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Today's Features

  • Kentucky’s latest class of elected circuit court clerks got a jump start on preparing to take office at a comprehensive orientation program that the Administrative Office of the Courts provided Dec. 11-13 in Lexington. The new circuit court clerks were elected in the November 2012 general election and will take office Jan. 7, 2013.
     

    Tina Melton of Grant County participated in the 2012 Circuit Court Clerks’ Newly Elected Officials Orientation.

  • Shayanna Jolly wasn’t always sure she wanted to be a pastor.
    “I was originally a drama major,” said the Transylvania University graduate. “I didn’t really want to be an actor, but I loved the arts and I wanted to be involved in non-profits in someway. Then, about the third year during my college experience, I got very involved in a church in Lexington called Central Christian Church. I started leading youth group programs there and getting really involved in the ministry.”

  • Christ
    Community
    • Dec. 30 - Sunday School at 10 a.m. and worship at 11 a.m. There will be no evening service.  
    • Dec. 31 - New Year’s Eve service at 11:15 p.m. with worship and praying the old year out and the New Year in. There will be a time of fellowship, fun and games at 9 p.m. before the service begins.
    • Jan. 7 – Ben Holloway 7 p.m.  and also on Jan. 8 at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.
    The church is located at 139 North Main Street in Williamstown. For more information, call 859-394-2586.

  • Well? Did you do it? Did you have a Merry Christmas? Did Santa bring you everything you wanted? Did you spend lots of time with loved ones? Did you eat too much? Most importantly, did you take time to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas? Did you ask yourself, “What’s the greatest gift I got this year?” I hope that you did. If not, why not do it now?

  • December 25, 1997
    Navy Lt. Marcus C. Camacho, a 1988 graduate of Grant County High School in Dry Ridge is scheduled to spend the holidays forward deployed to Atsugi, Japan with carrier Early Warning Squadron 115. He joined the Navy in May 1988. Camacho is a 1992 graduate of the U.S. Navel Academy in Annapolis, Md. with a bachelors degree.

  • If there was anything that I came to understand more profoundly this year it would have to be the power of instinct: mine, our animals and the forces of ideologies of which I agree and disagree.  I reread my year end column from 2011 which reminded me of where I was 12 months ago; it helps me better appreciate where I am today.  It seems we didn’t do too badly, after all, and it’s all because both Andy and I recognize the power of instinct.

  • Three members of the Williamstown City Council were recognized earlier this month for their combined 55 years of service to the city.


    Williamstown Mayor Rick Skinner presented Robert “Bob” Perry, Stanley Woodyard and Glenn Caldwell with plaques at the Dec. council meeting.
    Caldwell opted not to run for re-election. Perry and Woodyard lost their bid for re-election in the November election, which garnered a field of 10 candidates for six seats.

  • Last Sunday I felt like I was under siege!  There were starlings everywhere; so much so that I feared being splattered with poop at every turn.  The surprising thing about starlings is that they are everywhere yet not from here.  It’s another story of one good intention going bad. Apparently back in 1890, in honor of a Shakespeare festival in New York City’s Central Park, 60 European starlings were released.  The following year another 40 were released and today the bird is one of the most numerous species in North America.