During the past several weeks, the Albany Post Office has been promoting the Letter Carrier’s annual effort of collecting food throughout the county in order to supply people in need, known nationally as Stamp Out Hunger.
This past Saturday, mail patrons were asked to leave canned and non-perishable food goods near postal boxes to be collected by mail carriers from the Albany Post Office, and the effort was a tremendous success.
Monday morning, May 13, 2013, postal employees helped load more than 1,600 pounds of donated food items into Bobby Grant’s pickup truck. Grant’s ministry, Good Shepherd of Hope, expressed his thanks to the postal employees as well as the county for donating to this cause.
Good Shepherd of Hope Ministries is a charity founded by Grant
Voluntary fire membership dues will soon be going up to customers who wish to have fire protection memberships in Albany and Clinton County.
Albany City Council, at its May meeting last Tuesday, May 3, unanimously opted to increase membership fees for those
Special section included in this week’s Clinton County News
Congrats to the Grads!
Albany City Council, meeting in regular session last Tuesday, May 7, took up some major issues, including the 2013-14 fiscal year budget and a decision to increase fire membership dues. A story on the latter appears on page 1 in a separate article. All members were
Clinton County Board of Education, holding its last meeting of the 2012-13 school year, finished out some end-of-year business, began planning for the next school term and recognized several students at its regular session Monday night with all board members present.
The
“Will the Clinton County Jail close?”
That’s a question yet to be officially answered. However, the public had the opportunity to voice their opinions, concerns and ask questions at a public meeting last Friday night, May 3.
The session, hosted by Clinton County
Devastation rocked South Albany Thursday when an oil tank exploded at the BWI lot located behind Lee’s Famous Recipe.
According to the Kentucky State Police, Kenneth E.
U.S. Representative Harold “Hal” Rogers, right, prepares to push a button that would electronically signal for a crew to begin pouring the final batch of concrete to complete the rehabiliation project at Wolf Creek Dam. About 250
Hope for Heroes hosted its first annual Cast and Blast Tournament and according to founder Mitch Serlin, it was a huge success.
With the start of turkey season Saturday morning, April 13, Serlin wanted to combine two aspects of the outdoors that are
A new program within the Clinton County High School Agriculture Department that was featured in the Clinton County News last week, took another step forward this week when students returned to class following a week-long spring break
Another continuance for a trial has been granted in the case of a local man charged with murder in connection with a two-vehicle accident that occurred over two years ago.
During a pretrial conference in Clinton Circuit Court last Monday, May 6,
Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday the Clinton Co. Public Library is sponsoring a reading program for all children up to the age of (18) eighteen years old.
There will be story time, crafts, movies, and much
Preliminary statistics* indicate that eight people died in eight separate crashes on Kentucky’s roadways from Monday, May 6 through Sunday, May 12, 2013.
Three single-fatality, motor vehicle crashes occurred in Jefferson County. None of the victims were
Clinton County farmer Greg Beard will represent the District 5 area of South Kentucky RECC that includes Clinton County, after being elected in an election that saw new directors chosen for four districts.
From his beginnings as a journlist, reporting on basketball and baseball games for the Clinton County News, to a 26 year career with the state’s largest newspaper and now working with newspapers across Kentucky as
The final totals for Clinton County’s 2013 Relay For Life are in and they are even better than earlier projected right after the event was held in late April.
A yearly wrap-up meeting of sorts was held Monday evening at the Early
Clinton County Board of Education held a brief special meeting last Wednesday morning, April 24 with four of five members present and two official items of business on the agenda.
The board, on a motion by Jeff Sams, voted to appoint Jimmy
The U.S. Postal System’s Board of Governors has announced it will indefinitely delay its planned implementation of five-day mail delivery in the U.S. on August 5.
The board said restrictive language from Congress prohibits it from reducing the current six-day delivery
Although final collection figures weren’t available by presstime this week, early indications are that last weekend’s Relay for Life American Cancer fundraiser was another successful event for Clinton County. The News hopes to have a complete
Clinton County Fiscal Court will conduct a public meeting this coming Friday, May 3 at 6 p.m. in the upstairs courtroom of the Clinton County Courthouse.
The sole purpose of the meeting is for the court to conduct a “public comment period”
Jordan Goodman and Ansley Stalcup both went for a pop fly ball during Thursday’s game against Pulaski County. The Lady Dawgs won the game, 2-1, over the Lady Maroons as well as Monday’s game against Monroe County, 8-4.
Already looking ahead to next year
Come Clean Car Wash
While most thoughts of high school athletes right now are turned toward the ending of the current seasons and school
Now that Andrew Wiggins has made his choice without fanfare … and Rick Pitino has his tattoo … Orb has moved to Pimlico and John Calipari stage-manages to keep his name in the news (inviting Bill Clinton to his fantasy camp), the next big thing in
The winners from Monday night’s scramble at 76 Falls Country Club were Rick Tallent, Kenny Stinson Jr., Donnie Sewell and Bobby Groce.
Our theme for the week.
• Jarrod Polson, Jon Hood and Twany Beckham received their undergraduate degrees at University of Kentucky last Sunday. A momentous achievement. Then an internet site hoisted a photo of Polson and Hood in their robes posing with
The winners from Monday night’s scramble at 76 Falls Country Club were Mike Riddle, Chad Watson, Braxton Massongale, Rick Garner and Bradley Kessinger.
Leah Claborn got her catcher’s mask off quick enough to get under a foul tip last Thursday against Taylor County. Clinton County lost the contest, 10-5, and move to 8-15 on the year.
Taylor Delk made contact with a pitch during Tuesday’s 7-0 loss against district rival Metcalfe County. The Lady Bat Dawgs also lost against Russell County on Thursday, 8-2, but defeated Adair County in the Fred Capps Tournament on Friday, April 26, 7-4.
The Clinton County Tennis teams took to the courts this week and picked up several wins throughout last week’s play.
On Monday, Clinton County played Monticello and on the boys’ side, picked up nine wins with only
Seven teams competed in the tournament. The Bulldogs went undefeated during pool play and tournament play. The team members are, front row, left to right: Noah Pruitt, Chase Guffey, Jared Grant and Colter Crabtree. Back row: Coach David Page,
Kevin Willis graduated from Eastern Kentucky University on May 11, 2013. Kevin graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in English with a Communication Studies minor. Kevin is currently enrolled in EKU’s Student Personnel Services in Higher Education
On Saturday, May 4, Ms. Renee Parrigin and Ms. Vivian Talbott received their Doctorate Degree from University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, Kentucky. Family and friends are proud of this accomplishment. They put a lot of work, time and dedication in
Mr. and Mrs. Miller and Teresa Tallent and Rick and Tammy Parrish would like to announce the forthcoming marriage of their children, Nikki Tallent and Sean Parrish. Nikki is the granddaughter of F.M. and Bonnie Tallent and Gleema Tallent and
Reshea Leigh Norris and Jordan Dale Fillingham
Mr. and Mrs. Ricky Norris would like to announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter, Reshea Leigh Norris, to Jordan Dale Fillingham, son of Ms. Brenda Fillingham and
by: Gayla Duvall
What’s new at the Clinton County Public Library. www.clintoncountypubliclibrary.org.
The Hit by David Baldacci; Fly Away by Kristin Hannah;
Berea College junior Steven Haddix was selected to the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference 2013 All-Conference Golf team following the KIAC tournament played at Gibson Bay Golf Course April 29-30, 2013. He led his Berea golf team with a score of 79 in the final round.
Matthew, Joshua, Derrick Riddle and Wyatt, Nigil and Trucker Guffey would like to annouce the marriage of their parents on May 10, 2013 in Cookeville, Tennessee. Angela Waid and Robert Guffey. Proud parents are Lou Waid of Albany and Joe
Lindsey Wilson College graduate John Brown of Albany, Ky., is flanked by his grandparents, Bill, left, and Faye Shehan, both of Union, Ky., following Saturday’s spring commencement ceremony at the liberal arts college in Columbia.
Source: Monroe Rasnake
If this summer’s weather is anything close to what we had last year you might have some pasture shortages if you have cool-season grasses, since these forages stop growing during hot, dry
Cast members Aliea Garner, Louis Davis, Linda Crouch, Donovan Hatfield, and Melva Nunnery rehearse for the upcoming GNT production of The Importance of Being Earnest.
