Jim Caufield
In the three weeks since the start of face-to-face classes in the Perry Community School District (PCSD), two students have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
A Perry Elementary School student tested positive last week, the second...
A large tree limb fell from a wind-damaged tree Monday afternoon, striking a parked vehicle and blocking Lucinda Street in the 1600 block.
No injuries were reported. A damage estimate for the vehicle was not available.
The Perry Police Department and...
The Dallas County Board of Supervisors approved a new $28,950 scheme for rearranging the flag poles on the ground of the Dallas County Courthouse.
The U.S. and Iowa flags atop the present 40-foot flag pole, which stands in the southeast...
Tin Pig Tavern owner J. R. Sheffer looked on Friday morning as workers with Indianola-based Downing Construction Inc. demolished about one-third of the upper story on his building, the old Gamble Block at 1202 Second St. in downtown Perry.
The...
A controlled burn of a structure in Dawson got out of control Friday morning, burning an overhead power line and a power pole on the property.
The Dawson and Perry stations of the Perry Volunteer Fire Department responded and quickly...
To the editor:
It has been startling to hear some say that they are not going to vote for president because they do not like either candidate. This is essentially a vote for President Donald J. Trump.
Trump has shown that...
Paving is complete on the one-mile stretch of the High Trestle Trail from S to R avenues west of Woodward.
The first phase of the $5 million connector-trail project, completed in October 2018, comprised 1.5 miles of trail starting in...
Longtime Perry High School Principal Dan Marburger was ganged up on Saturday by Perry's representative in the Iowa Senate, Jake Chapman (R-Adel), and a pro-GOP blogger, Jake Hall, after Marburger compared Chapman and the GOP's voter-fraud scare tactics to...
ADEL, Iowa -- Stolen fruits are the sweetest, St. Augustine said, but also sweet are fruits picked and shared from the trees of the Dallas County Human Services campus north of Adel.
Dallas County Public Health Department Director Suzanne Hegarty...
The global spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has brought many changes to our customary ways of doing things, including how we are born, how we die and how we are given and received in marriage.
The July 17 marriage of...
