Today's News

Lebanon-based Inde-pendent Stave Company (parent company of Kentucky Cooperage) received high honors in front of hundreds of Missouri producers and agribusiness leaders during the 45th Missouri Governor’s Conference on Agriculture, hosted by Gov. Jay Nixon and the Missouri Department of Agriculture. During the awards banquet recently, Director of Agriculture Richard Fordyce recognized the company with Missouri’s International Exporter of the Year award.

The American Red Cross is assisting a Raywick homeowner after a fire Saturday morning.
The Lebanon Police Dispatch received a call at 8:29 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 3, reporting a fire at 1400 Sulphur Lick Road in Raywick.
The caller, Patricia Harrell, told the dispatcher that her building was on fire in her back yard, and her house appeared to be catching fire.
The Raywick Fire Department was dispatched to the scene. At 8:45 a.m., the house was reported to be fully engulfed. The New Hope Fire Department was called to assist at the scene.

The 2015 Distinguished Young Woman of Kentucky program is set for Jan. 16-17 in Lexington, and Rachel Gootee is preparing to represent Marion County.
"It'll be here before I know it. I guess I have to be ready," she said.
Gootee won Marion County's Distinguished Young Woman program in August. She also won Be Your Best Self, preliminary scholarship, self-expression and talent awards.