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Today's News

  • Picture offers evidence that it is Jesse James

      Over years of researching soldiers of fortune, outlaws and guerrillas, I learned that Jesse and Frank James didn’t have their pictures taken very often. Many photos have been published of men who are identified as Jesse and Frank, but the majority of them are bogus.

    I am always skeptical when someone claims to have found a long, lost photo of Jesse or Frank James.

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  • LETTER: Thanks for help with Little Mount Baptist fall festival

    We’ve just completed another successful fall festival, making this another beautiful day for our church and community. We celebrated a day filled with fun activities for children, yard sales, good food and spiritually uplifting gospel and country music.

    Without the support of many individuals and businesses, the festival would not have been possible. The festival committee would like to thank the community for the support shown to us. No donation or act of kindness was small, each made a big impact on our success.

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  • High school sports are better

    High school basketball season kicks off this week in Kentucky. Our state has such a storied tradition of high school hoops and there’s a new chapter to be written every year.

    Anybody who has ever watched the movie “Hoosiers” about the small school in Indiana who accomplished the improbable by going up against the big schools to claim the state championship should appreciate the legendary stories of teams in Kentucky like Carr Creek, Cuba and Hazel Green, small schools who also lived out the “Hoosiers” dream in real life.

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  • The Bowen adventures

    In the 1960s, he rode his bicycle more than 14,000 miles across America and Canada, as part of a 16-month trip to raise awareness for muscular dystrophy. A decade later, he walked more than 3,000 miles from Kentucky to California — on stilts. He compared the blisters on his feet to small tomatoes, but says it was worth it when he broke into the “Guinness Book of World Records” for stilt-walking — besting the previous title holder by more than 1,200 miles, after walking into a Tulsa, Okla. stadium in front of 25,000 screaming soccer fans to mark the achievement.

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  • Thanksgiving day fire destroys home

    A Wilsonville mom and her children lost everything when a Thanksgiving day fire destroyed their home Thursday evening.

    Kim Blanton returned from visiting relatives that holiday to find the first floor of her house on McIntosh Dr. filled with thick, black smoke. Worried for the family dog, Blanton reportedly attempted to search for the pet by crawling on her hands and knees – but the smoke was too much. Family members resorted to opening several exterior doors in hopes that Punkin would find her own way out.

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  • FROM THE WORD: Letters to churches

    In this article, I have chosen to look at some of the seven churches Jesus told his servant John to write to. Let’s take a look at these churches and see if any of them compare to our churches today. After all, we have to believe that Jesus would tell us the same thing if we were guilty of doing the things they were doing.

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  • LETTER: Using children to sell alcohol?

    I find it appalling that city officials feel justified using school children in their efforts to legalize additional liquor sales in Taylorsville.

    How else should we interpret the comments in last week’s Magnet regarding the city commission’s effort to have Taylorsville reclassified as a fourth-class city?

    According to the paper, the city’s attorney, Dudley Dale, summarized that the new designation wouldn’t mean a lot to the community, other than increasing the flow of alcohol.

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  • Strikers No. 2

    The Strikers, a U12 boy’s soccer team with the SCSA, continued their wining ways in the Commonwealth Cup State tournament held in E-town, Ky. 

    The Strikers went 6-1-1 during the regular season and place second in the JCYSL tournament a few weeks ago.  This time the stakes were higher as they played to earn the number one team in Kentucky crown. 

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  • Christmas Home Tour 2009: A collector's dream

    This is the second of a two-part series featuring some of the houses on the 2009 Christmas Home Tour.  For ticket information, see the end of the story.

    Mary Trice’s Christmas decorating is all about details: a jar of 1965-circa ornaments from her oldest daughter’s first Christmas, an umbrella stand in the foyer filled with silver and gold branches, the cross-stitched snowmen in the bathroom she stitched and framed.

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  • SCSA and the Commonwealth Cup

    The SCSA, Spencer County’s youth soccer program, recently sent several teams to play in the Commonwealth State soccer tournament.  This tournament is the biggest tournament in Kentucky for the recreational clubs and determines the top teams throughout the state.  

    There were some awesome games throughout this two weekend tournament as the Spencer County teams added several wins and close games to the mix.

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