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Today's News

  • Anderson County Jail Log: 1-1-14

    The following people were arrested and transported to jail during the past week, according to information released by Anderson County Jailer Joani Clark.

    Dec. 23
    William Robinson, probation violation, failure to appear or pay fines, by the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office.
    Jimmy Griggs, probation violation, by the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office.
    Crystal Brophy, theft by unlawful taking under $500, by the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office.
    Dec. 24

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  • Middle school staff smooch pig to celebrate reading goals

    Middle School Principal Jeanna Kidd and language arts teachers Jennifer Johnson and Leslie Mitchell kissed a 400-pound pig, spray painted their hair pink and climbed up onto the middle school roof last Friday to celebrate the sixth grade surpassing its “Challenge to Read” for November.

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  • ECC collects food for Open Hands
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  • High school academic team scores science awards

    The Anderson County High School academic team celebrated students’ achievement during the league banquet held Dec. 2 in Frankfort, according to a press release.
    The awards given to the team included the second place Team Science Award and individual awards.
    These awards were presented to Bradley Bellman and Jacob Brumley. Bradley Bellman was awarded first place in the science subject competition. Jacob Brumley was awarded fifth place in the social studies subject competition.
     

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  • Church briefs: 1-1-14

    Salvisa Christian
     sponsors free clothes day
    Salvisa Christian Church will sponsor a free clothes day for Anderson and Mercer County residents only on Jan. 6 from 1:30-4 p.m.
    Bring proof of residency, such as a photo ID.
    Salvisa Christian is located at 155 Sugar St., Salvisa. For more information, contact Pam Votaw at 502-839-5626 or Charlotte Fallis at 859-865-2226.

    Gospel group to perform
     at Sand Spring

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  • Don’t confuse self-improvement with self-salvation

    “Being sensible that I am unable to do anything without God’s help, I do humbly entreat him by his grace to enable me to keep these resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to his will for Christ’s sake.”

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  • Top 10 of 2013: No. 10 — Alleged drunk hunter finally agrees to plea deal offer

    The saga of a Lawrenceburg man who allegedly hunted under the influence and shot at another dove hunter finally came to a close with him pleading guilty on a Class D felony.
    David Gaines, 41, was first charged with a misdemeanor, but just days before he was to stand trial in Anderson District Court, the Commonwealth Attorney’s office took the case to the grand jury, which then indicted Gaines on three felony counts of wanton endangerment.

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  • Top 10 of 2013: No. 9 — Expansion continues as bottling returns to Wild Turkey

    Gov. Steve Beshear should consider renting a home in Lawrenceburg.
    Thanks to Wild Turkey, the governor comes to town to celebrate the world’s largest bourbon distillery’s latest expansion project so often having him here has become almost commonplace.
    Beshear was in town again in September to inaugurate the distillery’s latest project, a $40 million packaging facility that returned bottling to Lawrenceburg for the first time in nearly a decade.

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  • Top 10 of 2013: No. 8 — Marching band breaks school record, again

    The Anderson County Marching Bearcats envisioned being #finalsbound by the end of the 2013 season.
    Looks like the power of positive thinking (and a lot of hard work) paid off for the middle and high school students who placed second at the state competition this fall.
    This season’s aspirational mantra “#finalsbound” — boldly proclaimed on the band’s T-shirts, bandanas and other gear — was no longer a promise, but a fact.  

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  • Top 10 of 2013: No. 7 — Puncheon Creek flash flood devastates homes, church

    Satan couldn’t destroy Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, but a flash flood that dropped 5 inches of rain in under and hour certainly did major damage to the church and nearby homes, leaving one family devastated and church members scrambling to rebuild their house of worship.
    The church, which sits just in front of Puncheon Creek, and a home owned by Rick and Lorraine Coffman, took the worst of nature’s force when the creek rose an estimated 15 feet in about an hour.

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