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KEOSAUQUA ? As summer time approaches, Fairfield isn?t the only regional community without an outdoor pool ? Keosauqua is entering its second summer with no outdoor pool.The Keosauqua community has had the use of a community outdoor pool at its Riverview Country Club for some years, but like Fairfield?s outdoor pool, age and the cost of repairs make it more feasible to build new.The city, the country club and ...

Extending a deadline by three days to complete an online survey selecting 10 out of 33 characteristics desired in a new school superintendent paid off, with 486 surveys completed compared to less than 150 at the original deadline.?That?s a tremendous result,? said Linda Brock, regional manager with Ray and Associates Inc.Brock and another associate, Ned Sellers, met with all seven Fairfield Community School ...

Public comments at the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors meeting Monday supported, opposed and questioned the county?s intent to welcome Heartland Co-op building a new grain storage facility with road and rail access at Highway 34 and Nutmeg Avenue.For the second consecutive week, it was standing-room only in the second floor courtroom, with at least 90 people attending.Supervisor chairman Dick Reed told ...

A mix of community members supporting and opposing the Heartland Co-op grain elevator filled the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors meeting in the second floor courtroom to overflowing today for three hours.Jeff Heil of Northland Securities Inc. was on the agenda, hired by the supervisors to guide them through the financial choices for paving Nutmeg Avenue and/or Osage Avenue as part of the project.Heil ...

They are tiny, long-lived, not talked about and bite people in the dark of night causing red marks that itch. Bed bugs are making a comeback in the U.S. after their presence dropped dramatically during the mid-20th century, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Jefferson County Environmental Health Department?s registered sanitarian, Dan Miller, said bed bugs are an issue in Iowa.?I don?t ...

Fairfield school board approved a contract with Ray and Associates Inc. Monday to conduct a search for a school superintendent.The board had invited four search teams to make presentations about services, fees and the process used to search, screen and recommend applicants to the district. The board interviewed two search teams March 19 and two more March 24, and voted 4-1 to hire Ray and Associates at the end ...

Nearly 90 people showed up at today?s Jefferson County Board of Supervisors meeting as news has spread in the community about Heartland Co-op?s proposal to build a 4.4 million bushel storage capacity grain elevator facility at Nutmeg Avenue and Highway 34.All but one person who spoke at the meeting seemed to be against the co-op locating so close to Fairfield or asked why it was trying to locate there and what ...

Stephen Pumphrey is on the April 1 special election ballot for a seat on the Fairfield school board because he?s interested in investing his time and talent in the community and for education.Pumphrey is one of two candidates to file for the school board seat to replace former school board member Amy Miller, who was elected for four years in 2011 and resigned in November.?Iowa school boards are the most basic ...

Two people among the approximately 25 at Monday?s Jefferson County Board of Supervisors meeting were open about not wanting Heartland Co-op to build an elevator grain storage facility at Nutmeg Avenue and Highway 34.County resident Marcia Hansen said she?d like to see higher prices for grain being paid to area farmers, one of the benefits farmers brought up Monday at the meeting about the co-op building a new ...

About 25 people attended today?s Jefferson County Board of Supervisors meeting, which moved up to the second floor courtroom to accommodate seating everyone for the first 75 minutes.A majority of those in attendance were farmers, interested to hear the supervisors? discussion about the proposed Heartland Co-op grain storage facility.County resident Joe Ledger said he brought Jefferson County?s grain numbers ...