Today's News

The farm looks like a storm hit recently, but it’s really just my husband’s new deer deterrent technique.  It seems to be working.

In the past we have forgone the Irish Spring soap, human hair and coyote urine for more reliable barriers.  Tomato cages, tobacco stakes, wire, spiral plastic trunk wrap, and, yes, an occasional arrangement of lawn chairs have created distance between rutting and browsing deer. 

When the banners are unveiled and the applause dies down, Terry Davis will again be remembered as Kentucky’s 1968 Mr. Basketball.

“It’s nice to be remembered 41 years later,” he said. “Mr. Basketball gives you an identifying mark in this state. I don’t know how many times since then that I’ve been introduced as 1968’s Mr. Basketball.”

The late Rev. Louis Coleman will be honored on Thursday as the 2009 recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Citizenship Award.

The annual award ceremony will be hosted by the Martin Luther King Jr. State Commission at 4 p.m. at the Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort.

The award is given to an individual within the Commonwealth of Kentucky who embodies the spirit and energy of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Students aren’t the only ones who are glad when they pass a test.

Last Thursday night the Shelby County School Board celebrated with eight local teachers who passed the National Board Certified Teachers exam this year.

The exam, which is administered by the National Board Professional Teaching Standards, is a benchmark for excellence in education.

Superintendent James Neihof said the teachers in the district who have passed the national board exam are “among some of the best we have.”