Today's News

BRANCHVILLE - Labor provided by offenders at Branchville Correctional Facility supports communities across the county in ways sometimes not always visible to the public, members of the facility's advisory group learned during their last meeting.

Offenders approved for outside work details provide manpower for construction projects, mowing and trash removal throughout the year.

County's chief recycler seeks collection ideas

TELL CITY - The cost of discarding cardboard is "going through the roof," Paul Alvey said at a Sept. 18 meeting of the Perry County Recycling Management District Board of Directors, so businesses that have a lot to get rid of are looking for alternatives.

The district collects the material from a number of businesses and turns that cost into profit by selling it to brokers, and "we can handle what we're getting and maybe some more," the district's executive director said, "but we need to figure out how to handle it."

I wonder what President Dwight D. Eisenhower would have thought of the essentially substanceless orgy of chauvinistic nationalism and belligerent jingoism that was the recent Republican National Convention.

Surely he would have been appalled. It was he, after all, beloved Republican war hero, who warned us against the monstrous "military-industrial complex" that was taking shape after World War II, reminding us of our founding fathers' worry that a standing army would eventually corrupt and hobble our republic.

TELL CITY - Perry Central had six of the top 11 finishers as it won Tell City's seven-team junior high boys cross country invitational Thursday.

The Commodores scored 25 points, 45 ahead of runner-up Heritage Hills. Tell City finished sixth with 138 points.

Perry Central also won the girls title, edging Heritage Hills 46-47. Tell City was fifth with 103 point.

Tell City's Tori Payne won the girls race in 13:18, 25 seconds ahead of runner-up Sarah Lindsey of South Spencer. But Perry Central had four of the next 10 finishers.