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Cass, McBride lead Fairfield to Southeast Conference victories

Check out this calendar of events for the Washington, Mt. Pleasant and Fairfield areas.

Washington boys and girls both fall in Albia

Police are stepping up enforcement of Washington’s municipal parking codes, as officers implement an initiative to pay more attention to the issue on their patrols. It’s a shift in philosophy for the city’s police department, which previously issued parking citations mostly in response to complaints, rather than seeking out offenders.

Julie Shaw is Washington County Hospital and Clinics' newest provider, offering neurology services at the Ken and Rosemary Hanson Specialty Clinic.

About 500,000 bulbs, 8,000 feet of extension cords, and a local FM radio broadcast all play a part in this over-the-top holiday lights display, making its first appearance in Washington this year. It’s made by an IT professional who’s been doing it since high school.

The unnamed tributary flows right by Riverside Elementary School, and under Highway 22 on the east side of town. Local 4-H’ers want to name it “Lincoln Gate Creek.”

The Youth Service Board (YSB) is proud to announce the outstanding results of its recent food drive, which collected an impressive 260 pounds of food to benefit HACAP.

Three people from Fairfield died Monday morning in a head-on crash south of Kalona after a driver crossed into the oncoming lane of traffic to pass a snowplow, according to the Iowa State Patrol.

Class 8-Player through Class 3A 2024 lists

After years of debate and countless false starts, supervisors have once more modified a proposed ordinance governing commercial wind turbines in the area, extending setback requirements and setting the date for yet another public hearing on the proposal.

A 21-year-old woman from Washington died Saturday after her car left the road and rolled over several times about a mile east of Brighton, but an infant in the car at the time suffered few, if any, injuries.