Jim Caufield
Another spiritual gift from the Art on the Prairie Committee saw the light Saturday night when the sculpture honoring notable Perry benefactor Roberta Green Ahmanson was dedicated.
Perry Mayor Jay Pattee welcomed about 50 people to the ceremony and spoke...
The Raccoon Valley Bank bought the mortgages Friday on three Perry houses as part of the Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity Building Blocks Loan Sale Program.
Tod Ellis, chief credit officer for the Raccoon Valley Bank in Perry, said...
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A groundbreaking ceremony was held Thursday morning at the new $23 million Dallas County Law Enforcement Center at 25979 U.S. Highway 6 in the Ortonville area of Adel.
With the massive earthmovers of McAninch Construction rolling in the background and...
A faulty nozzle on a gasoline pump at the Kum and Go at 1219 First Ave. caused a fuel spill about 8:30 p.m. Thursday and brought the Perry Volunteer Fire Department's hazmat team to the scene.
According to an eyewitness...
Seats were in short supply at the Perry Perk coffeehouse Wednesday morning when Ken Finer of Perry, longtime Perry High School teacher and charter member of the Society of Retired Educators (SORE), treated his friends to coffee and cinnamon...
Installation of the second of four sculptures planned for Willis Avenue in downtown Perry began Wednesday morning, with the artist supervising the work.
"Iowa Girl," a sculpture commissioned by the Art on the Prairie committee and executed by Des Moines...
Dallas County voters in Tuesday balloting overwhelmingly approved what will now be a countywide one-cent local option sales tax (LOST).
Every city in the county approved the measure, including the contiguous voting block of Clive, Urbandale, Waukee and West Des...
Perry's residents and visitors have been paying the one-cent local option sales tax (LOST) for 20 years and if voters are wise, they will renew the LOST tax at the polls Tuesday.
It is not a new tax or a...
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Saturday night's staging of "Dracula" by the Perry High School Drama Department showed promise in the young acting cast, about half of whom were underclassmen, and solid skills in the upperclassmen, who were all juniors.
Like last spring's "Peter Pan,"...
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Fifteen players performed in the 39th annual annual William Bell Memorial Tuba and Euphonium Day at the First United Methodist Church Saturday afternoon, with an audience of about twice that number enjoying the long waves of the rich and...