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The Fairfield Fire Department extinguished a brush pile at 8:53 p.m. Wednesday at 2167 Key Blvd.
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The Fairfield Fire Department extinguished a brush pile at 8:53 p.m. Wednesday at 2167 Key Blvd.
Minced Asian carp tacos? How about spaghetti with carp sauce?Illinois officials hope serving the invasive species on a plate is the creative solution to two big problems: controlling the plankton-gobbling carp from entering the Great Lakes and record numbers of people facing hunger. But the idea has major obstacles, mainly overcoming people?s nose-crinkling response to eating a fish that grows to 100 pounds ...
Maharishi University of Management will honor Ron Blair, Dan Burks and Dara Llewellyn at its Autumn Celebration Friday night.The ceremony will take place at 8 p.m. in the Argiro Student Center festival hall.Blair, chairman of the Jefferson County Trails Council, will receive a Maharishi Award for leading the effort to create the Fairfield Loop Trail, the final segments of which are just now being completed....
These traffic charges were filed with the Jefferson County Clerk of Court:Colton Derek Millard, Agency, failure to display registration plate.Meishja Louise Petersen, Sperry, financial liability coverage violation.Jacque Lynn Hesseltine, Brighton, speeding.Keith Owens Robinson, 406 W. Stone Ave., financial liability coverage violation, operation without registration.Teri Jo Schafer, Birmingham, ...
Lockridge man in crashWEST DES MOINES (AP) ? West Des Moines police say four people died as a result of a collision between a semitrailer and a car Tuesday afternoon.The four dead victims were the driver, 86-year-old Arlene Laughlin, and her three passengers: 85-year-old Frances Sechler, 83-year-old Marilyn Harper and 95-year-old Margaret Bannister. Laughlin and Sechler were pronounced dead at the scene. ...
DES MOINES ? A new study released jointly by AARP?s Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and the SCAN Foundation shows Iowa ranks sixth in the nation on how well it performs in the delivery of long-term services and supports to older adults and people with disabilities, but also points out areas for improvements.The report, ?Raising Expectations: A State Scorecard on Long-term Services and Supports ...
Pancakes and Saturday?s Fairfield Kiwanis Kids? Day parade go hand-in-hand.The Kiwanis Club event organizers usually plan for about 2,100 pancake breakfast servings.Who oversees the task of Kids? Day food preparation??I?m afraid that would be me,? said Kiwanis member Dick Bogner this morning.Bogner usually gets to the white and yellow-striped tent on the east side of the square at 4:30 a.m. on the day ...
Myron Gookin of Fairfield, center, is sworn in as an 8th Judicial District judge Friday afternoon by Judge Michael Mullins as his wife Ann Gookin holds the Bible.
The 2011 Maharishi School graduates met and exceeded state and national averages in English, math, reading and science on the ACT exams.The Maharishi School students? average composite score was 27.9 out of a possible 36.Iowa?s average composite score was 22.3, and the national average was 21.1. Iowa?s score was just behind No. 1-ranked Minnesota?s 22.9 average.The Maharishi School students had an ...
Jefferson County Health Center and Hy-Vee Food and Drug Store are leading Fairfield?s participation in the Iowa Start Somewhere Walk, a 1-kilometer walk planned at noon Oct. 7 with the goal of 250,000 participating Iowans to break a world record.Although local schools have been asked to organize participation in their neighborhoods, health center media relations coordinator Ginny Hughes said the main event is ...
These traffic charges were filed with the Jefferson County Clerk of Court:Paul Michael Taylor, Washington, D.C., speeding.Michael Jon Tinker, 207 E. Burlington Ave., Apt. 1, speeding.Erin Jo Chung, Austin, Texas, speeding.Levi Scott Vaughn Wolfe, 806 W. Briggs Ave., expired license.Larry Wayne Angstead, 2007 Pine Ave., failure to wear a seat belt.Winter Marie Taylor, Birmingham, failure to wear ...
The Fairfield City Council extended Mickey Elston?s license for Horseshoe Court, formerly Ranch Trailer Park, through the end of the year.?There?s no question that more progress has been made in the last two months than there has been in the last 4.5 years,? Mayor Ed Malloy said during Monday?s council meeting. ?I think everybody?s in agreement that more is desired to take place out there, but certainly a ...
Boyer must run in election to fill Gookin?s termFairfield Mayor Ed Malloy confirmed Thursday the appointment of Connie Boyer to complete the remaining two years of at-large city councilman Myron Gookin?s term will instead need to be determined by Fairfield voters in the Nov. 8 election.?The deadline [to fill unexpired elected office positions] was a little further out from the election than we were aware ...
IOWA CITY (AP) ? The Iowa Department of Corrections will have to reinstate and award back pay to some prison supervisors laid off in 2009 after a state board ruled last month they should have been able to displace union workers, attorneys said Wednesday.The Iowa Public Employment Relations Board ruled Aug. 29 that 18 supervisors at correctional institutions around the state should have been given ?bumping ...
