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Columns

  • Grab your running shoes

    By Katie Weyer

    As Tell City prepares itself for another week of Schweizer Fest, the list of activities and events to attend and participate in can be quite overwhelming. We are lucky to live in a community that honors its heritage yearly, and by doing so, offers us so many ways to celebrate throughout the week.

    Events that have quickly grown to become some of the largest of the Schweizer Fest sporting events are the road runs.

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  • Perry County develops geniuses

    By Jamie Guillaume

    Editor’s note: The Quality of Life Committee sponsored by the Perry County Development Corp. is partnering with the News to present the stories of people who have moved to Perry County or who have returned here after several years away. This column was written by Jamie Guillaume.

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  • Court ruling concerns big corporations vs. healthy lives

    By TY GUILLAUME
    Guest Columnist

    A recent editorial by the News highlighted the June 30 Supreme Court ruling in Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby and its co-litigant, Conestoga Wood. I thank the News for bringing this national item to our local attention and for providing a forum for debate. I have some points of discussion on this topic.

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  • COLUMN: Working for you during summer

    By LLOYD ARNOLD
    District 74 State Representative

    Every year, after the legislative session is wrapped up, my colleagues and I continue working during the summer months by serving on summer study committees.

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  • COLUMN - Crayon counting and other memories

    By VINCE LUECKE
    Editor

    Our coverage this year of United Way’s Stuff the Bus brought back memories for me of school supplies and the first day of school. It’s funny how those images, perhaps seared into brain cells by excitement, apprehension and dread, are so easily recalled each year as we witness others doing what we did so many years ago. This column about school supplies was first written a decade ago and may stir your own back-to-school days memories.

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  • Love of Place: Thoughts on Perry County

    Editor’s Note: The Quality of Life Committee sponsored by the Perry County Development Corp. is partnering with The News to present the stories of people who have moved to Perry County or who have returned here after several years away. This column was written by Brad Faith.

    “You have roots in a place, or you don’t. You can’t force them.”  So writes southern Indiana author James Alexander Thom. “It helps if you are born there, but that’s not your choice to make.”

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  • Solve our border crisis

    By SEN. DAN COATS
    Guest Columnist

    More than 60,000 unaccompanied alien children – mostly from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador – have been apprehended on America’s southern border during this fiscal year. Another 40,000 family members – one or both parents traveling with their children – have been apprehended during the same time period.

    To put these numbers in perspective, just three years ago our Border Patrol apprehended 16,000 unaccompanied alien children. In fiscal year 2008, the number was 8,000.

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  • No naked dates for local bachelor farmers

    By VINCE LUECKE
    Editor

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  • Bill’s intent is stopping EPA regs

    By LARRY BUCSHON
    Guest Columnist

    I recently signed on as an original cosponsor to a bipartisan bill led by one of my Democrat colleagues from West Virginia that would stop the newly released Environmental Protection Agency regulations on existing coal-generated power plants.

    Here is why.

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  • Camp fosters sense of independence, self-worth

    BY MEGAN GATWOOD
    Guest Columnist

    At Anderson Woods, a not-for-profit summer camp for those with special needs, new experiences are an everyday occurrence.

    Campers who make their way to the camp are met with an array of challenges and life-lasting lessons that enhance the experience of camping while nurturing an increased sense of independence and self-worth.

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