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Today's News

  • Hazardous duty pay for new hires

    Fiscal court rejected a push by Magistrate Bill Drury Monday that would have abandoned hazardous-duty retirement for new hires.

    Instead, magistrates voted 4 to 1 in favor of keeping the employee benefit for future sheriffs, deputies, EMTs and paramedics in the county. Employees currently in the program were at no point in jeopardy of losing their benefits.

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  • Find it here. Find what here?

    Within the past two weeks, you might have received a small packet on your front door. I’m not talking about a delivery from the post office or a brochure to inform registered voters, but more importantly an invitation from your local church to make a decision that will forever change your life. Thousands of Southern Baptist churches have cooperatively organized a way to distribute what they believe is the most important message ever told to every household in North America. This ministry is called Find it Here.

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  • GUEST COLUMN: Senate bills cut waste strengthen education

    This week in Frankfort, the Senate passed bills that strengthen our educational system and cut down on unneeded government waste. We also received the state budget from the House of Representatives and began work on our version of the budget.

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  • Spencer County Middle School boys baseball 2010

    Tuesday, March 16    Whitefield Academy    5:15pm    Away

    Friday, March 19    Shelby Co. Tournament    5:15pm    Away

    Saturday, March 20    Shelby Co. Tournament    12:00pm    Away

    Monday, March 22    OKH    5:15pm    Away

    Tuesday, March 23    Bardstown    5:15pm    Away

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  • SCES student council report
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  • A dance with daddy

    Shelbey Eadens smiled as she and her date moved in small, swaying circles at the school dance Thursday night. When Shelbey turned her broad grin up toward his, she tightened her arm around his waist for just a moment, then happily snuggled her red mane back on his chest and closed her eyes.

    “She’s daddy’s little girl,” said Dave Eadens after sharing the first slow song of the night with his 10-year-old daughter.

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  • Two arrested on meth charges

    Two Spencer County men are facing a long list of charges associated with manufacturing methamphetamine after police received a tip from the dad of one of the suspects.

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  • TES academic team performs well

    Taylorsville Elementary School’s academic team competed in the Kentucky Governor’s Cup district competition  February, 27 at Old Mill Elementary School in Bullitt County. 

    There were four schools represented that day.  Four of the TES team members qualified to go on to the regional competition in written assessment and/or composition which will be later this month. 

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  • Learn a new skill at S.O.S.

    The Spencer County Cooperative Extension Service will be offering many free and low-cost classes beginning next week as part of their 2010 Share Our Selves (S.O.S.) program.

    S.O.S. is a community education program where community members share their talents and knowledge with others. In many classes, volunteer instructors donate their time. If a class fee is charged, this covers supplies only. 

    Classes offered this year are:

    - fruit production and pruning

    - scrap bag sewing project

    - lawn maintenance

    - learn to saute’

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  • Perfect storm hoops weekend

    Perfect Storm weekend in the Commonwealth last week? Close.

    - Murray State was Kentucky’s first team to qualify for the Big Dance. OVC coach of the year Billy Kennedy’s Racers are also the state’s winningest at 30-4.

    – Surging Western Kentucky clinched a sixth-in-a-row 20-win season, led Sun Belt in attendance again, and, at this writing, still a Big Dance candidate.

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