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Today's News

  • Hospital foundation plans dinner-dance

    Schergens Center event Feb. 16 to benefit group's work

    TELL CITY - Looking for that special Valentine's weekend event for the special person in your life? Well, look no further. Perry County Memorial Hospital Foundation is sponsoring a formal dinner and dance Saturday, Feb. 16, at the Schergens Center.

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  • Perry Central 2008 royalty

    Travis Goffinet and Sidney Harpenau were crowned Perry Central's basketball homecoming king and queen at the Commodores' game against Mitchell Saturday.

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  • Recycling district mails 2008 bills

    CANNELTON - Bills for the 2008 Perry County Recycling Management District, formerly known as the Perry County Solid Waste District, recycling initiative fee, assessed to all home and business owners in Perry County, are being mailed during the month of January.

    The first round of bills are due March 17.

    The district will mail the bills for mobile homes in the following manner: Mobile homes on land owned by the occupant are considered real estate. These bills are being mailed in January and will be due March 17.

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  • Terrys plan maple-syrup demo Feb. 2

    Free pancake, sausage dinner awaits guests at RC&D event

    TELL CITY - A local family long active in stewardship of forest resources will host guests at a Feb. 2 demonstration of maple-syrup making.

    Marshall "Doc" Terry and his family will host the event with Lincoln Hills Resource Conservation and Development Area's Forestry Committee. The free demonstration will begin at 9 a.m. and conclude by noon.

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  • Perry Central students' generosity helps war-torn counterparts in Iraq

    LEOPOLD - A demonstration of Perry County generosity has helped to build a bridge of understanding and cooperation between two nations separated by culture, war and thousands of miles.

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  • Community foundation wants suggestions on how to direct money to greatest needs

    PERRY COUNTY - The Perry County Community Foundation's leaders want to refocus their grant-making efforts in hopes of making an even bigger difference than they have in the past. And they're seeking the community's input.

    "We're looking to make a real impact in the community by being able to focus funds on one particular issue where we can really promote positive change," Kim Embrey, director of the community foundation said in a December News story announcing an effort to focus the group's efforts on a single community issue or project.

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  • Man found unconscious in SUV arrested on meth charge

    TELL CITY - An unconscious man pulled from his sport-utility vehicle Jan. 8 was jailed after police allegedly located methamphetamine and a handgun inside.

    John E. Applegate, 27, of 1926 Bradford Drive, Tell City, was allegedly sitting inside his Ford Explorer in the 300 block of 18th Street near the Spring Mill Apartments, Patrolman Bryce Hammack reported.

    Applegate, who appeared to be disoriented and unfamiliar with his surroundings, either refused or was unable to identify himself, Hammack reported.

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  • Community well positioned for tourism boom

    O'Bannon Highway, I-64 have county at tourism crossroads

    TELL CITY - A new state highway tying Perry County with communities to its north is opening new opportunities for local tourism, the director of Perry County's convention and visitors bureau said this month.

    Local officials and those involved in tourism-related businesses, Bev Minto said, need to realize just how connected Perry County is to its neighbors and how beneficial the roadways will be in drawing visitors and their spending dollars to the county.

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  • Davis to become county clerk Feb. 1

    TELL CITY - Doris Davis, first deputy under two county clerks, will begin shouldering the duties of the office's top job Feb. 1. An employee of the office since 1998, Davis was appointed county clerk Saturday by Democratic precinct chairmen.

    She will succeed Debbie Elder, who has accepted the position of treasurer for the Tell City-Troy Township School Corp. Davis will serve the balance of Elder's term, which runs through 2010.

    Davis said she has worked hard to maintain the high standards of the office as first-deputy clerk and will serve the public well as county clerk.

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  • Port officials approve bond terms

    Second attempt nets offers from two area financial institutions

    TELL CITY - Perry County Port Authority-Hoosier Southern Railroad board members met the evening of Martin Luther King Jr. Day to press ahead on efforts to fund infrastructure improvements they've been pursuing for several years.

    The result of their holiday meeting, a resolution incorporating terms of a bond bid from First State Bank, was to go before county commissioners and council members in meetings Wednesday and today, respectively.

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