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The annual Anderson County Burgoo festival will begin at 10 a.m. Sept. 30 and end Oct. 2 at 5 p.m.
Local merchants will be open during the festival on Main Street, and attendees are encouraged to bring a lawn chair to enjoy the activities.
Rental chairs will also be available.
The festival is located on both Main Street and Western Avenue, and these streets will be closed between Woodford Street and Court Street, including Jackson Street and a portion of Township Square.

A fundraiser featuring silent auctions, food and live music and more is set to help a Lawrenceburg woman battling Stage 4 colon and lung cancer.
Tammy Matherly-Coomes, 39, is the mother of five and grandmother of one who was diagnosed in June and has already endured six weeks of chemotherapy and radiation, family members said.
She also has a spot on her left lung and the cancer is in her bloodstream, they said.
Next up is surgery to remove a tumor on her colon, followed by more chemotherapy, family members said.

A Lawrenceburg woman who allegedly passed phony money at several fast-food restaurants added to her legal woes when she bolted from custody, forcing a police officer to shoot her with his Taser.
The Anderson County Grand Jury on Sept. 20 indicted Katelyn Taylor, 21, of 316 Woodford St., Lawrenceburg on a host of felony charges, including first-degree fleeing or evading arrest, second-degree escape and three counts of first-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument.

Armadillos, you’re not in the Southwest anymore.
The iron-plated rodent’s habitat is usually limited to the arid climate of Southern states like Arizona and Texas — with their range extending into Florida and the Carolinas — but have been gradually making their way up north, even into Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky.
Bobby Patel, owner of The Convenience Store located on Broadway, and Scotty Embry of Lawrenceburg, discovered a decomposing armadillo in the back lot behind the station.