Jim Caufield
The first walls were raised Monday morning on the $6.3 million Willis Avenue Apartment complex in downtown Perry. Construction Management Associates Inc., general contractors for the project, are building the 38-unit workforce housing complex for Kenosha, Wis.-based Bear Development.
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The Perry Fire Association held its 27th annual awards and appreciation supper at the Hotel Pattee in Perry Saturday night, where about 100 diners gathered, including members of the Perry Volunteer Fire Department, several members of the Dawson Volunteer...
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What blood-sucking worms have been promoting circulation for centuries? No, not the liberal media, but leeches.
About 100 trivia buffs and others were spellbound by this and similar questions Thursday night when the Friends of the Perry Public Library held...
With a new funding stream for rural development from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) aimed specifically at regional projects, backers of the connector linking the High Trestle and Raccoon River Valley bike trails are looking to draft a regional plan...
In a curious example of symmetry in city affairs, a Perry City Council member who helped draft the new rental code became the first to appeal it Thursday at the first official meeting of the Rental Code Board of...
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Pippa White's “Voices from Ellis Island” revived the lived experiences of half-a-dozen or more immigrants who passed through America's "front door to freedom" between 1892 and 1930.
The one-woman show was staged Saturday afternoon at the Perry Performing Arts Center...
The Hotel Pattee captured first-place honors Saturday at the 2016 Blue Ribbon Bacon Fest in Des Moines when their bacon s'mores were voted Best Sweet Dish.
"We're very excited to win," said Hotel Pattee owner Denise Hartz, "and also very...
The Perry Public Library's second annual Take Your Child to the Library Day delighted Perry-area families with children Saturday with balloon animals, face painting and a visit from a guest animal. The event promotes good reading habits for the whole...
Hundreds of Perry-area pancakes lovers were fed to repletion Saturday at the 63rd annual Perry Kiwanis Pancake Festival at the McCreary Community Building.
The root of the word "festival" is feast, and that is just what ticket holders did, feeding...
Perry native Scott Heldt, in the running for a seat in the Iowa House of Representatives for District 20, which includes Perry, held a meet-and-greet event Tuesday evening at the Casa de Oro in Perry.
Heldt is a Democrat running...