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TELL CITY - Lincoln Hills Development Corp. South Perry Head Start will have an open house from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday at the center. The public is invited to visit and learn more about the program and applications are also being accepted for the 2008-09 school year.

South Perry is a federally funded preschool for economically disadvantaged families. Enrollment in Head Start is based on age and family income.

Ashley Edwards runs through her lines during a rehearsal Tuesday of "Help! I'm Trapped in a High School!" The production is set in Public School Maximum Security, and features a principal who runs the school like she used command a submarine, according to Director Carolyn Etienne. Some "valley girls" were transferred to PSMS through a computer error, she explained, and the principal won't let them leave. Their parents are away on a cruise, and unaware of the situation. "This is a play where all the kids are on stage almost all of the time," Etienne said.

CANNELTON - A Cannelton man already banned from driving for life was arrested Sunday after he fled from a state-police trooper, authorities said.

Scott D. Polster, 35, of 718 Green Meadows, was taken into custody by Trooper Heath Carkuff and lodged in the Perry County jail on charges of operating a vehicle after being judged a lifetime habitual traffic violator, resisting law enforcement, possession of marijuana and operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

Consultants employed to develop Tell City schools master plan

TELL CITY - They identified some needs that should be dealt with immediately, but a facilities-study committee's biggest recommendation was that a master plan be developed to ensure buildings in the Tell City-Troy Township School Corp. receive the funding and care they need in the future.