Tell City News

A far-reaching federal grant to Perry Central Community School Corp. will promote healthy childhood development over the next four years, the district's superintendent said Tuesday.

The city of Tell City will pave Mozart Street from 12th Street to 19th Street Wednesday, July 8, and Thursday, July 9. The roadway will be closed to normal traffic flow with limited access for residents.

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

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

Imagine cycling through the scenic rolling hills of Perry County on a beautiful summer morning with family and friends.

This year's River Sweep was "a very good success, with a very good turnout" of hard-working volunteers, Paul Alvey told the board of directors for the Perry County Recycling Management District in a regular meeting Tuesday.

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.

Caution tape and temporary walls lead Tell City High School visitors from the front door to the office, and separate them from the flurry of construction activity under way on the main floor.

Perry County Habitat for Humanity and the Tell City-Troy Township School Corp.'s building trades program have formed a collaborative partnership over the past school year.

Fourteen performers advanced from Sunday's second round of Shoot for the Stars and will perform July 19 in City Hall Park.

Tell City businesses that recycle cardboard through the Perry County Recycling Management District will soon see dumpsters replace the trailers they're now renting for the purpose.

"They got married on June 13 and went on their honeymoon in Gatlinburg ," the 75-year-old Spencer County woman said.

The Perry County Junior Women will have a bingo booth at the Moose Lodge 1424-sponsored Fourth of July Picnic at Zoercher-Bettinger Park in Tell City.

Authorities are investigating a death at the Waupaca Foundry in Tell City, IN. The Perry County Coroner's Office said 42-year-old Frankie Jordan died just after 4:00 a.m. Monday after a co-worker found him pinned against some machinery.

TELL CITY Perry County's deputy coroner hopes an autopsy will determine what killed a ThyssenKrupp Waupaca employee found early Monday inside the company's Tell City foundry.

The Tell City-Perry County Public Library will hold its summer story time series, "Just Keep Laughing featuring the Peanuts Gang," today through July 23.

The Tell City Water Department will send out its annual consumer-confidence reports later this week, said Superintendent Dale Poole.

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

Rick and Brenda Pund of Tell City took part in last month's Buddy Ball Fishing tourney for special-needs children.

"All she ever did was the grunt work," Dr. Gene Ress said Tuesday about his wife, Naomi, "and sometimes we wonder if we're worthy doing that." The way she did it, he added, "gives credit to her caring and sharing." He was explaining the reason Naomi was honored by the United Professional Horsemen of Indiana through the creation of a trophy to be ...