Today's News

The Marion County Board of Education will be having its regular monthly meeting tonight at 5:30 p.m. at the administration building located at 755 East Main Street in Lebanon.
The agenda includes:
* MCHS Student Drug Testing program report
* Summer Feeding Report
* Project based learning report
* Consider approval of school lunch prices for the 2013-14 school year
* Consider approval of the Application for Participation in the Community Based Work Transition program for the 2013-14 school year and authorize matching funds

Don Johnson has been working for years to bring world-class musicians to Lebanon, and he’ll be doing just that June 8 at St. Augustine Catholic Church.
Friedemann Immer of Germany and John Foster of Australia will be performing with Johnson’s group, the Kentucky Baroque Trumpets.
“I don’t think anyone would argue with me that Friedemann Immer is the finest baroque trumpeter in the world,” Johnson said.

On Sunday afternoon, Alex Thomas sat on a porch swing surrounded by family and friends. That wouldn’t seem noteworthy, except that a week earlier at that time, she was at Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville waiting to check out.
On May 25, Alex spent two to three minutes passed out and underwater, pinned by a Kubota rugged terrain vehicle. She was revived when friends Alyssa McRay, Cameron Goodin and Jacob Marples were able to push the RTV off her, and Jacob, administered CPR.

John Ratliff — “Dr. John” to his patients — was a throwback to a bygone era.
During his 41 years practicing medicine in Lebanon, he made house calls, he was sometimes paid with country hams or chickens, and, according to Pam Moraja, it was common to see Ratliff sitting in his office with a pipe in his mouth.
When Ratliff, 93, passed away May 30, it was personal for Moraja. Her mother had worked for him for 30 years.