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The Perry Area Winter Swim (PAWS) team hosted a Greater Iowa Swim League meet at the McCreary Community Building pool Saturday, with nearly 100 youngsters from ages 8-18 competing. Newton, Pella and Denison all brought teams to the meet. Saturday's...
STORM LAKE -- David Roberts and Drake Levan of Perry, representing local Elks Lodge 407, advanced to the Elks State Hoop Shoot Competition after winning their respective age divisions Saturday. The format at the events require contestants to shoot 25...
Donald R. Mathews, 84, of Ames and formerly of Perry, died Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016, at Green Hills Health Care Center in Ames. A Celebration of Life service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23 at the Unitarian...
Charles Dean White, son of Arthur White and Mildred Hammer White, was born Feb. 27, 1930, near Minburn and died Jan. 12, 2016 at the Perry Lutheran Home in Perry at the age of 85. Visitation was held Friday,...
Karen Kaye Thornburgh, daughter of R. Richard and Arlene Burkhart Reckseen, was born July 16, 1942, in Perry. She died on Jan. 11, 2016, at the Madrid Home in Madrid at the age of 73. Services for Karen were held...
January 15, 2016 Jeffrey Reed of Earlham reported a business he owns at 712 Marshall St., Dexter, had been broken into. January 17, 2016 Stephanie Ann Harlow, 32, of 22339 170th St., Bouton, was arrested at 22304 180th St., Bouton, for operating...
January 15, 2016 Sarah Jean Myers, 17, of Dawson was issued a citation for first-offense curfew violation. Ryan Jacob Ayers, 24, 135 325th St., Perry, was arrested on a Greene County warrant for violation of probation. January 16, 2016 Scott Ryan Hall, 41,...
Michael Mayhugh, 58, of Des Moines and formerly of Perry was born Nov. 25, 1957. He passed away Friday, Jan. 15, 2016. Mike attended Central Dallas High School in Minburn and Perry High School in Perry. He served in the U.S....
To the editor: Gov. Branstad recently proposed we divert a portion of the sales tax currently earmarked for our kid’s education to help clean up Iowa’s highly polluted water. While it was heartening to hear the governor finally acknowledge that...
To the editor: We live today in a complex, technological world filled with many dangers and opportunities. Our responsibility for choosing our democratic destiny by attending the Iowa Caucuses behooves us to reject ideas that might have been relevant 50...