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A number of area youngsters took advantage of the warm, sunny weather on Sunday to converge on the playground equipment at East Lake Park.
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A number of area youngsters took advantage of the warm, sunny weather on Sunday to converge on the playground equipment at East Lake Park.
Fairfield Middle School?s seventh-grade girls? basketball team opened its season last Thursday with a trio of wins vs. Washington. Members are pictured, from left, front row: Nicole Buch, Taylor Myers, Abbey Gridley, Amiah Neff, Amanda Carminhato, Breanne Emry, Katrina Cecchini, Kelsey Hollander, manager Kara Jeffrey; middle row: Ashtyn Drish, Ashley Pool, Sophie Allen, Celsey Horton, Anna Beasley, Claire ...
CENTERVILLE ? Jordan Reid scored a game-high 10 points to lift Fairfield to a 42-35 victory over Centerville in JV boys? basketball action Tuesday in Centerville.Reid, a freshman, was a perfect 6 of 6 from the free throw line and chipped in three steals. The win was Fairfield?s second in a row and third in the past four games.Fairfield?s Alex Simpson scored seven points and Keagan Drish netted six. Alex Crile ...
Fairfield area youth competed in a coed swim meet Saturday as part of the Ottumwa YMCA Hurricanes at the Roosevelt Aquatic Center in Fairfield.Jamie Reifsteck coaches the Fairfield athletes.All area winners of events are listed below: YMCA Hurricanes @ FairfieldBoys 9-10 200 freestyle: Braydon Songer (3:12.47)Boys 11-12 200 freestyle: Jackson Weaton (2:31.28)Girls 15-21 200 freestyle: Baylee Bowman ...
AMES ? Janet Smith has accepted the position of regional director for Iowa State University Extension and Outreach serving Louisa, Henry, Des Moines and Lee counties effective June 1, 2016. Smith will provide leadership to county extension councils and oversee delivery of educational programs that align with needs of the region.?For nearly 30 years Janet has delivered research-based educational programs that ...
A couple of donations have been made recently to the Henry County Heritage Trust (HCHT), which oversees the former Saunders Elementary School building and the Van Allen family home.Donations include a dress, slip and bracelets from the early 1900s, owned by Mary Firebaugh Swaney, one of six T.T.T. founders. Also donated was a panel of wood carvings by the Avenue of the Saints Wood Carvers. HCHT is in the process ...
CLINTON, N.Y. ? Fairfield High School graduate Serena Ward, a college freshman, scored nine points off the bench to help Hamilton College dominate Wells College 79-35 in a non-conference game Jan. 9.The 44-point win was the largest margin of victory for Hamilton (6-6 overall) since a 93-48 triumph over Cazenovia College on Nov. 18, 2008.After trading baskets to open the first half, Hamilton exploded for a 16-0 ...
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) ? The wrenching story of Notre Dame football star Manti Te?o?s girlfriend dying of leukemia ? a loss he said inspired him to play his best all the way to the BCS championship ? was dismissed by the school Wednesday as a hoax perpetrated against the linebacker.Notre Dame said it believes the Heisman Trophy finalist was duped into an online relationship with a woman whose ?death? was then ...
DANVILLE ? Hanna Haynes did a little bit of everything Tuesday, and the Van Buren girls? basketball team bounced back from Saturday?s loss to Davis County with a 54-41 win over conference foe Danville.Haynes, a senior, went 7 of 11 from the field scoring 20 points and hauling in 14 boards. She also blocked nine shots and totaled six steals and four assists to lead her Warriors past the host Bears.Van Buren, ...
COLUMBUS JUNCTION ? Coming off two straight overtime victories last week, the Pekin boys? basketball team finally ran away with one Tuesday at Columbus.Down two points headed into the second period, the Panthers gave up just nine points in the second period and another eight in the third on their way to a 66-54 victory over Columbus.Junior Cade Millikin scored 15 points to pace the Panthers, who now have won ...
CENTERVILLE ? It took an entire half for the Fairfield boys? basketball team to get going Tuesday in Centerville, and by then it was too late.The Trojans fell behind 19-9 after eight minutes of play and scored just six more points in the second quarter, dropping a non-conference game to Class 3A eighth-ranked Centerville 62-45.?We came out flat, and we need to be better than that. Playing two nights in a row is ...
Alex Crile scored 11 points and Alex Simpson chipped in 10 Monday to lead the Fairfield JV boys? basketball team past Mid-Prairie 48-44.Cody Craff contributed nine points and Jordan Reid scored seven for Fairfield, which has won two of its past three games.The JV boys also dropped a 78-52 contest to Mount Pleasant at Fairfield High School Friday.Simpson finished with a team-high 17 points as well as seven ...
