Today's News

TELL CITY - The Perry County News has added a second news box in front of its Main Street office.

One box will hold Monday papers, with Thursday editions in the other. The addition of the second box will allow issues to remain in boxes for a full week and serve readers who miss purchasing a paper before the next issue is published. Those readers have had to enter the office to purchase those issues. The boxes will be labeled.

Will Evan Bayh's decision to retire from the U.S. Senate do anything to change what's wrong in Washington? Call it what you want: gridlock, partisanship or catharsis. No matter the name, the lack of bipartisan dialogue or respect for the opinions of others and the downright poisonous atmosphere keeps reasonable legislators like Bayh from doing what they were elected to do, help ordinary Americans.

We don't blame him for throwing up his arms.

By this time you have probably heard it, seen it or read about Tell City U. S. Census 2010 coming in March. While we realize this is repetitive, we feel it is so extremely important we should repeat it once again.

Census 2010 data is used for a number of things, but we feel the three most important ones are:

PAOLI—Perry Central held Paoli to 36.4 percent field-goal shooting to beat the Rams 54-52 in overtime in PLAC boys basketball Friday.

The Rams hit only 9 of 32 shots from two-point range and 7 of 12 three-point attempts.

Despite their shooting better from three-point than two-point range, Perry Central Coach Matt Carter said, “I thought we did a good job defending their three-point shooters. They had four guys on the floor at any one time who could shoot the three.”