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Today's News

  • Local churches support Boy Scouts

    Although some Kentucky churches are severing ties with the Boy Scouts of America in wake of the organization's recent decision to allow openly gay members to join, churches in Taylor County are continuing to support local Boy Scout troops and won't be closing their doors to them anytime soon.

    "We're here to give these boys some good leadership skills and teach them valuable life lessons, and that's what it's all about," Mark Sanford, leader of local Boy Scout Troop 616, said.

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  • County considers refinancing jail debt

    County officials are again considering refinancing its loan to pay for the Taylor County Detention Center.

    Last week, they took a step that will make the process move much quicker, should they decide to refinance the loan.

    The loan on the detention center stands at nearly $14.7 million, with about $9.8 million being principle debt. The actual cost to build the jail, which opened its doors in 2008, was $11.8 million.

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  • Smiths win Finest Farm Family award

     

    It's what he loves to do. It's also what his father and grandfather loved.

    Barry Smith and his family have a 300-acre farm on Owl Creek Road. About 100 beef cattle graze the land.

    "Just like to farm," Smith said. "Got that from my dad, I guess."

    Smith's grandfather built the farm in 1929. After someone else owned the property for a while, Smith purchased the farm in 2002. He lives there with his wife, Kim, and two children, Rylen, 14, and Dwight, 18.

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  • Digging Into Fossils

     

    They already dug into reading, and now they have dug into fossils.

    Taylor County Public Library summer reading program participants went to the Green River Lake visitor's center last Thursday to learn about fossils.

    The theme for this year's summer reading program is "Dig Into Reading." Following that theme, park ranger Jessica Grinnell taught about 65 children how to find fossils, what can be learned from them and how they are made.

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  • Falling tree damages vehicles
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  • 150 years later: Remembering the Battle of Tebbs Bend

    They came to remember and honor the past.

    In period dress, the re-enactors file in for flag ceremonies and noted Civil War historians speak about the importance of what happened there.

    About 200 people gathered on Saturday to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Tebbs Bend at the Green River Bridge.

    The battle was July 4, 1863, and a large confederate ceremony on Tebbs Bend Road features markers erected in tribute to those who died in the battle.

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  • Relay for Life events begin tomorrow

     

    He hopes to offer hope, for those who have been where he is and the families who have supported their loved ones through it.

    Campbellsville resident Richard Phillips has cancer. And tomorrow, he will tell the crowd at Taylor County's annual Relay for Life events what has gotten him through his illness.

    Phillips, 48, who serves as a magistrate and works at Taylor Regional Hospital, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's follicular lymphoma on Feb. 1. Since then, he has taken six chemotherapy treatments.

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  • Library kicks off summer reading program

     

    About 200 children signed up on Saturday to participate in the Taylor County Public Library's annual summer reading program.

    The program is themed "Dig into Reading."

    Library staff said that amount is on track to beat last year's record of nearly 600 who participated.

    This is the first year the library has hosted a kickoff for its program. There were games, bubbles, face painting, snow cones and hot dogs, and the first 100 children who signed up received a free book.

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  • Wise to appear on TV show 'Snapped' this Sunday

    The story of how a Campbellsville woman was convicted of killing her husband will be featured on national television Sunday night.

    Kathleen Wise, 62, who admitted to killing her husband with an overdose of liquid morphine, will be featured on an episode of "Snapped," which airs on the Oxygen network. The show will air at 9 p.m. and repeat throughout the week.

    Wise, formerly of 4203 Bengal Road, is serving life in prison at the Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women after a jury found her guilty during a one-day trial last July.

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  • Progress being made on city's civic center

     

    The sun shines in, illuminating the stained glass windows and casting their shadow on the newly restored floor.

    "It's beautiful," Campbellsville Mayor Tony Young said.

    The project to turn the former Taylor County Public Library building on North Columbia Avenue into the Campbellsville Civic Center is well under way. And, so far, those involved are pleased with the results.

    Renovation began in April, just shortly after the library moved to its new building on East Broadway.

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