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Today's Features

  • BACK IN TIME: New majorettes, new structures and the Tobaccoland Queen
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  • COLUMN: There are ways to defer the high cost of eye glasses

    Dear Savvy Senior,
    What tips or resources can you recommend to help seniors with the high cost of prescription eyeglasses? I used to have vision insurance through my work, but lost it when I retired.
    Need New Specs

    Dear Specs,

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  • COLUMN: Discover the wonders of squash this fall

    I am a sucker for a good country living/small-scale farming/local-eating memoir (any and all of the above). I grew up in the country. My family raised much of our food in our garden, kept chickens bees, and baked our own bread, as much as we could. Reading these memoirs reminds me of home, I suppose.

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  • COLUMN: Narcissistic personalities can strain relationships

    You may have occasionally heard the word, and you probably know one or two people who could qualify as being “narcissists,” but I also sincerely hope that you are not that type of personality, and if you are I hope that you realize that is not beneficial, and probably very detrimental as you relate to others both within and outside your family.
    Those classified as having a narcissistic personality are seen with an essential feature, namely that it is a continuous pattern of a need for admiration, a sense of grandiosity, and a lack of empathy.

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  • ENGAGEMENT: Wimsatt, Cheshire plan December wedding

    Jennifer Lynn Wimsatt and William Chad Cheshire, both of Grayson County and formerly of Taylorsville, announce their engagement and upcoming marriage.

    The bride is a daughter of Bonnie and Buddy Hill of Taylorsville and Thomas Wimsatt of Bloomfield.
    The groom is a son of Teresa and William Gregory Cheshire of Taylorsville.
    A wedding is planned for Dec. 8 at 2 p.m. at the Grace Chapel Church of God of Prophecy. Invitations will be sent.

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  • COLUMN: Local students exhibit some fine swine at market show

    Congratulations to all of the swine exhibitors. In the 4-H/FFA Market Swine Show, Matthew Jeffiers, Emily Hume, Danielle Montgomery, Ashley Montgomery, Ethan McClain, Makayla Hatzman, Dalton Stallings and Dillon Stallings represented Spencer County 4-H and FFA well in the Spot, Duroc, Yorkshire and Crossbred classes.

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  • FSA updates farmers on Guaranteed Loan Program and increased loan limits

    USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Executive Director John W. McCauley, announced that guaranteed farm ownership loan funds for Fiscal Year 2012 have been exhausted. Farmers and ranchers in Kentucky received $59,736, 321.00 million in guaranteed loans through Aug. 31, 2012.
    “Fiscal Year 2013 begins on October 1, 2012, and we anticipate that guaranteed farm ownership funds will be available in early October,” said McCauley.

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  • COLUMN: Insect populations mostly below average

    Despite the mild winter experienced through much of the nation, insect pest populations have been mostly below average in Kentucky. However, as the summer season continued, weather patterns made it favorable for insects to begin migration, especially in southern states. There have been reports of increasing numbers in the corn earworm, fall armyworm, and yellow-striped armyworm populations in various crops.

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  • COLUMN: Pears ripen after the harvest

    Old farm sites that are long vacant often have remnants of a once thriving agricultural model that fed the whole family. Among the farm smorgasbord was the small home orchard; and among the orchard, the Kieffer pear still stands if nothing else does.
    The Kieffer pear has been around for a long time and it seems we have forgotten how to treat it as an eating pear. If you have ever happened upon an old tree, you may have been put off by the hard fruit.

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  • PHOTO: Bowman named SCHS August student of the month

    The Student Council at Spencer County High School would like to congratulate sophomore Sarah Bowman on being chosen as the August Student of the Month.
    Sarah was nominated by Ms. Kathy Fickel, Special Education teacher.

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