Today's News

Campbellsville and Taylor County were once again well represented at this past weekend's Kentucky Junior Miss program.

Megan Romines made a Top 15 showing. Taylor County's junior misses always do well at the state program and this year was no exception.

Megan, you should be proud of your accomplishments. We are. We congratulate you on your success and wish for you only more in the future.

Taylor County's 2008 Junior Miss Megan Romines returned home Sunday after a week of preparation and participation in the state Junior Miss Program in Lexington.

Romines, competing against 36 other high school senior girls from across the state, earned a Top 15 designation.

"It was definitely one of the most stressful but rewarding experiences of my life," Romines said.

On Monday, she said she was happy to be home.

"I never thought I'd say this, but I really missed calculus and the yearbook staff."

It took only a few days for her hair to fall out. But that didn't falter her positive attitude.

"I'm very blessed and grateful," she says.

Campbellsville resident Annette Thompson, 42, said she has always had regular mammograms. With fibrocystic breast disease, she said, she knew it was only a matter of time before she had a "bad" mammogram.

Thompson said the doctor who had performed her last mammogram told her to contact her family doctor. At that point, Thompson said, she became scared her mammogram wasn't normal.

"In June 2007, it was a bad one," she said.

"I'm warning you," Mom says. "This is the last time!"

That idle threat is probably heard on a regular basis in every household from here to Timbuktu. But Taylor County magistrates heard something similar recently, and we certainly hope they'll really start to listen soon.

Last November, magistrates voted to adopt a resolution recommended by the Court's Transportation Committee that the County no longer accept gravel roads into its road system - with the exception of three roads already in the process of being accepted.