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It is that time of year again, the time you sit down and make your list of things you’ll do different or things you want to change. And if you’re anything like me, around Jan. 2, the New Year’s resolutions that you made already seem to be forgotten.

I don’t know what it is about the resolutions that make them so hard for me to stick to them. Maybe I make too many, or maybe I make the same ones each year hoping that this year will be different.

Billy Hill likes Christmas lights.

Hill, the mayor of Corinth, has been decorating his home for as long as he can remember.

While he doesn’t have a theme, he uses only red and white lights.

“I think it makes them standout,” he said.

Hill’s home on Old Corinth Owenton Road features a horse and carriage, two deer and lighted Christmas wreaths.

“I just like decorating,” he said. “It’s not fancy, but I like it.”

A new year brings new possibilities and promise.

I look forward to a fresh start in 2009 because I think that 2008 was a hard year and I’m glad to see it’s in the history books.

There were a lot of good things that happened during the year, but there were a lot more that I found made the year long and tough.

There was the cold, cold weather and the storms that kept ripping through our community. There were shootings, thievery and death from accidents.

Gov. Steve Beshear brought his proposal to soften the blow of the state’s budget crisis to Grant County on Thursday, Dec. 18, during a town hall meeting.

More than 400 people from Grant and surrounding counties packed the Grant County High School auditorium to hear the governor’s response to an estimated $456.1 million deficit in this fiscal year ending June 30, 2009.