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Today's News

  • Gospel music coming to Centre Square Saturday

    Norma McClarnon is a fan of southern gospel music, and she's hopeful the music will become the foundation for a new annual event in Marion County.

    "I want people to enjoy it," she said. "That's the main thing."

    McClarnon said she spoke with Chris Hamilton, the Lebanon tourism director, and he encouraged her to organize the first Heart of Kentucky Christian Music Festival. She added that the Lebanon Tourism and Convention Commission is also sponsoring the event.

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  • Honor worthy

    "There will never be another war like World War II," said Clyde Cecil, a U.S. Army veteran of that conflict.

    "That's what they said about World War I," replied Ben Browning, a U.S. Navy veteran.

    "No, they said that was the war to end all wars," Cecil said.

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  • Ham Days grand marshal and honorary grand marshals announced

    Coyote Calhoun, this year's grand marshal for the Spring View Hospital Pigasus Parade, has been rockin' for 40 years since his dad, who was the general manager of KBIX in Muskogee, Okla., put him on the air working 7 a.m. to midnight at the age of 15. He's been rockin' ever since.

    Coyote Calhoun started his radio career in 1969, and later was a top 40 jock that achieved early success. He then moved on to the country music scene and joined WAMZ in Louisville in 1980, and has received dozens of national awards, including being inducted into the Country Music D. J.

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  • Sunday sales second reading approved by fiscal court

    Sunday alcohol sales have been approved in Marion County.

    Aug. 20, the Marion County Fiscal Court voted 3-1 to approve the second reading of an ordinance that would allow alcohol sales on Sunday and expand sales hours throughout the week.

    Dry precincts, those that previously voted to prohibit alcohol sales, will remain dry even with the passage of the ordinance.

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  • MAC inmate has been recaptured

    Inmate Thomas Manning walked away from Marion Adjustment Center Sunday. He has been recaptured in Bullitt County.

    Brad Adams of MAC said the prison was notified that Manning was recaptured by the Kentucky State Police.

    Manning, 27, was serving a 15-year sentence for first-degree burglary, third degree burglary, second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, and tampering with physical evidence, all out of Louisville.  His parole board date was May 7, 2010.

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  • Living 'Small Town Sexy'

    Growing up in a small town, I always dreamed of eventually moving to a big city and living the big city life. I had it all planned out. I was going to graduate from college and become a reporter at a daily newspaper in a metropolitan city, namely Nashville. I remember even telling people when I would come home to visit during college that my plans were to move to Nashville and work for The Tennessean. I had no desires or intentions to move back to Marion County. I was bored with my hometown. There was "nothing" here for me to come back to, or so I thought.

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  • Naval vet has a passion for models

    Bela Smith is 86 years old, a Navy veteran and a model ship builder.

    Smith moved to Lebanon about 40 years ago, which is about the same time his interest in model building set sail, so to speak.

    Now, he didn't start building models when he moved here; he's just built a lot more of them since he's been a Kentucky resident.

    Smith is a veteran of both World War II and Korea. He completed his service with the rank of shipfitter third class.

    What is a shipfitter, you ask?

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  • Send in your memories

    Lebanon High School comes back to life in a different light

    Last week, the City of Lebanon and the community at-large celebrated the grand opening of the cultural and performing arts center at Centre Square.

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  • Taken for a ride

    Perk (noun) - A benefit given to an employee in addition to a salary, for example, the use of a car or membership in a club.

    A "perk."

    That's how Marion County Superintendent Donald Smith initially described his use of a board-owned vehicle to make the 56-mile round trip drive from his home in Harrodsburg to Marion County and back each day for work.

    That "perk" also included filling the tank with the school district's gas at the bus garage.

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