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  • Cannelton prepping graveyards for spring

    CANNELTON – With spring around the corner, Cannelton Street Commissioner David Marsh advises residents the street department will begin preparing the city’s graveyards for cleanup.
    These preparations will include pulling all flowers around the bases of headstones in the ground, removing all shepherd’s hooks also placed near headstones and cleaning off all items on the bases of the headstones as they are harmful to the city’s mowers and workers using trimmers.

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  • Meth lab suspect in Tell Street fire

    TELL CITY– An evening fire in the 1600 block of Tell Street Tuesday injured one man and sent another to jail on drug charges. 

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  • Montgomery – Austin

    Jennifer Montgomery and Eddie Austin of Cannelton announce their engagement and approaching marriage.

    The bride-elect is the daughter of Sherry Riley and Gary Riley. She is a 2005 graduate of Tell City High School and is a stay-at-home mother.
    Mr. Austin is the son of Susan Austin and Charles E. Austin Sr. He was homeschooled and works as a maintenance supervisor for ATTC Manufacturing in Tell City.
    The wedding is planned for Saturday, June 29, 2013. Formal invitations will be is-sued.

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  • Scratch-off ticket earns Tell City woman $77,777

    INDIANAPOLIS – Joann Schroeder doesn’t really know why she bought a $5 7s Series Hoosier Lottery scratch-off ticket Sunday morning, but she’s very happy she did.

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  • Recycling district, city face tough times

    By KEVIN KOELLING
    Managing Editor

     

    TELL CITY – County Commissioner Bill Amos was named chairman of the Perry County Recycling Management District Board of Directors in that agency’s first meeting of the year Jan. 24. 

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  • CURRENT POLL QUESTION: Did the Carnival Triumph's fire and aftermath change your opinion about going on a cruise?

    We invite readers to participate in our online poll by finding the question at the bottom of the page or clicking into the opinion section.

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    Don't hold back; express yourself!

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  • COLUMN: Honoring veterans, helping teachers

    By LLOYD ARNOLD
    District 74 State Representative

    Two of the most revered and influential groups are Hoosier veterans and teachers. Both, in different ways, ensure continued prosperity.

    I feel honored to have met so many in representing our community. These professions are held by some of the best and most noble Hoosiers, and I have diligently worked this session to introduce legislation that supports them.

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  • COLUMN: Lessons from old farmers

    By VINCE LUECKE
    Editor

    I grew up influenced by older people. I saw my grandparents often and worked during my preteen and teenage years for neighbors, many of them seniors.

    Most were farmers and I learned a lot from them. As I get older, it seems I rely more and more on the simple lessons they instilled and the examples they set.

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  • EDITORIAL: Students should be encouraged, not thwarted by school boards

    Earlier this month, a group of students in a central Florida school district were met with opposition from their school board as they attempted to form an extracurricular group. The middle-schoolers attempted to form a gay-straight alliance group during the 2011-12 school year, but according to reports on Huffington Post, they were turned town.

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  • Landscape artist to display work at abbey

    SAINT MEINRAD – Saint Meinrad Archabbey Library Gallery will host an exhibit of landscape paintings in oil and mixed-media prints by Philadelphia artist Clay Johnson. The exhibit will be on display from Saturday to March 28.

    Johnson paints on site, beginning his work with careful observation of his surroundings. He explains, “I look until I see something that moves me and then I construct a painting around that experience.”

    Free play of the imagination is his aim, rather than objective reporting. Color and light are central.

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