N. Fourth St., is a recently installed solar panel. But just saying ?solar panel? does not convey its size. On Ideal Energy?s website IdealEnergyInc.com, and its Facebook page, it is referred to as a commercial solar array.?It?s 120 feet long and 14 ...