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Today's News

  • A trip to Louisville with Lexington on their minds

    That ultimate measuring stick of success is undoubtedly found on the hardwood of Rupp Arena. At least for a high school basketball team in Kentucky, it is.

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  • Speaking of electric cars, discrimination, Christmas

    Column as I see ’em...

    A question for those of you who think the answer for America’s auto industry woes is for the Big Three to build electric cars: What happens when tens of millions of people pull into their driveways after work and plug them in?

    Might not be too terrible a problem here, but when it’s 90 degrees on the West Coast, California already experiences brown outs due to its aging and inadequate electric grid.

    Ditto the Northeast.

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  • Defense leads Lady Cats to finals

    SHELBYVILLE -- It was fitting that turnovers resulting in Anderson County points formed the parentheses around the second half of the semi-final game of the Lady Rocket Invitational.

    Kara Yeaste swished a short jump shot after the Lady Bearcats forced Oldham County into a 5-second violation on the throw-in to start the second half and Makenzie Stoner’s steal and lay-up with two seconds remaining punctuated Anderson’s 47-37 win Monday night.

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  • Theft ring warning issued by sheriff’s office

    A rash of thefts of items from unlocked vehicles and buildings have prompted the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department to issue a warning of a possible theft ring operating in this area.

    The warning was issued last Wednesday in a news release, and says that residents in the Alton area should be especially vigilant in locking their vehicles, homes and outbuildings.

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  • ‘I wanted to do this for her’

    Thanks to the holiday spirit of local police and the largess of the community, the Christmases of 14 Anderson County children were jump started Saturday through a program dubbed Shop With A Cop.

    One of the children, Brianna, 12, was too ill to participate in the program, so her brother Blake, 10, filled in for her.

    “She’s really sick and has been in the hospital a lot,” Blake said. “I wanted to do this for her. I made a list of things that I thought she’d like and would make her happy. And I added a few things for myself.”

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  • Trojan icon is more than a football coach

    I never thought I could become a Southern Cal football fan. Maybe it’s because of the way they repeatedly run roughshod over my University of Michigan Wolverines in the Rose Bowl.

    It wasn’t always that way. The Michiganders swamped the Trojans 49-0 in the 1949 Rose Bowl. But that’s ancient history and I didn’t become a Wolverine fan until the 1970s when I moved to Michigan. Since then it has been all University of Southern California. They whipped U of M 14-3 in 1970, 14-6 in 1972, 28-14 in 2004, and 32-18 two years ago.

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  • County schools should be in session Thursday

    Students in Anderson County can expect to be back in the classroom Thursday.

    "I expect we'll be in tomorrow," Superintendent Kim Shaw said Wednesday morning.

    Schools were closed Tuesday and Wednesday following a winter storm Monday night that dumped over 3 inches of snow in Anderson and surrounding counties.

    According to weather.com, tonight's low should be around 30 F with cloudy skies. Thursday should be cloudy with a chance for rain later in the day. The high should be around 48.

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  • Lady Bearcats get district win over Spencer

    Anderson County overcame a sporadic performance to record a 52-37 win over visiting Spencer County in a key 30th District seeding game Saturday afternoon.

    The Lady Bearcats took the lead for good midway through the first quarter and never looked back, gradually padding their lead to as many as 22 points with four minutes to play.

    Lindsay Fultz paced Anderson, now 3-1 on the year and 1-0 in district play, with 21 points. The Lady Bearcats got a huge lift from reserve Caroline McDowell, who scored a varsity career-high 14.

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  • Schools to remain closed Wednesday

    Anderson County schools will remain closed Wednesday following Tuesday morning’s wintry blast that left roads treacherous and sent two state plow trucks sliding off the road.

    School transportation officials made the announcement at 2:21 p.m. Tuesday.

    Monday’s forecast for several inches of snow and ice to hit our area proved accurate when temperatures cooled late Monday night and the skies started spritzing a mixture of freezing rain and snow.

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  • High school graduation ceremony planned for Marine home on leave

    Anderson County High School will hold a special graduation ceremony Wednesday for a student who left school earlier this year to join the Marine Corps.

    The ceremony is scheduled to begin at 9:45 a.m. in the high school auditorium.

    The public is welcome.

    Kris Payton had already met all of his graduation requirements last January, and was given permission by Principal Ray Woodyard to leave school to join the Marines.

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