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Today's News

  • Renaissance selects top performers

    TELL CITY – Tell City Jr.-Sr. High School Renaissance Club would like to congratulate the following students selected as the February Students of the Month. They are senior Ethan Leclere, junior Jeff Miller, sophomore Natalie Dixon and freshman Grace Gehlhausen. They received breakfast at Julie’s Tell Street Cafe and a T-shirt from Renaissance.

    Renaissance would like to congratulate the following students who were selected as Stretch Award winners. They raised their GPA’s the most for their grade between the first and second grading periods.

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  • McCormick hears concerns about funding for rural school districts

    By VINCE LUECKE

    Editor

     

    TELL CITY – Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Jennifer McCormick told educators, business leaders and others last week not to expect large-scale changes in how the state funds public schools.

    She spoke last Monday at a luncheon at the Tell City Depot hosted by chambers of commerce in Perry and Spencer counties.

    School districts are funded, in large part, on a formula based on how many students they have enrolled.

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  • Dr. Seuss tribute to kick off library’s sizzling summer

    By ERIC WHITTAKER

    Staff Writer

     

    PERRY COUNTY – The library is breaking out the sun block and tuning its strings for a catalog of fun activities this spring through summer. Activities organizer Lisa Hammack introduced the time schedule for this summer’s reading program and this summer’s Libraries Rock! program.

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  • The Bix Fix
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  • Century to invest $116M in smelter

    HANCOCK COUNTY, Ky. – Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin announced last week that Century Aluminum Co. will invest $116.5 million for improvements at its operation in Hawesville that will create over 250 full-time jobs.

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  • Cannelton infrastructure gets grant boost

    By STUART CASSIDY

    Staff Writer

     

    CANNELTON – The city of Cannelton was awarded $519,600 last week through Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs’ Community Block Development Grant program. The money will help fund stormwater system improvements throughout the city.

    The soon-to-begin project will address drainage in three areas throughout the city that regularly flood. New drainage tiles will be installed and collapsed drainage tiles will be replaced.

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  • Kentucky man charged in TC tire theft
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  • Partners in Pride awards return next month

    TELL CITY – The Tell City Common Council and Mayor Jim Adams will continue to recognize residents and businesses this summer with Partners in Pride Awards.

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  • President signs Kennedy-King National Commemorative Site Act

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump has signed into law the Kennedy-King National Commemorative Site Act of 2018 (H.R.4851), legislation led by Sens. Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) in the Senate, and Reps. André Carson (D-Ind.-07) and Susan W. Brooks (R-Ind.-05) in the House.

    The News advocated for the designation in a recent editorial.

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  • Spring vegetables among the easiest of the season

    Jeneen Wiche

    Weekend Gardener

     

    We spent the weekend weeding, preparing soil and planting potatoes, onions, leeks, lettuces, peas, carrots and beets. It felt so good to start the vegetable growing season. Then I looked at the weather forecast calling for snow in April.

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