Tell City News Archives

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 ...

Moose Lodge 1424 in Tell City will again sponsor its annual Fourth of July Picnic in ZoercherBettinger Park July 2-4. Any nonprofit organization interested in reserving space in the park for fundraising activities can call Bill Coyle at 547-7867 or 547-6885. Booth rental is $45 for all three days.

Perry County commissioners agreed with County Assessor Mendy Ward in a June 1 regular meeting that the Continental Apartments should not receive a property-tax exemption, and to employ a Carmel attorney to represent them if the issue goes to court.

A $1.8 million grant awarded to Tell City last week will become a foundation for changing the look of the city's most-established neighborhoods, the city's mayor said Friday.

Meal prices at Tell City-Troy Township schools were raised in a regular school-board meeting Tuesday, after what officials said was a long period without hikes.

Five Perry County volunteer fire departments will receive a total of $11,380 in fire-assistance grants to purchase radios and safety and water-handling equipment.

Logan Everly, left, a summer worker for Tell City, helps street-department employee Dennis James hoist one of two sofas set out for pickup along Geneva Drive late Wednesday morning.

An informational meeting for all parents of 2009-season Marching Marksmen students will be conducted by the Tell City Band Boosters beginning at 7 p.m. June 15 in the Twilight Towers Dining Room, 1648 10th St.

Thyssenkrupp Waupaca, Inc. recently received the Environmental Stewardship Award from Energy Management Systems Inc.

Tell City residents were encouraged this week to take advantage of the upcoming spring cleanup, which kicks off Saturday at the city garage.

Most parents expect their children to graduate from high school. Elizabeth "Libby" Galloway wasn't sure, for a time, if daughter Beyonka, would live long enough.

The chief of Tell City's Electric Department sent a notice to customers May 4 saying an energy bill being considered by Congress would hurt them financially.