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TELL CITY - A free children's book every month.

No bills sent to parents. No income guidelines to follow. The only requirement is for children to be no older than 5 years old.

This is made possible by Imagination Library, which was started by Dolly Parton in the 1990s to provide books to every preschool-aged child in her home county of Seiver County, Tenn. Since then, more than 900 communities in 47 states, Canada and the United Kingdom have taken advantage of this program.

TELL CITY - The Tell City Marching Marksmen placed third among six bands competing at F.J. Reitz High School in Evansville Saturday, demonstrating "a definite improvement, score-wise" from the previous week's performance, their music director said.

"The overall reaction I have," Barry Reasoner said Wednesday, "is the students are starting to get more confident with their performance of a really difficult show."

PERRY COUNTY - Southern Indiana Power had approximately 500 members without power Wednesday morning. The windstorm that blasted through the area Sunday initially left close to 4,000 members without power.

Of the 500 members who have not had power restored, 200 are individual outages that will require more time for restoration, the utility said.

CANNELTON - Cannelton Police Chief Kenny Kellems said Monday evening a kidnapping that allegedly occurred Friday afternoon never happened.

The 14-year-old girl who claimed to have been abducted while walking in the area of Fourth and Washington streets at approximately 4:30 p.m. Friday lied to avoid getting in trouble, Kellems said as he and others entered a county-commissioners meeting Monday.