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  • Voting locations by precinct

    Anderson, St. Mark's School Building

    Cannelton 1, Cannelton Community Center

    Cannelton 2, Cannelton Community Center

    Clark 1, Bristow Community Center

    Clark 2, Bristow Community Center

    Derby, County highway garage

    Leopold, County highway garage

    Oil, County highway garage

    Rono, County highway garage

    Tell City 1, VFW Post 2939

    Tell City 2, Humboldt Street Fire Station

    Tell City 3, City Hall

    Tell City 4, Schergens Center

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  • Election countdown

    Results Online Tuesday night

    News staff will be at the county courthouse after polls close tomorrow and will telephone results to the newsroom. Watch for results at www.perrycountynews.com.

    List of contenders appearing on Tuesday's ballots:

    Democrat Party

    President

    Hillary Clinton

    Barack Obama

    Governor

    Jim Schellinger

    Jill Long Thompson

    U.S. Congress

    Gretchen Clearwater

    Baron Hill

    Lendall Terry

    John Bottorff

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  • Some offices to close Tuesday for Election Day

    PERRY COUNTY - Many governmental offices will be closed Tuesday for Election Day. Tell City offices will be closed for the day since City Hall is a polling location. Monday's trash and recyclables schedule in Tell City will proceed as normal Monday but there will be no pickup Tuesday and a one-day delay the remainder of the week.

    County offices will also be closed Tuesday. The county clerk's office will be closed to the public but will be staffed to answer voting questions over the telephone. The office telephone number is 547-3741.

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  • Poll rides offered Tuesday

    PERRY COUNTY - Perry County for Barack Obama will provide free rides to Perry County's polling stations from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday. For more information or to get a ride, call 719-4517

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  • Dogwood Days
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  • Hoosiers for Hillary organizational meeting

    TELL CITY - Hoosiers for Hillary will have an organizational meeting at 7 p.m. today at Twilight Towers in Tell City. The group will present ways for Hillary Clinton supporters to encourage citizens to vote, set up phone banks and more. For more information call Emma Lieberth at (330) 760-1142 or visit www.hillaryclinton.com/hq/indiana.

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  • Absentee voting ends Monday

    TELL CITY - Absentee voting for Tuesday's primary election ends at noon Monday. Hours are 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday.

    The courthouse will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday for absentee voting.

    For more information on voting issues, call 547-3741.

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  • PC performers earn gold rating

    LEOPOLD - Perry Central musicians earned top ratings from all three of their judges in Indiana State School Music Association concert-band competition April 25 at F.J Reitz High School, Evansville.

    "They played really well," Music Director Rob Cason said Tuesday. "All three judges gave them gold."

    The students' performances included "Peacemaker," a Karl King march; "Balladair" by Frank Erickson and David Shaffer's "Last Ride of the Pony Express."

    "They were good pieces for us," Cason said. "They were challenging but not unbelievably taxing, technically speaking."

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  • Chapman says he's staying at Cannelton

    Schools chief accepts, declines Kokomo job

    CANNELTON - Cannelton Schools Superintendent Al Chapman decided at a special school-board meeting Tuesday to keep his job, even though he had verbally accepted another in the Kokomo area that promised what he called after the meeting a "substantial" pay raise.

    Approximately 30 people attended the meeting to show their support for Chapman, who was given a pay raise, retroactive to July 1, 2007, to $93,000. He was being paid $86,151 annually.

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  • Tornadoes miss Troy woman's kin

    TROY - Troy resident Judy Brothers' brother knew "as soon as the news came on," he'd get a phone call from her.

    So Rodger Ungerecht, 52, called her first, to let her know he'd survived the tornadoes that ripped through Suffolk, Va., where he now lives, Brothers explained Tuesday.

    "He called and said it came within three miles of him," she said. His daughter, Jessica, 25, called a short time later to say she, too, was OK. Her margin of safety was only a mile-and-a-half.

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