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Tacos Jackie has entered the taco-truck marketplace in Perry, unfurling its canopy in the 1500 block of W. Second Street between Bateman and Rawson streets. Lying just south of Chuy's Tires and one block west of the Progressive Foundry, Tacos...
The Rev. Barbara Bambrick of Perry was joined by her daughter, Cindy Jafvert of Perry, to present a memorial donation of $6,255 to the Perry Public Library Friday in the name of their late husband and father, Andrew Bambrick,...
A sanitary sewer service line was installed this week at the Forest Park Museum near Perry as part of the facility's connection with the city's sanitary sewer system. The museum opened in 1953 and was acquired by the Dallas County...
The Perry Little League Board of Directors announced Friday the cancellation of the 2020 summer season due to the novel coronavirus global pandemic. The directors said there is still some hope they will conduct a baseball clinic "if and when...
The Dallas County Board of Supervisors will presumably decide this week when to reopen county offices and what restrictions to impose on county employees and the public. The three-man board took up the question during last Tuesday's regular meeting, taking...
  About a dozen executive-style homes might soon boast the High Trestle Trail as their front sidewalk now that the Perry Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) approved this week the creation of the Prairie Trail subdivision in northeast Perry. If the...
The police chiefs of Woodward and Granger have proposed a merger of their departments. The main advantage of a consolidated department, according to Granger Police Chief Kelly Owen and Woodward Police Chief Shane Buck, would be 24-hour police protection for...
Soaring like too-long-pent turkey vultures, a small group from the Society of Retired Experts (SORE) roosted for an hour in Pattee Park Friday afternoon. The pandemic-imposed self-isolation gave way to safe social distancing in the open air and salutary sunlight...
Although the number of positive cases of COVID-19 continues to creep upward at long-term care (LTC) facilities across Iowa -- including at two of Dallas County's LTC outbreak sites -- the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) has not...
The tables are turning once again at the Hotel Pattee in Perry with the news that Harvey's at the Hotel Pattee, which replaced the 20-year-old David's Milwaukee Diner in November 2018, has itself been replaced. "We are so blessed," the...