City council members in Washington have completed the first reading of an ordinance amendment that legalizes fireworks on certain holidays, after years of banning the pyrotechnic rockets in town without exception. And they’re not happy about it.
Washington’s 78th Ridiculous Days were a blast last week. And despite unfavorable forecasts, there was no rain on the annual parade, nor any of the numerous other activities as community members gathered for the long-beloved town festival.
Fairfield Area Community Theatre (FACT) will present “Freaky Friday, A New Musical” Thursday through Sunday, June 12-15 at the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center. Show times are 7:30 p.m. the first three days, and then 3 p.m. on Sunday.
Fair Field Production’s latest documentary is called “When Maharishi Came to Town,” and it’s about the arrival of Maharishi International University to Fairfield in 1974, setting up shop in the campus vacated by Parsons College the year before.
A new town celebration will mix Art Domestique’s annual En Plaine Air competition with a handful of new events focused on the arts, as community members seek to show off their designation as an Iowa Arts and Entertainment district.
Fairfield resident Don Kramer was honored for his military service with a Quilt of Valor on May 28.
An ethnic slur written on a car window escalated into a physical altercation, leaving one juvenile injured
Free disposal kits, secure drop boxes, and community education help residents protect their loved ones
The Great Eastern Iowa Tractorcade returns to Mt. Pleasant after a decade in other spots around the state
A jury of 12 Jefferson County residents has returned a not guilty verdict in a trial where former interim ambulance director Judy Heisel was charged with secretly recording a meeting of county officials.
Park updates, new staff, and summer projects highlighted in Conservation Department’s monthly report
Neither side seems to expect speedy resolution as case is referred to the state’s supreme court, which can either make a ruling in several months, or delegate the matter to the Iowa Court of Appeals. It’s the latest in a legal battle over polling place errors that allowed at least 70 invalid voters to cast a ballot in the school’s $15 million bond referendum in November.
Jackie Morgan has a solid medical background, working as a nurse practitioner for primary care clinics and urgent care floors in Iowa, where she’s lived for 15 years.
A Washington man is in custody after police say he stabbed another city resident in the back with a kitchen knife, the morning of June 5.
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