Today's News

When Amanda Neff met CASA volunteer Connie Riddell, she assumed Riddell only wanted to hear the same story about her past.  
Neff was 15. A ward of the state. She had lived in a group home in Indiana, was living in a Frankfort group home with 14 other girls. Neff and her brother were in the middle of an extended custody battle.
She repeated the same narrative to the social worker. The attorney. The judge. The probation officer assigned to her case after Neff got physical with her stepmother while living with her father in Indiana.

Family and friends are mourning the loss of a teenager who was killed Sunday afternoon when the vehicle he was driving struck a tree on US 62.
Cody Ramsey, 17, of Willisburg Road was on his way home during a break from his part-time job in the county park when the mini-van he was driving went off the right-hand shoulder of the road. Based on tire marks, it appears the van returned to the road, but went sideways and slammed into a tree on the opposite side.
The van hit the tree on the driver’s side door, and Ramsey was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Anderson County Board of Education approved the sale of the old Early Childhood Center to the Christian Academy of Lawrenceburg during a special called meeting last Thursday night.
The academy submitted the only bid on the property, and purchased the 45,500 square-foot building and the 7.5 acres upon which it sits for $75,100, less than half of its $170,000 appraised value.
The building, which closed at the end of this school year, has been replaced with a new building near Emma B. Ward Elementary.