Today's News

The Spencer County Fiscal Court took another look at the Salt River Bridge issue Monday, by approving a resolution support the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s current plan for the bridge by a 4-1 vote.
The court had previously unanimously approved a resolution asking the cabinet to consider an alternate proposal for the project.
Spencer County Judge Executive John Riley cast the lone no vote on the measure stating that the current resolution is “180 degrees different” from the resolution unanimously approved by the court on Jan. 5.

Like many gardeners this time of the year, I have been spending cold winter evenings by the fire with a good catalog. The seed catalogues fill the mailbox and I barely make it up the driveway without taking a peak at what’s offered for 2015.

Unusual items fascinate me. It’s a challenge to find out what they are, where they came from and how old they are.
Claude Brock, Sr., found a heavy, hornshaped “thing” down by the Salt River a few years ago, Dolly brought it down to the Spencer Magnet office for me to examine, but I could shed no light on what it is.

This week marks the second week that a fire has disrupted our newspaper production schedule. Regular readers of the Spencer Magnet are aware that last week, a fire at our plant in Shepherdsville required us to produce the paper several hours away in Tell City, Indiana.
Because of the change, we were required to print only one section of the newspaper. The distance also disrupted our normal smooth delivery schedule resulting in late arrivals for most people’s newspaper last week.