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Today's News

  • Officials discuss black-dust issue

    By KEVIN KOELLING
    Managing Editor

    CANNELTON – Members of the Cannelton Board of Public Works and Safety expressed concern last Monday about a new business in town creating black-dust problems.

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  • Company earns rare designation

    By KEVIN KOELLING
    Managing Editor

    CANNELTON – Best Chairs in Cannelton is among the 70 business establishments statewide earning the designation as “one of the safest places to work in Indiana.”

    That’s according to Rick Ruble, commissioner of the Department of Labor’s Indiana office, who said the state has approximately 150,000 establishments.

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  • Minto will step down from visitor’s bureau

    By VINCE LUECKE
    Editor

    PERRY COUNTY – The Perry County Convention and Visitors Bureau is losing its executive director next month.

    Bev Minto, who has led the county’s tourism efforts for the past six years, will step down Aug. 9 to spend more time with her family-owned restaurant in Rocky Point. She announced her resignation to board members earlier in the month and met with the group a final time Wednesday evening.

    She began her job in May 2008.

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  • INDOT responds to intersection complaints

    By KEVIN KOELLING
    Managing Editor

    TELL CITY – Indiana Department of Transportation workers appeared at the intersection of 12th and Tell streets Friday morning to correct what drivers were calling a dangerous situation.

    The intersection became dangerous, people said in Facebook postings and in a news report by WFIE television, when lane markings were changed.

    The station’s Nick Lagrange reported Tuesday that “some time ago, INDOT painted turn lanes in order to make the intersection safer.”

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  • Local students participate in Electric Cooperative Youth Tour

    TELL CITY – Hannah Brown of Rockport and Emily Davis of Tell City, represented Southern Indiana Power last month at the 2014 Electric Cooperative Youth Tour to Washington, D.C.

    The high-school seniors-to-be gained a personal understanding of American history, their role as citizens and insights into the roles electric cooperatives play in their communities. Indiana’s electric cooperatives have been providing this opportunity since 1960.

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  • Summertime fun

    Lincoln Hills Development Corp. Early Head Start children and their families enjoy a day out together. Early Head Start participants meet weekly for home visits and twice monthly for play time, education and family activities.

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  • Two injured in Friday morning crash

    HATFIELD – A head-on crash on Indiana 66 just outside of Hatfield Friday morning sent both drivers to an Evansville hospital in critical condition. The crash closed the highway for nearly an hour as emergency crews worked to assist the injured motorists.

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  • Sports Notes

    TC flag football registration Aug. 2
    TELL CITY – Registration for Tell City’s flag football program for grades 2-4 will be held 10 a.m. to noon Aug. 2 at William Tell Elementary.

    A $25 fee will be charged for each player.

    Youth football registration set
    TELL CITY – Sign-up dates have been set for Tell City fifth- and sixth-grade tackle football players.

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  • Schweizer Fest Sports

    Horseshoes set Aug. 7 and 8
    TELL CITY – The Schweizer Fest bring-your-own-partner doubles horseshoe tourney will be held 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7, at Zoercher-Bettinger Park.

    The draw-for-partners horseshoe tourney will be held 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8, also at Zoercher-Bettinger Park.

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  • Heading for international tourney

    J.D. Powers, Eddie Duke and Wyatt York will represent Powers’ Martial Arts in Orlando, Fla. Aug. 15 at the International Martial Arts Festival at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex. Duke won a world qualifier and will compete in the Elite Martial Arts World Championships.

    Powers and York will compete in the KICK National/Open Sport Martial Arts tourney. Powers’ Martial Arts is located at New Directions on Main Street in Tell City.

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