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  • FAITH FOR TODAY: Are you a...

    One of my favorite Christmas stories is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. In it we have a miser named Scrooge who not only doesn’t know the meaning of Christmas but goes out of his way to make everyone as miserable as he is. He is visited by a ghost and three spirits of Christmas, the past, present, and future. After this experience he is a changed man, Charles Dickens wrote in his epilogue that if there was anyone who could keep Christmas the whole year through it was Scrooge.

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    Ribbon cutting: Deborah Kaye...

    Deborah Kaye Montgomery celebrated her business move to a new storefront on Main Street with a ribbon cutting earlier this month. Joining her in this momentous occasion were (from left) Annette King, executive director of Taylorsville/Spencer County Economic Development; Jerry Davis, president of Spencer County/Taylorsville Chamber of Commerce; Melvin Gore, chamber vice-president; Deborah Kaye Montgomery, owner; her husband, David Montgomery; and son, Jeremiah Montgomery.

  • Wade returns from banking conference

    Billie W. Wade, CEO of Citizens Union Bank, recently returned from a meeting of America’s Community Bankers Council, a division of the American Bankers Association in Washington, D.C. Composed of approximately 100 bankers representing all 50 states, the Council meets twice each year to advise the Association on issues affecting the nation’s community banks and their customers.

  • FROM THE WORD: God wants us to...

    This is the way most celebrate Christmas – we start shopping on the day after Thanksgiving and continue to do so for many days after. Then after three or four weeks, we start wondering who we have left off our shopping list. Or we start worrying if someone will like the present we got for them. When Christmas Eve or Christmas Day rolls around, we begin the massive exchange of gifts and partake in bountiful meals. Most of us eat way too much and gain at least 10 pounds, feeling miserable. During these big meals, we briefly forget about the presents under the tree.

  • Berries add winter interest

    We all say we want winter interest but sometimes we forget about it once spring rolls around and we get excited about a new season. Have you selected things that will capture your eye in January? Look out the window and tell yourself what you see and then take some notes. What window do you gaze out the most and where, in that view, would a colorful tree or shrub make the most difference? Now, consider planting something with the best winter interest there is: berries. Berries come in all sorts of colors; and they will bring in wildlife to enjoy, as well.

  • Gray recognized for community...

    Logan Gray, senior of Spencer County High School, was recently nominated for the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards and the Toyota Community Scholars Program. Both programs recognize students for their outstanding commitment to community service and present awards based on the student’s academic performance and the overall impact of the student’s contribution(s) in the area of community service.

  • Thomas to represent SCHS at HOBY...

    Curtsinger selected as alternate

    Chase Thomas, son of Kevin and Diana Thomas, has been selected the SCHS Hugh O’Brian Youth (HOBY) Leadership Seminar participant. Danielle Curtsinger, daughter of Karen Curtsinger, has been selected as the alternate participant. These students were nominated as HOBY candidates by SCHS.

  • Church happenings

     

    Advent services at Risen Lord Lutheran

    Risen Lord Lutheran Church, located at 5138 Taylorsville Road near the Elk Creek Grocery store, invites the community to come worship with them tonight. The evening will start with a soup supper at 6 p.m. with a worship service to begin at 7 p.m. For more information please contact Pastor Steve Gettinger at 477-6557.

    Christmas celebration at

    Lighthouse Baptist Church

  • FROM THE WORD: The church will be...

    I was talking to a preacher not long ago about how God is going to judge the church. We, as church members, don’t like to be included in this judgement. Some of us may think we have been so good, we are about to grow wings.

    I believe that if churches don’t come to true repentance, we are in danger of becoming like the Pharisees. We are in danger of taking on a form of religion that does not exercise the power of Jesus Christ. I think this is one question we have to ask ourselves: Who is our God?

    In Matthew Chapter 19, we see a person with another God.

  • FAITH FOR TODAY: Time out for...

    The song says Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, but sometimes it just seems like the most hectic! We can’t even get to Thanksgiving anymore before the Christmas rush is upon us. Then there is “Black Friday, and now there’s “Cyber Monday,” and all the special shopping days they can think to fit into the month before Christmas.

  • SCMS students of the month

    Spencer County Middle School is proud to announce their November Students of the Month. Pictured are: Taylor Sullivan, Kellie Blacklock, Michael Fowler, Lauren Klaber, Nicole Goodlett and Justin Ferriell.

    Submitted to The Spencer Magnet

  • Fruit, vegetable conference Jan. 5-6

    Horticulture in Kentucky continues to be big business. After a difficult 2007, including a late freeze and extreme drought conditions, Kentucky’s fruit and vegetable growers saw better growing conditions in 2008. Soon, growers will have an opportunity to hone their skills when the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture hosts a joint meeting of the Kentucky State Horticulture Society, the Kentucky Vegetable Growers Association, the Kentucky Farmers’ Market Association and the Kentucky Grape and Wine Short Course, Jan. 5 and 6 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Lexington.

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    November TES students of the month

     

    The Taylorsville Elementary School: November Students of the Month maintained great behavior for the entire month of November.  They each received a Tiger Pride T-shirt and attended a special lunch with the school counselor, Miss Heiss.

  • Higher Ed Report Card Shows KY...

    Kentucky has made progress in four of five categories of postsecondary education performance, according to Measuring Up 2008: The National Report Card on Higher Education.

  • KY farm economy sees record cash...

     

     

  • Church happenings

     Christmas Musical at Elk Creek Baptist Church

  • Whooping Cough on the Rise in...

     

    More Kentuckians, particularly older children and teens, should get a booster vaccine to prevent the onset of pertussis, a highly contagious disease more commonly known as whooping cough, the Kentucky Department for Public Health (DPH) announced today.

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  • SCHS presents drama

    The Drama classes of SCHS will present DRAMA SHOWCASE on Friday at 7 p.m.

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    Career Day at SCHS - enlightens the...

     

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