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The Perry City Council approved the first reading Monday of an amendment to the city's parking ordinances that would eliminate two parking spaces on the north side of Otley Avenue just east of Third Street. According to the summary background...
Perry Volunteer Fire Department Chief Chris Hinds was honored as the 2016 Perry Civil Servant of the Year Monday by the Perry Rotary Club. Hinds was presented with a plaque by Rotary Club President Quinn Adair during the open forum...
After teaching social studies at Perry High School for six years, Eddie Diaz of Perry has accepted the position of principal at St. Patrick Catholic School in Perry. ThePerryNews.com caught up with Eddie and asked him a few questions...
The 100-year-old Minburn Depot, put down beside the Raccoon River Valley Trailside two summers ago, restored by the Minburn Betterment Committee and then reopened last summer, has a new occupant set to open for business July 4. Nineteen14 is the...
Thousands of bicyclists rolled into Perry Saturday as they made their way along the Raccoon River Valley Trail in the third annual Baccoon Ride, a celebration of Iowa’s leading livestock commodity. The Perry Police and Street departments posted signs and...
The Perry Police Department and Perry Volunteer Fire Department responded to a brief blaze at a Perry home Saturday, caused when a falling tree limb caught an electricity service line, snapping the service mast at the meter and starting...
An early afternoon field fire southwest of Perry was knocked down in short order by the Perry Volunteer Fire Department Saturday. A brush fire on property owned by Jerry and Jane Allen at 17893 H Ave. apparently got out of...
The 10 students in Betsy Peterson's Art 101 Camp completed their course of study Friday with an exhibition of the works they created in their week-long class. Refreshments were served in the gallery of Betsy Peterson Designs, and several dozen...
Perry residents will have the opportunity next week to honor a soldier killed in action in World War II but only now receiving military funeral rites. The Patriot Guard Riders will conduct an escort Tuesday, June 21 for U.S. Marine...
RIPPEY -- Townspeople were shocked and saddened Wednesday after a local man was killed when the all-terrain vehicle he was driving struck another vehicle. The Iowa State Patrol (ISP) released details Wednesday evening of the two-vehicle accident that occurred about...