Paper towels and American flags: A group of apparent solicitors is showing up with these items in different neighborhoods throughout Fairfield in what some neighbors are calling a bizarre trend. There are at least three people in the group two women and one man who travel in the same car. It's usually a blue Chevy Avalanche but occasionally it's been a red van, neighbors told WCPO. "They pulled up and came up to my back door asking to clean my house, and my wife talked to them, and we ran them off and they'd been driving up and down the street all day that day," said Joseph Farquer, who lives ..read more

Staff members at Fairfield West Elementary School threw a surprise retirement party for one of their co-workers on Thursday. Cheryl Sandor is retiring after working for the Fairfield City School District for 32 years. Sandor served as an educational assistant for the Latchkey Program, providing care for students both before and after school. As Sandor walked into the cafeteria Thursday, staff and students greeted her with a round of applause to celebrate her last latchkey breakfast calling it "Donut" Forget You Are So Loved. Several classes also gave Sandor gifts like cards, balloons and flowe ..read more

The idea to start a business that converts shipping containers into affordable homes started around a fire pit. Sandra Whitley and Allison Lyons never did light the fire, but the idea first discussed over the summer had been burned into motivation and now reality. It started this summer, but it really started about five years ago when she started bugging me to come home, Whitley said about Lyons concerning her move from Georgia back to southwest Ohio. But when I moved up here, it was to teach her. Teach my nieces how to do stuff that they dont need guys to do. I just want them to be independen ..read more

Fairfield City Council formalized an intergovernmental agreement Monday that officials hope will lead to the elimination of an at-grade railroad crossing on Symmes Road. The agreement with the Butler County Transportation Improvement District allows the county agency to formally act on the citys behalf for the Symmes Road Railroad Crossing Elimination (RCE) Project. This agreement comes after the county TID last year received $3 million in grant funds for Fairfield through an inaugural Federal Railroad Administration RCE program. The grant is 80% of the initial phase of work for the Symmes Roa ..read more

Prosecutors continue to turn over evidence in the John Carter murder case ahead of the Jan. 5 deadline for motions to be filed. As of Wednesday, Carters defense team had filed nothing. Carter is accused of killing Fairfields Katelyn Markham, his finance, in 2011. In March, Carter was indicted by a Butler County grand jury on a single count of murder. He is free after posting $1 million bond, and the four-week trial is scheduled to begin June 24 in Butler County Common Pleas Court. A pre-trial hearing has been set by Judge Dan Haughey for Jan. 16. Prosecutors have turned over five rounds of dis ..read more

The Fairfield City Council voted Monday to temporarily ban recreational marijuana dispensaries from operating in the city just one month after Ohioans voted to approve recreational marijuana. In a 6-1 vote, the council chose to prohibit operating on any cultivation, processing or dispensing of adult-use cannabis until Sept. 10, 2024. In nine months, the council will then vote to extend it or ban it altogether. The decision came after a lengthy discussion by council members and roughly 30 minutes of public comment. I will not raise my kids here. I will not live here if you bring this here in ou ..read more

Fairfield is considering not allowing businesses with a recreational marijuana license to operate within the city, something other local governments are considering across the state. Just more than a week before legalized recreational marijuana is permitted in Ohio, city council debated legislation Monday that would prohibit cannabis operators, cultivators and processors from hanging a shingle in Fairfield. Nearly three weeks ago, Ohioans voted to legalize recreational marijuana, making the Buckeye State the 24th state to legalize recreational marijuana. On Nov. 7, nearly 57% of Ohioans approv ..read more

The 53-year-old Indiana man severely injured last week in a lawnmower accident in Fairfield has died, according to police. Shawn King was injured Oct. 31 when the lawnmower he was riding at the Villages of Wildwood complex overturned, and he was submerged in a pond. He was mowing next to the pond when the mower turned and landed on top of him. He and the equipment went into the water, police said. Fire crews were able to get King out from under the zero-turn mower, and he was taken by ambulance to Mercy Health-Fairfield in order to be transported by medical helicopter to University Hospital in ..read more

Two people are dead after a murder-suicide in Fairfield Friday morning. Fairfield police officers responded to Merlin Drive at around 10 a.m. Oct. 13 for a reported altercation. When they arrived, they found 24-year-old Tatiana Maldonado and 33-year-old Jolman David Perez dead inside their apartment. After an investigation, police determined Perez killed Maldonado and then took his own life. According to the coroner's report, both Perez and Maldonado died of a neck wound. Police provided no additional information on what led to the murder-suicide ..read more

The Butler County Coroner's Office has released the identity of the 19-year-old who was found dead in the back parking lot of a Fairfield shopping plaza. On Thursday shortly before 10 p.m., police responded to the report of a shooting and an armed robbery in the area of Symmes Road and McGreevy Drive. When police arrived, they found the body of a 19-year-old inside a vehicle that had crashed into a semi-trailer in the rear parking lot behind the Goodwill and the Big Lots at 4605 Dixie Highway. On Monday, the coroner's office identified the man as Cameron J. Duskin. According to investigators ..read more