Jim Caufield
A little more than a month has passed since a Glenwood, Iowa, property development company purchased the Perry Plaza at 401 First Ave., and demolition of the old Hy-Vee Food Store building is already well underway.
Reed Excavation out of...
"Is it musical chairs or smoke and mirrors?"
That was the question posed by Dallas County Supervisor Kim Chapman to Chairperson Mark Hanson several weeks ago as the three-person board tried to figure out how to squeeze the county's services...
Representatives of the Tyson corporation pitched a plan to the Dallas County Conservation Board this week for relocating a section of the Raccoon River Bike Trail (RRVT) as part of the hog processor's expansion and reorganization of its Perry...
Some 20 members of the Perry Piecemakers quilting club staged a marathon sewing session on Friday and Saturday and produced about 140 pillowcases for Ryan's Case for Smiles, a children's cancer charity group.
Perry Piecemaker Landa Andorf spearheaded the two-day...
Perry-area recyclers got their annual chance to unload old tires and hazardous household waster Saturday morning at the city's yearly collection.
Half-a-dozen Perry Public Works Department staff members were on hand at the Perry Recycling Center to offload used tires....
An electrical fire broke out Friday afternoon at 1906 Maple St. in Dallas Center in a house owned by Gayle and Karyl Palmer.
The Dallas Center Volunteer Fire Department responded to the early afternoon blaze and called for mutual aid...
The familiar, monthly red-and-blue postcard bill from the Perry Water Works will be replaced this fall by a new billing form arriving in an envelope and including a return envelope for payment.
The new form will be similar to billing...
After six months of wrangling, the Woodward City Council rejected at Monday night's meeting local developer Wayde Burkhart's plans for new residential housing in the town.
The council approved the first two readings of the amended zoning ordinance, which would...
Patty Tiernan of Granger has served for two decades on the Granger Volunteer Fire Department, and the Granger City Council honored her Wednesday night at their regular meeting for reaching the 20-year milestone.
The council presented Tiernan with an award...
Employees of the Wells Fargo bank in Perry evacuated their workplace shortly before 5 p.m. Wednesday after detecting a strong odor of natural gas inside the building.
The Perry Volunteer Fire Department responded to the incident at the financial-services business...