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Today's News

  • SCHS football practice

     Any high school student wanting to play football during the 2010 season needs to attend the mandatory parent/player meeting 3 p.m.  Sunday, July 11 at SCHS. Conditioning will begin July 12 at 7 p.m. All athletes must have a current physical on KHSAA form to participate. Forms are available in the main office or online at www.khsaa.org. All information will be handed out at this meeting for the 2010 season.

     

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  • Alleged cocaine boss from Taylorsvlile

    Michael A. McCarthy Jr., of Taylorsville, has been indicted with 23 other people in a Jefferson County court on several counts of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine.

    Authorities with the Louisville branch of the Drug Enforcement Administration believe that McCarthy, 28, headed up the $5 million cocaine operation. More than 200 pounds of cocaine was being moved from Los Angeles to Louisville on a monthly basis, making it one of the city’s largest drug rings, said DEA Assistant Special Agent Tom Gorman.

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  • Proctor to re-run for city commissioner

    If Jack Proctor has his way, the Taylorsville City Commissioner will be serving his third two-year term after the November election.

    “I’m really fired up about what Spencer County has to offer,” said Proctor. “I have no axe to grind. I’m simply for keeping Taylorsville a nice city that folks want to live in.”

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  • LETTER: Thanks from Monroe family

    My husband, Kenny, and I were in last week’s edition of the Spencer Magnet on the front page.

    We want to thank Reporter Mallory Bilger.

    We also want to thank everyone for their prayers, visits and cards.

    Kenny and Faye Monroe

    Taylorsville

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  • Grizzly football practice

    The first day of football practice for Spencer County Middle School will be Monday, July 12 at 6 p.m. All players must bring a copy of a current sports physical on KHSAA Form #4 (copies are available in the SCMS office or from Coach Bass). Equipment and lockers will be issued on this date. There will also be a parents meeting at 8:30 p.m. after practice.

    SCMS Grizzly Football is open to all rising 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.

    For more information, contact Coach J.T. Bass  at 643-5142 or 477-0162, or Coach Rex Edwards at 396-5149.

     

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  • Rhubarb, the taste of nostalgia

    Rhubarb is a nostalgic vegetable that many Spencer County residents remember from childhood.

    “My daddy always had rhubarb,” said Mary Snyder, who lived on a 400-acre farm near High Grove for many years.

    Snyder, who was “born and raised just over the Nelson County line near Bloomfield,” said that when her father cleaned out the hen house, he would put the manure around the rhubarb patch to fertilize it.

    “We always had nice fat big stalks, bigger than your thumb,” said Snyder.

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  • Baird attends agriculture leadership conference

    Dr. Larry Jones,  associate dean for academic programs at the University of Kentucky’s College of Agriculture (left), and Mark Haney, president of Kentucky Farm Bureau (right), greeted Stetson Baird, of Taylorsville, and the 43 other high school students selected from around the state to attend the Institute for Future Agricultural Leaders (IFAL), sponsored by Kentucky Farm Bureau.

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  • In memory of Elwood Maddox, Sr.

    The St. Matthews Lions Club recently presented a new Lions flag to the Spencer County chapter in memory of Charter Member Lion Elwood Maddox, Sr. for his 19 years of outstanding service to the Spencer County Lions Club. Maddox, who passed away June 15, 2009, served as president, past president, past treasurer and past director. He was also a former grand marshall and chairman of the Eye Foundation and was a “Lions Camper” at Camp Crescendo in Lebanon Junction.

     

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  • Cox’s Creek farmer reappointed to tobacco board

    Brian Scott Travis, of Cox’s Creek, has been reappointed by Gov. Steve Beshear  to the Kentucky Tobacco Research Board. Travis, a self-employed farmer, will serve for a term expiring July 15, 2012.

    Other appointees to the board are Paige Shumate Short, of Paris, and Roger Thomas, of Smiths Grove. Short is president of Kentucky Textiles Technology. Thomas is executive director of the Governor’s Office of Agricultural Policy.

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  • Discover benefits of canning

    Pickling foods is one of the simplest methods of preserving the harvest, and has been practiced for centuries.

    Lora Cheek and her mother Mary Snider have been making pickles off and on since Cheek was a child. Until last summer, though, they had not canned together in 20 years.

     Patty Davis watched her mother make pickles on the counter when she was growing up. She used to make pickles with her mother-in-law, but does not make them much anymore.

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