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Bill Carstens, 84, of Perry died Friday, April 3, 2015 at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines.
Funeral Mass will be held Wednesday, April 8 at 11 a.m. at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Perry. Visitation will be Tuesday, April 7...
A service for Freeda D. James was held 10 a.m. Friday, April 3 at Hastings Funeral Home in Perry. Visitation was Thursday from 1-5 p.m. at the funeral home. Another visitation was held one hour prior to the service....
The Perry High School Jayettes won the 4 X 400 meter relay Thursday night at the Davis Relays at the Kaufman in Perry. Winning runners were senior Maggie Lowe, junior Mariah Duffy, sophomore Emma Olejniczak and junior Haileigh Kenyon.
Full details on the...
Tuesday night's dress rehearsal of the Perry High School Drama Department's spring production of Pat Cook's "Altar Egos (The I Do's and Don'ts of an American Wedding)" went off without--and with--a hitch.
The romantic comedy is about the stresses and...
By Laura Stebbins, ThePerryNews Arts and Culture
Rebecca Skloot was expelled from school at an early age for refusing to nap. In her first year of high school, her grade point average was .5. She flunked high school biology class...
People who overcome enormous odds through the power of optimism are an inspiration to us all.
That was the message of Haley Vaughn's winning essay in the Optimist Club International's 2015 essay contest. The Perry High School sophomore read her winning...
National Library Week 2015:
Unlimited Possibilities @ Your Library®
The Perry Public Library will observe National Library Week April 13-18. A national event sponsored by the American Library Association, National Library Week celebrates the contributions of libraries and librarians and...
Telephone and internet service was lost for about eight hours Wednesday after crews putting in new telephone poles cut an underground communications cable near First Avenue and Park Street in north Perry.
"Some time in the mid-morning, between 9:30-10:30, I...
The Perry Lions Club and Perry Optimist Club International are teaming up for a holiday flag project aiming to line Willis Avenue with U.S. Flags five times a year on national holidays.
Property owners along Willis Avenue, both homes and...
ADEL — Hunger and poor nutrition can hurt the quality of life of middle-aged and elderly people. To address this issue, Mary Krisco, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Human Sciences Specialist in nutrition and health, is looking to...