Today's News

Local residents with an annual income of less than $40,000 can get free tax preparation – if their returns aren’t too complicated.

The program, which is being sponsored by Metro United Way, offers residents of Shelby and Oldham County free tax preparation by IRS-certified volunteers. It is available to any family with a household income less than $40,000 or any individual who makes less than $15,000.

For the first time since 1993, the 30th District will crown a new girls’ basketball tournament champ.

The Lady Rockets fell, 42-38, to Spencer County in the district’s first round Wednesday. The loss will keep Shelby County from playing in next week’s 8th Region Tournament for the first time since at least 1974, when the program was just beginning.

As a follow-up to my last two columns (which in spite of what some apparently thought, were not primarily about puppies), I’d like to direct your attention again to the idea of truth.

Perhaps you have heard someone say, or have even said yourself, “Well, that may be true for you, but it isn’t true for me.”  I have never been able to wrap my mind around that sentiment.

You see, truth—by definition—is not subjective.  Truth is the way things really are; it is what corresponds to actual reality.

Long before she opened The Keepsake Shop and while she was still at the sheriff's office, Joan White decided she and her mom, Kathleen Robinson, would open a sewing business.

“And by the time mom retired, sewing was out,” White said.

Then she and mom settled on antiques. So the two visited antiques shops and sales.

“It didn't take us long before we realized we knew nothing about antiques,” White said.