Today's News

Mr. and Mrs. Brad and Susan Smith of Lawrenceburg announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter, Jenna Nichole Smith, to William Spencer Sims, son of Mr. and Mrs. Doug and Sherry Sims of Willisburg.
The bride is a 2006 graduate of Anderson County High School and a 2010 graduate of Western Kentucky University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in corporate communications and marketing. Upon graduation she returned to her family’s business and is employed as an event coordinator at Eagle Lake Convention Center in Lawrenceburg.

Brian Mitchell and Lana Honaker of Elizabethtown announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Shae Emerson Mitchell, to Nicholas Wainwright Tucker, son of Amy R. Tucker and the late Charles E. Tucker, Jr., of Lawrenceburg.
The bride is the granddaughter of William and Gloria Prater. The groom is the grandson of Marvin “Pee Wee” and Pat Robinson and the late Charles E. “Toad” Tucker and the late Mary Katherine Ford Tucker.

50 YEARS AGO
June 13, 1963
The Kentucky Turnpike Authority approved construction of the state’s fourth toll road, the Central Kentucky Parkway. It would link Interstate 65 and the Western Kentucky Turnpike near Elizabethtown to the Lexington-Frankfort area. The highway would go through Anderson County about 4.6 miles south of Lawrenceburg with the route going generally parallel to U.S. Highway 62 between the two cities. Construction of the new facility could start as early as the next spring with completion in late 1965 at an estimated cost of $53,500,000.

The Anderson County Community of Promise met June 4 at the Board of Education training room to celebrate its 10-year anniversary of participating in the Community of Promise Initiative under the America’s Promise for Youth Alliance, according to a press release.
The program began in May 2003 and has continued to grow over the last 10 years, the press release said.