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Jim Caufield

Jim Caufield
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A routine traffic stop at the curve on U.S. Highway 169 on Minburn's north side led to the arrest of two people Wednesday afternoon when the driver fled on foot and was subdued with a taser before being taken...
Rumors of the impending demolition of the dilapidated Gardiner Consolidated School are false, according to the landowner who farms the ground around. "I'm not tearing it down," said Karl Harris of Bouton. "I'm cleaning up the tress around it so...
A combined crew of workers from the Perry Water Works and Perry Public Works were busy Monday morning restoring water service to the former Stitches in Time building at 1203 Second St. in downtown Perry, but it took digging...
It was a Sunday morning in April, and Perry Community School District Technology Director Rich Nichols and Assistant Technology Director Nancy Iben were working at Perry High School when they noticed the computer system was acting funny. "It started in...
Some two dozen hot rods and classic cars made a pit stop Saturday morning at the Perry Oil Co. at 1223 Willis Ave. in the e-RAT-icate Cancer Cruise Iowa circuit. The four-hour tour started in Polk City and passed through...
Sabrina did not die alone on Friday, May 12, 2017. Two juvenile females were imprisoned in a bedroom along with Sabrina when she took her last breath, and the birth mother of one of the little girls at Sabrina's side...
The Contec culvert replacing the 100-year-old Frog Creek Bridge on Willis Avenue was placed in the creek bed late Friday morning, and the backfill process will now begin. Demolition of the bridge began in early April, and construction is expected to...
Rainy Friday morning weather did not prevent 50 or more Perry Chamber of Commerce members and other community members from gathering for a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Perry Perk coffeehouse. Perry Perk owner Tari Mason and assistant manager Betsy...
Visitors to Perry who find the hotels full -- a common occurrence on weekends during the fair-weather months -- now have another option in the newly opened 3rd Street Suite, a downtown house-cum-Airbnb rental owned by Bethany Wicks of...
Electrical power and cable TV service were cut to a five-block area -- about 30 homes -- along Locust Avenue in Woodward Wednesday evening when a farmer, driving a tractor and pulling a field cultivator along the residential streets,...