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KALONA – The Mt. Pleasant cross-country team has been staying busy this week, and their schedule brought them to the …
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KALONA – The Mt. Pleasant cross-country team has been staying busy this week, and their schedule brought them to the …
GREENVILLE, Ill. – The Iowa Wesleyan soccer teams were at Greenville University on Saturday for their first conference games of …
VICTOR – The WACO football suffered a close loss on Friday night at the hands of Hartwick-Victor-Ladora. The Warriors stuck …
An approaching storm changed the time of Monday’s Iowa Mennonite School Invitational. The time change threw off the process of …
To the editor:Recently, the Fairfield Community School Board announced that it is now time to begin implementing many changes to our beloved Fairfield Community School District. Often, change by itself is hard to accept, but it appears to me that most of these changes have got a lot of people pretty cranked up.As a parent of three children who are currently part of the FCSD, I understand that it?s easy to be ...
To the editor:On Monday, the community will find out the fate of Libertyville Elementary School. Before that takes place, I'd like to publicly thank Paul Miller, School Board Member, for the extra time and effort he has put into researching other districts and actively exploring every other avenue to avoid closing the doors of a beloved elementary school. It is apparent to me and other members of this community, ...
To the editor:I was a confident and self-assured teacher. I knew what I was doing and I loved it. The students could see that. I rarely appeared anxious or confused, much less fearful and insecure.Problems were not daunting and the work was rarely overwhelming. I did not ever despair of holding my own or my position at the school. But that was in the school, the classrooms, the halls, the playing fields and ...
To the editor and voters of Jefferson County:With slightly less than a month until the election, it is time to look seriously at the choices we as residents of Jefferson County have to make. We have four candidates running for two seats on the county Board of Supervisors. It is vitally important that we retain Lee Dimmitt as one of our supervisors. He has been on the job working for us for eight years. He ...
To the editor:The upcoming election in Jefferson County has many important facets to it, but none more important than the election for Jefferson County Supervisor. It has been stated by one candidate for supervisor, and may very well be sustained by more than one candidate that Jefferson County has ?evolved? beyond agriculture and that farm families do not represent a necessary ingredient for Jefferson County to ...
To the editor:On the upcoming election day, we urge you to vote for Margaret Dwyer for Jefferson County Supervisor.Marg's long involvement in community service combined with her executive experience at Cambridge Investment Research gives her a solid background in action and decision-making. She also possesses a level head, the ability to see and assess both sides of an issue, and a knack for galvanizing people ...
To the editor:As the election for supervisors draws closer, I thought I should share my experience working with Marg Dwyer on the Fairfield School Board of Directors.I served with her for about four years. During her term, the ?alternative? school was opened and Project Lead the Way (a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math program) was implemented. As our board president, Marg was always fair, open-minded, ...
To the editor:This past Saturday my van ?broke down? at the Mt. Pleasant exit on Highway 34. While I waited for AAA, an Iowa State Patrolman and six people stopped to offer help. Seven people, in less than one hour, were available for assistance. The people in Iowa are the kindest people I have ever met! Just wonderful!My sincerest thanks go to: the Iowa State Patrol; Jake, the AAA driver; two young couples; a ...
To the editor:I would like to thank The Fairfield Ledger for printing the information concerning the Jefferson County 4-H Foundation Scholarship that was presented from the Leland Stanley Scholarship fund.The foundation is separate from the extension service and the fair board.The Jefferson County 4-H Foundation was organizer in 1996 as a nonprofit corporation. The corporation has tax-exempt status from the ...
