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Today's News

  • Anderson County sheriff recounts Opryland explosion

    Anderson County Sheriff Troy Young was among hundreds of other sheriffs forced to evacuate the Gaylord Opryland Resort Convention Center last Wednesday night following a large gas line explosion.
    Young, who was in Nashville for the 2012 National Sheriff’s Association convention, said he and his wife, Benita, were not in the convention center at the time of the blast, but were right near where it occurred just a few hours earlier.

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  • Unique store offers little of everything

    Chris Sayre thinks she has found something of a niche in the Lawrenceburg marketplace, and five weeks ago decided to capitalize on it.
    Sayre opened The Variety Store, a retail shop filled with an array of items not easily found — if found at all — in this area.
    The former owner of a retail and gift shop in Versailles, the lifelong Anderson County resident said she got her inspiration for The Variety Store while surfing the internet.

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  • Frozen yogurt stand scheduled to open this Thursday

    Family is a big part of Luci Lou’s Frozen Yogurt.
    Jessica and Steven Seeberger, who named their Lawrenceburg and Frankfort yogurt shops after their daughters Luci and Abbi Lou, want their new business to offer customers a healthy treat, as well as a family-friendly environment.
    “We love frozen yogurt, as everyone does,” said Jessica, who said she and her husband started serious planning to open Luci Lou’s about six months ago.
     “It’s been an idea for a lot longer than that,” she said.

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  • Woman’s Club donates to Backpack Buddies

    The Lawrenceburg Pierian Woman’s Club raised $1,057 for Backpack Buddies at a silent auction held during its annual spring luncheon and style show in April, the club announced in a news release.
    Backpack Buddies provides easy-to-fix weekend meals and delivers them to Anderson County schools.
    Needy children pick up a backpack each Friday and bring back the empty backpack on Monday.  

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  • Business license renewals are due by July 1

    In 1987, the Anderson Fiscal Court enacted an ordinance that required anyone conducting business in Anderson County during the fiscal year to purchase a business license.
    The ordinance requires the Anderson County clerk to issue the licenses and collect all associated fees.

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  • America’s second Declaration of Independence

    This July 4 marks the nation’s 236th anniversary from British rule. However, 2012 is also another important date in our nation’s history. This year marks our 200th anniversary from our second independence from British domination during the War of 1812.

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  • Bee garden great way to give back to earth

    Sunrise to sunset, summer is awesome.
    Yes, I know it can get hot, but just watch everything grow.
    The warm evening temperatures have given tomatoes and peppers a big jump. Squash is appearing overnight.
    Blackberries are getting blacker by the day. Mother Nature is in full swing.

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  • Who do you blame when good kids go bad?

    Thirty-five seconds.
    The video kept recording the humiliation for about 10 minutes, but I had seen enough to convince me.  
    What the eye sees, it can’t erase.
    So I procrastinated on viewing the infamous “Making the Bus Monitor Cry” for days. I knew about how horrible it was, and believed all of the outrage.  
    I don’t consider myself a member of the morality police, and typically err on the side of free speech.
    But the middle school boys portrayed in the video were not exercising First Amendment rights.

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  • Preparing for return of ‘Flim-Flam Man’

    With our array of taxing districts poised to set tax rates later this summer, it seems only fitting that a 1960s movie titled “The Flim-Flam Man” included scenes shot right here in Lawrenceburg
    That movie featured a pair of drifters who teamed up to gain the confidence of locals while bilking them out of their money. The key, of course, was to never let the local rubes know that they were having their pockets picked, which isn’t all that different than the way the system to raise property taxes works.

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  • Fireworks, parade mark July 4 fun

    This year’s Fourth of July celebration in Anderson County features fireworks, a parade and a salute to veterans, as well as other activities being held to remember America’s birthday.
    Bart Powell, director of public safety, said the annual fireworks display at the county park is set to begin at dusk on July 4. The first rain date will be Thursday, July 5 with a second rain date planned for Friday, July 6.

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