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The city reports about $9.9 million in construction in 2024, following continued development in Southtown and elsewhere. More is expected in the near future.

Susie Drish has been re-elected to the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors, and Joe Ledger is set to join the board at the end of this year.

Thousands showed up to cast their ballots in the 2024 election in-person and via absentee voting

All eyes were on the county to decide U.S. House District 1 race, where about 400 ballots separate Bohannan and Miller-Meeks. Officials blame ‘scanner issues’ with absentee ballots for delay. It wasn’t the only issue to throw a wrench in the county’s election results.

According to the unofficial results released by the Jefferson County Auditor’s Office on Tuesday, Nov. 5, voters in the school district cast 4,102 votes in favor (57.95 percent) of the bond and 2,976 votes against it (42.05 percent). Though the “yes” side won a majority of the votes, it needed to cross the 60 percent threshold required for bonds, so the measure failed.

Visitors to Jefferson County generated over $22 million in 2023

The Fairfield Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce the hiring of Claire Reid as the new Chamber Administrator.

Sixth-graders entering Washington Middle School this year had a slightly different experience from their predecessors. Rather than being thrust from the structured days of elementary classroom routines directly into the high school-like world of student-specific schedules scattered around the building, the grade started the year using “cohorts.”

WASHINGTON — Tribulation and Trust Ministries will hold its third annual fundraising dinner and auction Friday, Nov. 8, starting at …

On Oct. 23, nine Mid-Prairie FFA members packed up and headed for Indianapolis to take part in the National FFA …

The Fairfield Education Foundation has awarded $50,988.11 in grants to teachers and staff of the Fairfield Community School District. The …

Petra’s Park in Fairfield is receiving shade structures.