Obituaries

CEDAR RAPIDS (AP) ? Neighbors rescued two small dogs from a house on fire in Cedar Rapids before firefighters arrived and extinguished the blaze.Fire department spokesman Greg Buelow says Steve Jordan looked out a living room window Sunday evening and noticed smoke coming out of roof vents of a house across the street.Jordan and another neighbor noted the homeowners, Josh and Becky Kuntz, were gone so opened ...

ARNOLDS PARK (AP) ? Renovation on an old wooden roller coaster at Arnolds Park Amusement Park in northwest Iowa is almost complete.Officials started dismantling The Legend roller coaster a few weeks ago to replace one of the tracks this winter. That?s aimed at matching a track that was replaced last spring.Additional work on the more than $500,000 project will include replacing the catwalk and adding several ...

Libertyville Savings Bank receives Excellence AwardLibertyville Savings Bank has been selected for the 2013 Iowa Excellence Award among all its peers and competitors by the Small Business Institute for Excellence in Commerce.Each year the SBIEC conducts business surveys and industry research to identify companies that have achieved demonstrable success in their local business environment and industry category. ...

Pilot Grove Savings Bank recently broke ground for the construction of a new branch office in Fairfield. The office will be on 13.5 acres at the northeast corner of the intersection of Iowa Highway 1 and U.S. Highway 34.?We?ve been waiting for quite some time for the opportunity to become part of the vibrant Fairfield community,? said Ted J. Vonderhaar, president of Pilot Grove Savings Bank. ?Pilot Grove Savings ...

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Friday was Spirit Day throughout the district as students donned every orange and black article of clothing they could find. Among those who got into the swing of Trojan-themed attire are students, from left, Taylor Ferrel, Alissa Fitch and Olivia Wallerich.

The homecoming parade was just the beginning of festivities in Central Park Friday. Fairfield High School students Seth Simmons, left, and Dakota Webber entertained the crowd with a rendition of ?Who Says You Can?t Go Home,? by Bon Jovi. They were accompanied by Tracy Andermann on violin.

The September compliance check among 20 retailers selling alcohol had a 70 percent passing rate, which is too low, Don Sanders executive director of Jefferson County Alcohol Consumption Task Force told the county board of supervisors today.?It was a 10 percent improvement over the April compliance check,? Sanders said. ?But it?s still not acceptable. Six retailers were cited for serving alcohol to our underage ...

DES MOINES ? The storm system that left Colorado dealing with historic flooding dropped rain across a large swath of the nation from Wisconsin to Texas last week, helping to alleviate drought conditions in some areas of the country, including Iowa and Nebraska, authors of a weekly national drought monitor said Thursday.The rain was too late to help most corn and soybean fields, however. Rainfall throughout the ...

Jefferson County Health Center will celebrate the inauguration of its new wellness trail from 9:30-11 a.m. Oct. 5, in conjunction with Physical Therapy Month, which has the theme ?Keep Moving Forward.?According to the health center?s community relations manager Ginny Hughes, the celebration being held outdoors at the south end of the center will include sneaker decorating and a Halloween costume contest for ...