Jim Caufield
The Perry City Council received highly competitive bids on several recent city projects and awarded contracts at 35 percent and 40 percent below the cost for the work estimated by the city's engineering consultant.
At its meeting Monday night, the...
Recent upgrades and improvements at Perkins Park in Perry received praise Monday night at the Perry City Council meeting.
"I would say that Perkins Park is looking really good," Council member Barb Wolling said to Perry Parks and Recreation Director...
A large number of family and friends gathered in La Poste Sunday afternoon to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of Lois and Lou Hoger of Perry.
Arranged by the Hogers' children, Joel Hoger of Indianola and Amy Hoger Ramsey of...
The cat named Romeo, who escaped alive from the devastating house fire March 14 at 1324 Willis Ave. in Perry, is missing, sources tell ThePerryNews.com.
The gray male with prominent ears was last seen about noon Saturday.
Anyone with information about...
"If you build it, they will come," according to the Iowa trusim, but they might take their time getting here.
After a few fallow years, the Perry Industrial Park is again astir with new construction as the Perry Economic Development...
About 20 members of the Perry Piecemakers Quilting Guild made a shopping pilgrimage to Hamilton, Mo., Saturday, birthplace of 20th-century department store magnate James Cash Penney and more recently the home of Jenny Doan's Missouri Star Quilt Co., mecca...
ADEL — Saturday’s fifth annual Dallas County Toddler Fest drew a huge number of young families to the Dallas County Fairgrounds for two hours of fun and information.
Sponsored by the 12 public libraries of the Dallas County Library Association...
About 50 people attended Saturday's dedication ceremony for a new audio exhibit in the Alton one-room schoolhouse at Forest Park Museum near Perry, most with roots in Dallas County's rural schools and two who were themselves students in the...
Cars, vans, pickups and vehicles pulling trailers started lining up shortly after 7 a.m. Saturday for the city of Perry's first Community Drop-Off Day, which replaced the city’s annual curbside collection for the first time this year.
The event gave...
After 22 years in their original location, the broadcast offices of PEGASUS TV 12, Perry's local-access cable TV channel, have moved from Second Street to 1309 First Ave.
"We're slowly settling in," said longtime PEGASUS Coordinator Keith Knoll, "and getting...
