Jeff Webster
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Are you kidding me? A 5-9 result last week? My third losing effort in 11 weeks? It has never happened before and I hope never will.
Thanksgiving forces us to endure the Lions and the Cowboys. As if it were...
The Perry Booster Club will be hosting a Toys for Tots charity drive during Perry's home basketball games against Carlisle Dec. 4. Fans are asked to consider bringing a new, unwrapped toy or cash donation to the game.
All toys...
Wednesday evening found several members of the Perry Volunteer Fire Department using their 75-foot ladder truck to string lights in the trees on the Raccoon Valley Bank property at the northeast corner of Second and Warford Streets.
The fireman used...
NEWTON -- Perry rallied from a 13-point deficit in the fourth quarter to trail by only three, but could not finish off the comeback in falling, 56-47, to Newton Tuesday in non-conference play.
Newton (2-0) had defeated Bondurant-Farrar, 61-29, Saturday,...
DES MOINES -- The Iowa Newspaper Association announced its 2015 All-State Football selections Tuesday, naming honorary captains in classes A, 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A and 8-Man.
Perry defensive lineman Joe Olvera was selected for the Class 3A Third Team. The 6-2,...
SAYDEL -- Woodward-Granger fell to host Saydel, 21-17, Monday in a boys basketball jamboree.
Nick Squires had nine points for the Hawks, with Bodie Harrison adding four points while Marcus McConahay and Drew Jacobson had two points apiece.
McConahay had five...
Visitors to downtown Perry this holiday season will be treated to a festive display as lighted wreaths now top many of the light poles in the area.
The new displays were purchased with funds generated by the local option sales tax...
DES MOINES -- Perry senior volleyballer Victoria Hegstrom was recently named as an 2015 Academic All-State team member by the Iowa Girls Coaches Association.
IGCA Academic All-State honorees are seniors with a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.75 and...
Talented? Yes. Experienced? Yes. Driven? Yes. Proven? Not yet.
Such is the status of the Perry boys basketball team, who were a 73-70 overtime loss in the regional finals away from the first state appearance for a Bluejay team since...