Fairfield News

These traffic charges were filed with the Jefferson County Clerk of Court:Kara M. Anastasio, 1950 Mansion Drive, failure to carry a registration card.Travis James Cubbage, 807 S. Fourth St., failure to yield to a vehicle on the right, financial liability coverage violation.Morgan Elizabeth Danley, Runnells, speeding.Barry J. Schmidt, Palos Verdes, Calif., speeding.Justin Luciano Chapa, Cedar ...

A media campaign targeting binge and underage drinking in Jefferson County through television ads, billboards and social media is being launched this month.The campaign focuses on middle school youth, the age group at which alcohol experimentation most often begins, and on college-age adults, the Iowa population with the highest binge drinking rates.Jefferson County is one of 23 counties chosen for the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Border Patrol says arrests of illegal immigrants along the U.S. border with Mexico are at the lowest level since the Nixon administration.Agents made 327,577 arrests along the Mexican border in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. It?s the sixth straight year that arrests at the border have dropped. Meanwhile, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials deported a record 396,906 people ...

The Jefferson County Conservation Board is encouraging residents to ?Join the Jefferson County Park ?Swingers?? in a fundraising effort to replace the park?s swinging bridge.Installed in 1986, the swinging bridge spans a shallow ravine on a hilly trail, linking a playground in the Jefferson County Park campground to a playground near the original shelter houses on the hilltop.According to Dennis Lewiston, ...

Keosauqua is one of five Iowa communities competing for four slots to become a Main Street Iowa Community.Competing with Keosauqua for the four Main Street Iowa Community slots are Jefferson, Marion, Lansing and Chariton, according to Terry Poe Buschkamp, urban district consultant with Main Street Iowa.A town hall meeting, with a question and answer session, Nov. 22 at the Roberts Center was attended by ...

The Iowa Department of Transportation is closely monitoring forecast and precipitation models as the agency prepares for a wintery mix of rain, freezing rain and snow across the state.Snow, and perhaps a period of freezing rain, is expected across portions of the state tonight into Saturday as a storm system lifts through the Central Plains. There remains some uncertainty regarding the track of this system, ...

The Fairfield Art Association will add four wooden gingerbread houses to the annual display in Fairfield?s downtown garden nodes for the Gingerbread Extravaganza this holiday season. From left, Suzan Kessel, Nancy Horras and Holly Moore each created one house this year, adding to their creations from 2010. The fourth ? a glittery snowflake house with photo details in the windows ? was decorated by first-timer ...

Iowa?s pension fund for retired public employees faces a long-term shortfall of nearly $5.7 billion, according to a consultant?s report, which also said changes made by the Legislature last year were a step toward fixing the problem.The Iowa Public Employees? Retirement System, or IPERS, has about 325,000 members. A report issued Thursday by Cavanaugh Macdonald Consulting LLC said the fund ended the fiscal ...