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Today's News

  • Enjoy fried green tomatoes at Christmas

    Well, it’s the eleventh day of September and we have 11 more days of summer! I do believe that it was the wettest summer I’ve ever had since I moved here. While all that moisture caused a few problems in the garden, I still had a pretty good season. Actually, I’m still having a pretty good season.

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  • Remembering the meaning of Patriot Day

    Patriot Day is observed Sept. 11 in memory of the 2,993 people who lost their lives in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the United States.
    Anyone who was alive at the time remembers what they were doing when four United States airliners were hijacked by terrorists intent on harming innocent American civilians.

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  • With taxidermy, what’s dead will never die

    You thought you could see the deer breathe.  
    The relaxed buck sat resting among moss and grasses near a fence post, just in front of a rusted sign that once read “Posted: no hunting.”
    Opposite where his competition full-body buck sat in repose, Justin Tinsley smeared glue onto a plastic form of his deer mount before pulling the damp fur of a tanned deer hide or “cape” over the form.
    The cape is important, I learned.

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  • ACLU works for, not against, religious freedom

    To the editor:
    In last week’s letters to the editor, Jerry Salyer claims the ACLU’s “ultimate goal is to purge Kentucky life of the very faith upon which it was built.”
    This quote may be found on the ACLU-Kentucky website at https://www.aclu.org/religion-belief.

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  • Cucumber grows big in Fox Creek
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  • School board should be ashamed of itself

    Column as I see ’em …
    As hard it might be to believe, the least objectionable thing the Anderson County Board of Education did last Wednesday was raise your property tax rates.
    The most objectionable? Blatant dishonesty, bordering on outright lies.
    In a remarkably unconscionable and despicable display, school board members actually used the threat of a “state” takeover of the school system to rationalize raising your taxes.

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  • Reader wins $500 Walmart gift card
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  • Board gets earful, raises taxes anyway

    The Board of Education heard both pleas from staff and criticism from angry taxpayers during its special-called public hearing and meeting on the 2013 tax rates last Wednesday night.
    Following a heated public hearing, the board approved 3-2 to set a 3 percent revenue increase tax rate at $5.70 per $1,000 assessed value, a 3.26 percent increase.
    School board president James Sargent, vice president Scott Brown and board member Donna Crain Drury voted for the increase. Board members Lee Hahn and Roger McDowell voted against the rate.

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  • News briefs: 9-11-13

    Healing Field Poker Run
    to be held Sept. 14
    The American Legion Auxiliary Unit 34 will host its 6th Healing Field Poker Run on Sept. 14.
    The poker run will start at the American Legion Post 34, 725 W. Broadway in Lawrenceburg, with registration held 10-11:30 a.m. on the day of the ride. Kickstands go up at noon sharp.
    Poker hands are $10 each, and extra cards are $5 with a limit of two extra cards.
    “The Healing Field honors all Kentucky soldiers who have given their lives in the War on Terrorism,” event organizers said.

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  • Fans want answers after coach told he can’t pray with team

    Hundreds of Anderson County citizens simply want to know, “Why?”

    Why was the decision handed down to modify the tradition of post-game and post-practice prayers by the Anderson County High School football team? Why were head coach Mark Peach and his staff told they could not participate in the prayers, even if they are not leading them.

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