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Today's Features

  • Quilt guild donates quilt to baby born at TRH

     

    In honor of March 15 being National Quilter's Day, the Sawtooth Sisters Quilt Guild in Campbellsville made a quilt to donate to the first baby born on or after March 15 at Taylor Regional Hospital.

    Savannah Dianne Coomer is the recipient of the quilt.

    She was born on March 15 to Dianne and Jonathan Coomer and weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces and was 18 inches long.

    Savannah is pictured with her parents and her brothers, Carter and Clay.

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  • Author to speak at public library

     

    Author and Campbellsville native Janna McMahan will help celebrate the opening of the Taylor County Public Library, a library that she says was pivotal in her life.

    As an 11-year-old with a great desire to read, McMahan begged her parents to allow her to volunteer when Campbellsville opened its first community library.

    Decades later, McMahan will return to her hometown to help celebrate the opening of the new Taylor County Public Library.

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  • Early Days for 4-11

     

    TEN YEARS AGO

    April 10, 2003

    Chase Coyle of Campbellsville was among 24 Centre College students who studied "Global Ethics" in Europe.

    Stephanie Penick of Tompkinsville has been named to the dean's list at Western Kentucky University for the fall 2002 semester.

    Megan Renee Underwood celebrated her third birthday with friends at Nancy's Daycare. She turned 3 years old on Feb. 25.

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  • 'The Book' Store celebrates 40 years

     

    "The Book" Store is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

    Jim and Juanita Basham began the store in the 1970s. It was located in downtown and across from Taylor County High School and sold Sunday School and church supplies.

    The store was owned by John and Laura Raganas from 1989 to 1995 and moved to Green River Plaza.

    In 1995, Max and Jane Sutton bought the store and moved it across the parking lot in 2004.

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  • Birth Announcements for April 11

    Amber Colleen Bolin and Joshua Brandon Cox of Campbellsville announce the birth of a son, Nicholas Dean Cox, at 9:36 a.m. on March 17 at Spring View Hospital in Lebanon. He weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces and was 21 inches long.

    Grandparents are Stephen and Annette Bolin and Jerry and Paulette Cox, all of Campbellsville.

    Great-grandparents are Betty Bolin and Lucy Skaggs of Campbellsville.

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  • Atwood, Begley to wed

     

    Lindsey Danielle Atwood and Travis Morgan Begley of Finley announce their engagement.

    Atwood is the daughter of Gary Atwood and Janis Atwood of Campbellsville.

    Begley is the son of Merle and Linda Begley of Lebanon.

    The ceremony will be Saturday, May 4, at 4 p.m. at Lebanon United Presbyterian Church.

    Invitations have been sent.

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  • Couples graduate from prenatal class

     

    Two couples graduated from Taylor Regional Hospital's prenatal and childbirth classes taught in March. They are Tracy Crawford and Dusty Miller of Campbellsville and Haley and Bert Bathiany of Columbia.

    Prenatal classes are taught in a five-week series on Tuesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. at TRH's meeting room.

    The classes are free to anyone delivering at TRH and are taught by Nicole Collins, RN, CCE.

    For more information, call the TRH Women's Center at 465-3561 Ext. 2232.

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  • Resident named National American Miss finalist

     

    Taylor LouAnn Wilson, 11, of Campbellsville, has been chosen as a state finalist in the National American Miss Kentucky pageant, which will be June 2 at Crowne Plaza in Louisville. The pageant is for girls ages 9 through 12 in five age groups.

    Wilson is the daughter of Bobby and Brandie McAfee of Campbellsville and the late Shawn Owens.

    The winner of the pageant will receive a $1,000 cash award, a crown and banner, roses and transportation to compete at the national pageant at Disneyland in California.

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  • President of Southern Baptist Convention to speak at CU

     

    Lucas Pennington

    Campbellsville University

    Fred Luter Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Convention, will speak at Campbellsville University's chapel service on Wednesday, April 10. The service will be at Ransdell Chapel and is free and open to the public.

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  • GCU honors 'outstanding' residents

     

    They gathered to honor the past, celebrate the future and remember those who are no longer living.

    Greater Campbellsville United hosted an Outstanding African American Day recently to honor Mae Gloria Johnson, who currently lives in Louisville, and the late Marie Lasley Hazelwood and H.R. Richardson, three black people in Taylor County who the group says made a difference in the community.

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