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Tell City Man charged with...

TELL CITY – A Tell City man was arrested Thursday afternoon after a seven-month investigation into allegations of crimes against children, specifically possessing child pornography.

In July 2014, an investigation began on William A. Jordan, 64, of 824 Washington St., Apartment 203, Tell City, in which it was believed that he was sharing pornographic images of children through online websites from July through August 2014.

Perryman files for District 3...

By VINCE LUECKE

Editor

 

TELL CITY – With age comes wisdom, Tell City resident Roxanne Perryman says. The 60-year-old Democrat has filed for the city’s common council and while the run is her first for political office, she believes she has plenty to offer city residents if elected to the Ward 3 seat.

“I’ve been here 30 years and I feel a big part of Tell City,” she said. “I think I have a lot to offer.”

County one of six collaboration...

State-university partnership will help develop local leadership and strengthen economy

PERRY COUNTY – A statewide program that helps small communities develop local leadership, strengthen local economies and capitalize on resources has named Perry County one of six participant finalists.

Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann sent congratulatory announcement videos to the six newly designated finalist communities for the Hometown Collaboration Initiative.

County’s long-range plan draws...

By DON STEEN

Staff Writer

 

LEOPOLD – Bob Grewe of the Evansville-based Lochmueller Group addressed a full room Tuesday during a Perry County Comprehensive Plan public workshop in the school cafeteria at Perry Central Community School. Grewe was impressed with the number of citizens and leaders who decided to brave the cold to attend and share their concerns and ideas.

Lochmueller Group will use public input gathered this and future sessions to engineer a plan for long-term improvements to the county.

Cannelton man charged with...

CANNELTON – A local man has been charged with three counts of stalking and two counts of sexual battery stemming from separate incidents that allegedly took place earlier this month in Cannelton.

 

Larry D. Kellems, 69, of 300 Washington St., Cannelton, remained in the Perry County Detention Center Friday. He was arrested Jan. 13 by Cannelton police officers.

 

Branchville Correctional...

BRANCHVILLE – Branchville Correctional Facility Superintendent Kathy Alvey recently reinstituted the facility’s Employee Appreciation Committee.  
One of the duties of the committee is to select an employee of the quarter for each one of the following five categories: supervisor, non-custody employee, custody employee, contractual employee and volunteer.  
The committee has announced the following winners for the most recent quarter:

Perry Central robotics team...

By VINCE LUECKE

LEOPOLD – Perry Central’s robotics team may be relatively new to competitions like the one it entered earlier this month, but that doesn’t mean its members aren’t successful.

The team of seventh- and eighth-graders is called System Overload and is Perry Central’s FIRST tech challenge robotics team.

FIRST is an acronym, which means “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology.”

Brown, Coultas Region 9 stars

EVANSVILLE—Elliott Brown broke several Tell City records on offense at running back and Perry Central’s Nick Coultas is being recruited by several colleges as a defensive lineman.
So of course Brown made the Region 9 senior football all-star team as an outside linebacker/safety and Coultas made it as an offensive lineman when area coaches voted for the team Wednesday.
Players on the Region 9 team are eligible to be considered for the South team for Indiana’s North-South all-star game when voting for it is done March 8.

A word from the ranger:

Chris Zimmer

Hoosier National Forest District Ranger

The Hoosier National Forest conducted two timber sales in 2014, totaling 215 acres, with a volume of approximately 6,825 hundred cubic feet.  To put this into perspective, it takes approximately 1.3 CCF to build a typical single family home that is 2,400 square feet. This equates to approximately 5,332 cords of firewood. Our timber is used for a variety of end products.  

Tell City girls outswim Braves

TELL CITY—Tell City won nine of the 11 events it entered and beat Tecumseh 82-61 in girls swimming Thursday.
Bailey Powell and Sydney Brown each won two individual events and two relays.
Powell won the 200-yard freestyle in 2:27.03 and the 500 free in 6:33.47.
Brown won the 200 individual medley in 2:51.62 and the 100 backstroke in 1:13.83.
Brown, Hailey Carman, Amy Hackbarth and Powell won the 400 free relay in 4:45.20.
Brown, Sydney Burton, Hackbarth and Madison Schuetter took the 200 medley relay in 2:24.61.