Fairfield News

LIBERTYVILLE ? The odds of hearing neighing, crowing or baaing inside Libertyville?s city limits just became a little steeper with the passage of an amendment to the town?s animal ordinance.The amendment, approved with the first of three readings at the Libertyville City Council meeting Tuesday, makes it unlawful and a nuisance for any person to ?collect, keep, feed or maintain within the city limits any rooster,

Mediacom cable television subscribers in Fairfield will see their bills jump by $1 to $3 starting in December.Mediacom spokeswoman Phyllis Peters says the increase is due to the higher prices the company must pay to obtain its channels.Peters says Mediacom, the nation?s eighth-largest cable company, will pay ?tens of millions of dollars? more for programming in 2011 than it did this year.In a letter notifying city

Engineer Jerry Long is optimistic reconstruction of Third Street and Cromwell Street will wrap up this week.After the Fairfield City Council accepted the 2009 and 2010 street patching projects as complete Monday evening, Long reported on the status of the streets undergoing reconstruction.?Third Street is progressing ? two blocks of the four are paved,? Long said. The remaining two blocks should be trimmed and

MuseumRIGHT: The latest improvement at the Carnegie Historical Museum is the restoration of the bathroom, complete with stenciling, antique lighting and marble antique sink. The marble backsplash and sink hookup still remain to be completed as well as cladding the outside of the area with unused paneling from the recent Jefferson County Courthouse courtroom remodel.Museum director Mark Shafer emulated the stenciled

The 149-year-old journal arrived at the Fairfield Public Library in an unassuming manila envelope addressed to the genealogy society.It was a homecoming of sorts for the detailed book of records started by Jefferson County Judge William K. Alexander, whose entries begin in January 1861 with a list of marriages. Forty-seven pages into the log, Jefferson County Judge Thomas Morgan?s pristine handwriting picks up where

Two men were injured in a single-vehicle accident about 9:30 p.m. Saturday on Highway 34 at Packwood Road.According to the Iowa State Patrol?s minimal crash report. Christopher James Kephart, 24, of Fairfield and William Taylor, 48, of Burlington were injured.The state patrol reports Kephart was driving a 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser eastbound on the highway when he lost control of the vehicle. It entered the south

The Jefferson County Trails Council is opposed to a share-the-road trail as a solution to resistance from Gear Avenue residents.?We don?t like shared roadways,? trails council president Ron Blair told the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors Monday. ?It?s not good. It?s not safe.?The council views the option as a last resort ? one that?s only been undertaken in other sections of the Fairfield Loop Trail due to

The Fairfield school district is proposing traffic on Broadway Avenue in front of the high school be limited to one-way during the times students are there changing buses.Auxiliary services director Fred McElwee is scheduled to discuss the possibility of the change with the Fairfield City Council Public Safety and Transportation Committee at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Fairfield City Hall conference room.Superintendent