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  • Perry County tracts part of Kimball sale

    27,000 acres being offered at auction

    PERRY COUNTY - Kimball International plans to sell 27,000 acres it owns in Indiana and Kentucky, a decision that will place four tracts of Perry County forestland, totaling about 480 acres, on the auction block.

    The Jasper-based company announced this month it will auction its large holdings of undeveloped land used for many years to provide lumber for its manufacturing operations. Auctions dates are Nov. 6-8.

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  • Tecumseh beats TC

    TELL CITY - Tell City won in No. 1 doubles but Tecumseh won all the other matches to beat Tell City 4-1 in PAC boys tennis Tuesday.

    Andy Kast and Greg Hollinden overcame a first-set loss to beat Kraig Bowen and Robb Clifton 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 in No. 1 doubles.

    Tecumseh's Kyle Fischer and Jordan Lamborn shut out Trent Wheatley and Patrick Hagedorn 6-0, 6-0 in No. 2 doubles.

    Tell City's Andy Chinn shut out Adam Westerman 6-0 in the first set of their No. 1 singles match. But Westerman came back to win the next two sets 6-4, 7-5.

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  • Tell City 3rd in tri-meet

    TELL CITY - Amber Thomas shot a 49 to lead Tell City but the Marksmen lost to Jasper and Floyd Central in girls golf Tuesday.

    Jasper won with 187 strokes. Floyd Central shot 197 and Tell City 250.

    Britney Hendershot was Tell City's second leading scorer. She shot a season-best 60 despite having a little trouble with her short game (22 putts).

    Megan Neyenhaus shot 67 and C.J. Fentress 74 to complete the Marksmen's scoring.

    Jessica Ballman was their fifth player with a 75 and Amber Fentress was sixth with a 76.

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  • Perry Central 1-2 in tipoff tourney

    LEOPOLD - Megan Hedinger made nine kills and served six aces as Perry Central beat South Spencer 25-15, 23-25, 15-8 in the Perry Central tipoff volleyball tourney Saturday.

    Perry Central lost its other two matches to Southridge 25-9, 25-8 and to Northeast Dubois to finish third in the four-team round-robin.

    Jessica Huber backed Hedinger with six kills against South Spencer. Molly Harth and Kyla Edwards each added three.

    Tessa Lynch and Sloan Harpenau each had eight assists. Hilarie Hahus made five digs.

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  • TC tops Bosse, goes 2-1 in tourney

    TELL CITY - Lauren Goffinet made 13 kills and seven digs as Tell City beat Bosse 25-12, 25-15, 25-13 in volleyball Tuesday.

    Elizabeth Kohnert added seven kills and six digs and Leslie Poole also made six digs.

    Julie Davis had 19 assists.

    Jamie Brinksneader served 12 points, including two aces, and Kohnert added 11 points.

    No one made more than one block for the Marksmen because "we didn't have a lot of opportunities to block," said Tell City Coach Dalonda Hayes.

    Tell City went 2-1 in Harrison's six-team tourney Saturday.

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  • PC boys win Boonville meet

    BOONVILLE - Perry Central placed four runners in the top 11 to win the Boonville invitational boys cross country meet Saturday.

    Tell City, led by fourth-place finisher Alex Fenn, placed fourth in the 14-team meet.

    Tell City freshman Sarah Goffinet won the girls race to lead the Marksmen to third place in it. Perry Central finished fourth.

    Jake Schwartz placed third in 16:43, one second ahead of Tell City's Fenn, to lead Perry Central in the boys race.

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  • Obama revives promise

    Close to 84,000 people crammed into Denver's 75,000-seat Invesco stadium last Thursday to witness history in the making as Barack Obama, America's first African-American to lead a major party ticket, accepted his nomination from the Democratic Party. People of all creeds and races, of all classes and ages, fought to leave work early, battled frustrated city traffic, survived overcrowded public transit and waited in lines for hours.

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  • File soon for tax deductions

    TELL CITY - County Auditor Connie A. Berger reminds taxpayers to file for property-tax deductions and exemptions. The one-time filing of deductions or exemptions is still in effect unless your status has changed.

    Any deductions filed by Dec. 31 of this year will be applied to taxes payable in 2009. Following is an explanation of what may qualify taxpayers as having a change in status:

    Mortgage Deduction

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  • Deputy completes academy training

    CANNELTON - Perry County Sheriff's Department Deputy Daymion Marsh graduated Aug. 22 from the Indiana Law Enforcement Training Academy in Plainfield.

    The 15-week course consists of more than 600 hours of training in a variety of areas, including criminal and traffic law, firearms, emergency-vehicle operations, physical tactics, EMS awareness, accident investigation, criminal investigation, domestic violence and sexual assault, water-rescue training, crime prevention and drug and narcotics investigations.

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