Today's News

DANVILLE – Had the Bearcats known at 7:30 p.m. what they did three hours later last Friday night, Anderson County might still be unbeaten.

Mistakes, many attributable to the possibility that the Bearcats were on the biggest regular-season stage of their careers, cost Anderson dearly in an outing worthy of its billing in the excitement factor.

Remember those days when Anderson County and Mercer County was a good old-fashioned knock-down, drag-out fight on the football field?

Through the 1980s and early 1990s it was arguably the biggest game on both teams' schedule in terms of post-season play since they were in the same Class AA district. Win, and chances were that team would have a good seeding in the state playoffs.

Cobe Penny scored twice and Bryce Edmondson hit paydirt once to lead Anderson County Middle School to a 24-6 win over West Jessamine at Hollie Warford Stadium last Tuesday night.

Penny scored on runs of 72 and 8 yards while Edmondson bulled his way to the goal line from four yards out.

Quarterback Tyler Peters, filling in for the injured Gunnar Gillis, connected with Blake Franklin for two passes that covered 100 yards. One went 72 yards for a score.

A 19-year-old Lawrenceburg man was arrested by city police Monday morning after a middle school staff member spotted him carrying a shotgun while crossing Anderson County middle school property.

William Whetzel, 19, 1042 Dan Drive, Lawrenceburg, was arrested and charged with one count of carrying a concealed deadly weapon and two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon on school property.