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A second group of plaintiffs has filed civil charges against Daniel Brubaker, the driver of a hayrack ride that crashed in rural Keokuk County in October, hospitalizing multiple middle school-aged children when a goose neck trailer “flung (them) into the road,” according to plaintiffs. The Snakenberg family has accused Brubaker of negligence.

Two weeks after the last vacancy-filling election for the decision-making body, David Pratt is the second council member to step down, after spending four months in office.

Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Mendy McAdams announced Thursday that the Legislative Forum planned for Saturday, April 20 has been canceled.

The Fairfield First United Methodist Church and the Food Bank of Iowa are putting on a benefit concert Friday, April 26 at the Walton Club in Fairfield.

A black and white duplex totaling 2,000 square feet on the south side of Washington stands out among the grass and cornfields of the gradually developing MSW Subdivision.

Southtown gives ‘new identity’ to former Shiloh property

The Fairfield Community School District is accepting bids on its former Lincoln Elementary School building, located at 401 W. Stone Ave.

Cradle of Hope’s Mothers Home is not another shelter, it is a home to equip displaced mothers

Just north of Keosauqua sits a row of cabins overlooking the Des Moines River. The development, along Robert Park Road, consists of 32 cabins that are mostly second homes for people who live there in the summer. That was the case for former Fairfield residents Bob and Bonnie Reighard, too, when they purchased their cabin in 2017. But the couple found that they were more comfortable in their new second home, and decided to spruce it up and move there permanently in 2019.

Pettit now enjoys home ownership thanks to Habitat for Humanity, the Winfield Community, and the persistence of Jerry Fricke

South 32nd Street has seen a flurry of new home construction in recent years. Among the most recent additions to the neighborhood is the home owned by Mike and Jill Lane, who moved in May of 2023. The couple had been living on a gravel road between Batavia and Libertyville, but wanted to be closer to town so their daughters, Maya and Iris, would have a shorter drive to school.

The Fairfield Arbor Committee spent Saturday planting trees in the Carrington Pointe subdivision and in Southwood Park.