Tell City News

TELL CITY Continuing a tradition already several years old, First Christian Church in Troy will offer a gospel concert, "A Gospel Thanksgiving in Song," from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday at Tell City High School.

TELL CITY According to Mike Davis, fire-program manager for the Hoosier National Forest, three controlled burns are planned for the forest in mid- to late November.

Some problems are best resolved with guns. Not every problem whose best solution is a gun can be expected to occur in extreme southern Perry County, but that's where our law-enforcement resources are concentrated.

A mock chemical spill Wednesday night that would have threatened residents of Tell City's west side instead tested the plans of local agencies that will be on the front lines of any real-life emergency.

The Cannelton Christmas Parade will be Friday, Nov. 27. Harry G. Myers American Legion Post 142, Auxiliary 142 and Sons of the American Legion Detachment 142 are once again sponsoring the parade.

Tribute to veterans Jim Tindle, commander of American Legion Post 213, in Tell City, hoists a U.S. flag along Main Street Tuesday.

A veteran officer with years of experience in town law enforcement has been named the new marshal in Troy.

A rural Tell City boy suffered a serious foot injury Nov. 1 when his leg became entangled in an auger.

A classic problem in trigonometry requests, "Given the length of the shadow that a flagpole casts and angle of inclination that the sun makes with the horizon, compute the height of the flagpole." The late Mr.

Voters in the Tell City-Troy Township school district said no Tuesday to a proposal to make up to $10 million in improvements to Tell City High School.

Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman announced last week that Tell City will receive a $4,447,000 grant, one of the largest funding awards in city history, to control its combined-sewer overflows.

Voters in the Tell City-Troy Township school district will go to the polls Tuesday to answer the question, should up to $10 million worth of renovation work occur at Tell City High School? "Our big emphasis is the chance we have to get interest-free money," Schools Superintendent Ron Etienne said Tuesday.

A menagerie of creatures fair and fearsome, storybook princesses, Winnie the Poohs, grim reapers and dragon-slaying heroes, will converge on Tell City's Main Street Friday evening for the 19th annual Witches Walk.

Several Tell City churches are planning events as alternatives to Halloween trick-or-treating. Explosion of Fun Community Christian Church will host its Explosion of Fun 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday at the church, located at 821 10th St.

Randy Roccia is recruiting ringers. "I am extremely excited in the fact that we are again allowed to have fundraising kettles at each of the Tell City Wal-Mart store entrances this year," the kettle coordinator for the Perry County Salvation Army said in an e-mail message to The News.

The Tell City Common Council has set trick-or-treating hours for 4 to 7 p.m. Oct.

Grant funds add new cars to two departments Cannelton already has Dodge Charger; Ford Crown Victoria coming to Tell City's fleet By KEVIN KOELLING and VINCE LUECKE, Perry County News CANNELTON - "I am excited," Acting Cannelton Police Chief Eric Dickenson said.

For the teachers who participated, Oct. 15 was a Christmas-like day, with bounties of technological booty to be taken back to their classrooms.

Releases of information each year from the state level have made us wonder whether educational efforts throughout Indiana are properly directed.

The Rev. Paul Etienne, a Tell City native who returned home this summer to shepherd two Perry County congregations, was named Monday by Pope Benedict XVI as the next bishop of Cheyenne, Wyo.