Today's News

TELL CITY - Calling out cowboys and cowgirls. Mechanical bull riding is returning to next week's Perry County 4-H Fair. The bucking beast, whose twists and turns humbled riders last year, is back for a Saturday-evening rodeo.

Sponsored by State Farm Insurance and C&S Food Marts, the rodeo begins at 6 p.m. July 12 with separate classes for riders ages 7 to 9, 10 to 12, 13 to 15, 16 to 17 and 18 and over.

An old Jesuit priest once told me during a 30-day retreat about the value of getting out of bed each morning and acknowledging the possibility that the coming day may be your last.

"Sooner or later, you'll be right," he quipped.

For me, the saying is a reminder of the dangers of putting things off, saying what I could do today, I'll wait and do tomorrow. Sooner or later, we run out of tomorrows.

Volunteers are needed Tuesday and Wednesday of this week - and throughout July - as work begins on the third and fourth historical murals on Tell City's floodwall. The third panel near Humboldt Street will depict the history of medical care in the city, with images of Parkview Hospital, Schreiber's Drug Store and various doctors who provided care. The fourth panel will contain flood scenes. Volunteers are needed from 8 a.m. to noon Tuesday to help apply base color to the flood-scene panel and on Wednesday to add base color and frames to both works.

One questions legality of county assuming personal-property valuation duties

TELL CITY - Township assessors will get only half the pay budgeted for them this year despite their claims they normally perform the bulk of their duties by June 1, well before the July 1 elimination of their jobs mandated by legislation enacted this year.