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Today's News

  • Power of Youth BB tourney

    A March 3 three-on-three coed bbasketballtourney sponsored by Perry County Power of Youth drew 21 teams and 73 participants to Tell City Junior-Senior High School. Photos of winning teams will be in Thursday’s edition and more photos can be found on this site.

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  • Lincoln Amphitheatre to host job fair Saturday

    LINCOLN CITY – A southern Indiana theater will host a job fair to complete its staffing needs for the 2012 production season.
    Lincoln Amphitheatre will hold its job fair from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Lincoln Amphitheatre’s box office.
    Officials hope to hire eight seasonal front-of-the-house employees. The positions include a box-office manager, box office assistants and food-service and merchandise employees.

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  • Readiness key to return of manufacturing

    By KEVIN KOELLING
    Managing Editor

    TELL CITY – This is the last in a series of reports about a panel discussion Feb. 16 at the Hoosier Heights Country Club featuring education officials. It was part of the annual meeting of the Perry County Development Corp. Board of Directors.

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  • Library begins shaping long-term plan

    By TRISTA LUTGRING
    Feature Writer

    CANNELTON – The Perry County Public Library board members met in the council room below the Cannelton library branch March 7 to hear from June Miller about a long-term strategic plan for the library.
    The plan is a requirement from the state library and is something all libraries in Indiana must complete, according to Library Director Larry Oathout.

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  • There’s no doubt: spring is here!

    From daffodils to forsythia, spring has sprung in force in recent days. Weeks of warmer-than-usual temperatures have flowers and bushes blossoming ahead of schedule and greening grass has sent some homeowners powering up lawn mowers for the first time this season. Cloudy but warm conditions are expected early this week.

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  • Seventh Street visitors center proposed

    By VINCE LUECKE
    Editor

    TELL CITY – Not many details were available Friday, but a proposal to construct an event and visitors center along Tell City’s Seventh Street will be outlined to members of the city council tonight.

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  • County must develop ADA plan

    By KEVIN KOELLING
    Managing Editor

    TELL CITY – The county’s commissioners and councilmen met in a joint special session March 7 and learned they need to comply with federal legislation signed into law 22 years ago.

    Matt Wallace of the Bernardin-Lochmueller engineering firm of Evansville said guidelines and specifications have changed several times since the Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect in 1991, and some have been met with strong resistance.

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  • Volunteers to tackle tornado damage

    By KEVIN KOELLING
    Managing Editor

    PERRY COUNTY – Several people are headed Saturday to areas ripped apart two weeks ago by tornadoes to help in the recovery effort.

    Josh Harris of Simon and Harris Construction in Derby is one of them, and has been in the area.

    “The devastation is pretty crazy,” he said Thursday.

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  • Perry Central spring schedules

    Baseball
    March
    30    South Spencer    H    4:30
    31    Orleans    T    10:00
    April
      2    Forest Park JV (DH)    T    4:15
      3    Corydon Central    H    5:30
      4    North Harrison V    H    4:30
      7    North Posey    T    11:00

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  • UCLA may go after Knight for next coach

    NCAA tourney time means 68 teams are excited about being chosen for the Division I basketball tourney.
    It also means a lot of teams that thought they had a chance at making the tourney at the start of the season are disappointed and some are firing their coaches.
    Already gone are Bruce Weber of Illinois and Doc Sadler of Nebraska.
    Could UCLA’s Ben Howland be next? He should be.

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