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Today's News

  • Tell City holds off Chargers

    PETERSBURG—Logan Flannagan had 15 points and eight rebounds as Tell City defeated Pike Central 49-44 in PAC girls basketball Tuesday.
    Flannagan scored eight points in the fourth quarter on two field goals and 2-for-2 free-throw shooting as the Marksmen held off a late challenge from the Chargers.
    For the game she hit 4 of 11 shots from the field and 7 of 8 free throws.
    Kassidie Hayes added nine points, 10 rebounds and five blocked shots despite playing only about half the game due to foul trouble.

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  • Perry Central boys team quick again

    By LARRY GOFFINET
    Sports Editor

    LEOPOLD—Though four starters graduated, Perry Central boys basketball coach Matt Carter expects his team to look a lot like last year’s.
    “We’ve got some experience coming back even though we lost four starters,” he said.
    That’s because he played eight or nine players extensively in every game, a practice he intends to continue this year.

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  • Boonville battles back to pin Tell City

    By LARRY GOFFINET
    Sports Editor

    TELL CITY—Tell City jumped to a 24-0 lead in the first four matches but lost to Boonville 53-27 in the Marksmen’s wrestling season opener Tuesday.
    The meet started with the heavyweight match, and that and the lower weight classes are some of Tell City’s strongest.
    Cody Osborne pinned Jacob Jones in 55 seconds at heavyweight.
    David Teague pinned Tyler Simpson in 1:06 in the 106-pound weight class and Aubrey Craig pinned Tyler Denney in 0:52 at 113.

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  • Tell City man jailed again for allegedly molesting child

    TELL CITY – For the second time in less than three years, a Tell City man has been arrested for molesting a child.

    Douglas Fuchs of 3 High St. was jailed Wednesday on two counts of child molesting, one a Class A felony and the second a Class C felony.

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  • COLUMN: Nation forgets wisdom, faith of founding fathers

    By TERESA EUBANK
    Guest Columnist

    I am writing this to the attention of anyone who listens, who reads. I just saw a beautiful slideshow of the changing trees throughout our United States; in the background softly played the glorious song “God Bless America.”

    “Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountains majesties, above the fruited plain. “America, America God shed his Grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea.”

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  • COLUMN: Editorial on Common Core State Standards was light on facts

    By AMY ETIENNE
    Guest Columnist

    It is time for a revolution in American education.  Schools are no longer responsible for only teaching children reading, writing and arithmetic.  We must now teach children to think deeply and critically about all of the information that comes so easily to them through multi-faceted media.  

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  • Rollover wreck

    Pat Lambert, director of the county’s emergency medical services, expressed thankfulness for child-safety seats after responding to an accident in the 100 block of Tell City’s Boundary Way. (Click photo to enlarge.)

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  • Recycled benches at William Tell

    William Tell Elementary sixth-grade student council members are busy sorting and collecting recycled plastic lids.

    Once the required amount of  400 pounds of plastic lids are collected they will be taken to the specialized recycling facility, Green Tree Plastics in Evansville.

    The school has extended its thanks to its  sponsor, the Kashyab family of An Island LLC, 309 12th St. in Tell City, for sponsoring the fabrication of a fourth recycled bench.

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  • Marching Marksmen benefit from correctional center talents

    The Tell City Marching Marksmen’s 2013 season ended last month after showcasing its members’ talents in front of thousands of people. The colorful backdrops the band used over the course of the marching season were a credit to staff and offenders at Branchville Correctional Facility.

    Offenders there painted the canvas boards emblazoned with the slogan “The Struggle Within,” other words and designs that reflected the band’s musical theme for the year.

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  • New postmaster

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