Jim Caufield
The multi-talented Hanson family from Kanawha, Iowa, brought their fast-paced show to the Perry Public Library's 2016 Summer Reading Program Wednesday morning for a fun-filled lesson in reading, recycling and play.
About 50 summer readers and their instructors gathered in the...
RIPPEY -- A pedestrian was fatally injured here Wednesday afternoon at the corner of Second and Howard streets. The victim, whose identity has not been released pending notification of the relatives, was apparently struck by a vehicle and killed.
The...
Opponents of the Bakken oil pipeline plan to launch a canoe and kayak flotilla to protest last week's Iowa Utilities Board approval of the project and to raise citizens' awareness of the environmental risks entailed by the project.
The Bakken...
The Dallas County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a plan Tuesday by a coalition of religious groups to stage a four-day, marathon reading of the Christian Bible on the south lawn of the Dallas County Courthouse starting June 30...
Tuesday night's thunderstorm in Perry downed a big, old tree that brought down power lines in its fall about 7:30 p.m.
The tree stood near St. Patrick's Catholic Church, and its fall blocked Lucinda Street between Third and Fourth streets.
The...
Preliminary plans are in the making for an all-'70s class reunion in the summer of 2017, an event uniting all Perry High School students who attended classes in the 1970s.
A team of eight PHS grads from that remote era...
Education in the arts is blooming in Perry this summer under the combined efforts of two new downtown programs, one at Betsy Peterson Designs and the other at the Raccoon Valley Centre for the Arts.
Betsy Peterson led the first...
The opening of “River Stories: Views from an Iowa Watershed” Sunday afternoon at the TownCraft Center in Perry revealed scenes both of natural beauty in the Iowa landscape and of degradation caused by methods of modern industrial-scale agriculture.
Six women...
Water can be dry. If it is possible to make the subject of Iowa's low water quality sexy and suspenseful and hence popularly appealing, then award-winning novelist Jennifer Wilson has done so in her 2016 novel, “Water.”
Wilson read passages...
A bicyclist sustained a laceration to the head about 9:30 p.m. Saturday when he ran a yield sign and struck a passing pickup truck in the front right quarter.
"He was going way too fast and hit me," said Gustavo...