Cannelton News

Cannelton students participating in a Summer Math Camp visited Fifth Third Bank in Tell City June 17.

Many governmental offices will be closed Friday in observance of Independence Day.

Mayor Barbara Ewing was recently interviewed by Micah Schweizer and Jessica Naudziunas of radio station WNIN for a five-part weeklong Tri-State Health Series.

DENNY SIMMONS / Courier & Press Former Indiana Gov. Edgar Whitcomb, left, and his companion, Evelyn Gayer, right, live a quiet life in Rome, Ind., in a home they restored to offer guests a simple and elegant place they'd like to visit.

Perry County Sheriff Bob Glenn took a problem to the county commissioners' regular meeting Wednesday, but already had a solution for it.

Every day our government gives us a reason to grumble, whether it's been imposing new taxes or something else.

Volunteers went to work on the Myers Grade School playground Tuesday, scraping up wood chips that served to break the falls of frolicking children and the railroad ties intended to keep the material "in the lines." The chips will be replaced with inch-long, slender, factory-engineered wood-fiber pieces, elementary Principal Ginger Conrad explained.

Cannelton High School will wrap up Perry County's graduations as the Class of 2009 receives their diplomas during a 10 a.m. ceremony Saturday at the Cannelton Community Center.

Cannelton preschool teacher Margie Weatherholt and instructional assistants Charlene Hemming and Shelly Masterson were recognized by a state official for the "quality learning environment" they provide.

Healthy Families welcomed spring April 9, when the family-support specialists hosted a spring fling parent group.

Government offices will be closed Monday in observance of Memorial Day. Federal, state, county and city offices will be closed for the day.

The Graduation 2009 special section in Thursday's edition of The Perry County News is available here.

Veterans groups will come together around noon Sunday for a joint Memorial Day service in City Hall Park.

Cannelton city leaders ventured some ideas at a regular meeting of the board of public works and safety May 11 about preventing vandals from destroying property in city parks without infringing on residents' liberties.

Memorial Day is approaching and we hope Perry Countians will commit a portion of the long weekend to recalling the heroism of the men and women who gave their lives in service to our land.

Five people were taken into custody Saturday following a drug bust in southeast Daviess County.

Perry County News Managing Editor Kevin Koelling was named the top editorial writer in The News' class in a Landmark Community Newspaper Inc.

Some checks mailed from and to Cannelton addresses have taken four or five days to reach their destination, even though Cannelton's mail doesn't make the 300-mile round trip to Terre Haute and back that Tell City's does, Arvina Bozarth said Monday.

All three of Perry County's school systems fell into the academic-watch category based on assessments of 2008 data under the state's Public Law 221, according to information released Wednesday.

Chris Deel hopes the welding skills he's mastering at Ivy Tech Community College will take him places.