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Eleven members of the community, asked to serve on the School Improvement Advisory Committee, spent a few hours Tuesday discussing information about the Fairfield Community School District.Superintendent Art Sathoff and Fairfield High School Principal Aaron Becker headed the discussion about school programs. Sathoff outlined two new programs being added next school year, the Career Academy and the Young House ...

A handful of county residents from the Abingdon area addressed the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors this morning about the condition of their road, the western end of Brookville Road.The road was seal-coated previously but last week, it was graveled.?We get more traffic than the road by Dickey?s trucking, why was it paved and our?s not?? asked one woman.Residents say they are the ?forgotten? ones for the ...

LOCKRIDGE ? Calls of an old barn burning with no one apparently attending the fire Thursday morning in Lockridge created 911 calls from concerned passers-by, said Lockridge Fire Chief Jeremy Loving.?When we get 911 calls, we have to investigate,? he said. ?I called the property owner, and I found out it was on purpose, a controlled burn, it just happened to involve an old structure and drivers going by didn?t ...

Thirty years ago, the U.S. ranked No. 1 in academic achievement and the number of college graduates in the world, and Iowa was the No. 1 state in the nation, said Jason Glass, director of the Iowa Department of Education in Fairfield Tuesday.?We were at a pinnacle,? he said as the featured speaker at the fifth and final in a series of colloquia on educational change hosted by the department of teaching at ...

After hearing subcommittee reports Tuesday about recruiting more members to assist the Recreation Facilities Task Force (Phase 2), chairman Tom McMahon urged all subcommittees to meet within the next week.?We want to get everyone up to speed,? he said. ?We?re working through some timeline issues that are not yet clear, but we want to get to work on it.?And I?d like to meet all new subcommittee members you?re ...

Jefferson County Health Center?s Chief Executive Officer Deb Cardin will be honored in Des Moines Sunday as one of 100 Great Iowa Nurses.?Nursing has been very good to me,? said Cardin. ?I never dreamed I?d be a hospital administrator. It?s not something I ever aspired to, but with each new role and position I took on in my career, the challenges became greater. And I don?t back down from a challenge.?Cardin ...

Fairfield?s pool task force plans to learn preliminary costs for a proposed new pool and recreational facility in the next few weeks.?Then we?ll talk and have a plan to share with the community,? said Tom McMahon, new chairman of the Recreation Facilities Task Force (Phase 2) at Tuesday?s task force meeting.A noon meeting for May 8 is scheduled at Fairfield City Hall, with expectations of reviewing preliminary ...

LIBERTYVILLE ? Community volunteers opened a new ballpark concession stand three weeks ago and discovered an attempted break-in and vandalism occurred sometime between 9 p.m. April 18 and 4 p.m. Thursday.?The concession stand represents a lot of volunteer hours,? said Bev Nelson, secretary/treasurer of Little League Baseball in Libertyville.?It?s very sad. No money is kept overnight inside the building. And ...

Iowa Tourism Manager Shawna Lode told a room full of people this morning that the Sustainable Living Center building was her third spot to visit in Fairfield today and it was her third, ?who-da thunk it?? moment.Lode and Jessica O?Riley, Iowa Tourism Director of Communications, joined about 50 other interested people and about a dozen media representatives at the grand opening of the building on the Maharishi ...

Shawna Lode, Iowa State Tourism manager spoke at the grand opening of the Sustainable Living Center building on the Maharishi University of Management campus this morning. Also shown, from left are David Fisher, founder of the Sustainable Living program, and Craig Pearson, executive vice president of Maharishi University of Management.