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Jim Caufield

Jim Caufield
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The Friends of the Perry Library plant sale wrapped up Saturday afternoon, with customers carrying away a variety of bedding and green plants. All proceeds from the sale and plants and baked goods directly benefit library programs and services. With help from...
With the school year drawing to a close, Mary Hillman can breathe a little easier thanks to this week's donation of $735.38 from the Perry Fareway round-up fundraiser. Hillman is the director of PACES or Perry Academic Cultural and...
The PHS Drama Department held its annual departmental awards ceremony Thursday in the PHS Commons, with medal winners and letterwinners munching beforehand on a variety of sweet and savory snacks and congratulating one another for a successful year of...
An explosion and fire in a camper parked at 13838 120th St. in northwest Dallas County injured at least one person and brought the Perry Volunteer Fire Department and Rippey Volunteer Fire Department to the scene shortly after 8...
The week brought several painful revelations to the Perry community: A child starved to death in our midst. A family-run daycare center was unmasked as a torture chamber. An overstretched human services system failed again in a state that...
As the Perry community reels in shock and sorrow at the painful revelation of Sabrina Ray's death by starvation, rituals of grief are taking shape, including a candlelight vigil at 8 p.m. Friday at the Pattee Park bandshell. "What happened...
Marc Ray, 41, and Misty Ray, 40, owners and operators of the Rays of Sunshine Daycare in Perry, were arrested about midday Thursday on felony charges in connection with the May 12 death of their adopted daughter, Sabrina Ray,...
Just as couples often fight about money when it's tight, so sometimes do city governments, a fact illustrated last week when the mayor of Minburn and two city council members abruptly resigned their elected offices at the Monday, May...
Workers from the Perry office of the U.S. Postal Service delivered many bags of food to the Perry Food Pantry Wednesday in the 25th annual Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive held Saturday, May 13. Local letters carriers distributed...
The house fire that claimed the lives of two Guthrie Center juveniles early Monday has been ruled a case of arson by the Iowa State Fire Marshal's office, and an investigation has begun, according to a statement released Wednesday...