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Jim Caufield

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STUART -- Seven fire departments from Guthrie, Madison and Dallas counties battled a blaze Sunday evening that rapidly gutted the Stuart Sale Co. at 523 E. Front St. in Stuart. Stuart Police Chief Dave Reha said his department received a...
Perry Police Department officers and the Dallas County EMS responded to an apparent off-roading incident about 5:30 p.m. Sunday near the intersection of 130th Street and Kimble Place near Perry. The cause of the accident is unknown at this hour....
Sunday's grand reopening of the historic Dayton House stagecoach inn near Bouton will give visitors a taste of what rugged rural life was like 150 years ago in Dallas County. The house at 14750 Pecos Court lies about one mile west...
Nine members of the Des Moines-based Published Authors Liaison group toured the sights in downtown Perry Thursday evening with their tour guide, Jan Kaiser of Woodward, director of Kick Marketing. The tour began at the Carnegie Library Museum, where longtime...
A vehicle left the roadway west of Granger Saturday morning and landed upside down in Beaver Creek. The cause of the accident is unknown at this hour. There were no apparent injuries to the driver, who was alone at...
The Perry Performing Arts Center was filled nearly to capacity Thursday night for the 2016 Perry Elementary School Kindergarten Concert. More than 130 kindergartners took part in the annual singing show, directed by Perry Elementary School music instructors Shaylena Bell...
Officers of the Bock Family Foundation Inc. distributed 32 grants totaling $65,740 at a Wednesday afternoon awards ceremony at the Perry Public Library. Bock Family Foundation Inc. Executive Director Scott Finneseth announced the grant awardees, and Bock Family Foundation Inc....
Repairs are nearly complete on the flooring of the Ned Willis Library in the Hotel Pattee, which sustained water damage earlier in April when leaking plumbing flooded the wood-paneled room. "That's a highly engineered floor," said master woodworker Joe Warnock...
A dozen Perry High School art students exhibited their paintings, drawings and sculpture in the third annual PHS fine arts reception Friday in the PHS Brady Library. The artists exhibiting their work were Brian Amaya, Mariah Duffy, Anna England, Zoe...
A backyard burn pile got out of control Monday afternoon at 2315 Iowa St. in Perry, and the northwest wind quickly fanned the flames toward a nearby woodshed and a camper and house lying beyond. The Perry Volunteer Fire Department...