Today's News

CHICAGO, Ill. – Olivia Brooks, 14, competed and placed in the top 12 of the Classical Junior Division of the Youth America Grand Prix Jan. 18, in Chicago, Ill.

Youth America Grand Prix is the world’s largest student ballet scholarship competition held annually around the world and is open to dance students of all nationalities 9 to 19 years old.
The 2011 documentary “First Position,” highlighted the competition as it followed six competitors to the finals in New York.

PERRY COUNTY – Local Girl Scouts will make cookie deliveries to customers through March 10. Cookies will also be available at the following booth sales:
Friday – from 3:30 to 6 p.m. at Fifth Third Bank in Tell City and from 3:30 to 6 p.m. at Old National Bank near McDonald’s.

LEOPOLD – Brooke Lasher, a student at Perry Central Junior-Senior High School, was chosen as the seventh-grade winner in the annual River Sweep Poster Contest.

Her poster was chosen from more than 2,000 entries from a six-state area. Lasher’s poster promotes participation in the annual Ohio River Sweep clean-up event, which is scheduled for June 15.
Lasher will receive a $50 check and her poster will be posted on the event’s official Web site.
She is the daughter of Wayne and Kara Lasher of St. Croix.

When Mike Spencer and Jack Fischer are inducted into the Tell City High School Athletic Hall of Fame Saturday, some men still in their 30s who played for both will likely attend.
I’m pretty sure Chris Spencer will be there. He was the star running back when Fischer coached Tell City’s eighth grade team to a conference title in 1988 and then set several Tell City rushing records while playing for his father the next four years.