Dairy Farm

Winchester Municipal Utilities has several challenges still looming under a budget that already has a vice-grip applied, according to the audit performed for June 2005-June 2006.In the management discussion and analysis portion of the audit report, now required by federal guidelines, general manager Vernon Azevedo laid out several issues that the company is facing, many of which will make serious demands on finances. Among those issues are the recent consent decree with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the expansion of the Sekisui industrial plant and compliance with new regulations.

Alexis Ashmore, Boyle County High School junior, may have cruised by a fast-food restaurant once in the past few months. Joshua Smith, also a junior, says that's about right for him, too. Alexis and Joshua decided to swear off fast-food eating after their biology class' study of the origins of food. "Instead of going out and getting something, I just wait until I get home to eat," Alexis says. The project, "Farm to Table," was designed to make the students think about the food they put in their bodies.

10 years ago... Lincoln County students had missed only one day of classes because of snow so far, but they would have to make up at least five days at the end of the year after a "flu bug" hit the county. Classes were canceled for four days as school officials tried to stem the spreading influenza and reduce the financial impact on attendance-based state funding. As flu infections swept through the schools, attendance dropped from the customary 98 percent to 87 percent over a couple days.

When it comes to ideas for alternative crops, a Kentucky farmer may have the most electrifying of all time. Paul and Darnell Ruley have four acres of brightly lit Christmas decorations on their 250-acre spread in Marion County. What started with "just a handful" of holiday displays 30 years ago has grown into a menagerie containing over a half million lights, according to the couple. The spectacle of light and sound attracts thousands of visitors from as far away as Somerset, Owensboro and Indiana.

Editor's note: Ruth Ann Fogle is an evangelist, author and dramatist. She is currently working on a documentary of her home town titled “Last Stop - Riley Station.” Marion County native Ruth Ann Fogle says stories told by her relatives while she was growing up in Riley inspired her to write books about her life. “We are born with five things that are important if you want be a writer,” she said during the Forkland Genealogical Workshop last weekend. She listed the five senses - hearing, vision, touch, taste and smell - as tools for being a writer.

A storm survey team from the National Weather Service was in Lincoln County Saturday evaluating the damage caused by an apparent tornado that touched down in Eubank, Waynesburg and near Broughtontown Friday afternoon. The team's preliminary findings indicate that an EF-1 tornado with wind speeds of about 100 mph ripped through southeastern Lincoln County about 3:20 p.m., destroying several buildings and trees but causing no injuries, according to the NWS Web site. The storm's path covered seven miles, the Web site said.

HARRODSBURG - Sharon Clark and Milward Dedman are both likable, polished and seemingly sincere candidates for the 55th District state House of Representatives seat that includes Mercer and Anderson counties. Both candidates are waging old-fashioned campaigns that are light on media buys and heavy on yard signs and door-to-door stops. Clark pinched together the excess material in the waist of her pants to show how much weight she's lost visiting voters in their homes. Dedman complained of blisters on his feet from beating the pavement.

The Army's High School Recruiting Program Handbook says, "Be so helpful and so much a part of the school scene that you are in constant demand. " Sara Allen, 49, is a single mom. She is proud of her two sons and has raised them to respect others as well as themselves. One son is no longer at home, but her other son, "Seph," will graduate from Boyle County High School in May. Allen, a registered nurse, spends many exhausting hours on her job, sometimes doing double shifts to support her family.

But to a certain Catholic priest in Danville - a man who actually was born and raised on the Emerald Isle - the celebration likely will be a little more subdued but probably more meaningful. The Rev. Patrick Fitzsimons, pastor of SS. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, likely will spend part of this St. Patrick's Day as he has in the past - thinking of his native land and his family back home. And he will be reminded of Ireland not by big hats with large shamrocks on them or stirring a glass of Irish whiskey with a shillelagh but by three objects that are really from Ireland and have much more significance to him. One is a Celtic cross.

A storm survey team from the National Weather Service was in Lincoln County Saturday evaluating the damage caused by an apparent tornado that touched down in Eubank, Waynesburg and near Broughtontown Friday afternoon. The team's preliminary findings indicate that an EF-1 tornado with wind speeds of about 100 mph ripped through southeastern Lincoln County about 3:20 p.m., destroying several buildings and trees but causing no injuries, according to the NWS Web site. The storm's path covered seven miles, the Web site said.