Jim Caufield
About 45 blocks of Perry streets will receive a new coat of asphalt starting Monday as Manatts Inc. of Brooklyn, Iowa, begins the city's 2016 Street Improvements Project.
Manatts workers were out early Monday in the eastern parts of Perry,...
If someone calls one day soon and asks you how far you drive to work, whether you are satisfied with your wages, how far you went in school -- don't hang up. It is not a phone scam but...
Perry-area readers of ThePerryNews.com are reminded the annual city-sponsored spring cleanup begins tomorrow and runs through Wednesday -- April 18 to April 20, weather permitting -- in accordance with the following pickup schedule:
Pickup Schedule
Monday, April 18 - Crews will...
Volunteer firefighters from Bouton and Woodward returned Sunday to the scene of Saturday's training burn after wind-borne embers caught fire to a tree on property adjacent to the burn site.
A large limb from the smoldering tree then fell onto...
The volunteer fire departments from four Perry-area communities -- Bouton, Woodward, Granger and Slater -- conducted a training exercise in Bouton Saturday, setting fire to a structure at 311 Washington St. and practicing a variety of firefighting techniques.
Brian Sondgeroth,...
If a tree falls in the forest, it might not make any noise if there is no ear to hear it, but if it falls on Willis Avenue on a sunny Saturday afternoon in spring, it draws a lot...
An 18-year-old girl was briefly trapped about 8 a.m. Friday when the Chevrolet truck she was driving left the roadway of Iowa Highway 44 just east of J Avenue and came to rest in the ditch.
The driver was transported...
A controlled burn in the 12800 block of Quinlan Avenue got out of control near noon Thursday, but the blaze was quickly brought back under control by the Woodward Volunteer Fire Department, with mutual aid from the Perry Volunteer...
DES MOINES – MidAmerican Energy Co. filed a request with the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) Thursday to add 2,000 megawatts of wind generation facilities to its Iowa production network. If the $3.6 billion project is approved, the company's total statewide...
Perry's pleasures both of body and mind will soon be multiplied with the newly announced opening of the Raccoon Valley Centre for the Arts in downtown Perry.
Life has few enough pleasures, to be sure, so none should be neglected...