Today's News

CANNELTON - Bonds that will finance energy-saving improvements to the city's high school were sold May 12, Cannelton City Schools Superintendent Al Chapman reported at a May 21 regular school-board meeting.

The sale of approximately $2.4 million in bonds to the Oppenheimer and Co. Inc. investment firm, which was to resell them to long-term investors, also permitted debts to Fifth Third and German American banks, totaling approximately $1.4 million, to be paid off, Chapman said. A construction fund held $865,000 "to be used when we decide what we'll do," he explained.

GULFPORT, Miss. - Eric Faulkenberg lives up to the Latin phrase, "Non sibi, sed patriae," which means "not for self, but for country."

As a petty officer third class in the U.S. Navy, he served for seven months in Kuwait in 2008 and will be deployed to Afghanistan in August. But while he selflessly serves his country, Faulkenberg has served his countrymen in another way.

TELL CITY - The Tell City Common Council has awarded the first Partners in Pride awards for 2009, recognizing four homeowners and a business for the care they have taken to keep their properties attractive.

May winners are Ward 1, Mike and Beth Bruggeman; Ward 2, Dr. James and Carol Black; Ward 3, Jim Graham; Ward 4, Myron Sprinkle; at large, Brett Mulzer's recording studio in the 400 Block of Main Street.