Today's News

An effort to install scales at the county’s recycling center was put on hold last Tuesday when magistrates tabled the issue due to the absence of vacationing Magistrate David Ruggles.
They also got an inside look at the impact Obamacare will have on county government, its employees and even inmates.
Ruggles, who chairs the fiscal court’s solid waste committee, has spoken in favor of installing scales at the recycling center and charging several cents per pound for those who dump nearly everything but household trash into a compactor there.

The Anderson Public Library will kick off its summer reading program ‘Dig into Reading’ June 24 through July 17.
For more information on programs, contact Sherry Noon at the library at 502-839-6420 or visit the library’s website at andersonpubliclibrary.org.

Toddlers programs
When: June 24, July 1, July 8 and July 15
Time: 10-10:30 a.m.

Friday morning movies
When: June 28-July 19
Time: 10 a.m.

Family night
When: June 28, will feature Tom Seiling

Bria Granville, a 20-year-old Western Kentucky University junior, joined The Anderson News staff May 22 as the newspaper’s 2013 Kentucky Press Association photography intern.
Granville, who lives in Georgetown, will be working with editorial staff for the next 10 weeks covering the people, places and events of Anderson County.
Majoring in photojournalism with a minor in sociology, Granville said she would like to work with a non-profit organization as a photojournalist after college.

To support summer holiday donations, all Red Cross blood donors who come to donate blood at a Red Cross blood drive between May 23 and May 31 will be entered into prize giveaways with a chance to win one of five $1,000 American Express gift cards, according to a press release from the Red Cross.
Donate blood at the Red Cross Chapter House at 318 Washington St. on May 24 or May 31; Dept. of Environmental Protection at 200 Fair Oaks Ln. on May 30 or May 31; Capital Complex East at 1024 Capital Center Dr. on May 31.