Today's News

Joe Williams, Taylorsville native and field representative for Gov. Steve Beshear, presents Emergency Medical Services Director Darrell Stevens with a certificate declaring Stevens a Kentucky Colonel. Williams was in town Wednesday to make the presentation to Stevens, who also serves as the county’s emergency management director.

Rep. Brad Montell, R-Shelbyville (58th District), announced Tuesday he is prefiling legislation for the 2012 Regular Legislative Session that, if passed, would require all employers who either have contracts with public agencies, or those with 11 or more employees to use E-verify for the purpose of cutting down on the number of illegal aliens seeking work in Kentucky.

Trick or Treat on Main Street will again attract thousands of children and their families to the streets of downtown Taylorsville for some kid-friendly candy collecting Oct. 31.

Representatives of local businesses, organizations and churches will commune upon Main Street between Jefferson and Point streets Halloween night from 5-8 p.m. to offer a safe and controlled environment for trick or treaters across Spencer County.

In an effort to do more than verbally communicate with state officials, the Spencer County Fiscal Court passed a resolution Monday night in support of repairing the Blue Bridge, which carries Ky. 55 across the Salt River.

Original plans were to replace the time-worn bridge with a new bridge that would realign Ky. 55 upstream, Judge-Executive Bill Karrer said.

However, that project has proved too costly to begin in the near future, so plans changed to build a new bridge next to the current Blue Bridge and then tear the Blue Bridge down when construction finished.