Today's News

TELL CITY - The Tell City Common Council will meet in special session Friday at 4 p.m. to hold preliminary discussion on next year's city budget. The meeting is open to the public and will be held in the city council chambers in City Hall.

The Aug. 4 meetings of the common council and board of public works and safety will be pushed back one week to Aug. 11 due to the city's Schweizer Fest and sesquicentennial.

The city works board will meet at 6 p.m. Aug. 11 with the council convening at 7.

Effort targets debt, building needs

CANNELTON - Cannelton School Board members voted in a special meeting Thursday to issue up to $2.8 million in bonds to pull the corporation out from under debt it has endured for years and to make improvements to Cannelton High School.

Tell City's sesquicentennial begins Saturday and residents are encouraged to show their support by displaying city flags.

A small number of "garden-sized" flags are available with greater numbers of 2-foot by 3-foot and 3-foot by 5-foot versions of the red, white and blue flags with the city's name, founding date and red apple sporting a yellow arrow. The 2-foot by 3-foot flags are available with sleeves or grommets.

Flags can be purchased at the Perry County Chamber of Commerce, Tassels, Gatherings, Celebrations and William Tell Antiques and Collectibles.

Steel arrives for Tell City Boat Works' first barge; stevedores make quick work of briquettes

TELL CITY - A company's desire to buy up front the steel Tell City Boat Works will use to build it a barge and the quick offloading of a new product could bring new business to the Perry County Port Authority and Hoosier Southern Railroad.

Stephen George, marketing director for the port-rail agency, said during a July 17 regular meeting of its board of directors 15 or 16 rail cars of five-eighths-inch plate steel had been offloaded.