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Dallas County, Iowa

Today's Let's Talk Dallas County program features Perry Mayor Dirk Cavanaugh and Perry City Administrator Sven Peterson as they discuss highlights of 2025 and looking ahead to 2026 in part two of a two part series.

Today’s Let’s Talk Dallas County program features Perry Mayor Dirk Cavanaugh and Perry City Administrator Sven Peterson as they discuss highlights of 2025 in part one of a two part series.

Today’s Let’s Talk Dallas County program features Deb Miller and Larry Meacham, who help organize Perry’s Christmas Dinner. This year’s dinner returns for the 20th year on December 25 at the Perry Elks Lodge.

Today's Let's Talk Dallas County program features Perry Chamber Executive Director Lynsi Pasutti as she discusses the Peppermint Walk winners, Lighted Holiday Decorations Contest, Bike Ride to Rippey early bird registration and more events coming up around

Today's Let's Talk Dallas County program features the Perry Fine Arts Chairperson Cathy Clark as she unveils all the information about this weekend’s Tuba Christmas concert.

Today's Let's Talk Dallas County program features the Adel-DeSoto-Minburn Superintendent Greg Dufoe as he highlights the incoming school board members, curriculum and calendar updates and more.

Today's Let's Talk Dallas County program features Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante as he discusses the Dallas County Sheriff’s Benevolent Association’s Shop with a Cop and food basket programs along with a recent award received by the

Today's Let's Talk Dallas County program features the Perry Chamber Executive Director Lynsi Pasutti as she highlights the ribbon cutting at the Nudger’s Morgan Building, Peppermint Walk, Lighted Holiday Decorations Contest and more events coming up in

Today's Let's Talk Dallas County program features Perry Superintendent Clark Wicks as he highlights the swearing in of recently reelected school board members, gives an update on the Perry Elementary renovation project and more.

Today's Let's Talk Dallas County program features the Dallas County Conservation Board Outreach Coordinator Jeni Baker as she details the December activities in the second of a two part series.

Today's Let's Talk Dallas County program features the Dallas County Conservation Board Outreach Coordinator Jeni Baker as she details the December activities in the first of a two part series.

Today’s Let’s Talk Dallas County program features Nicole Connick talking about the Dallas County Foundation grant cycle.

Today's Let's Talk Dallas County program features the Perry Chamber Executive Director Lynsi Pasutti as she recaps the Lighted Holiday Parade and highlights local events coming up in December.

Today's Let's Talk Dallas County program features the Adel Partners Chamber of Commerce President Erin Milroy as she highlights this weekend’s Hometown Holiday Celebration festivities.

Today's Let's Talk Dallas County program features the Adel Library Programming Specialist Lily Schwarz as she covers all the activities happening in December.

Today's Let's Talk Dallas County program features Perry's Adult Services Librarian Mindy Farmer, as she shares all the upcoming programming in the month of December.

Today's Let's Talk Dallas County program features Perry's Youth Services Librarian Laura Pieper, as she shares all the upcoming programming in the month of December.

Perry Chamber Director Lynsi Passuti as she highlights upcoming holiday events, including the Lighted Holiday Parade, Small Business Saturday, Peppermint Walk and more.

ISU Extension Health and Human Sciences Educator Tom Keinert joins us for part two of our two part series.

ISU Extension Health and Human Sciences Educator Tom Keinert joins us for part one of our two part series about properly cooking at turkey for a Thanksgiving Day meal and changing up the side dishes.

Perry Chamber Director Lynsi Pasutti gives us an update on all of the holiday happenings in the community.

Iowa’s Third Congressional District Representative Zach Nunn gives us an update on the bills he is working on.

A recording of the Special Edition Meet the Candidates program on KDLS looks at the individuals who are running for Adel City Council.

New owners of Raccoon Valley Radio John and Jen McGee join us for today’s Let’s Talk program.

Dallas County Emergency Management Coordinator AJ Seely joins us to talk about the winter season response, new staff members and signing up for the Alert Iowa notification program.

Iowa District 14 Senator Sarah Trone-Garriott joins us for part two of our two part series.

District 14 Senator Sarah Trone-Garriott joins us for a legislative update for part one of our two part series.

Perry Chamber Director Lynsi Pasutti gives us an update.

Adel Partners Chamber Board President Deb Bengston reviews the highlights of 2023, goes over the Chamber membership and what she is looking forward to in 2024.

Erin Owen is the administrator for the Perry IA Community Facebook page and she joins us for the second of our two part series.

Erin Owen is the administrator for the Perry IA Community Facebook page and she joins us for part one of our two part series going over the efforts and other supportive methods for the community since the

Iowa House of Representative David Young gives us an update.

Iowa’s Third Congressional District Representative Zach Nunn finishes the second of our two part series.

Iowa’s Third Congressional District Representative Zach Nunn joins us for part one of our two part series. Programming note: this interview was done towards the end of 2023.

For today's Let's Talk Dallas County program, we had a conversation with Mental Health Outpatient Therapy Supervisor, Tracy Van Zee with Zion Integrated Behavioral Health who will be helping kids over the next few days at Perry.

For today’s Let’s Talk Dallas County program, we have a compilation of audio clips from several people that talked with Raccoon Valley Radio following yesterday’s tragic shooting incident at the high school in Perry.

Adel Library Patron Services Manager Amy Puck talks about January programming for youth and adults.

Becky Halling and Tera Webb about the Childcare Drop-In program.

ADM School District Superintendent Greg Dufoe talks about the December school board meeting and recaps the first half of the school year.

Perry Chamber Director Lynsi Pasutti gives us an update.

Retiring Perry Mayor John Andorf looks back on his city public life from a city council member to being mayor for six years.

Youth Services Librarian Laura Pieper and Adult Services Librarian Mindy Farmer update us with their January programming.

Perry Police Chief Eric Vaughn talks about the recently completed Shop with a Cop, the snow ordinance reminder, winter driving and the almost six month transition to dispatching going through Dallas County Sheriff’s Office.

Perry Chamber Director Lynsi Pasutti gives us an update.

Perry Mayor John Andorf and his wife Linda are the co-organizers with Dallas County New Opportunities as John talks us through how this year’s Toy and Gift Drive went.

Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante talks about a couple of programs that the Benevolent Association recently participated in and about the recent vehicle purchase and how they are no longer able to buy a Dodge Charger for

Perry School District Superintendent Clark Wicks joins us for part two of our two part series.

Perry School District Superintendent Clark Wicks joins us for part one of our two part series.

Perry Chamber Director Lynsi Pasutti gives us an update.

Perry Area Food Pantry Manager Lou Hoger finishes up the second of our two part series.

Perry Area Food Pantry Manager Lou Hoger joins us for part one of our two part series.