Fairfield News

ASSOCIATE DISTRICT COURTMichelle Jenette Troxel, 44, of Lockridge pleaded guilty to operating while intoxicated-first offense and was ordered to pay a $1,250 fine and a $10 drug abuse resistance education surcharge. All but two days of a 30-day jail sentence was suspended. Troxel was placed on probation for two years and ordered to enroll in a course for drinking drivers.

Fairfield will be participating in the annual tornado drill, in conjunction with the National Weather Service, at 10 a.m. April 6.Jefferson County Emergency Management Coordinator Jerry Calnon said Fairfield plans to test its outdoor sirens and will participate in a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration radio test alert as would be done as if an actual tornado event was occurring.Calnon pointed ...

The average value of an acre of Iowa farmland jumped 19.7 percent since September according to a survey completed by the Iowa Farm and Land Chapter No. 2 of the Realtors Land Institute.According to The Des Moines Register, the survey shows the average value of all tillable cropland as of this month was $5,717 an acre.That compares to $4,768 in September.The value is up nearly 25 percent from March ...

A Fairfield man accused of escaping from University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in December while a jail inmate was booked into Johnson County Jail Wednesday to face charges there.Anthony M. Koehlhoeffer, 20, faces charges of third-degree kidnapping, second-degree robbery, second-degree theft and two counts of leaving the scene of an accident.Koehlhoeffer pleaded guilty March 14 in Scott County to ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? A bill backed by Gov. Terry Branstad would form a public information board to oversee Iowa?s open records and meetings laws, but the board would not oversee compliance by the governor?s office.The proposed board?s oversight also would not extend to operations of the legislative and judicial branches, reflecting current open records and meetings laws. But it?s the governor?s exemption that is ...

Stewards of the Park and other volunteers are planning a prescribed burn for the Waterworks Park prairie within the next two weeks.?We may be able to burn as soon as Saturday, April 2,? said volunteer Detra Dettmann. ?The weather conditions are looking favorable right now, but we will have to see what the day brings.?Managing prairies with prescribed burns has many benefits. Unburned prairies leave a mantle ...

It might appear to the uninformed that 2-year-old Piper Miller is the newest check-out girl at Kim?s Kottage. In actuality, the child was shopping with her NeeNee, Piper?s name for her maternal grandmother June Robinson, at her Nana?s store. Piper is the granddaughter of Kim Miller, owner of Kim?s Kottage. It is a great day in any child?s life when there are two doting grandmas on the scene. The cash register was ...

These traffic charges were filed with the Jefferson County Clerk of Court:Richard Dale Canoy, Washington, Iowa, operation without registration.William Richard Becker, Swisher, operation without registration.Adam James Greenwood, Mount Auburn, speeding.Megan Lynn Anderson, Des Moines, speeding.Taylor Marie Neil, Libertyville, speeding.Linda Jo Oakes, 400 E. Buchanan Ave., speeding.Joyce Dianne ...