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Investors looking to earn a high interest rate on their money with virtually no risk can do so later this summer when the county sells nearly $300,000 in unpaid property tax bills.

Before this year the county could only sell 10 percent of delinquent taxes, but a change in state law allows the entire portfolio to be sold and the buyers to collect a nifty 12 percent interest rate.

Buying those unpaid tax bills is a solid investment that places purchasers at the front of the line when it comes to getting reimbursed.

The decision not to allow the class of 2009 valedictorians to make speeches at this year’s Anderson County High School graduation was made about two years ago, said Principal Ray Woodyard.

Two years ago the senior class sponsors decided to try to streamline the graduation ceremony and cut out some things to make it shorter, Woodyard said.

As a result, the salutatorian speeches were cut out of last year’s graduation and the plan was to cut the valedictorian speeches this year, he said.

The 2009 edition of the nation's oldest high school basketball all-star series is now history. For the first time, the games were played on consecutive days, there were no super-human performances like the one by George McGinnis 40 years ago and Indiana swept.

But what's new about that?

The Hoosier boys were supposed to sweep, having one of the strongest Indiana teams in years. That Kentucky stayed close in Saturday's game – it was tighter than the 78-65 final would indicate – was the biggest surprise of the boys' series.

The only evidence one needs to see Travis Gay’s stamp on the Anderson County track program is the Bearcat pass list to this year’s state track meet.

Back on May 23, Anderson sent 15 athletes to the University of Louisville. Two others were on the list as qualifiers.

Seventeen in all.

Or more state qualifiers than the number of kids on the entire Anderson roster in several of the years leading up to Gay taking over the program in 2006.