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Perry Central awarded $100,000...

By VINCE LUECKE
Editor

LEOPOLD – Perry Central students will be encouraged to tinker, create and problem solve with the help of teachers, classmates and cutting-age technology. Also helping will be a $100,000 digital-learning grant awarded to the school last week by the Indiana Department of Education’s Office of e-Learning.

The money will be used to purchase laptops for fifth-grade students and will allow them to join older students who have already been assigned laptop computers.

Residents say no to city’s...

By VINCE LUECKE
Editor

TELL CITY – Plans by Tell City to annex more than 1,700 acres drew fire Monday from residents and landowners who said they would see few benefits if forced into the city and suggested the only changes would be higher taxes and meddling in what they can do with their land.

The required public hearing on annexation packed the city council chambers, something that happens rarely at City Hall. City department heads carried in extra chairs to accommodate the crowd.

PCDC chief: Steps to reinvent...

By KEVIN KOELLING
Managing Editor

TELL CITY – This year’s annual meeting of the board of directors for the Perry County Development Corp. featured more and much younger guest speakers than the attendees usually hear from.

State police searched Tell City...

By STUART CASSIDY
and VINCE LUECKE
The Perry County News

SPENCER COUNTY – Police have made an arrest in connection with a bomb threat placed last month to Corn Island Shipyard in Spencer County.
Spencer County sheriff’s deputies arrested an employee of the boat shipyard, Randall F. Kline, 26, of Tennyson Feb. 22 for falsely informing, a Class D felony.

Seventh Street housing project...

By VINCE LUECKE
Editor

TELL CITY – A planned senior-housing complex along Seventh Street in Tell City was awarded more than $1.6 million in rental-housing tax credits and other state financing last week.

Edward Jones Financial’s Jon...

TELL CITY – Veteran Edward Jones Financial adviser Jon Scheer has announced that he has opened a new Edward Jones office at 435 Main St. in Tell City. The new office is the second Edward Jones branch for Tell City and opened in January.

Scheer has been working with financial adviser Kelly Malone to serve investors throughout the Perry County area. Malone will continue serving investors from the office that Scheer established in 1989 at 615 Main St. in Tell City.

Friday crash injures three

One person was flown from the scene of a three-vehicle accident Friday evening on Indiana 37 south of St. Croix.

According to the Perry County Sheriff’s Department, Cody Winkler crossed the centerline and collided with a tractor-trailer driven by Charles Dunn and a car driven by Christine Allen.

Winkler was flown to University of Louisville Hospital but was later released. Sheriff’s Deputy David Biever said the other two drivers were also transported and later released.

Tobinsport man charged

TOBINSPORT – A weeklong investigation resulted in the arrest Wednesday of a Tobinsport man and the seizure of nearly one and a half pounds of marijuana.

Plans for Tell City...

By STUART CASSIDY
Staff Writer

TELL CITY – Beer drinkers rejoice. Two new venues offering craft beers may soon join the ranks of new businesses opening in Tell City.

Developers from the Pour Haus and Tell City Beer Co., two upstart microbrewers, presented structural plans Thursday to the Tell City Tech Committee.

I hear the train a comin’

Employees of the Hoosier Southern Railroad offered tips on rail safety Thursday during a presentation to South Perry Head Start students at the Tell City Depot. (After clicking headline to open story, click photo to enlarge and right arrow to see another.)