The inaugural Henryville Classic Road Race will be held on Saturday, March 10. This event is part of a seven race series where races are held throughout the Kentuckiana area. The bicycle race will take place between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Event planners anticipate upwards of 100 riders to participate in the event.
    The race will be held on a loop course in the Henryville-Otisco area. Roads involved are Henryville-Otisco Road, Old State Route 3, State Route 3, Leon Prall Road, Munk Road and State Route 160. Please not that the roads will not be closed to traffic.
    Area residents are urged to use extreme caution and be alert for cyclists. Clark County Sheriff’s Department will be present to assist. Event organizers also ask that residents keep dogs restrained during the event as dogs chasing bicycles can be extremely hazardous.
    For more information please see the following websites: www.TeamBolla.com and www.KyAnaSeries.com.

    The Charlestown Police Department has recently noticed an increase in the incidents of attempts to fraud or scam local citizens. Citizens should be aware and use caution with use of personal information when receiving notifications, whether by mail, the internet or by phone, of sweepstakes and prize winnings. Recent incidents involve a notification of being a grand prize winner of a large sum of money (including the receipt of a large sum check), if the winner plays a smaller amount of money to either "reserve" their winning ticket or number or "claim" their prize. In one instance, a couple received a phone call that they would be visited by a representative to pick-up a payment at their home to qualify them for winning a larger sum of money.
    Citizens need to remember that common saying as a rule of thumb "if it’s too good to be true, it probably is," and normally a scam to steal money or personal identifying information for the same purposes. No legitimate sweepstakes, lottery or giveaway would ever require you to buy or pay in any way to claim or receive a prize.
    Charlestown Police request you notify them of suspicious attempts to defraud or deceive by any means. Checking the legitimacy of any contest or prize notification is in your best interest, and your local police department can help you do so. Never give out any personal information, including dates of birth, social security numbers or even your address and phone numbers to anyone of whom you don’t know or who you didn’t first initiate business.
    The Better Business Bureau suggests the following prevention information and outlines the scam process in the following:
    If you get an alleged award notification letter, several things become evident. The text of the winnings will have a very generic-surrounding name, such as USA Mega Direct or USA Lotto Direct, both of which sound like you could have potentially entered.
    You will then be congratulated on being a winner or a large amount of money, given a reference number and subsequently asked to not make your winnings public just yet. For convenience’s sakes, you will almost certainly be given a name of a contact or financial secretary who is to allegedly help guide you through your award claims process.
    What is necessary to keep in mind is that anytime anyone asks to pay for something that they claim you have won, a red flag should go up. If anyone asks you to wire a payment via Western Union to Canada, another red flag should go up. If you happen to receive a solicitation of being an awards or lotto winner and then are provided with a check to allegedly cover taxes or fees, turn it into your local Postal Inspector’s Office or law enforcement agency.
    Many of these so-called contacts have in common is that they have a Canadian phone number for you to call, regardless of where they claim to originate.
    Included with the letter will almost always be a legitimate looking check, with an amount that can range from several hundred to several thousand dollars. The solicitation will tell you that this check is to help you offset the pay for insurance, taxes and shipping and handling fees which you will need to pay before you can claim your prize, and will then direct you to call their financial advisor in order to find out how to claim the winnings.
    Sometimes this check may even be addressed as coming from a well known and/or Fortune 500 company with wide name recognition, which may put you in a fake comfort zone. This is in actuality an instance of identify theft of a business, which may likely not be aware that its name and identity are being fraudulently being used in a check scam.
    As soon as you call the number provided on your solicitation, you will be instructed to deposit the check into your personal bank account. Here is where the essence of the check scam lays: real as it may look, the check will not have any funds to back it up. Shortly after taking out what you think are the funds from the check, you will be instructed to wire a certain amount of money, usually via Western Union or Money Gram, to a previously undisclosed third party location.
    The money that you will be wiring will be your own, provided that you have enough in your account to cover the amount being sent. If not, within a few days, you bank will realize that the check you deposited was a fake one, as a result of which it will bounce and you will be held liable for any insufficient fund fees at the least.
    Use caution and protect your interests, including your identity, treat solicitations with suspicion and always investigate the possibilities of attempts to defraud and steal your money or identity. For more information and prevention tips, visit the Better Business Bureau on line at www.bbb.org or via the government at www.us.gov/citizen/topics/consumer_safety.shmtl

    The Silver Creek Dragons (9-12) were eliminated from the 2006-07 boys’ high school basketball state tournament in the first round on Tuesday, February 27. The Dragons were defeated by the Madison Cubs, in the second game of the night, by a score of 63-59. In the first game, the Corydon Panthers defeated the North Harrison Cougars by a score of 49-47.
    The Dragons has the host Cubs down in the first quarter 14-11, but Madison would soon come back to trail only one at the half, 25-24. In the second half, the Cubs took a run and outscored the Dragons 18-12. They took the lead at the end of the third and never looked back, 42-37. The Dragons went on to outscore the Cubs by one in the fourth quarter but it was not enough as the Cubs defeated the Dragons, 63-59.
    Leading the Dragons was Justin Kight with 15 points. Also scoring for the Dragons were Robinson 12, Miller 11, Inman 11, Townsend 6, Underwood 3, and Wyatt 1.
    The Cubs were lead by Ryan Laswell’s 22 points and Logan Jones also dropped 19 for Madison. Also scoring for the Cubs were Sparkman 7, Miller 7, Bagienski 3, Whelan 3, and Brown 2.

    The Charlestown High School Prom will be held at The Grand in New Albany on April 7. All attendees and all CHS juniors and seniors are invited to attend the After Prom Party in the CHS gymnasium from midnight to 3 a.m. There will be inflatables, games, corn hole tournament, prizes and activities.
   Parents are in the process of planning and receiving donations for the event. Cash donations can be made out to CHS and sent to the high school treasurer. Tammy Henderson and Kathy Lenfert are coordinating donations.
   For more information please call the high school.
   Also, adult volunteers will be needed for the event.