Jim Caufield
The St. Patrick's Knights of Columbus hosted their annual community turkey dinner Sunday. By noon they had serve more than 100 diners, with provisions in place for as many more again.
John McGee of Perry, the current chair or Worthy...
Santa Claus made an early and very special stop in Perry Sunday afternoon as a favor to his close personal friend, Ron Benifiel, in order to pose for pictures in the ninth annual Santa Paws fundraiser for the Humane...
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The annual William Bell Memorial Tuba and Euphonium Day drew a small but ardent audience to the First United Methodist Church Saturday afternoon to hear the long waves of the rich and reverberating brass basses in concert.
The featured clinician...
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The Perry High School Drama Department delivered a smart and sprightly production Friday and Saturday nights of "Get Smart," a stage adaptation of the popular television comedy from the 1960s.
The play was the first to be directed by PHS...
The frost was on the pumpkin Saturday morning as hungry harvesters filled the Bouton Community Center for the November community breakfast.
Fortifying themselves with pancakes and eggs, sausage and ham, biscuits and gravy and other morning fare, the local diners...
A new private lands wildlife specialist has joined the staff of the Conservation Districts of Iowa (CDI). Wildlife biologist Julia Clymer will work out of the CDI's Jefferson field office and serve the interests of wildlife on private lands in...
First-year Perry Elementary School ESL teacher Robert Benesh has been named the 2015 Teacher of Promise by the Iowa World Language Association (IWLA). Benesh received his honor in Des Moines Friday at the awards luncheon of the annual conference...
Conversations with Coffee, the pilot project pairing English-speaking volunteers with ESL learners, will move to a new location and time beginning next week.
The bilingual conversations -- featuring free coffee and free speech -- will now be held weekly on...
As a first installment on their expected hard work, Third through eighth graders from St. Patrick's Catholic School attended an Iowa Wild hockey game at Well Fargo Arena Thursday.
"The field trip was an incentive for next week's Iowa Assessments...
A patron of the McCreary Community Building (MCB) in Perry was swimming in the rec center's pool Thursday night when she detected the odor of gas. As an employee of MidAmerican Energy, she was no stranger to the smell,...