Jim Caufield
With fall classes starting in about one month, Perry Community School District Transportation Director Troy Griffith brought the district's bus driver shortage to the attention of the school board last week.
"We are four drivers less today, starting the school...
Work is advancing on schedule on the half-million-dollar reconstruction of the Kaufman Track at Perry High School, Superintendent Clark Wicks told the Perry School Board at Monday's regular meeting.
The projected completion date for the project is Aug. 20.
"They're still...
Progress is moving more slowly than expected on the $5.7 million Perry Middle School renovation project due to bottlenecks in the supply chain, Superintendent Clark Wicks told the Perry School Board at Monday's regular meeting.
"It is progressing. That's a...
A pair of birthday parties filled the Perry Perk with the sounds of merriment Friday morning in downtown Perry.
The Society of Retired Experts (SORE) cheered Ray Harden on his special day by fattening his Palin Pig, and Doug Latham...
MINBURN, Iowa -- Miss Chili Pepper, a miniature horse, put the tricks in theatrics in Meek Park Thursday when she performed for about a dozen children and adults.
Amy Coble, trainer at JoustEvolution, provided the perfect combination of delightful instruction...
A rump contingent of the Society of Retired Experts (SORE) coffee group welcomed ex officio member Mike Theulen of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to Wednesday morning's Bastille Day meeting.
Dr. Theulen is the director of athletics at Elms College in...
The Perry Planning and Zoning Commission voted Tuesday to recommend to the Perry City Council new artworks for placement along the Raccoon River Valley Trail in Perry.
The public artworks were created by the students in the welding program at...
A semi-tractor trailer overturned Thursday morning near Iowa Highway 44 and County Road P58, spilling grain in the ditch.
The mishap occurred about 5:15 a.m. in the 23900 block of Indian Place.
The truck driver sustained a laceration in the accident...
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A crew of two dozen worked Sunday afternoon to prepare the St. Patrick Catholic Church for new carpeting.
Bearing box-end wrenches and flat-head screwdrivers, the workers first unbolted and moved about 40 pews to the rear of the church before...
A Perry teenager was arrested early Sunday after leading officers of the Perry Police Department on a high-speed chase across town.
Daniel Armando Perez Garcia, 19, of 614 Fourth St., Perry, was charged with first-offense OWI, eluding, reckless driving, first-offense...
