Thursday and today were important days at Community Childcare with Easter egg hunts held both days for different age groups. Little Bailey Belzer was one of the tiny tots hunting eggs this morning and only found one egg, while other children nearly filled their baskets and buckets. Bailey didn?t care. She had one egg and one was enough.
The Golden Triangle News Service, including The Fairfield Ledger, is offering a new service allowing smartphone users to access the newspapers? Web site in an easy-to-read format.Darwin Sherman, GTNS president and chief executive officer, and Ledger publisher Jeff Wilson said the new development will provide greatly expanded access to the GTNS Web site for The Ledger, The Washington Evening Journal and The Mt.
The petition to incorporate Cypress Villages subdivision has been temporarily withdrawn while developers seek closure to the question of annexation.The petition had been on Wednesday?s agenda for the state?s City Development Board; however, at that time, developers asked to withdraw the petition, board administrator Steve McCann said. He explained the subdivision needs to complete the annexation process ? receive
PACKWOOD ? Pekin Community School District officials were looking into the future when they submitted improvement proposals for funding by Gov. Chet Culver?s proposed $750 million bonding plan.Pekin?s proposal includes an addition to the high school, with three classrooms, kitchen, commons area, auditorium, an additional gym and other work, which would help ease the potential merger with the neighboring Fremont
The Fairfield Planning and Zoning Commission tabled action on the Golden Domes Subdivision during a meeting Monday evening.Developers were seeking approval of the subdivision?s preliminary plat. However, because the plat did not indicate adequate parking nor adequate public access to and from the subdivision, the commission voted to table action until that information is included.The proposed subdivision calls for
The Jefferson County Board of Supervisors and assistant county attorney will continue to tweak the county?s new subdivision ordinance before its third reading May 4.The supervisors unanimously passed the ordinance from its second to third reading Monday morning.During Monday?s public hearing, local attorney Brandon Nelson asked that language clearly spelling out the criteria for a subdivision be included in the
As the construction season approaches, Fairfield officials are gearing up for the third phase of the city?s downtown streetscape project.The streetscape project will continue this summer with work in Central Park and on Court Street between Burlington Avenue and Broadway Avenue. It includes the replacement of sidewalks in Central Park and the installation of several nodes, new streetlamps and a strip of brick in the
Vandals broke windows at both the Fairfield High School and the Roosevelt Community Recreation Center over the weekend.Aquatic center staff discovered the main window near the spa had been broken after arriving around 5 a.m. today to open the pool. Fairfield Park and Recreation Director Derik Wulfekuhle said the vandalism occurred sometime after 8 p.m. Sunday.Because no brick or rock debris was found at the scene,
A four-hour emergency preparedness exercise involving 17 southeast Iowa counties, known as Region 5, and more than 90 organizations from 12 disciplines will be March 25.The exercise, nearly a year in the planning, centers on the Register?s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa excursion in southern Iowa and a biological event. Oddly, the scenario was written in June, long before the actual RAGBRAI route was announced.
The proposed 2009-2010 Fairfield budget calls for a minute decrease in the city?s property tax levy rate.If approved, the levy will decrease less than 1 cent from $16.58031 per $1,000 assessed valuation in the current fiscal year to $16.57892 per $1,000 assessed valuation in the next fiscal year. Still, an increase in taxable value means the levy will generate $117,403 more for a total tax asking of $4,081,193.?We?r
Galanthus, more popularly known as Snowdrop, can be finicky about the soil in which they grow, but can push their hardy stems up through snow, hence the name. This lone snowdrop was blooming among the crocus this morning on Fillmore Avenue, where nothing was blooming Monday.
?She spins, she tosses, she compels, The kites, the clouds, the windmill sails ??So goes part of a verse from ?An English Breeze? by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), a very appropriate verse for March and kite flying as seen near Broadway and 12th Street Wednesday.Preschoolers from Ruby?s Little Jewels Daycare were flying kites with a little help from Ruby and her husband, Tim Boese, who spent most of his time
Francis Thicke of Fairfield announced today he has formed an exploratory committee to advise him on the possibility of running for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture in the 2010 election. Thicke and his wife Susan are owners and operators of an organic, grass-based dairy farm near Fairfield. They process their milk on the farm and market it locally through grocery stores and restaurants. Citing estimates that more than
The Fairfield City Hall Council Chambers were packed Wednesday evening with citizens demanding greater regulation of cell phone tower siting inside city limits.Fairfield City Council Property Committee Chairman John Revolinski acknowledged research both proving and disproving the link of cell towers to cancers, tumors and other health problems.He prefaced the open forum, saying, ?There are certainly a lot of
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