Fairfield News

To the editor:There?s been a lot of press lately about the building of a new municipal pool and recreation center, the costs of doing so, and where the funding will come from for these projects.I haven?t seen or read a word about providing funding for the care and upgrading of our very popular beach at Waterworks Park (Lake Bonnifield).If the city of Fairfield is going to spend $2 million or more on a new ...

Since his death on Monday, my mind has been consumed thinking about my pal Jack Taylor.I don?t remember not knowing Jack Taylor. I think to grow up in Fairfield meant you knew Jack, or at the very least, knew of him.My Ledger career dates back to 1980 or so when I was a newspaper carrier on my own block. Back in the day, when the Fairfield Ledger was still printing six days a week, we carriers had to come to ...

To the editor:Abingdon is not without a few good friends to whom deserve much gratitude.Last week I noticed an unusual amount of busyness in Abingdon. There were tractors, big trucks, cement trucks, a fire engine, cars, pickups, and noise not associated with everyday life in my small town. All this stirred my curiosity so I puttered across town to see what was making such a commotion on such a hot day. I found ...

It didn?t surprise me last week when I turned on Nancy Grace and saw they were hashing over the Techel murder case. Seth Techel is accused of the fatal shooting of his wife, Lisa, and their unborn daughter near Agency. I had predicted when he was arrested that it would get Nancy?s attention; normally I relish being right, but there was no glory in it this time.I?ve been a Nancy Grace follower since she was an ...

To the editor:There will be a ?final reading? of the proposed ?radio-read water meter? (?Smart Meter?) installations program, at the Monday, June 25, City Council Meeting, 7 p.m. at City Hall. While the extensive public concern expressed by almost 70 people present at the June 11th Council Meeting may have been a disappointment to our good Mayor, Administrator and Council Members, the issues raised are not ...

To the editor:On Saturday evening, May 26th, I was leaving the Casey's store on Hwy 1 South when I heard a very polite voice say ?Excuse me, could you help me?? I looked over to see a stranded mother with a small child and an infant standing beside a car. I walked over and immediately saw the problem: the ?donut? tire on her car was literally off its wheel. She had obviously limped in from Hwy 34 and had barely ...

To the editor:On Friday June the 8th Fairfield was one of 164 towns and cities across the country who held Rallies for Religious Freedom.There has been some media coverage on these events but usually under the terms of ?health? or ?contraception mandate? referring to the Health and Human Services Mandate of Obamacare. Thr true reality is of the greatest assault against the first Amendment of the Bill of Rights ...

To the editor:In exasperation with city officials unwillingness to acknowledge at the vast amount of research and articles we have presented, we asked Robert Palma to present a letter to all city officials explaining why the RF emissions from the Neptune RF water meters pose a potential health threat to the people who live and sleep within 30 feet of these meters. He has done so, and there was an environmental ...

To the editor:These remarks are concerning the proposed opt out provision for the New Neptune e-water meter bought by the city council and currently being installed in all the city homes and business.?The City Council has purchased the Neptune Meters without public input or a public hearing and apparently made the purchasing decision without research into the effects the meter has on the health of individuals ...

To the editor:Has it already been decided to go ahead with putting in more radio-read meters? Otherwise it seems a waste of time to be creating an opt-out program. And if it has been decide to continue putting in meters then that should be made clear to all citizens.I remember Ed Malloy saying that if in fact there was a health issue with these meters then he would have them pulled out. Also, he seemed to ...

To the editor:In your front page story in yesterday?s paper you quoted the Mayor as saying the City has taken no official position in favor of the now controversial radio read water meters. But the reason why the City chose to upgrade to these meters without informing the public remains unclear. City officials including the Mayor have been telling citizens as recently as April 29, 2012 that these meters "are ...

As a follow up to my request in April for old one-room school attendance and grades, this is to report I received l9 books. My destination was the new statewide archives at the Univ. of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls at their big library on campus. It makes a total of 293 for Jefferson County.They have received records now from 88 of the 99 Iowa counties and are alphabetical by county in long, long aisles. Some of ...