Fairfield News

The Fairfield Fire Department investigated smoke inside 601 S. 23rd St. at 6:23 p.m. Tuesday.

Monday is the next opportunity to meet with the Small Business Development Center?s Bryan Ziegler in Fairfield.He will be available for consultations and reviews of business plans and government related financing opportunities, especially SBA.The Fairfield Entrepreneurs Association is working with Ziegler to bring these events to Fairfield. The FEA recommends the event to those thinking about starting up, ...

These traffic charges were filed with the Jefferson County Clerk of Court:Joseph J. Cichowski, West Palm Beach, Fla., failure to display registration plate.Robert J. Eaton, Lockridge, failure to wear seat belt.Myra Marie Bolander, 606 W. Monroe Ave., No. 12, permitting an unauthorized person to drive.Lisa L. Conrad, 201 Wilson Blvd., speeding.Alexander Gene Hoksbergen, Pella, failure to display ...

Samantha Westercamp was crowned 2011 Van Buren County Fair Queen Monday evening. Sarah Wells was named first runner-up and Miss Congeniality and Patricia Townsend was named second runner-up.

Rhuie Ryan kneels in the flower bed west of the Fairfield Middle School building to pull weeds while Sue Henkel rakes out the piles of weeds and some of the old mulch Monday. The women said they would stop working around noon and move on to a job that wouldn?t be in the hot sun. The bed had been left to its own devices recently and became overgrown with weeds.

Having to buy a squiggly fluorescent light bulb is an affront to personal freedom, some lawmakers are saying as the House decides whether to overturn a law setting new energy-efficiency standards for the bulbs.House Republicans are pushing legislation that would overturn measures in a 2007 energy act requiring efficiency upgrades in the old-fashioned incandescent light bulb, little changed since it was ...

No surer way to bring a light rain this morning than sprinkling the flowers Monday. It had been two weeks since any rain blessed the earth in Jefferson County causing gardeners like LaVon Hostetler to begin watering their flowers and vegetables.

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics has performed the first implant of an artificial heart in Iowa.Hospital spokesman Tom Moore said Monday that the device was implanted last week and that the unidentified patient remains hospitalized. No other information about the patient is being released, though cardiologist Jennifer Goerbig-Campbell said the patient is doing well.Goerbig-Campbell said the ...