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Iowa school elections are Tuesday, regular school board elections are held every odd-numbered year and school board terms are for four years.Pekin Community School District has three of its seven-member board positions on the ballot. Two board incumbents, Lynn Winn and Mark Wittrock are re-running. Incumbent David Hollingsworth is stepping down from serving on the Pekin school board.Four candidates have joined ...

The third and final reading of a social host ordinance was approved by the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors today, giving law enforcement the ability to impose civil fines on adults hosting a gathering where alcohol is served to minors or providing alcohol to anyone under age 21.Violations will be a $750 civil fine for first offense and a $1,000 civil fine for second and subsequent offenses.A final public ...

Jefferson County Alcohol Task Force will conduct another underage purchasing compliance check in the county next month.Don Sanders, director of the task force, told the county supervisors Monday that an April compliance check of alcohol retailers had a 40 percent failure rate for selling alcohol to minors.?Since then, we were approached by Fairfield for help,? said Sanders. ?We held a public hearing about free ...

The Fairfield school board Monday set a public hearing and bid letting at 7 p.m. Sept. 16, for a new parking lot at Fairfield High School.The public, board members and district staff will review the project and specifications designed by French-Reneker Associates Inc. of Fairfield that evening.The parking lot was first proposed to the school board in June and approved in July. The upcoming high school renovation...

Jefferson County Board of Supervisors approved the Schaefer Subdivision, abated property taxes for a church and set a time and date for bid letting of county cropland cash rental at today?s board meeting.First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) had appeared before the supervisors twice in 2012 after selling a historic church building at Third Street and Burlington Avenue and purchasing another building on ...

A new program, walking school buses, is gearing up to add another dimension to Fairfield Community School District?s essential role in the city?s Blue Zones initiative.One of Fairfield?s planks in the certification process is having 25 percent of its schools certify as a Blue Zones school. District administrators are working with the two elementary schools in Fairfield city limits and the middle school to ...

Filing for candidates is just around the corner for anyone interested in serving as mayor or on city council.Filing nomination papers begins Monday. The deadline to file is 5 p.m. Sept. 19. Municipal elections are Nov. 5.Candidate papers are available from city clerks. Each candidate, including incumbents, needs petition signatures of persons eligible to vote from the area the candidate represents.Check with ...

Families of students attending Pence Elementary School received a letter earlier this month about the school?s second year on the Schools in Need of Assistance list for student test scores not meeting proficiency levels established by federal guidelines of No Child Left Behind.Schools are required to offer students a choice to transfer within the district to another attendance center.District curriculum ...

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office will hire two part-time deputies temporarily to fill spots in the department while the sheriff is conducting interviews to hire two full-time deputies.Sheriff Gregg Morton said deputy Josh Tarrence has resigned to relocate. He has been with the sheriff?s department about five years.?We?ll have another open spot when one of my deputies deploys for a year with the Army Reserves,? ...

The Fairfield RAGBRAI committee has established a grant program for local non-profit organizations to share profits earned through RAGBRAI?s successful overnight stop July 26.?We consider it our responsibility to make a positive impact in Fairfield,? said Tracy Vance, treasurer of the committee. ?We are still finalizing expenses from the event but we are confident there will be a healthy sum of monies to ...