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- Community Foundation awards grants at annual event
Forty-five area charitable organizations received a preholiday boost Tuesday when they received grants from the Community Foundation of Southern Indiana.
- Purdue Ag outlook meeting: How will agriculture get through 2009?
The focus of this program is to help explain factors that are driving farm prices this year both to the heights and now to the depths.
- Charlestown second-graders to get laptops
All 100 second-graders at Pleasant Ridge Elementary School in Charlestown will have laptop computers to use next school year, thanks to a $33,000 state grant that was matched by nearly $23,000 in local funding.
- 2 held in death of man found in car
Clarksville police have arrested two southern Indiana men on murder charges after officers found a dead man in a car that rolled into the Ohio River.
- Victim of car pulled from river identified, crime might have happened in New Albany
New information about a murder investigation in Clarksville reveals the crime may have happened in a neighboring city.
- Posed rental inspection ordinance in Charlestown gets mixed views
John Gardner grew up in Charlestown's Pleasant Ridge neighborhood in the late 1950s and into the early 1960s.
- First Look: Area Deaths - November 20, 2008
This list is intended only as a basic list of names and information to provide an early alert to friends and well wishers.
- Indiana Church Happenings
Services, activities Bible Baptist Independent Church, 6109 Ind. 60, Sellersburg, has Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and worship at 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sundays.
- What's happening in Southern Indiana
Clark County Extension Homemakers holiday bazaar. Clark County 4-H Fairgrounds, 9608 Ind.
- Charlestown High program gives faces to Veterans Day
About 200 Charlestown High School juniors and seniors listened raptly as Frank Walker described his experiences as a Marine during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
- IN hunters reduce deer population
Seventeen Indiana state parks will be closed for a pair of Monday-Tuesday periods while hunters reduce the deer population.
- DODD: Open letter to Tony Bennett
Congratulations Dr. Bennett, Indiana superintendent of public instruction, or can I still call you Tony? You are now a very important person in the state of Indiana.
- Fatality reported in single-car wreck in rural Clark County
A 21-year-old man from Hanover was found dead in his car Friday morning after apparently driving off the road and striking a tree overnight.
- Driver slams into Jeffersonville methadone clinic; 11 injured
Four people were hospitalized and another seven injured after a woman drove a van into the Southern Indiana Treatment Center, alongside Ind.
- Art in store on Spring Street in Jeffersonville
Last Thursday, residents flocked to Downtown Jeffersonville's Holiday Open House in search of deals, free snacks and family fun.
- Conservation district supervisor sought
NEW ALBANY The Floyd County Soil and Water Conservation District is taking applications for district supervisor to serve a three-year term beginning Feb.
- Many offices closed for Veterans Day
Closings and changes in observance of Veterans Day on Tuesday: Government offices: Jeffersonville, Charlestown, Clark County and Sellersburg offices will be closed Tuesday.
- Vehicle Drives Through Methadone Clinic
Eleven people were injured, including four who were rushed to area hospitals, when a van drove through a southern Indiana methadone clinic off Highway 62.
- Clark County: Voting smooth, even with high turnout
Election officials said Wednesday that voting went well in Clark County, especially considering the enormous turnout and the more than 7,000 residents that voted early.
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City DescriptionCharlestown is a city in Clark County, Indiana, United States. The population was 5,993 at the 2000 census.
Charlestown is located at 38°27′7″N 85°40′2″W / 38.45194, -85.66722 (38.451984, -85.667224).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.3 square miles (6.0 km²), all of it land.
As of the census of 2000, there were 5,993 people, 2,341 households, and 1,615 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,570.0 people per square mile (993.1/km²). There were 2,489 housing units at an average density of 1,067.4/sq mi (412.4/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 92.91% White, 2.47% African American, 0.27% Native American, 0.17% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 2.77% from other races, and 1.35% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.32% of the population.
There were 2,341 households out of which 37.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.9% were married couples living together, 18.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.0% were non-families. 26.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average ... Read MoreCity Contained By:Timezones:- North American Eastern Time Zone
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