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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 ...

A suburban Dallas police officer ended up playing midwife to one mother in labor.Gene Kimpton says he entered a home in Carrollton Wednesday morning with his weapon drawn. All he knew is there was some sort of emergency situation in the house.There was.A young boy pointed Kimpton into the bathroom, where his mother ? who hadn?t realized she was pregnant ? was in labor.Kimpton helped guide the baby boy out and ...

Beauty queens and backstage drama may seem inevitable, but at this year?s Miss World competition, something more serious than hair-pulling and name-calling has come from host country Indonesia: Muslim hardliners have threatened to hijack the competition despite major concessions from the government and organizers.The bikinis that have been a pageant hallmark were replaced with more conservative sarongs three ...

The Jefferson County Environmental Health Department found an elevated level of radon in half of the test kits it gave away earlier this year.The department distributed 125 free radon test kits to county residents in January. Of the 123 results the department received, 51 percent were at or above the United States Environmental Protection Agency?s ?action level? of 4 picocuries per liter of air, meaning those ...