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  • Wish comes true for Newtonville youth

    NEWTONVILLE – Corey Richards looks like an all-American boy, bubbly and sometimes fidgety. He shakes your hand dressed in jeans with dirty knees and is quick to flash a big grin that almost reaches from ear to ear.

    Corey, a 7-year-old second-grader at Chrisney Elementary School, suffers from a metabolic disorder that keeps his body from being able to break down certain amino acids, causing them to build up in his blood to the point where they become toxic.

    “It becomes a poison in his system,” the boy’s mother, Jennifer Richards, said.

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  • Recycling management district braces for tight economy

    TELL CITY – Paul Alvey called 2008 “a really blessed year” for the recycled materials he sells as executive director of the Perry County Recycling Management District, but said “prices have fallen drastically.”

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  • Free straw for doghouses

    TELL CITY — The Humane Society of Perry County is giving away free straw for lining doghouses, adding to the organization’s program of providing doghouses for those in need.

    The straw can be picked up at the Orscheln Farm and Home store in Tell City from noon until closing Saturday. For details or to donate used doghouses, contact Jim Carter at 836-4138.

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  • Groups collecting coats for less fortunate

    TELL CITY – The 2008 Holiday Helpers United coat drive is well under way for this season and it’s not too late to donate. There is still a great need for children’s coats. All donations should be new or gently used.

    Coats can be dropped off at the following locations:  Oakwood Health Campus, Golden Living Center-Lincoln Hills, Fifth Third Bank or Wal-Mart.

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  • Open letter to President-elect Barack Obama

    Hope was mentioned now and again as you campaigned for the office you will assume in January. We have some hopes we’d like to see you fulfill once there.

    This is not simply a wish list. Failure to pursue honorable courses of action threatens this nation in ways most of us don’t care to imagine. We don’t care to forecast, for example, what might become of our country if our largest banks and other companies tuck our hundreds of billions of dollars in bailout money into their pockets and walk away, leaving many of us without homes and jobs.

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  • Plenty to be thankful for

    I wasn’t always kind to Thanksgiving. For the first two-thirds of my 41 years, I under-appreciated the holiday. As a child, the event seemed best suited for grownups, who like to chat around the kitchen table eating turkey and pumpkin pie.  

    For me back then, Thanksgiving was a welcome four-day weekend away from school and the signal that Christmas was near.

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  • The roots of our Thanksgiving

    Editor’s Note: This text of President George Washington’s Oct. 3, 1789, national Thanksgiving proclamation was printed in The Providence Gazette and Country Journal and is printed with original spellings, capitalization and punctuation.

    It was submitted by Freewill Baptist Church in Cannelton to commemorate Thursday’s observance of the holiday.

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  • School board approves $2 million in renovations

    TELL CITY – Tell City-Troy Township School Board members voted to proceed with approximately $2 million worth of renovations at Tell City High School using qualified-zone-academy-bonds funding already approved, and to seek approval of other work later.

    Their action at a regular school-board meeting Tuesday was introduced as a recommendation by Schools Superintendent Ron Etienne.

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  • Slide repairs may be done by year’s end

    TELL CITY – A second attempt at repairing a sliding embankment along Indiana 37 in central Perry County could wrap up by the end of next month, an Indiana Department of Transportation spokeswoman said last week.

    INDOT’s first attempt earlier this year at stopping movement in the steep embankment on the west side of the highway, just north of Indiana 70, did not work, said Cher Goodwin, spokeswoman for INDOT’s Vincennes District.  

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  • Park draws crowd on its opening day

    CANNELTON — Eagles Bluff Park’s new welcome center and rebuilt overlook deck drew nearly 200 visitors the first two days it was open, County Recreation Director Dan Adams told the the Parks and Recreation Board Wednesday.

    The Indiana Department of Transportation did its final inspection of the construction Oct. 23 and the park, which was closed several months during construction, reopened Nov. 8. It is now open daily 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

    Adams reported that 122 people visited the park Nov. 8 and 74 did so Nov. 9 despite chilly temperatures that weekend.

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