Fairfield News

The Fairfield Community School District will be replacing two of its oldest and higher-mileage buses with new ones to be purchased with 2011-12 Physical Plant and Equipment Levy monies.Fairfield Community School District Board of Directors approved spending $170,474 to purchase two new 65-passenger school buses from Hoglund Bus Company in Marshalltown during a meeting earlier this month.Fred McElwee, director of

Local clubs and organizations are asked to provide information about upcoming special events to The Fairfield Ledger for the 2011 Events Calendar section of its seventh annual Fairfield InfoGuide.Information should include the name of the event, the sponsoring club, date, time, location, details and a phone number to call for information.Information can be e-mailed to news@ffledger.com; mailed to PO Box 110,

Fairfield Police Chief Julie Harvey hopes to replace the resigning community service officer with a full-time certified officer.City administrator Jeff Clawson is pulling together figures for the Fairfield City Council Personnel Committee to discuss the financial feasibility during its next meeting. Harvey hopes to be able to hire an officer by Feb. 1.Community service officer Kendrick Wilson?s resignation takes

IOWA CITY (AP) ? Anthony Koehlhoeffer, the 20-year-old Fairfield man who escaped from custody late Tuesday was arrested about 6 p.m. Wednesday in Bettendorf, near the Iowa-Illinois border.A jail inmate with a history of fleeing custody escaped from an Iowa City hospital and eluded authorities during a more than 18-hour crime spree that police say included multiple carjackings and subsequent crashes.Koehlhoeffer was

Three southeast Iowa men face more than $100,000 in fines for their roles in poaching trophy deer and multiple counts of commercialization of wildlife in Jefferson, Van Buren and Henry counties.State Conservation Officer Chris Flynn said the investigation, that had been under way for several years, began from complaints called in by hunters, landowners and concerned citizens.Flynn said due to the nature of the case

The Hy-Vee Drugstore and its affiliated clinic pharmacy on the square in Fairfield will merge into the Hy-Vee store currently under construction in Fairfield, officials with Hy-Vee have announced.The merger will take effect when the new Fairfield Hy-Vee opens in early April, said Randy Menke, Hy-Vee store director. He said current employees at the drug store and clinic pharmacy have been notified of the merger and

The Fairfield man charged in the October Packwood bank robbery escaped from custody at an Iowa City hospital late Tuesday night and remains at large today.Twenty-year-old Anthony Michael Koehlhoeffer, of 505 1/2 W. Madison Ave., is now believed to be in the Quad Cities area.Authorities said Koehlhoeffer ran away while receiving treatment at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics at about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday,

The Fairfield Public Library?s collection needs weeding and updating to retain its Tier 3 accreditation from the state in 2012.During her annual report to the Fairfield City Council Monday, library director Rebecca Huggins said the library qualified for $12,000 in state aid for achieving the highest level of accreditation this year.She said Fairfield?s average circulation rate per capita is double that of the state

The discovery of an existing ordinance means the Fairfield Community School District could implement one-way traffic on Broadway Avenue sooner than thought.In reviewing Fairfield?s code, city administrator Jeff Clawson found a standing ordinance permitting one-way traffic on East Broadway Avenue, traveling east to west from Forest Drive to D Street when appropriately designated by signs.The district had requested

ELDON ? Writer and pie-maker Beth Howard recently taught Cardinal High School students how pie heals people and lifts their spiritsWhen literature teachers asked the author to speak to a class via Skype, Howard said she had a better idea.?She told us she would come in and teach the kids how to bake pies,? said Patti Durflinger, literature enhancement teacher at the high school.Durflinger and teacher Jacque Hunter

Some of Fairfield?s finest, chief of police Julie Harvey and firemen Brett Ferrel, seated, and Josh Tarrence wore prison stripes as they sat behind bars this morning at Best Western Fairfield Inn, all for a good cause. The fun, MDA Lockup gives community and business leaders an opportunity to raise funds for Jerry?s Kids by agreeing to be ?arrested? for having a ?big heart?. Donors help them ?get out of jail? by

The Fairfield Community School District Board of Directors approved purchasing a badge-printing system that could help make school buildings safer and save the district money.By purchasing the badge-printing system from Midwest Automated Time Systems at a cost of $11,246.45, the district will be able to make its own employee badges with embedded electronic coding.Superintendent Don Achelpohl explained the badges