Charlestown News

The nearly $40 million renovation and building project at Charlestown High School is starting to take shape.

Kaitlin Medcalf follows along with a song at 4-H minicamp Tuesday in Charlestown.

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Charlestown's ninth-annual Founders Day festival brought the community out for a weekend of fun and celebration, with locals reflecting on how far the town has come as well as preparing for where it is heading.

Members of the Clark County 4-H program rounded up their bikes for the annual Bicycle Rodeo on Thursday evening at the 4-H Fairgrounds.

Charlestown will hold its ninth-annual Founders Day celebration today through Saturday.

Ricky Decker, a 36-year-old national champion drag racer from Charlestown, Ind., gives an immediate impression of redness.

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PHOTO 1: The 10 contestants for Miss Clark County 2009 model their evening gowns for the judges Thursday night in the Robinson Performing Arts Center at Providence High School.

When organizers of the Tug Hill Bluegrass Festival looked around to book its main act this year, they didn't settle on second fiddle.

Construction projects are moving along at River Ridge Commerce Center. The River Ridge Board of Directors approved several initiatives to continue improvements of the land that used to house the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant.

Photo 1: Ian Lewis, 7, makes faces at a new Macintosh computer as he takes a funny picture of himself on Monday afternoon during a summer camp hosted by Charlestown Parks and Recreation.

Three area police departments have stopped charging for copies of incident reports.

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Five families have joined together in the second lawsuit filed against the Louisville Zoo over a miniature train derailment that injured 22 people.

Steve Morris' job as Jeffersonville High School principal is safe - for now. Amid speculation he may be reassigned, board members and Greater Clark County Schools interim Superintendent Travis Haire said Morris' name was not included in personnel reports approved unanimously by the seven-member school board.

An Indiana family has sued the Louisville Zoo over the derailment of a miniature train earlier this month that injured 22 people.

CHEERS ... to the police departments in Jeffersonville and Clarksville and the Clark County Sheriff's Department for dropping excessive fees for incident reports.