Today's News

TELL CITY – A jury of eight women and four men deliberated for three hours Thursday before convicting a Perry County man on a charge of dealing in methamphetamine.

John R. Crawford, who had been living in Cannelton before his arrest in April, faces between six and 20 years in prison on the Class B felony when sentenced Dec. 5.

TELL CITY – An anonymous $10,000 donation will boost an effort to get people walking, William Tell Elementary School Principal Laura Noble reported at a regular school-board meeting Tuesday.

The money, coupled with an Indiana Department of Transportation grant, reported in Thursday’s edition of The News, will allow connection of a greenway opened recently along Tell City’s Windy Creek with a previously announced intent to improve sidewalk access to the elementary school, Noble said, and to install an asphalt-rubber path around the school.

FORT WAYNE – Susan Reed of Fort Wayne sent a letter to The News recently looking for former students of her mother, Jeannie Olive Ryan Baker.

Baker taught at Anderson and Finch schools before 1930 in Perry County. She and her parents, Willard and Nancy Jane Leaf Ryan, left the Tobinsport area to move to Fort Wayne in 1930. Baker is a descendent of the Weatherholt, Tobin, Ryan and Thomas family lines.

TELL CITY – Perry County is one of 10 in the state that doesn’t offer public transportation, according to Becky Guthrie, who told the commissioners she could change that by expanding the services of Washington-based Ride Solution into this area.

“The state wants counties to be on board by 2010,” the transit organization’s director told the commissioners at their regular meeting Monday. “If all goes well, we will expand into Perry and Spencer counties,” she said of the organization, which now serves eight counties in southwestern Indiana.