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Though no official action was taken, more than one-third of the Spencer County Fiscal Court’s Monday meeting was spent discussing the need for accreditation of the Taylorsville Levee and hearing comments from citizens on the issue.
The levee commission — commissioners Mike Driscoll, Bobby Smith and Joan Smith and treasurer Lois Platt — attended Monday’s meeting and Driscoll provided an update to the court.

A Spencer County woman accused of stabbing her husband in the groin entered a not guilty plea in Spencer District Court on Friday.

While most life in Spencer County is moving on as usual, a few local institutions and workers are feeling the pinch of a partial federal government shutdown locally.

A long-time Spencer Countian who served the community both in local government and spiritually in multiple facets died last Monday. Carl Lee “C.L.” Glasscock Jr. was 83.