Jim Caufield
The Dallas County Board of Health unanimously approved a statement of COVID-19 mitigation guidance at its meeting Tuesday, Nov. 24, but the statement was withheld from public release until Dec. 2.
On Nov. 25, the day after the board of...
DALLAS CENTER, Iowa -- A Dallas Center woman found a dreadful scene outside her front door Thursday morning: a pair of dead skunks.
"Those who committed this heinous crime are cowards and thugs!" Julie Becker of 1605 Walnut St. said...
With Iowa's first allocations of the vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, set to roll in the week of Dec. 13 and be continually resupplied thereafter, the Dallas County Public Health Department is preparing first to inoculate...
A car and a pickup truck were traveling southbound on Nile Kinnick Drive S. in Adel about noon Thursday when they collided, and the truck entered the west ditch and the car the east.
No injuries were reported in the...
Since classes began Aug. 19, the Perry Community School District (PCSD) has been blessed with relatively few infections from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and PCSD Superintendent Clark Wicks takes cautious pleasure in the district's success thus far.
"Day...
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A fire broke out under the porch of a house in the 1700 block of Otley Avenue shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday.
No injuries were reported, and the blaze was promptly controlled and extinguished by the Perry Volunteer Fire Department.
A...
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November 30, 2020
Kyle Wright of Dallas Center was traveling eastbound on Iowa Highway 44 when his vehicle struck a deer. No injuries were reported. Damage was estimated at...
People in hazardous-materials suits were seen inside the Casey's General Store in Woodward Wednesday night.
The object of their activity is unknown at this hour.
The Woodward Police Department has not replied to inquiries about the situation, but a customer of...
Libertarian zeal on the Dallas County Board of Health prevented the board's issuing a mandatory mask order at its Tuesday night meeting, and the board settled instead for a "statement" that "strongly recommends" the wearing of an "appropriate facial...
A silent sentinel stands watch over the Raccoon River valley at 150th Street and J Avenue (County Road P58) south of Perry.
The watcher is a bald eagle, carved from a tree trunk, the handiwork of Des Moines artists Gary...
