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Today's News

  • Taylor County youth recognized at awards dinner for State 4-H Communications Day

    Lindsay Cissell, Beth Cook, Andrew Massengale, Kensi Moore and Jordyn Southern represented Taylor County at the State 4-H Communications Day and were recognized for their efforts at the annual 4-H Awards Banquet with a plaque.

    The daylong state competition, which took place on the University of Kentucky campus, showcased the communications expertise of 4-H Youth Development member in 51 different categories. Youth ages nine through 18 are eligible to compete in the event.

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  • Celebrate reading!

    Usually a place of hushed whispers and quiet reading, Taylor County Public Library was bustling with visitors, children's giggles and welcoming smiles on Tuesday.

    The Friends of the Library volunteer board hosted an open house in celebration of the library's 33 years of service to the community. The library offered extended hours on Tuesday, from 5 to 7 p.m. Full library services were available in addition to refreshments.

    The children's room featured various storytellers, and anyone dropping by the Kentucky room could make a snowman bookmark.

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  • Winners of annual MLK essay contest announced

    More than 200 entries were received for this year's "I Have a Dream" essay contest sponsored by Greater Campbellsville United and the Central Kentucky News-Journal in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which is celebrated today.

    First-place winners of the "I Have a Dream" essay contest are: Devin Powers, children's division; Joshua Percell, teen's division; and John Stone, adult's division.

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  • Prisoners are there for the taking

    Just about the same time that a story in this paper told of jail construction being a month behind, another story in another paper told of our state's prisons being overcrowded.

    If that trend holds, then we can't get our jail completed soon enough.

    Cha-ching.

    That will be good news (if it's still true when our jail opens) to everyone who has a hand in seeing that the County's new facility breaks even or, better yet, turns a profit.

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  • School needs to be reassessed

    Thanks to a new formula that considers the age of school buildings, Taylor County Schools will reassess its building needs.

    Architect Ken Wood, who has been working with the District on its facility improvement plan, told Taylor County School Board members last week that the new formula means more need for the District.

    "We're potentially talking millions of more dollars of needs," Wood said.

    More need, Superintendent Gary Seaborne said, means a greater offer of assistance from the state.

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  • CHS to host prayer walk

    A prayer walk will take place Sunday at Campbellsville High School.

    The community is invited to attend the event, which is from 2 to 3 p.m.

    Attendees should meet in the gym at 2 for opening remarks and prayer. Then, the crowd will dismiss to pray over various parts of the school, reconvening at around 2:50 to close.

    Feel free to come and go as you need. The front and back doors of the gym will be open.

    For more information, can visit www.reviveprayerwalk.com.

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  • Smith-Cecil earns math medal

    Ricky Smith-Cecil was recently honored with a math medal at a Campbellsville Elementary celebration assembly.

    Smith-Cecil is a student in Debbie Baugh's third grade classroom at Campbellsville Elementary.

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  • CU alumni and friends can buy new license plate

    Campbellsville University alumni and friends can now buy a newly-designed license plate to support CU.

    The new license plate went on sale Jan. 2 at all county clerk's offices.

    The original license plate design, which included all 20 independent colleges with a common background and color scheme, reached the end of its state-mandated five-year life cycle in 2007.

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  • Celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King

    Decades ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said to supporters of the civil rights movement in Washington, D.C., "... I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.'

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  • CU to host two-piano concert

    Eugene and Elisabeth Pridonoff will perform a two-piano concert Thursday, Jan. 24 at 8 p.m. in the Gheens Recital Hall of the Gosser Fine Arts Center on the Campbellsville University campus.

    The Pridonoffs are duo-in-residence and professors of piano at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music.

    They will be performing works by Poulenc, Stravinsky, Ravel and Liszt. The two will also give a master class for university piano students Friday, Jan. 25 from 10 a.m. to noon in The Gheens Recital Hall.

    The public is invited to both events.

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