Perry County News

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

Dan Adams will resign his position as Perry County recreation director July 10, Pete Franz-man announced at a regular meeting of the county council June 25.

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.

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.

For the last 10 years die-hard Halloween fans have converged on the Perry County 4-H Fairgrounds to share their craft and have fun.

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.

A Grandview man dies while working his shift at the Waupaca Foundry in Tell City.

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.

What's the best Perry County has to offer? What attraction or destination should everyone know of? Is there a trail to hike, a shady spot to picnic or a historic site that just shouldn't be missed? Those are the questions the Perry County Convention and Visitors Bureau and others involved in promoting our community to others would like to know, and ...

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.

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.

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.

Prices for recyclable materials remain low while costs for processing them climb, but the employment of a solid-waste-management company will bring some relief, the executive director of the Perry County Recycling Management District said May 28.

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.

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.

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.

The Perry County News will welcome a new publisher Monday, a newspaper veteran with deep connections to Hoosier journalism.

Friends of the Library will present Howl at the Moon ... With a Wild Thing Tune at 6 p.m. May 27 at the Tell City-Perry County Public Library.

A pair of old tombstones apparently separated from the graves they were intended to mark are back where they belong - thanks to a combination of dedicated detective work and a desire to preserve a pioneering family's legacy.