Obituaries

Oh, to be 2 years old and able to enjoy the simple pleasure of going down a slide. There were many children at the Partners for Play playground at O.B. Nelson Park this morning, among them little Pixie Liles and her 3-year-old brother, Rhyat from Batavia. Their mom said she had brought the children to play Monday when they were in town. They had such a good time they returned to town today just to play.

These traffic charges were filed with the Jefferson County Clerk of Court:Kyle Joseph Tramontana, 206 W. Jefferson Ave., failure to maintain control.James Benjamin Stevens, Glen Carbon, Ill., speeding.Debra Sue Chesshir, Wayland, speeding.Elizabeth D. Quarles, 1855 Crystal Springs Lane, failure to obey stop sign and yield right of way.Jason Michael Klett, Pleasant Hill, failure to display registration.Tiffan...

Maurice Sendak didn?t think of himself as a children?s author, but as an author who told the truth about childhood.?I like interesting people and kids are really interesting people,? he explained to The Associated Press last fall. ?And if you didn?t paint them in little blue, pink and yellow, it?s even more interesting.?Sendak, who died early today in Danbury, Conn., at age 83, four days after suffering a ...

The Fairfield Fire Department responded to a call at 1:05 p.m. Sunday at 604 S. Second St. Power wires going into the house burned in half. Fire fighters investigated, shut down the electrical main breaker and advised Alliant.

The Fairfield school board decided it was at a point of needing expert input on costs and building sites during Monday?s work session devoted to the high school facility.Jeri Kunkle said she?d like to know if the most current Shive-Hattery plan could be scaled down and still work.?Maybe we should take this plan and revamp it,? she said. ?The ground studies have been done.?Amy Miller talked with a building ...

The Fairfield High School track runners have yet to attend their first meet, but there?s already an unmistakable new spring in their steps.A new six-lane running track at FHS?s Trojan Stadium, completed in September to replace a two-decade-old track surface, is the source of the spring.?The kids that have trained on the old surface ? which was hard and didn?t have a lot of bounce to it ? they noticed right away ...

A proposal to establish a three-person city engineering department has been scrapped in favor of a modified relationship with French-Reneker-Associates Inc.?I propose that we change our relationship with French-Reneker by requiring a work plan be submitted to the city prior to awarding engineering services for a job or project,? Fairfield City Administrator Jeff Clawson wrote in a memo to the council?s ways and ...

With no snow or ice on the rooftop Wednesday morning it was a good day to swap out one wireless antenna for another. Derek Shelton, who is employed by Natel, climbs back down the ladder with the old antenna.

The final shaping of the 2012-2013 Fairfield city budget approved by the ways and means committee Thursday night included a 2 percent increase in water rates for residential users effective July 1 and a 50 percent reduction of the 27 cents per $1,000 taxable valuation emergency levy rate.A proposed 3 percent increase in the city?s residential sewer rate was rejected by the ways and means committee when it was ...

Tom Knight took advantage of the 42-degree temperature at noon today to ride his bicycle in downtown Fairfield. The National Weather Service?s forecast calls for a high near 50 Friday.