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Today's Features

  • Three students in Susan McGowan’s Latin classes received awards for their performance on the ‘2013 ACL/NCL National Latin Exam.’  Two of those students were recognized during Monday night’s Board of Education meeting. Robin Kosanouvong earned the silver maxima cum laude award, but was not present at the board meeting.

  • This photo, submitted by Noreen Love Day, shows members of the YWA and their group leaders Bro. Pound and Susie Cochrane. Pictured, seated, from left are Gertrude Smith, Nan Eliz. Shelburne, Priscilla Smith, Virginia Day, Buelah Mae Baird, Dorothy Pound, Elizabeth Smith and Noreen Love.

  • Spencer County Preschool, Head Start and Preschool Bear Care hosted a family fun night on April 11.
     

  • Hands on their desks. Eyes glued to the front of the room. Mouths shut and ears open. Those three statements describe each of the four classrooms at Spencer County Elementary School, with which I had a chance to speak on Friday.

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  • "Oh, I can’t wait to read this one.” I hope you are saying this to yourself because that is why, in fact, it is the title and content of this week’s column. My whole purpose for doing the work that God has allowed me to be engaged in for more than four decades is to help develop healthy marriages and healthy families.

  • Like most young children, my daughter has always been fascinated by trains. She talked about trains. She watched the trains go by when we were driving (the trellis at Pope Lick is especially popular). We watched TV shows about trains. And several years in a row, she received pieces to a train set.

  • This photo, submitted by Noreen Day, shows 11 of Spencer County’s finest gentlemen from decades ago. Pictured, from front left, are Bradley Love, Joe Love, June Shields and Grundy Sweazy. From back left are Will Love, Claude Love, Paul Love, J.H. Love, Ernest Shields, June Love and John Love Jr.

    Submit your photos from days gone by either through email at editor@spencermagnet.com or by bringing the photos to our office at 100 W. Main St. All hard copies of photos will be available for pickup after they appear in the newspaper.

  • Our current warm, sunny weather — it’s about time — has made everyone just delighted and the intoxication of it all may lead us to act impulsively. I am as anxious as anyone to move some of my houseplants outdoors: my gardenia looks terrible in the dining room and the jasmine downstairs seems to stare into space dreaming of better days. Those days are coming, just be slow about the transition from indoors to out.

  • Winter outstayed its welcome this year, and with the weather finally warming up, many Kentuckians are anxious to get outside and make improvements to their yards. For those who plan to seed grasses this spring, now is the time to do it, said Gregg Munshaw, extension turf specialist with the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture.

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