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A second Republican filed to run for Spencer County judge-executive last week.
John Riley, a former magistrate, will face Lawrence Trageser in the primary election in May.
The winner of the Republican primary will face the winner — out of candidates Jerry Davis, Debbie Herndon, Jan Kehne and David Jewell — of the Democrat primary in the general election in November.
Several others have also filed for office over the last week:
•Larry Bentley, a Democrat, filed for constable in the Mount Eden district.

New 4-H scrapbooking club
Do you like to scrapbook?  Are you between the ages of 9-18?  The 4-H Scrapbooking Club will have a membership drive/informational meeting on Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the Spencer County Extension Office. If you have any questions, call Tonya or Mollie at the Spencer County Extension Office at 477-2217.

Historical society to meet

None of the City of Taylorsville’s administrative salaries are paid out of the city’s general fund causing the city’s new auditor to issue a qualified opinion as part of this year’s independent audit.
Kevin Peercy of Peercy and Gray presented a brief overview of the city’s audit at last Tuesday’s City Commission meeting.
The audit was for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013.
Peercy presented each member of the commission with a copy of the audit and explained the format in which it appears.

In six months, the Taylorsville City Commission and Spencer County Fiscal Court should finally have its approval for $1 million in state and federal grant funds to address drainage issues inside the Taylorsville levee — that was the message from officials present at a special meeting last Wednesday afternoon.
However, an application for those funds has been pending since before 2010 and, as Mayor Don Pay said during Wednesday’s meeting, “this has been going on for five years and frustration levels are high.”