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Jim Caufield

Jim Caufield
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A Lake Robbins Ballroom favorite, Jeff Brandt and Galaxy, performed a wide variety of songs from the band's large repertoire Saturday night for about 150 people. Brandt's strong tenor was in fine form on pop standards such as Paul Anka's...
Generous customers of the Perry Fareway store donated $664.35 during Labor Day week toward the Relay for Life of Northern Dallas County, and Fareway Manager Travis Landgrebe presented the raised funds to Team Bookworm member Marlene Johnson in a...
The Friends of the Perry Public Library are holding their fall scrapbook fundraiser Saturday in the community room of the Perry Public Library. The marathon event runs from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. Some 15 local craftpersons attended the daylong event,...
An SUV left the roadway on westbound Iowa Highway 141 and came to rest on its top early Saturday after it was forced from the road by a semi-tractor trailer, according to the driver of the overturned vehicle. The Dallas...
The Woodward Volunteer Fire Department and Dallas County EMS responded about 6:30 a.m. Friday to a fire reported in a house at 211 Walnut St. in Woodward. A caller reported seeing blue sparks and smoke coming from a wall socket...
The singing Bontrager family of Kalona, Iowa, filled the First Baptist Church in Perry with the spirit of music Thursday night, playing and singing for a crowd of about 60 souls. In their Iowa life, the Bontragers work a livestock...
Perry is a little like three wind turbines standing in a field, powerless, unturning, waiting for the wind. What will bring the engines to life and set the wheels in motion? In the 1970s, the welcome sign on the edge...
A Perry man missing since June 22 was found safe and sound Sunday and living in a Grimes motel. The Polk County Sheriff’s office informed the Perry Police Department about 4 p.m. Sunday that a Polk County deputy located Ronald...
https://youtu.be/yy25_v8wBOU The planning is nearly complete. After an eight-year hiatus, the Perry High School Homecoming parade will return Wednesday, Sept. 28 at 6 p.m. under the sponsorship of the Perry-Area Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the Perry Community School...
It is the time of the toadstools. They are springing up overnight in many Perry yards,and many of the familiar fungi are an inoffensive shade of white. But a more colorful sort of stool is also making its appearance in...