Today's News

TELL CITY - Still willing to excuse the occasional mistake but wanting to take a harder line against repeat violators of the city's trash-tagging rules, the Tell City Common Council voted Monday to adopt an ordinance allowing for fines of $5 per bag leveled on trash in which the required tags are missing or have been torn in half or otherwise mutilated.

Details of the new ordinance will be published in the legals section of Monday's issue. The change allows crews to pick up bags that aren't properly tagged and to apply the fines on the customer's next bill.

Paddlewheeler's future threatened

TELL CITY - A city councilman wants to circulate a petition asking Congress to keep a historic Ohio River paddlewheeler on the water.

The Delta Queen, a 285-foot-long craft that can carry up to 200 passengers, could be moored permanently late this year if its owners don't receive a continuation of an exemption allowing the paddlewheeler, which has a wooden superstructure, to carry overnight passengers.

Survivors' lap kicks off at 2 p.m. Saturday

LEOPOLD - Relay For Life teams from across Perry County will converge on Perry Central Community School Saturday and Sunday, walking to raise money for the fight against cancer and to remember those who have both won and lost their battles with the disease.

As of Tuesday, there were 21 teams, 186 participants and $7,275.76 raised, according to data on Perry County's Relay For Life Web site, located at http://events. cancer.org/rflperrycoin.

City council declines Ferdinand company's petition to rezone land for storage, office buildings

TELL CITY - A Ferdinand company's plans to construct self-storage units on a 5-acre tract of land along Tell Street, already slowed by unfavorable recommendations by the city's plan commission, hit would could be a permanent red light Monday evening when the Tell City Common Council let die a motion to approve a rezoning request.