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Today's Features

  • Meaningful gifts for elderly, infirm on your list

    Coming up with thoughtful and creative holiday gift ideas for ill or elderly friends and relatives can be difficult, but with a little imagination and time, there are many clever and useful items out there for those folks  on your gift list.  
    People who are ill and those who are elderly sometimes have trouble getting to stores to buy cards, and often though don’t want to bother others with their shopping needs.

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  • Stark completes ‘Civil War Obituaries’

    Frankfort genealogy researcher Donna Stark has completed a new book, entitled “Civil War Obituaries,” featuring death notices of men from Trimble County who fought in the war.
    The book cover features the likeness and obituary of Sen. William O. Coleman, who was wounded in the war.
    The 24-page book features the original obituaries of each soldier, with four to six obituaries per page.
    Stark also is offering “People and Places of Trimble County,” Volume II.

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  • Rethinking what the holidays mean to you can reduce stress

    Look around you -- what do you see? People are rushing around getting ready for the holidays.
    It’s all too easy to get yourself stuck in the same old stressful cycle year after year. Many of us, it seems, fail to recognize this self-destructive pattern and come to dread the holidays.
    Perhaps this feeling is, in part, due to a lack of conscious thought about what the holiday season really means to us. If we can take this into consideration, then we might be better able to spend time doing what we really think is important.

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  • Lunch Menu for Trimble County Schools

    Monday, Dec. 13: Chicken pattie on bun, *jalapeno burger, lettuce/tomato, French fries, peach half, fresh fruit
    Tuesday, Dec. 14: Chili dog, *burrito bar, potato rounds, baby carrots, dip, sauerkraut, applesauce, fresh fruit
    Wednesday, Dec. 15:  Pizza, *rib e q on bun, tossed salad, California style vegetables, pineapple, fresh fruit
    Thursday, Dec. 16: Turkey roast/dressing, *baked ham, mashed potatoes/gravy, green beans, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, hot roll, fruit salad

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  • Fisher family 
celebrates birthday

    J.D. Fisher celebrated his birthday on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010.
    He is the son of Hannah and Jimmy Fisher of Indianapolis, Ind. His grandparents are Alan and Suzanne Sachleben of Bedford, Ky.; Jim and Kim Fisher of Whitestown, Ind.; and Rae and Johnny Huff of Avon, Ind.

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  • Public Records – Dec. 8, 2010

    FELONIES

    Millicent Arleen Creamering, review. Release bond per assignment to attorney.
    Christopher Fluhr, sentencing. 45 days conditional discharged for 2 years; $250 fine, court costs merged into Case 10-M-106; grand total for both cases $471.75 due May 31.
    Michael Linton, show cause for payment. Pay $50 by end of day or warrant for $130 cash, no surety will be issued.
    James South, theft by unlawful taking. Continue to Dec. 14 to be enrolled in treatment.

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  • What's happening in Trimble County

    Wednesday, Dec. 15

    The Trimble County Board of Education meets at 7 p.m. at the board office on Wentworth Drive, Bedford.

    Thursday, Dec. 16

    Help decorate a gingerbread house, Christmas trees, sleds and more at  Trimble County Public Library’s Winter Wonderland from 4-5 p.m. Children in kindergarten through fifth grade are invited. Door prizes provided by All Ways Pottery, the Madison Imagination Station and the library.

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  • 1958 film gives glimpse of Trimble County in bygone era

    When Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer announced in July 1958 that a new movie starring Frank Sinatra would be filmed in and around the Madison area, the rush of excitement in the region was overwhelming.

    Movie stars, production crew and gaffers by the busload swarmed into the area in early August, and Madison was transformed into a multi-block Hollywood movie set. Director Vincente Minelli, actresses Shirley MacLaine and Martha Hyer, and actors Dean Martin and Arthur Kennedy were among those joining Sinatra in town for the production of “Some Came Running.”

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  • PERFORMERS

    Jefferson Community and Technical College student Trent Mullikin was presented Nov. 17 with a $2,000 “Tools for Tomorrow”scholarship from W.W. Grainger at the Carrollton campus.  Only 150 scholarships are given each year by Grainger, and only two of those go to students in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. Mullikin, a Trimble county resident, is in the engineering technology  program at JCTC Carrollton. Upon graduation, Mullikin also will receive $1,000 worth of tools from Grainger to help him begin his career.

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  • Dense, seasoned wood best for fireplace/woodstove

    Every winter, we look forward to the pleasure of warming our hands and feet by a blazing fire, mesmerized by the dancing flames.
    While I don’t have a fireplace or wood stove myself, several of my neighbors do, and the aroma of their wood stoves brings back many childhood memories. There is just something about the aroma of a good fireplace.

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