Today's News

Taylor County eighth-grader Hayes Mason fired a second-day 70 to win the 13-14-year-old boys’ division of the Musselman-Kirchdorfer/KIA Classic which finished March 26 at the University of Louisville Golf Club.
Mason trailed first-round leader Matthew Troutman by two shots after firing a 74 on Saturday.
Another local linkster, Seth Smith, finished third in the boys’ 11-12-year-old class with an 80 (38-42). Smith led with a 38 after the opening round.

As the cookie sale season for local Girl Scouts troops has wrapped up, Taylor County Girl Scouts Service Unit Manager Kim Schwab said the local Girl Scouts had another successful selling season.

Cookie sales for this year exceeded last year’s total by $4,174, according to Schwab. This amounted to a total of 15,457 boxes of cookies sold.

Work on the Taylor County Volunteer Fire Station is on schedule to be finished on time, Taylor County Judge/Executive Eddie Rogers said at a Taylor County Fiscal Court meeting.

But at Tuesday night’s meeting, Rogers and magistrates were undecided about what to do about a required retention pond that they said could be a potential drowning risk.