Fairfield News

Nine Fairfield area churches have teamed up to hold a benefit meal and auction for the New Sweden United Methodist Church, which was destroyed by fire June 18.The event is set for Saturday at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds Activities Building, with a meal served from 4:30-7:30 p.m. and the auction starting at 8 p.m. A free-will offering will be accepted for the hog roast.?Everybody is on board for the common

Adrianna Lyons was happy and excited as she and her mom Michelle waited outside Pence Elementary School this morning. However, in a room full of parents and children, most of them strangers and with Mom leaving, it was another story. Adrianna burst into tears as she received a hug from her mom and teacher Renee Smith, lower left, offered words of comfort and encouragement.For more back to school photos, see the

At the instruction of the environmental and franchise utilities committee, Fairfield City Administrator Jeff Clawson is drawing up a contract for single-stream recycling collection with Waste Management.Committee members Daryn Hamilton and Michael Halley weighed the pros and cons of the $3.15 per month bid from Connelly Inc. and the $3.65 per month bid from Waste Management before reaching their recommendation

The Fairfield Fire Department?s station recently became a full house with the addition of a 3,000-gallon tanker truck.The tanker, a 2010 Freightliner from Midwest Fire of Luverne, Minn., arrived in Fairfield July 26 to replace the fire department?s 1982 Ford tanker. The $181,853 purchase is on the heels of the department receiving authorization by the city of Fairfield to spend $500,000 on two new fire trucks this

BATAVIA ? The Batavia City Council met with the Batavia Public Library board Monday evening to decide the fate of the library committee that sits over the board.The library committee is a group of council members appointed by the Batavia City Council to oversee the library board and address any concerns the board members may have.?If [the library board has] any problems, I just want them on the agenda and we?ll

JULIE?JOHNSTON/Ledger?photoKatie and Matthew McLain check to see if the bananas are ripening on the banana tree near their grandparents? house. The tree, near the front door of John and Pat McLain?s home in Lockridge, has flowered and now has several bananas, which are still green. The McLains received the tree from a relative who no longer had room for it in his home. According to the Web site

Fairfield High School?s alternative school will have several changes this coming school year, including a new instructor, a new location and online learning.The Fairfield Community School District Board of Directors accepted the resignation of Opportunity Center instructor Todd Warnecke Monday evening and approved hiring Nathon Watson of Stockport as the new instructor.FHS principal Art Sathoff said Watson was a

Representatives of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad are pushing for closure of the Court Street crossing as part of the city?s quiet zone plan.The closure of Court Street is just one of several suggestions to come from BNSF during a diagnostic meeting Thursday with three representatives from the railroad, one from the Iowa Department of Transportation and one from the Federal Railroad Administration. Councilman