Des Moines
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NEWS
March 7 set for International Women’s Day in Perry
Perry's third-annual celebration of International Women's Day will start Saturday, March 7 at 10 a.m. with a speakers forum, followed at noon by a...
Scranton Manufacturing returns to work after paint-booth fire
SCRANTON, Iowa -- It took the crews of 15 fire trucks about four hours to extinguish a factory fire Monday night at Scranton Manufacturing,...
SPORTS
Second-ranked Eagles soar past Panthers in Region 3 Final
FORT DODGE -- Unfortunately for the 15th-ranked Panorama girls basketball team, second-rated West Hancock proved to be all that and more, as the Eagles...
ABOUT TOWN
Breakfast with Wilson brothers at Washington Township School
Saturday’s fundraising breakfast at the Washington Township Consolidated School, originally scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 18 but cancelled for bad weather, must have caused some...
Children play King of the Mountain on city snowbank Sunday
With another sunny Sunday raising temperatures in Perry to the mid-40s, many area children set aside their electronic devices in favor of the great...
PRAIRIE VIEWS
‘Leora’s Letters’ a ‘testament to time, care and love’ in wartime
A review by Elizabeth Gauffreau of "Leora’s Letters: The Story of Love and Loss for an Iowa Family in World War II" by Joy...
Letter to the editor: Sorensen, Chapman ‘backed out’ of meetings
To the editor:
We miss the legislative coffees that our state representatives, Sen. Jake Chapman and Rep. Ray Sorensen, held here in Adair County. Our...
