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Public preschool, schools? allowable growth funding, fuel taxes and roads, and mental health services were the most talked about topics Saturday at Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce Legislative Breakfast.Rep. Curt Hanson said the Legislature has moved from discussion to action mode now.?I?m sorry to see the Iowa House has not set allowable growth by the Feb. 13 deadline,? Hanson said. ?Education is truly a ...

After the community?s successful 500 Christmas food box giveaway, Jefferson County?s food pantry, The Lord?s Cupboard, served more people in January than any single month in its history, said Laura Cohen, director.She sent out a flier stating supplies of non-perishable foods are dwindling, and in honor of National Canned Food Month, the community is invited to ?Cram the Cupboard,? this month with food for the ...

One apartment was destroyed and seven more in the same building have smoke and/or water damage at North Bay Apartments, 210 E. Pierce Ave. in Fairfield.Stephanie Goodwin, the resident in Apt. 9, was home with her two youngest of three children.?I was making valentines for my son?s class yesterday and saw sparks coming out of the baseboard heater and the sparks caught my bed on fire,? Goodwin said this morning. ...

Fairfield elementary school principal Jeff Eeling told the school board Monday he is talking with Community Child Care Center about a partnership for preschool.Eeling is in his second year as principal at Libertyville and Washington elementary schools. Fairfield school district has a preschool for 3? and 4-year-old children at Washington.?When Art [Sathoff, superintendent] hired me, I was given the directive to ...

Fairfield High School will see facility changes through the next two years with construction and renovations, and the daily structure of classes also may change, but not because of building remodeling.?We?ve been operating on an eight-period day for four years,? FHS Principal Aaron Becker told the school board Monday. ?Feedback from staff and students about having eight, 48-minute periods each day is having us ...

The Fairfield Police Department and The Fairfield Ledger have received feedback from the community about a dispatch call entry regarding a homeless man published in the police report in Wednesday?s Ledger.The log reported the man was wearing only a blanket and last seen walking toward Ottumwa.Police Chief Julie Harvey said today the caller reported the man was wearing only a blanket but in fact he was wearing ...

Heartland Co-op CEO and general manager Tom Hauschel told the Fairfield school board Monday if all the agreements between governmental agencies and the co-op?s board are timely, the co-op could pour concrete in November and have its proposed grain storage elevator facility functioning by October 2015.Hauschel and Todd Phillips, executive vice president of grain and risk management at Heartland, visited with the ...

Jefferson County Board of Supervisors heard engineers Melanie Carlson and John Meyer of French-Reneker-Associates today outline the timing of priorities about establishing an Urban Renewal Plan for the Heartland Co-op project.Heartland Co-op CEO and general manager Tom Hauschel and Todd Phillips, executive vice president of grain and risk management, told the board a month ago of its interest to build a 4.4 ...

Fairfield High School teacher Scott Slechta is one of 150 educators in six states selected to participate in the pilot year of the national Teacher Leadership Initiative, a program to develop leaders within the teaching profession.?We?re creating a leadership program,? said Slechta. ?It began this month and for the first three months we?re learning, reading, discussing, studying and reflecting.?Slechta said the ...

In August, Fairfield resident Deborah Roberts collected air samples among the corn and soybean fields north of town for seven days to measure possible pesticide wind drift.Roberts collected daily air samples in small tubes with a cotton core, set up in a friend?s yard in Abundance EcoVillage on Highway 1.Those tubes were labeled and stored in her home freezer, then shipped over-night to a lab in Berkeley, ...