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  • Emma B. Ward’s Empty Bowls dinner helps fill empty stomachs

    Lick your bowl clean to fill someone else’s.
    That’s the idea behind the fourth annual Empty Bowls dinner at Emma B. Ward Elementary, held on Dec. 8 from 5:30-7:30 p.m., which raises money for several charities to fight hunger locally and around the world.
    Ethan Freeman, a fifth grader in Mr. Calvert’s homeroom at Emma B. Ward, explained the importance of making bowls for the event. It’s his second year making bowls for the annual dinner.

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  • Bearcats have gone from bottom to mountaintop

     

    The day I met Mark Peach seems like an eternity ago.

    I can still remember the first team meeting in the gymnasium like it was yesterday.

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  • Former Bearcats glad to see Anderson's success

    Eddie Earl Hyatt has been an Anderson Bearcat as long as anyone, and is giddy that the current Bearcats will be playing for a state championship on Saturday night.

    A member of the very first Anderson team in 1949, Hyatt has long been a regular at Bearcat games, but ironically was unable to be at Warford Stadium to see the current team pick up the biggest win in school history.

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  • Football briefs

     

    Follow the Bearcats in Bowling Green

    Anderson County might give Bowling Green the largest sea of red this side of the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers at the state championship game. A large throng of Bearcat supporters is expected to make the trip to Bowling Green for the finals.

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  • Four Roses named magazine’s distiller of the year

    For the second consecutive year, and third time in five years, Four Roses Distillery was named “Whisky Distiller of the Year – America” last week by Whisky Magazine’s international judging panel.
    The award was one of two prestigious honors received by Four Roses during the magazine’s “Icons of Whisky Awards – America” which took place in Louisville.
    The annual Icons of Whisky Awards are “designed to celebrate the people and places behind the great whiskies of the world,” according to a news release.

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  • Conway donates marriage funds to Shop With a Cop
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  • History continues to be made at Salt River Independent Baptist

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  • GIRLS' BASKETBALL: Lady Bearcats rout Lafayette in opener

    Sydney Brown scored 15 points to lead Anderson County to an easy 64-35 win over visiting Lafayette in the season-opening girls' basketball game for both teams Tuesday night.

    Brown connected on 7-of-9 shots from the field, scoring at will against the smaller Lady Generals. Eriel McKee added 14 points for the Lady Bearcats while Makenzie Cann scored 11.

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  • Your attendance is requested

    I’m an expert in attending meetings.
    And you should be, too.  
    Contrary to common knowledge, things happen at those public meetings.
    I know that’s a pretty big shock. You might want to sit down for a moment.
    Money exchanges hands, new policies and ordinances up for review and passage.
    I should know. I write about them.

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  • Bad apples spoiling Southwestern’s barrel

    Column as I see ’em …
    Somerset, home of the Southwestern football team Anderson spanked so badly Friday night to advance to the state finals, is apparently home to a few rather sore losers.
    It was bad enough that one of Southwestern’s assistant coaches had to be booted out for mouthing off to a referee, but he really went over the top when he apparently flipped the bird to Anderson fans while leaving the field.
    Who does he think he is? Jets coach Rex Ryan?

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