Today's News

The first day of the school year in Anderson County began with middle school students mourning the loss of one of their own.

Seth Carnahan, 13, who started attending seventh grade at Anderson County Middle School in February, fell into North Elkhorn Creek on Saturday afternoon while crossing Great Crossing Dam in Scott County.

Rescue crews spent three days searching, and the teenager’s body was recovered Monday afternoon.

Haley Meadows stood in Lawrenceburg Cemetery on Saturday afternoon hugging a framed photo of her father and staring at the wooden cross that marks his grave.

Family members say Haley, 10, used to cry when she visited the grave — partly because she missed her father, Larry Jarvis Meadows, who died in February 2007, and partly because his grave was bare and not marked like the rest around him.

Last December, a gift allowed Haley to dry a few tears. A family friend made a personalized cross and gave it to Haley as a Christmas present.

It seems strange to realize that in the history of Anderson County, only one school-sponsored team has ever been able to carry the state's biggest trophy away from it's final competition.

And that one, Anderson High's 1964 girls' track team, won the crown two years before the Kentucky High School Athletic Association began overseeing that sport's state meet.

“I think it’s a great idea,” my friend Katie Hilbert said when asked about a skate park. “I think it’s a good idea because, if you skate, you’re not allowed to skate anywhere else.”

The city finally got a grant for a skate park. Work should begin on it within the next two months.

I was glad to hear that the city received the grant, which means the county and city are becoming better for the teens.