Today's News

Claire Elizabeth Green is the 5-month-old daughter of David and Ashley Tucker Green of Brentwood, Tenn. Her grandparents are Jim and Debbie Miller, Ivan and Carol Tucker, all of Campbellsville, and Dick and Karen Green of Johnson City, Tenn.

Campbellsville University's Carver School of Social Work will host a meeting Wednesday, July 29 in Somerset to gauge the level of interest in persons interested in obtaining a social work degree.

The meeting, which is free and open to the public, will be from 6 to 8 p.m. in Room 107 of the Student Commons Building on the North Campus of Somerset Community and Technical College in Somerset.

As happens every so often, we have recently been through a spate of embarrassing reports about the lives of prominent public officials. Adulterous affairs by Nevada Senator John Ensign, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, and former presidential candidate John Edwards, entanglements in prostitution by Louisiana Senator David Vitter and former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer - these are just the latest in a long line of dismaying revelations about people in whom the American voters once put their trust.

Air filter manufacturer CLARCOR will lay off 86 employees beginning next month.

According to Dave Lindsay, CLARCOR vice president of administration, the layoffs were due to a drop in business.

"One major customer is moving their business [to another facility]," he said. "This is also related to the general economic slowdown."

CLARCOR opened its Campbellsville facility in the former Batesville Casket building in 2000.

The facility has 199 full-time employees, plus 20 temporary workers.