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Today's News

  • Wilds named Citizen of the Year

    They were prepared to demand a recount.

    Wanda Washington, Laura Wilds and Lynn Kearney gather behind the podium, waiting to hear who will receive this year’s Citizen of the Year award.

    Campbellsville/Taylor County Chamber of Commerce gives that award, among others, each year to honor residents in the community. The awards were presented during the Chamber’s annual banquet on Thursday night.

    Wilds and Washington told the crowd they were sure Kearney was going to win, so they prepared signs proclaiming “I Demand a Recount.”

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  • Mock crash delivers message to students

     

    Students at Campbellsville High School watched as one of their peers is placed in a body bag, while another clung to life during a crash scene re-enactment on Thursday.

    “What you’re going to see today is an event that we respond to many times,” Dan Durham, program director of Campbellsville’s Air EVAC Lifeteam, said to the group of juniors and seniors.

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  • April is National Donate Life Month

     

    There was nothing to think about. It was going to save his nephew’s life, so he says there was no doubt he would do it.

    Troy Young donated a kidney to his nephew, who was facing dialysis if he didn’t get a new one, in 2011. Ever since, Young’s nephew has been in good health and the two have formed an even tighter bond.

    April is National Donate Life Month, geared toward encouraging people to register as donors and celebrate those whose lives have been saved by donations.

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  • Campbellsville Schools will have early release for 2013-2014 year

    Beginning next school year, Campbellsville School System students will be released from school a bit early on Fridays.

    At a special meeting Friday afternoon, Campbellsville Board of Education members voted to, beginning in August, release students at 1 p.m. each Friday.

    With the vote, the 2013-2014 school calendar approved in March was amended to reflect the change. The calendar is printed below.

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  • Elk Horn woman charged with intimidating officer

    An Elk Horn woman currently facing charges alleging she hindered a murder investigation has been arrested and charged with intimidating a judicial officer.

    Ruth Salyers, 58, of 12764 Liberty Road, was arrested Friday, April 19, at 11:15 a.m. at the Taylor County Judicial Center.

    According to her arrest warrant, law enforcement officials overheard Salyers making threatening statements during a phone call she had on April 16 with her husband, David, who is incarcerated and facing a murder charge.

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  • Flippin' Flapjacks

     

    With the smell of sausage sizzling and fresh coffee brewing in the air, Keith Bricken flips a thick flapjack.

    The young girl hands him her plate and she gets two big ones. "There you go," he says, with a smile. She takes a seat and digs in.

    Campbellsville and Taylor County Fire & Rescues hosted their annual pancake breakfast on Saturday morning, with many Taylor County residents coming to help raise money to buy uniforms and other equipment.

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  • Differences don't have to hold us back

     

    Inspired. That is the best word to describe my feelings after recently meeting and writing about two young members of our community.

    The first, sixth-grader Terry Cook, was seriously burned in a fire and is still coping with the life-changing effects six years later. The second, Autumn Anderson, is a senior at Taylor County High School and will soon be heading to the NASCAR Technical Institute in North Carolina to train to become a mechanic.

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  • Foster first at MSC men's golf tournament

    Monday’s round proved to be the cushion that Scott Foster needed on Tuesday to win his first Mid-South Conference Men’s Golf Championship at Maywood County Club in Bardstown.
    With the win, Foster has earned a spot in the NAIA Men’s Golf Championships on May 14-17 at Creekside Golf Club in Salem, Ore.

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  • Public Record for April 25

    It is the policy of the Central Kentucky News-Journal to publish public records as they are reported by various agencies. Names appearing in "On the Record" are published without exception, to preserve the fairness and impartiality of the CKNJ and as a news service to our readers.

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    • Cortany G. Giles, failure of non-owner operator to maintain required insurance, amended to failure to produce insurance card, $143.

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  • Juvenile struck by vehicle

    A 13-year-old teenager has been treated and released after he pulled his bicycle into the path of a vehicle on Saturday.

    According to a Taylor County Sheriff's Office report, the teenager, who is not named in the report, was traveling north on Davis Road at 2:53 p.m. on a bicycle.

    The report states that, at the intersection of Davis Road and U.S. 68, the teenager pulled into the path of a 2004 Pontiac driven by Hannah Coomer, 22, of old U.S. 68 in Campbellsville. The teenager struck the right side of the vehicle.

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