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Today's Features

  • 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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  • Resident named National American Miss finalist

     

    Lavonne Kay Grimes, 6, of Campbellsville, has been chosen as a state finalist in the National American Miss Kentucky pageant, which will be May 31 through June 2 at Crowne Plaza in Louisville. The pageant is for girls ages 4 through 18 in five age groups.

    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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  • Early Days for 4-4

     

    TEN YEARS AGO

    April 3, 2003

    Kentucky Post Ron Whitehead and Campbellsville musician Sarah Elizabeth toured Scotland, Iceland and England to sing and read the Commonwealth's poetry.

    Ronnie Sharp, 53, of Wise Road in Campbellsville, died Friday, March 28, in Louisville.

    Jessica Humphress and Jeff Watson of Campbellsville will exchange wedding vows on Saturday, April 12.

    Dustin Campbell celebrated his seventh birthday at Mr. Gatti's with his family and friends.

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  • Clean Taylor County is April 26

    A Clean Taylor County event will be Friday, April 26, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the paved back parking lot of the former Fruit of the Loom building.

    Those attending should enter and exit off West Main Street only. Signs will be posted.

    There may be a long line of those dropping off unwanted items, so organizers ask that those attending be patient and watch for traffic and workers.

    Those wishing to drop off items must be in line before 4 p.m.

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  • Birth Announcements for March 28

    Jessica Honea of Campbellsville and Brandon Cobb of Greensburg announce the birth of a daughter, Khynleigh ShiAnne Cobb, at 8:23 a.m. on Feb. 22 at Taylor Regional Hospital in Campbellsville. She weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces and was 19 inches long.

    Grandparents are Bill and Anne Sanders of Campbellsville, David Cobb of Greensburg and Linda Cobb of Louisville.

    Great-grandparents are Pauline Graves of Campbellsville and Wade Cobb and Mona Davis of Greensburg.

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  • Hunt, Fonfara to wed

     

    Amanda Jo Hunt and Teddy Ray Fonfara of Campbellsville announce their engagement.

    Hunt is the daughter of David and Cathy Mattingly of Lebanon. She is employed at Serco.

    Fonfara is the son of Dianna Fonfara of Omaha, Neb., and the late Terry Fonfara. He is employed at UPS and Robertson Construction.

    The ceremony will be at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, at Pitman Valley Baptist Church in Campbellsville. A reception will follow at the Community Center.

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  • Early Days for 3-28

     

    TEN YEARS AGO

    March 27, 2003

    U.S. Army Spc. Kelly Underwood, a 1996 Taylor County graduate, is a medic with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division 2nd Brigade, which is among the leading edge of U.S. forces in Iraq.

    Taylor County High School chorus will present its 10th anniversary spring musical on Thursday, March 27, and Friday, March 28.

    Carol Mann and the Rev. Gene Weddle exchanged wedding vows on Friday, March 7, in Gatlinburg, Tenn.

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  • From the Past

     

    Mannsville School students in grades one through eight are pictured from the 1948-1949 school year.

    Top row, from left, teacher Dolly Smith, Carlton Cox, Betty Lynn Cox, Lonnie Jones, Shirley Cox, Don Rhodes, Joyce Whitley, Kenny Jones, Jewell Sallee and Jesse Mings Jr.

    Second row, Woodford Bottoms, Mary Elizabeth Sallee, Douglas "Sonny" Reed, Dorothy Underwood, Ray Minor and Faye Linda Rouse.

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  • From the Past

     

    Manufacturing operations at the Parker-Kalon plant on Roberts Road stopped in 1977 as a result of a strike by members of Teamsters Local 783, of which more than half of the estimated 250 employees at the plant are members.

    The strike, according to Robert F. Bihr Jr., industrial relations manager, is because of a dispute involving the terms of a wages and benefits labor contract.

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  • From the Past

     

    Residents say goodbye to their loved ones who are serving in the National Guard in 1990.

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