Jeff Webster
Fort Dodge St. Edmond spoiled the season opener for the Perry volleyball team Thursday with a 3-0 sweep in their non-conference match. The Gaels prevailed, 25-18, in the first game before posting a 25-17 win in the second match....
Perry hosted Algona Thursday at the McCreary Community Building pool for the season-opening meet for both squads. Algona prevailed, 88-62, but the six-member Jayette squad had a strong outing, with Breanna Penenger posting a pair of personal-best times.
The Bulldogs...
After a disastrous 2015 campaign, it would be understandable to believe the Perry football team would be wanting to erase as many memories of the season as possible.
The Perry coaching staff disagrees and intends to use the lessons learned...
WOODWARD -- While some teams eye a spot in the now-halved playoff system (16 teams will qualify this year as opposed to 32 in the past) others have set goals that, while attainable, will still pose a challenge.
Place Woodward-Granger...
PANORA -- The playoff system in Iowa has been changed for, at least, the next two years, and for Class 1A schools, among others, the road to the postseason is now much more problematic.
Panorama was 9-2 overall last season,...
Motorists passing down the 1200 block of Lucinda Street in recent weeks have had to slow to a crawl to ease up and over a set of massive steel plates stretching across the street.
The plates, Perry Public Works Director...
Students came pouring out of the Perry Elementary School at 2:30 p.m. today, with most as excited about the end of the day as they were eager to tell their parents and guardians all about their new teacher, new...
MADRID -- December of 2015 was a difficult month for the communities of Madrid and Woodward-Granger.
On Dec. 2, junior Drew Jacobson collapsed at a W-G basketball practice and was taken by air ambulance to a Des Moines hospital. He...
WOODWARD -- Nothing short of a state tournament appearance is going to go over very well with the Woodward-Granger volleyball team, and for good reason.
The Hawks were 29-9 last year, losing to No. 7 Grundy Center in the regional...
The recent history of the Perry volleyball team has resembled a see-saw, as the squad has bounced back-and-forth from winning seasons to losing campaigns and back again.
The 2012 Jayettes were 20-18, but the 2013 squad fell to 7-31. The...