The Jefferson County Fair Board has eliminated gate admission for the 2011 Greater Jefferson County Fair.?We?ve been thinking about this four or five years,? said fair board president Steve Fritchen. ?We?re trying to bring more people into the fair and the vendors.?Fair board secretary Jared Schultz agreed the intention is to get rid of something that might be holding people back from attending.Last ...
The Jefferson County Attorney is continuing to look into filing possible charges in an alleged beating of a 41-year-old Arab-American filmmaker.Usama Alshaibi of Fairfield claims he was beaten and called derogatory racial names after he walked into a party the early morning of March 6.The Ledger received information that the party Alshaibi claims to have went to was a social gathering of teenagers on the ...
Solomon Maselli clears brush from a front yard on West Fillmore Avenue this morning. Fairfield school district students are on spring break this week, and Maselli said he was on his second day of the front yard project.
Unemployment in Jefferson County rose from 7.8 percent in December to 8.7 percent in January.According to Iowa Workforce Development figures, in January Jefferson County had a labor force of 8,010, with 7,310 employed and 700 unemployed. In December, the county had a labor force of 7,820, with 7,210 employed and 610 unemployed.The figures also show there was a slight increase of unemployment in Van Buren ...
Authorities have suspended a control tower supervisor working alone overnight who couldn?t be roused to guide two airliners landing at Washington?s Reagan airport, the nation?s top aviation official said Thursday.?As a former airline pilot, I am personally outraged that this controller did not meet his responsibility to help land these two airplanes,? Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Randy Babbitt ...
The Fairfield Fire Department responded to a call at 12:41 a.m. today at 703 E. Burlington Ave.
Tea party favorite and Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann is feeling pressure from the political calendar to rush a decision on a White House bid and may announce her intentions as early as May, one of her top advisers said Thursday.Bachmann, a third-term congresswoman from Minnesota, could form a presidential exploratory committee before two televised Republican debates scheduled the first week of May, said Ed ...
These traffic charges were filed with the Jefferson County Clerk of Court:Adrian Pacheco, Elk Grove Village, Ill., speeding.Haley Westercamp, Bonaparte, speeding.Jessica Anne Flanigan, Ottumwa, speeding.Morgan Lee Abel, Winterset, speeding, failure to carry registration card.Christopher Michael Desmond, Milton, speeding.Kayla Raeanne Lester, Des Moines, speeding.Judy Fay Bales, 2154 125th ...
MAGISTRATE COURTPaul Louis Clawson, 33, 301 S. 15th St., pleaded guilty to littering and was fined $65.Patricia Ann Buffington, 42, was fined $65 for criminal mischief. She also was ordered to pay a $125 law enforcement initiative surcharge.Michael Jerome Hines, 41, 100 N. 16th St., Lot 32, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was fined $65. DISTRICT COURTBillie Eugene McRoy, 55, 806 E. ...
ADAM To Samantha and John Adam of Fairfield, a boy, John Owen, 8 pounds, 10 ounces, born Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010, at Van Buren County Hospital in Keosauqua. He has one brother, Dylan, 4, and one sister, Katelyn, 2. Grandparents are Dennis and Andra Adam of Fairfield and Mike and Debbie Housholder of Cantril. Great-grandparents are Harriett Adam of Fairfield, John and Erma Stansberry of Fairfield, ...
Jefferson County property owners can expect assessment notices to arrive sometime next week. Jefferson County Assessor Sheri Blough Neff said the new assessments must be mailed out by April 15 and affect property taxes due in July 2012. Her office is sending the notices out a little early to give property owners a window to have questions answered. Blough Neff said assessments of agricultural parcels are ...
The Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office responded to fraud reported at 8:29 a.m. Tuesday.
Marie Gorman of Fairfield will celebrate her 101st birthday Friday. Mrs. Gorman was born March 25, 1910, west of Batavia in Wapello County to Jesse and Nellie Loy. She married Charley Gorman on her birthday in 1929. They lived near her parents on a farm in Jefferson County until retirement. The couple was married 67 years until his passing in 1996. Mrs. Gorman has three children, Loy Gorman and wife Helen ...
ASSOCIATE DISTRICT COURT John Leo Streitmatter, 44, 414 S. 14th St., pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine-first offense and was ordered to pay a $315 fine, $10 drug abuse resistance education surcharge and $125 law enforcement initiative surcharge. A 30-day jail sentence was suspended in favor of two years probation. A deferred judgment also was revoked, and Streitmatter was found guilty of third-deg...
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