Today's News

Central Kentucky Head Start is hosting The StoryWalk at Graham Memorial Park from April 25-27, and everyone is welcome to visit.
The StoryWalk promotes physical activity by combining walking with reading children’s books. In the StoryWalk, the pages of a book are turned into signs, which are laid out on a trail. By walking the trail, families, children and the community follow the pages of the book.

 So you want to be a bass angler! Well, first you need a boat. Not just any boat, but a bass boat. Something in the 18-foot, on the short side, to around 21-feet in length. Cost? Around $40,000 to $60,000 or, in the neighborhood of $400 per month for 15 years!

Of course you won’t pull it very far with the family minivan, so you’ll need a truck, with a big gas guzzling V8 with lots of power and torque. Or maybe a big four-door,one-ton diesel. Of course diesel will cost more but you can’t put a price on cool!

By John Overby
Landmark News Service

“Local products, local food, local fun!”
That is the tagline for the first-ever Springfield Green Festival, which will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, April 26, along Depot Street (the road where the new farmers market is located).
Organized by the New Pioneers for a Sustainable Future, the event will, in part, focus on teaching the local population about how it can help the environment and how it can be fiscally beneficial for someone to “go green.”

Becoming principal at Lebanon Middle School was not part of Christina McRay’s plan when she began serving as its interim principal in January.
In fact, she was apprehensive about serving as interim.
“My whole entire career was in high school,” McRay said. “That was my gig. That was my comfort zone.”