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  • WTE to be featured in WNIN program

    TELL CITY – The PBS segment, “Building a Healthier Tri-State:  Increasing Physical Activity in Schools,” will air at 7:30 p.m. Thursday on WNIN Channel 9.1.

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  • Financial Peace Class to kick off Jan. 10

    TROY – The Troy United Methodist Church will once again sponsor Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University classes for the 10th year.

    Those participating will learn everything needed to know about personal and family finances. The 13-week course teaches the basics of budgeting, saving, purchasing, investing, retirement, charitable giving and much more.

    The goal is to become debt free, which leads to personal wealth.

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  • GED testing available at Perry Central

    LEOPOLD – Perry Central Community School Corp. will offer GED testing to Indiana residents who need their certificate for employment, college classes or personal satisfaction.

    Two evenings are required for completion of the entire test and pre-registration is mandatory. Test sessions are available Jan. 23 and 30, Feb. 13 and 27 and March 12 and 15.

    Those wishing to test must be at least 16 years old and have never tested before.

    The cost is $70 for the complete examination.

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  • Holidays change trash schedule

    TELL CITY – Due to the holiday season, trash pickup in Tell City will be delayed a day the weeks after Christmas and New Year’s.

    Department offices will be closed Dec. 26 and Jan. 2, delaying trash pickups by a day. Recycling will still be picked up with trash the week of Dec. 26.

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  • Outgoing chief names police officers of year for 2010, ’11

    By KEVIN KOELLING, Managing Editor

    CANNELTON – Cannelton Police Chief Eric Dickenson named officers of the year for 2010 and 2011 at regular meetings of city officials last Monday.

    The top officer for 2010 was Micah Jackson, who “defines dedication,” Dickenson said. “He sleeps with his radio … he’ll answer calls when (other) officers are too busy to do so and provide assistance to those answering dangerous calls where officers need backup.”

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  • City continues efforts toward floodwall inspection

    By KEVIN KOELLING, Managing Editor

    CANNELTON – Officials in Cannelton conducted a public hearing on a planned floodwall certification last week, moving the city a step closer to compliance with a federal mandate, but the mayor warned that the process could lead to a “seven-figure fix; it could be $1 million or more.”

    Mayor Smokey Graves’ point was that certification will come through inspection, which could turn up problems, but he has expressed in the past confidence that the city’s floodwall and levee are sound.

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  • We need to talk

    C.J. Ransom, right, of Zeke Ransom Excavating, takes a break from filling a dump truck Friday to talk with other workers involved in road construction under way at the intersection of Indiana 66 and old Indiana 237 in Cannelton. (Click photo to enlarge and right arrow to see another.)

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  • School board erred in hiring fiscal consultant

    By KEVIN KOELLING, Managing Editor

    CANNELTON – A man hired by the Cannelton School Board to provide financial consulting in the wake of their suspension of Superintendent Al Chapman was likely not employed properly, according to an attorney for the Hoosier State Press Association.

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  • Correction

    A reader called to inform the News that numbers in a story headlined, “Young Perry County men outnumber women,” in Monday’s edition didn’t seem to add up. He was right, they didn’t seem to, because a chart with the story showed females outnumbering males.

    The 2010 census figures do show that there are more men than women county-wide, but women are more numerous than men in Cannelton, Tell City and Troy.

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  • Students, volunteer leaders needed for JA entrepreneurship project

    PERRY COUNTY – Thanks to the Perry County Women for Women Fund, Perry Central Community School and the Tell City-Troy Township School Corp. are partnering with Junior Achievement of Perry County to offer the Empowering Girls to Be Entrepreneurial after-school program.  

    This program is designed to educate girls about entrepreneurship – starting your own business in hope of earning a profit – and the skills and characteristics needed to be a successful entrepreneur.

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