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Jim Caufield

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A cyclist sustained a laceration to the head about 9:40 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 the...
S. State Street in downtown Madrid was agleam Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with chrome from two directions. One source of the shine was the Friends of Boone County Trails vintage and classic bicycle show, held to celebrate the...
Woodward muralist Dennis Adams worked steadily through Saturday's heat on a job he knows well because he has done it twice before. Adams first painted the Woodward Bicentennial Mural in 1982 on the occasion of the city's 100th anniversary. Twelve...
Perry's Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge 407 and Perry's Boy Scouts of America Troop 127 staged a Flag Day ceremony Saturday afternoon at the John Davis Memorial Plaza in downtown Perry. About a dozen attendees maintained a respectful...
About 20 contestants stepped up to the starting line at 8 a.m. Saturday for the annual McCreary Community Building Memorial 5K and 10K Run and Walk, setting off early and finishing well before the rising heat posed any risk. Runners...
https://youtu.be/p7VBxFxSYv8 A motorist was injured Friday night when he lost control of his vehicle on a rural Woodward gravel road and rolled into the ditch. The Boone County Sheriff's office responded, along with the Woodward Police Department, Woodward First Repsonders, Woodward...
Prices on the wall-to-wall items filling the Community Building and Varied Industries Building at the Dallas County Fairgrounds this weekend for the fifth annual Crisis Intervention and Advocacy garage sale and bake sale are even hotter than the weather. For...
County Road F31 -- the Minburn Road -- from Minburn eastward to County Road R22 was closed May 23 for repaving, and it will not reopen to through traffic until September or October. Yet the number of motorists disregarding...
About 25 members of the Cedar Rapids-based Hawk "A" Car Club cruised into Perry in the early evening Thursday, happy to reach the comforts of the Hotel Pattee, the goal of their 125-mile drive. The Hawk "A" club -- their...
Construction of the four-field Pattee Park Soccer Complex officially began Wednesday morning with a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the project between W. Fifth Street and Diagonal Road. The $680,000 complex will be built west of the Pattee Park...