Today's News

CANNELTON - A regular meeting of the Cannelton Board of Public Works and Safety Monday began with a change in membership.

Cindy Yaggi resigned from the board, Mayor Smokey Graves announced, and he had appointed John Yaggi in her place. Graves said later she told him she "didn't feel comfortable making the kinds of decisions we make, although I thought she was doing a great job."

Painted-on Vs have county officials, public confounded

TELL CITY - Call them Perry County's version of crop circles. Mysterious roadside markings, looking like large upper-case Vs painted on local roadways, are generating calls from curious residents.

Even odder is the fact local officials don't know why the markings are there or who is responsible for painting them.

LEOPOLD - Perry Central's young and short girls basketball team plans to rely on its quickness this year.

The Commodores have no seniors on their roster. And among their three juniors and six sophomores, only 5-foot-11 Megan Hedinger, who is sidelined several weeks with mononucleosis, is taller than 5-7.

Junior forward-guard Rachael Rayford, the team's quickest player, will also miss Friday's season opener, as she is still recovering from a foot injury.

I head an interesting story recently about how one local church pastor, on the occasion of All Souls Day Nov. 2, invited parishioners to gather in the church cemetery for a blessing of graves.

Each person was asked to stand by a grave and a few minutes later, with people standing by the graves of relatives, friends and perhaps complete strangers, parishioners remembered the dead.