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Today's News

  • Brown recognized at Shamrock luncheon

    Spencer County resident Grant Brown was recently recognized for outstanding academic performance at Trinity High  School’s annual Shamrock Awards Luncheon. The luncheon was held at the Galt House Grand Ballroom in Louisville, Ky.

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  • Greenwell named to JCTCS dean’s list

    Sarah Ann Louise Greenwell, of Taylorsville, was named to the Jefferson Community and Technical College Dean’s List for the fall 2011 semester. Greenwell is a 2011 graduate of Hillview Academy and says she wouldn’t be where she is scholastically or in life without Hillview.

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  • Two earn academic honors at Campbellsville

    Campbellsville University Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Frank Cheatham recently announced the academic honors list for the fall 2011 semester.
    Bradley Scott Travis, a senior from Taylorsville, was named to the president’s list.
    Kayla Nicole Hood, a junior from Taylorsville, was named to the university’s dean’s list.

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  • Two graduate from IWU

    Two students from Spencer County were among the 1,760 students who received degrees during graduation ceremonies Dec. 17 at Indiana Wesleyan University’s main campus in Marion, Ind.
    Graduating were:
    Lori McFadden, of Sarah ElizabethWay in Taylorsville, with a Bachelor of Science in accounting, and
    Michelle Whitaker, of Village Drive in Taylorsville, with a Bachelor of Science in accounting.

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  • Eight named to OCTC Dean’s List

    The following Spencer County residents were named to the dean’s list at Owensboro Community and Technical College for the fall 2011 semester:

    Cynthia G. Cameron
    Beth Ann Ficker
    Crystal Mae Frank
    Casey Leigh Miller
    Kelli L. Owens
    Nicole Breanne Rogier
    Adam David Werkmeister-Meeker
    Michele Rene Winstead

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  • Spencer County Sheriff’s Department 2011 Activity Report

    Traffic stops, warnings - 228
    Traffic stops, citations - 118
    Highway safety checkpoints - 9
    Non-injury accidents - 129
    Injury accidents - 45
    Fatalities - 3
    Other calls for service - 2,573
    CCDW permits - 288
    Vehicle inspections - 467
    Total arrests - 285
    Subpoenas, criminal summons and civil summons served - 1,490
    Recovered property - $70,800
    Total contacts - 5,486

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  • Fiscal Court notes from Jan. 17 meeting

    •The Spencer County Fiscal Court voted Jan. 17 to enter into an interlocal agreement with Bullitt County that would give the Spencer County Sheriff’s Department jurisdiction in Bullitt County and vice versa.
    Before the agreement becomes valid, it must also be approved by the Bullitt County Fiscal Court and signed by both counties’ judge-executives and attorneys.

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  • COLUMN: Work hard, play hard

    The other day we took our grandkids to one of those kid-friendly places where they have games and all kinds of stuff for kids to do. Anyway, on the way there we took a picture of them and they were sitting in the back seat smiling and laughing, you could see the anticipation on their faces. Then we took an “after” picture, and they were totally zonked, asleep with the sleep of absolute exhaustion.

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  • COLUMN: Learning through biblical parables

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  • COLUMN: New districts make you ‘curiouser and curiouser’

    I really didn’t want to write any more about redistricting, but I’m getting so many questions — about who represents whom? And why did this happen? And why did you make it an emergency? — that it might serve to explain things in a more comprehensive way. I don’t plan to write any more columns on this, so (with apologies to Lewis Carroll) I’ll “begin at the beginning, and go on until I come to the end: then stop.”

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