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Columns

  • COLUMN: Facebook friends and drama

    By VINCE LUECKE
    Editor

    I’m not the biggest user of Facebook. Far from it. I post photographs taken for the newspaper – and the occasional personal collection of pictures – and breaking news. Other staff and I also do that on The Perry County News’ Facebook page.

    In comparison, some people document their every move on Facebook, what restaurant they’re eating at, what movie they’re watching and, literally, when they’re doing the laundry on a Sunday night.

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  • COLUMN: Counties receive community asset inventory report card

    By SUE ELLSPERMANN
    District 74 State Representative

    Most of us really don’t like to receive a grade score … unless we are assured an A or B.  That said, letter grades give us a strong indication of “where we stand.”  

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  • COLUMN: Outwitted by a turtle

    By VINCE LUECKE
    Editor

    Wars aren’t won in a single day but two days of trying to trap an elusive snapping turtle had me shaking my head in frustration last week.

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  • COLUMN: Levco will serve the county well

    By ROD ACCHIARDO
    County Prosecutor

    On Monday, April 9, the Perry County Council held an emergency session to hear my petition to hire a part-time Deputy IV-D prosecutor.

    In 1975, Congress amended the Social Security Act, Title IV, Part D – hence the Title IV-D – to provide greater assistance to the states in establishing paternity and enforcing child-support orders.

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  • COLUMN: Let’s keep Hoosier athletics fair

    By GENE RESS
    Guest Columnist

    My credentials for expressing my opinions in this column, among other things, include nearly 50 years of sports medicine as a team physician in southern Indiana; being a school-board member for 15 years, both positions for the Tell City-Troy Township school system and being a member of the Indiana Football Hall of Fame.

    I have been a sports fan for more than 70 years. I have expressed my concerns often to the IHSAA, including all of the years my cousin, Blake Ress, was commissioner.

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  • COLUMN: No shirt on a frosty night

    By VINCE LUECKE
    Editor

    Lost: A nice, blue flannel shirt last seen Wednesday night in New Boston. If found, please call 547-3424.

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  • COLUMN: ‘Hunger Games’ not just for teens

    By ERIC HARRIS
    Film Review

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  • COLUMN: Hoosier teens need summer jobs

    By BILL STANCZYKIEWICZ
    Indiana Youth Institute

    While the nation’s job market is slowly warming up, the summer months might not be so hot for teen employment.

    The last 12 months saw the country’s unemployment rate drop from 9 percent to 8.3 percent, while Indiana’s unemployment rate dropped to 8.7 percent.

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  • COLUMN: My vision for 7th Street

    By VINCE LUECKE
    Editor

    As a kid, I remember two distinct smells emanating from Tell City’s downtown. The first was the smell of wood and lacquer from Tell City Chair Co. The second was at Tell City Feed and Grain, where the odor of grain and soybean mill wafted over the area.

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  • COLUMN: Ag economy more diverse

    By VINCE LUECKE
    Editor

    Agriculture has a bright future in Perry County and southern Indiana and it’s not just corn and soybeans that will help drive profits on farms big and small.

    An afternoon drive proved that truth for me Thursday, perhaps helped by the early spring all of us have been enjoying for weeks.

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