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“It’s all about the kids. Jesus loved the little children,” said Spencer County Judge David Jenkins. “Seeing their faces light up, even if you are an old scrooge. That’s what it is all about.”

With so many Christmas activities planned for Christmas on Main Street, there should be no problem for even the scroogest of scrooges to get into the Christmas Spirit. Parents will have the opportunity to see their children’s eyes brighten time and time again this Friday.

Unemployment rates rose in 112 Kentucky counties between October 2007 and October 2008, fell in six counties and stayed the same in two, according to the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training, an agency of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.

In 1888, the U. S. president was Grover Cleveland, Jack the Ripper terrorized London, the Dutch painter Van Gogh cut off the lower part of his left ear in a bout of mental illness, and the Great Blizzard hit the eastern seaboard of the U. S. killing over 400 people.

State and local road crews are preparing for the season's first ice storm as a wintry front heads toward Spencer and neighboring counties today.

"We're ready for snow, ice or whatever," said Collis Rogers, Spencer County road supervisor.

Rogers said his crew of nine employees are prepared to be called out at a moments notice if road conditions worsen with falling temperatures. Their plan of action would be to spread cinders across 200 miles of county-maintained roads.