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Today's News

  • Friends of Library to hold Burgoo sale

    Friends of Anderson Public Library will hold a Burgoo book sale this Saturday, Sept. 28 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the new building located on the back lawn of the Anderson Public Library, 114 N. Main St.
    The Highs and The Lows, a folksy acoustic duo, will entertain for several hours during the sale, event organizers said. Cole Ripy and Jessica Handy, who make up the Highs and Lows, made a surprise guest visit to the Friends’ Sept. 21 sale.

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  • Rain doesn’t stop prayer gathering
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  • Church briefs: 9-25-13

    Mount Moriah Baptist hosts sale
    Mount Moriah Baptist Church will host its last community yard sale of the season Sept. 28 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Kentucky 53, Mount Eden.
    The yard sale will be held inside and out.
    There will be free set-ups and a concession stand for breakfast, lunch and snacks.
    Call 738-5350 to reserve a place.

    Mount Pleasant Baptist
    postpones revival
    Mount Pleasant Baptist Church has had to postpone its revival due to flooding and construction, according to a news release.

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  • Be careful to pray through the spirit, not to spite ACLU
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  • Way We Were: Kinder gets coded message by way of terrapin

    50 YEARS AGO
    Thursday, July 18, 1963
    Mr. and Mrs. Herman Peach received word that their son, Jimmie W. Peach, had been promoted to rank of SP/4. He was stationed in Germany and expected to return home in the next three months.

    Rita Lynn was crowned Miss Anderson County Fair. She had won the sweepstakes crown at the baby show just 15 years before when she was a toddler. Sandra Troxel was runner-up.

    Thursday, Aug. 1, 1963

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  • Coming home to teach

    Anderson County High School teacher Jessica Harley got one B in high school: in Bridget Wells’ English class.
    “I struggled in her class,” Harley, who described herself as an A student in high school, said with a laugh.
    “Oh, it was traumatic. She [Wells] knows it was traumatic.”
    Wells — who was teaching English in the early 2000s when Harley was a high school student at ACHS — pushed her students to be better, Harley said.
    Now Harley is back, not as Wells’ student, but as her colleague.

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  • District court docket: 9-25-13

    Judge Linda Armstrong heard the following cases during Anderson District Court proceedings on July 8, 2013.
    Adrian Abner, arraignment, no operator/moped license – pleaded guilty, $243, fines and costs converted to six days to serve (concurrent with state time).
    Jose L. Vazquez-Tapia, arraignment, no operator/moped license, operating a motor vehicle under the influence – pleaded not guilty, pretrial conference July 11.

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  • Two living in tent indicted on burglary, trespassing charges

    Curtis Coleman, 37, and Shannon Coleman, 38, of 113 Ballard St., Lawrenceburg were indicted Sept. 10 by an Anderson County Grand Jury on charges that include second degree burglary, possession of burglary tools and third-degree criminal trespass.  Shannon Coleman was also indicted for alcohol intoxication in a public place.
    Their indictment stems from an incident July 31 when they allegedly entered “a dwelling located at 117 Ballard St. with intent to commit a crime,” according to court documents.

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  • Helium blimps, rockets and robots

    First, there were the air rockets.
    Now high school students are moving onto blimps, constructing small-scale models of aircraft made of craft wire, clothes hangers, pipe cleaners and tissue paper to fill with helium and test to see if they are flight-worthy.  
    STEM instructor James Stuerzenberger is in his first year of overseeing the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) program on the Anderson County High School campus, but it’s not his first year of teaching students the art of constructing simple machines.

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  • The word doctors will see you now
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