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Today's Features

  • April 8-14 is National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, a time set aside to recognize the more than 200,000 individuals throughout the U.S. who play a vital role in the delivery of public safety services. Often called the “unsung heroes of public safety,” these men and women are usually the first point of contact for those in need.

  • Sunday is Mother’s Day in the United States, and for most it will be a very special day.
    Telephone companies tell us it is their busiest day of the year.  It is a day for remembering, for greetings and expressions of love.
    Your mother may have been gone for many years, but there are still sounds and sights and smells of home, of screen doors banging in the summer time, and the aroma of those fresh baked biscuits right out of the oven that greeted you as you got out of bed in the morning.

  • A verse in the King James Version of the Bible, written in 1611, shows us how language has changed over the past 400 years. It says, “Comfort me . . . for I am sick of love” (Song of Solomon 5:8).
    There have been times when I was so tired of hearing about the crushes of my college roommates that I wanted to say I was getting sick of hearing about ‘your’ love episodes. The verse really means the writer was ‘love sick.’ At least that is how we would say it today.

  • By Joseph Cooper

    “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth” (Acts 1:8).
    Our focus in this study is on “witnesses.”  The Titanic will help make the main point of our study as we conclude.

  • Air Force Airman Cory M. Blanton graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

    The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
    Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
    Blanton is the son of Barbara Franklin of Ryan Drive, and Joe Blanton, both of Leitchfield.

  • Air Force Airman Christopher R. Clemons  graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

    The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
    Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
    Clemons is the son of Russell and Dorette Clemons of Anneta Road, Leitchfield.

  • Michael and Tara McDavid of Leitchfield and John and Cammy Evans of Covington, Tenn., are happy to announce the upcoming wedding of their children, Tessa Dawn McDavid and John Ebenezer Evans IV.

    Tessa has one sister, Micah, and is the grandaughter of George and Betty Skaggs of Leitchfield and John and Barbara McDavid of Columbia, Tenn. She is the great-grandaughter of Jay and Ruth VanPatten of Paris, Tenn.  Tessa is a 2011 graduate of Grayson County High School and works at Grayson County Public Library and attends ECTC.

  • Submitted
    Eight members of the Leitchfield Woman’s Club attended the GFWC/ Kentucky Annual Convention in Lexington on April 12, to 15.  Those attending are from left to right:  Jackie Richardson,  Dot McCall, Joyce Bell, Linda Peterson, Susan Martin, Alfreda  Weedman, Marge Woodard and Beth Ratley.  Marge Woodard was a First  

  • Ben and Shelly Miller of Leitchfield announce the birth of their daughter, Jenna Grace Miller.

    She was born Thursday, April 5, 2012, at Hardin Memorial Hospital. She weighed six pounds, 12 ounces and measured 18 inches long.
    Jenna has a big sister, Haley. Her grandparents are Ricky and Janice Rainey and Jim and Kathy Hibbard, all of Leitchfield.

  • Daymon and Norma Jean Bailes Hack  will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on May 10, 2012.

    They were united in marriage on May 10, 1952, by the late Rev. A.B. Craddock at Broadway Baptist Church.
    They have two sons, Michael and his wife Wandena and Ronnie Hack, all of Leitchfield.
    They have four grandchildren; five stepgrandchildren; a great-grandson; and a stepgreat-granddaughter.
    Daymon and Norma Jean are members of Brownsville General Baptist Church.