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  • Taylor County Bank named to Top 15 percentile

    Taylor County Bank has recently been inducted into Seifried & Brew LLC’s Top 15th percentile of community banks, based on total risk/return composite ranking.

    The benchmark for this ranking includes institutions with assets between $100 million and $5 billion.

    According to a certificate the bank received, it is further distinguished for setting the standard of excellence and raising the bar for community banks across the nation.

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  • City plans 2-percent pay raise for full-time employees

    A 2-percent raise for full-time city employees and those who work at Campbellsville Water and Sewer Co. is included in the city’s 2013-2014 budget.

    Members had first reading of the budget at the City Council’s regular meeting on Monday.

    According to Campbellsville Mayor Tony Young, raises for city employees will cost about $90,000, and raises for water company staff members will cost about $26,000.

    Young said there will not be raises for the city’s part-time employees.

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  • Local company's products help care for exotic animals

     

    When Cox Shavings opened in 1998, general manager Jim Noe was prepared to serve the needs of horse farms, dairies and chicken farms scattered throughout Kentucky and surrounding states.

    He never expected the shavings produced in Campbellsville would one day line the dens of exotic animals such as lions, tigers and zebras. “I never dreamed that we’d be going into that,” Noe said.

    But that changed when Noe got a phone call from one of his regular dealers, Metzger’s Country Store in Simpsonville.

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  • Citizen Bank is Outstanding Chamber Investor

     

    The goal is to make money, but also to give it those in need.

    Citizens Bank and Trust Co. President Mark Johnson says his business wants to be a financial success, but also show that its employees care about those in the Taylor County community.

    And it’s the bank’s commitment to helping others that earned it this year’s Outstanding Chamber Investor award.

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  • TRH hosts Blessing of the Hands

     

    Holding out her hands, he places drops of oil on each and asks God to bless them.

    “The lives that they touch, may they be blessed,” he said, as they prayed together.

    Beside him, another clergy member asks for God’s blessings upon a nurse’s hands.

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  • Durham murder trial set for October

    Jesse Durham is now scheduled to face jurors in August and October.

    Durham, the Campbellsville man accused of killing his great-grandmother and assaulting a jail deputy while incarcerated, appeared in court on Tuesday for another hearing in his cases.

    Dressed in sweats and shackled with handcuffs and leg chains, Durham, 21, of 102 Eads St., appeared before Taylor Circuit Court Judge Allan Bertram for a hearing that lasted six minutes.

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  • A part of history

     

    Residents in Campbellsville will join thousands of individuals across the country to celebrate National Preservation Month this May. As part of the month’s celebration, Campbellsville Renaissance/Historic Preservation Commission has provided information about four historic buildings in Campbellsville.

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  • CU Commencement

    Nearly 450 students graduated from Campbellsville University on Friday and Saturday in graduate and undergraduate commencement ceremonies.

    Including the December graduates, the 2012-2013 class totals a record 647 students.

    Dr. Joseph Early Sr., vice president for academic affairs emeritus at University of the Cumberlands, spoke at graduate commencement. He is special assistant to the president and special assistant to senior vice president of academic affairs at CU.

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  • Specialty license plates increasing in popularity

     

    Drive around town for a few minutes and you're almost guaranteed to spot a unique license plate.

    While the majority of Kentucky's vehicles feature the standard "Unbridled Sprit" plate that debuted in 2005 or the "In God We Trust" plate that became available in 2011, 24 percent of vehicles have specialty license plates.

    Specialty license plates allow drivers to show their support for a particular school or other organization, or to simply accent their personal style.

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  • Town Hall Forum addresses drug addiction

     

    Wearing a dress shirt and slacks, he strums his guitar and sings to tell how it feels to be a drug addict.

    "It's really opened my eyes that there is hope," he croons. "All I know is the pain and sorrow that I caused on my own."

    Justin Maggard might be from Pineville, but he is calling Taylor County home now as he gets treatment here for drug addiction.

    A resident at The Healing Place, Maggard said he wrote the song after being in treatment for a month.

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