Local News

Perry County's weekend Dogwood Tour Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27, announces for a 46th year the arrival of spring. The event also serves as an invitation to savor the white blossoms that dot local forests and often precede the explosion of foliage soon to transform the landscape.

Here's a rundown of this year's Dogwood Tour events across the county. Events in some locations cover both days while others last only one day.

Branchville

Wood-chips 'rescue' draws praise from as far away as New Orleans

TELL CITY - The Perry County Port Authority board of directors agreed at a meeting Monday to accept low bids for two projects contingent on their meeting specifications.

The first project, which will entail work at two crossings and track surfacing, netted bids ranging from $76,184 to $112,280.

Encouragement, other rewards increase motivation

TELL CITY - Customers of a local fitness center are bending together in their war against unwanted weight, and invite other men and women of Perry County to join them.

Shed Those Extra Pounds classes are free and meet at 6 p.m. Mondays in the basement of Everbody's Fun and Fitness Center, 710 Fulton St., Tell City.

Libby Bauer and Sharlene Crossley started STEP "because there were no evening meetings for Weight Watchers in Tell City," Bauer said.

Warrick County deputies, troopers capture Day, Helsley

NEWBURGH – Two escapees from the Branchville Correctional Facility were captured Tuesday evening after they crashed a stolen car while trying to outrun state police and Warrick County sheriff’s deputies.

Conan Helsley, 20, and Kent Day, 45, had been on the run since scaling a prison fence the night of April 4. They allegedly stole a pickup truck from J.H. Rudolph & Co.’s asphalt plant near Interstate 64 and fled to western Kentucky, where Day has relatives.