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Today's Features

  • Family night at TES Thursday

    Taylorsville Elementary is hosting a Title I family night Thursday from 4:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. There will be a CATS celebration, balloon toss and cook out from 4:30-5:30. Bring a chair if you would like to sit outside to eat and to watch the balloon toss.

    There will be family math, reading and science games indoors, along with story telling and a pumpkin decoration contest from 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m.

    Pumpkins will be on display in the library with ribbons of achievement. Students have been asked to decorate a pumpkin like their favorite book character.

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  • Helping children for Christmas

    ROBIN BASS/The Spencer Magnet

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  • 'Mum'ma mia!

    Spencer Magnet reader Lynn Noel sent in these photographs of one healthy chrysanthemum owned by Ted and Betty Goodlett of Bloomfield.

    Noel said that the five-inch pot mum was purchased in the spring and later transplanted under this flag pole.

    “It seems to have found new life,” said Noel. “I pray that our service men and our country find new life under her too.”

     

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  • Passion for animals central to Mt. Eden woman's book

    Sure, the Mount Eden woman’s book is filled with fascinating facts about chimpanzees, surprising specifics about kangaroos and pleasant pictures of pooches -- and even portraits of pigs. But Paula Sparrow’s Kentucky Living’s Creature Comforts is more than 147 pages highlighting the state’s animal sanctuaries.

    Just ask Teresa Bottom, founder of Lifebridge for Animals, an organization in Shelbyville dedicated to cutting down on pet overpopulation.

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  • What's Happening: Spencer County's community calendar

    Community Baby Shower

    If you are pregnant, or have a child under one year old, you are invited to attend the 5th annual community baby shower at the Spencer County Extension office and at the Spencer County Health Department Friday from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. with a special presentation, baby gifts and prizes from 1 p.m. until 2:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served.

    Spencer County Historical and

    Genealogical

    Society

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  • Dog Gone Wild Chapter 6

    CHAPTER 6

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  • School happenings

    Family night at TES

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  • Delivery day for All Saints

    ROBIN BASS/The Spencer Magnet

    All Saints Catholic Church had a special delivery Tuesday morning when a new steeple was delivered. Plans are to erect the structure this morning after the arrival of a crane. The church’s original steeple was damaged as a tornado swept through the area in Feb. 2008.

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  • Church happenings

    Plum Creek Baptist Church chili supper & Gospel concert

    There will be a chili supper and Gospel concert  at 5 p.m. Friday at Plum Creek Baptist Church.  For more information, please call the church office, 502-477-2582. Plum Creek Baptist Church is located at the corner of Highway 44 & Plum Creek Road in Waterford. 

    Old Gospel Barn Special Singing 

    The Old Gospel Barn, located at 11286 Louisville Road (Hwy 31E), Cox’s Creek, will be having a gospel sing Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

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  • JROTC builds future leaders

    Some two dozen high schoolers stood in neat rows beside the football field. No fidgeting, no comic grins.

    They’ve been coming out for the new JROTC program since August, and they know the drill. Clad in white t-shirts and black shorts, the students break rank only on command to begin laps around the track.

    Science teacher and Army Reserve 1st Lt. Robert Naylor joined the cadets on the run. When he started the program, teachers told him the kids wouldn’t last.

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