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Today's News

  • Believe in golden rule: reduce, reuse and recycle

    Wow! There’s only two more Saturdays in August and a realization just dawned on me.
    For the last decade or so I have run my produce stand from Memorial Day to Labor Day. That’s my idea of summer. After Labor Day, I switch over to tutoring on Saturdays. So, besides the holiday breaks I’m always working, off the farm, six days a week. This year is going to be different.

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  • Summer salad packs healthy punch

    The summer corn and couscous salad was a favorite at the Anderson County Senior Center. This week I’ll prepare it for “Taking Ownership of Your Diabetes.”
    Corn is low fat; saturated fat free; sodium free; cholesterol free and good source of vitamin C. Corn is a good source of fiber and B vitamins, with 90 calories in a half cup serving.

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  • Bluegrass Pipeline will be important part of Kentucky’s future

    By James Scheel
    and Allen Kirkley
    Williams and Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP
    Learning that a new underground pipeline may be coming through Kentucky has some folks asking questions.
    What are the risks? What about my land? What about the environmental impact? These are just a few things Kentuckians have a right to know about the proposed Bluegrass Pipeline Project.

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  • Documenting the county in 24 hours

    I must be insane to be standing here, taking a photo of the courthouse at 12:45 a.m.
    Let’s be clear here: I am not a night owl.
    The night, even last Saturday night with its sleepy August cricket chirps and lingering smoke of dinner barbecues, does not appeal to me.
    You will not find me conscious at midnight, sitting outside on a porch on a warm summer night to contemplate life after all the lights have been snuffed out except for the moon.
    I like sleep. I love sleep.

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  • Man stabbed in Walmart parking lot

    The two men looked like buddies catching up on a Sunday afternoon in the Walmart parking lot, several witnesses told city police.
    Then one of the men yelled that he’d been stabbed and to call 911.
    City police arrested Lawrenceburg man Michael Aaron Joseph, 28, 1777 Bypass South, for first degree assault after he stabbed Cedric Washington, 29, of Lawrenceburg once in the stomach with a small hunting knife in the Walmart parking lot.

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  • Man saves grandson, gets run over by tractor

    A Lawrenceburg man pushed his two-year-old grandson out of the way before being run over by a tractor on Wooldridge Spur last Friday evening.
    According to the Anderson County sheriff’s office, 57-year-old Bobby Best and 53-year-old Robert Riley, both of Lawrenceburg, were working on Best’s property on Wooldridge Spur Road at about 7:30 p.m., attempting to get a tractor to start while Best’s two-year-old grandson watched nearby.
    The John Deere tractor, still in gear, lunged forward unexpectedly as the men were working on it.

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  • Woman indicted for receiving $44K in benefits

    A Lawrenceburg woman was indicted by the Anderson Grand Jury on Aug. 6 for allegedly giving false information to receive about $44,000 in public assistance benefits from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
    Amy G. Moore, 32, of 201 Lynn Drive, was charged with two counts of false statements and misrepresentations in order to receive public assistance benefits, a Class D felony.

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  • How much will your school spend this year?

    As the school board finalizes its budget in September — and sets a new tax rate in the meantime — individual Anderson County schools already know how much money they’ll be able to spend this school year.
    According to Finance Officer Nick Clark, site-based decision making councils, commonly referred to by the shorthand acronym SBDM, compile their own school budgets at the end of every school year.  

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  • Police chief conducts ‘internal investigation’ after cops allegedly omit drug bust evidence

    By Meaghan Downs
    and Ben Carlson
    News staff
    City Police Chief Chris Atkins said an internal investigation is being conducted after two city cops allegedly withheld evidence during a cocaine drug bust.
    Circuit Court Judge Charles Hickman recently dismissed cocaine trafficking charges against Lawrenceburg man Shanta Bixler, 31, of 505 East Woodford Street, after learning city cops failed to include information about a traffic stop involving Bixler.

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  • Lawrenceburg gives back in blood drive

    The Kentucky Blood Center reported in a news release that 76 people registered to give blood in a recent blood drive held Aug. 13 at First Baptist Church.
    Frank Rowe, chairman of the Anderson County Community Blood Drive for the Kentucky Blood Center, presented a $100 gift card to Jana Terrell, who won the gift card at the blood drive.
    A Kentucky Blood Center bloodmobile will be at the Lawrenceburg Walmart on Aug. 24 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All donors will receive a T-shirt, event organizers said.

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