Neighbors First, Friday-Night Lights Next
Life along the Ohio River slowed to its familiar late-summer rhythm this week. From Tell City to Leopold, neighbors checked in on each other, high-school players fought for yardage under the Friday-night lights, and the sheriff’s radio stayed blissfully calm.
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Life along the Ohio River slowed to its familiar late-summer rhythm this week. From Tell City to Leopold, neighbors checked in on each other, high-school players fought for yardage under the Friday-night lights, and the sheriff’s radio stayed blissfully calm. It wasn’t an uneventful week—just one that reminded folks why they like calling Perry County home. On Sunday, Facebook lit up with posts about 87-year-old Albert Mesarosh, missing from his home and thought to be disoriented.
Friends and strangers alike shared his photo, swapped possible sightings, and offered to walk wooded trails.
By Thursday night, there was still no official update, but the family’s plea—“He has medical issues…please share”—had reached well beyond county lines. Football brought its own drama. The Perry Central Commodores dropped a 6–20 decision to Crawford County on September 5, their third straight loss. Now all eyes turn to tonight’s homecoming clash with Paoli, kickoff at 7:30 in Leopold.
Senior class reps will take their halftime bows before a crowd expected to top 500. Coach quotes and Hudl highlights are already fueling talk of a bounce-back. Elsewhere, life moved with small-town steadiness. Mayor Cail’s “Mornings with the Mayor” breakfast drew the Chamber crowd for coffee and economic chatter.
Barb Carver, a cyclist who knows every back road, penned a public letter urging neighbors to fight roadside litter: “We have the prettiest county in Indiana—let’s keep it that way.” The Tell City Farmers Market kept its Tuesday and Saturday schedule, offering late-season peaches and handmade candles. And the Perry County Public Library set out supplies for its free “Passive Craft of the Week,” a DIY diorama project that will probably have glitter on half the kids in town. The Sheriff’s Office logged nothing more serious than routine patrols and a retirement salute for longtime Deputy Ory.
Even a one-lane closure on Dauby Lane—starting at 7 a.m., with slow traffic—counted as notable news. For a county of just under 19,000, that’s a pretty good stretch: neighbors looking out for one another, a team fighting to turn the season, and a clear Ohio River horizon heading into fall festival time.