Local News

WEST LAFAYETTE – Farm-market vendors have the opportunity to learn about emerging consumer demand for locally grown foods at a Purdue Extension workshop and Webinar series Growing for Market.

The three sessions, directed at farm-market vendors who want to become more effective and profitable marketers, will be offered at 21 Purdue Extension county offices and available in Webinar form for those who want to participate from home.

By KEVIN KOELLING, Managing Editor

TELL CITY – County Administrator Teresa Kanneberg told the county commissioners at a regular meeting Wednesday they have several appointments to make in the near future.

They had agreed at their previous meeting to announce upcoming openings so anyone interested in filling them could submit letters of interest.

By VINCE LUECKE, Editor

TELL CITY – A man once charged with murder will remain free after the Indiana Court of Appeals granted a motion to dismiss an appeal filed in his case, which was itself dismissed in November.

The court of appeals granted the dismissal in the case against Thomas E. Lane, who was freed in November after the state requested the charge of murder filed against him be dropped. Lane had been jailed for 18 months in the 1997 death of Deborah Cioe.

By KEVIN KOELLING, Managing Editor

TELL CITY – Sherri Flynn nominated Mack Cail to serve as president of the Tell City-Troy Township School Board as the first item of business at their first meeting of the year.

The Jan. 11 meeting was also the first at which Flynn and Cail were seated since being elected last year, which was the first time board seats were on the ballot for voters of the district. Incumbent Dr. Gene Ress also prevailed in the election, so his name, too, is etched in that chapter of the school district’s history.