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The Spencer County Sheriff’s Department will conduct periodic traffic safety checkpoints through Sept. 30 at locations approved by the sheriff’s department policy and procedure manual.
Special traffic enforcement and saturation patrols will be dispatched to high collision areas.
The checkpoints will be conducted in an effort to enforce traffic laws, with special attention paid to occupant protection, sobriety, insurance and registration violations. Occupant protection will include seat belt adherence.
 

Six candidates have signed up to run for the four available spots on the Taylorsville City Commission.
Those candidates are incumbents Kathy Spears and Beverly Ingram, and Jack Proctor, Richard Johns, Paul Gaddie and Ellen Redmon.
Spears did not return messages in time to be included in last week’s article about the candidates on the ballot for November, but has since provided the following statement regarding the reasons she decided to seek re-election.

It’s safe to say that the Hanik family was just as excited to learn from Ayu Hosimi as Ayu was to learn about America and the culture in Kentucky.

Tom Watson and Tom Hardin of Taylorsville attended a recent reunion of former WAKY and WKLO news and disc jockey personnel in Louisville. Watson was a news director and newscaster at WAKY for 12 years. Hardin was a personality at WAKY. Watson led a news teams that won several national awards and teamed with Mike Summers for award-winning documentaries. Watson was inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame in 2009. Watson, right, is pictured with Mike Summers and Mason Lee Dixon.