Obituaries

KEOSAUQUA ? Hazel Boyd, a bus driver for the Van Buren Buren Community School District, recently was found not guilty of failure to report an accident resulting in personal injury or in total property damage of $1,500 or more.Van Buren County Magistrate Steven Westercamp found the state failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Boyd?s notification of the Van Buren school transportation director and secretary,

Tena Nelson, left, and Diana Flynn share a laugh as Louise and Allison in Fairfield Area Community Theatre?s production of ?Waiting for Oprah.? The shows will be at the Walton Club, with dessert shows at 7 p.m. Thursday and 1:30 p.m. Feb. 13 and dinner shows at 6:30 p.m. today, Saturday and Feb. 11. Tickets must be purchased in advance and are available through Feb. 12 at Hy-Vee Drug on the Fairfield square.For this

The full school board, along with many school employees and citizens, learned about proposed budget cuts for next year during a work session Thursday night at the Administration/Curriculum/Technology Center.The cuts are necessary, explained district business manager Kim Sheets, because the district ended the last two years with negative unspent authorized budget balances and projections show that will continue

Representatives of the Fairfield Entrepreneurs Association and Fairfield First! highlighted plans for an independent movie theater and a local food production and processing center during Monday?s meeting of the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors.Burt Chojnowski and Mario Van Dijk recapped 2010?s accomplishments while making an appeal for funding consideration during the current budgeting process. The supervisors

The months-long process of awarding a contract for operation of a local recycling recovery center came to a close Monday evening.The Jefferson County Service Agency unanimously awarded the contract to low-bidder Connelly Inc. Connelly submitted a $44,500 per year bid on the 42-month contract. A bid of $53,578.80 annually also was submitted by Waste Management.Following Jefferson County Attorney Tim Dille?s review

The Fairfield City Council moved to stop the city?s growing garbage fund deficit Monday evening by increasing user rates for curbside trash and recycling collection.Effective March 1, the cost of trash collection is set to increase 56 cents, or 7.8 percent, to $7.75 per month per household; recycling collection is set to increase $1.30, or 52 percent, to $3.80 per month per household.Additionally, commercial,

Maharishi School of the Age of Englightenment first- and second-grade boys went to Jefferson County Park Thursday for a science lesson on birds with park naturalist Therese Cummiskey. There was a brief introduction to the kinds of bird food followed by each boy getting a cup full of a mixture of seeds. Above, Cummiskey talks to them about the different kinds of feeders and instructed the boys where they could put

Fairfield City Administrator Jeff Clawson has the codes ready to go for implementation of the International Building Code.During Saturday?s city council work session, Clawson reported the next steps will be finalizing internal policy and identifying funding ? an estimated $60,000 to $75,000 including benefits ? for a full-time inspector.He said the council will hear more about the code once, or if, the position is

Fairfield school district students, from left, Dain Nelson, Sam Mattson and Gunnar Mattson don?t let wind chill temperatures hovering around zero get in the way of some lively bus stop conversation this morning in front of the Lockridge Post Office. Tuesday night?s dusting of light snow covered up icy streets and walks to make for some treacherous trips to school. The district?s school buses ran on hard-surfaced

Four primary goals have been identified in the latest one-year plan for wastewater treatment.Fairfield City Administrator Jeff Clawson and wastewater superintendent Ellen Myers are collaborating on the development of one-year, three-year, five-year and 10-year plans.During Saturday?s city council work session, Clawson reported engineering for the wastewater treatment facility?s sludge storage tank is 98 percent