Jim Caufield
Claiming lax state oversight of manure spreading is worsening Iowa's water quality, a citizens' action group presented detailed evidence Tuesday to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in an effort to persuade that regulatory body to stop issuing...
Farmers who spread manure from their livestock confinements and owners of commercial manure-spreading businesses must be certified by the state of Iowa, and a new online training and fee-payment system introduced by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR)...
A report of a fire in a unit of the Perry Park Apartments shortly after 3 a.m. Thursday led Perry Police officers to the scene, followed soon after by the Perry Volunteer Fire Department, where a pot of beans...
Local entrepreneur and Perry promoter Jenny Eklund spoke Tuesday at the weekly meeting of the Perry Kiwanis Club in the Hotel Pattee.
Eklund, owner of Perry Paint and Design, co-owner of La Poste and a former Perry City Council member,...
With singing songs, dancing jigs and doubtful fishing tales, the friends of Ken Finer of Perry gathered Wednesday morning at the Perry Perk coffeehouse to wish the longtime science instructor at Perry High School a happy birthday.
The snug coffeehouse...
Taylor Wieland, a 2014 Perry High School grad now studying art at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, is one of five student artists chosen to show work in the Arts on Grand Exhibition running daily through Nov. 14...
After 18 months of diligent digging and dogged determination, the Perry Historic Preservation Commission has finished its painstaking research and announced the completion of the first exhaustive compilation of U.S. veterans buried in Violet Hill Cemetery in Perry.
Through the...
Perry's office of mayor and three of the five city council seats are up for grabs in this year's regular city election, scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 2.
Although the bulk of power in Perry's city government is on the line...
October 30, 2015
Nicole Rae Masolini, 38, of 1055 22nd St., Des Moines, was arrested on a warrant for probation violation on an original charge of driving while under the influence.
William David Harwood, 22, of 70 Thayer St., Des Moines,...
October 31, 2015
Gregory Christopher Graves Jr., 26, 532 Clearview Dr., Perry, was arrested on a charge of driving while suspended.
November 1, 2015
Justin Matthew Smith, 22, 307 Second St., Perry, was arrested on a charge of public intoxication.
*A criminal charge...