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Today's News

  • Taking the field

    Carroll County Parks and Recreation T-Ball and Blastball teams played Monday night. More photos will be in next week’s issue and online at www.mycarrollnews.com.

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  • Sanders church to host community giveaway

    Sanders Baptist Church will be hosting a community giveaway 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, June 7, to give away clothes, toys, household items, and shoes. 

    All items are free. No consigners please.

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  • Truthful discusssions are best for the ‘nearly married’

    June is the month for weddings, which means no few young men and women in America are sweating a truckload of details. Indeed, there is much to worry a marrying mind. We need only cast an eye to neighbors to see that much can and does go wrong in a marriage relationship, not the least because marriage asks that we live so intimately and sacrificially beside another human being.

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  • Carroll County Community Calendar | Week of June 5 2014

    Thursday, June 5

    Carroll County Schools Local Planning Committee will hold an Open Public Forum Meeting at 5:30 p.m. at the Carroll County Board of Education in the conference room.

    Narcotics Anonymous meets at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday at Carrollton Christian Church, 310 Fifth St.

    Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., Carrollton Christian Church.

     

    Friday, June 6

    Caby M. Froman Club meets at noon at Butler Park lodge.

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  • Three Owen County students expelled, face charges after alleged school, church vandalism

    LANDMARK NEWS SERVICE

    Staff Report

    The three students involved in vandalism at Owen County High School were expelled and face charges of animal cruelty and criminal mischief.

    According to Owen County Sheriff Zemer Hammond, the incident took place in the early morning hours of May 20.

    The three students began the spree of vandalism at Salem Baptist Church, where nearly a dozen other teens stopped by following a campfire.

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  • Relay for Life 2014
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  • Heading to high school
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  • White Castle Bus to C’ton as Crusade fundraiser

    White Castle: What You Crave.

    At least that is what the Carrollton Fire Department is hoping for, as the department will be bringing the White Castle Bus to Carrollton this Saturday.

    The bus will be at the Carrollton Fire Department, 750 Clay St., from noon-5 p.m. Ten percent of the proceeds will benefit the WHAS11 Crusade for Children. This is the 61st annual Crusade for Children weekend, held June 7 and 8, and Carrollton firefighters will take all of the donations to a regional drop-off in Shelbyville Sunday.

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  • Fiscal Court approved budget on first reading

    Carroll County’s $12.3 million budget is now on-track to win approval after a quick motion and vote at the May 27 fiscal court meeting.

    Judge-Executive Harold “Shorty” Tomlinson originally brought up the spending plan for fiscal 2014-15 at the May 13 meeting, but magistrates indicated they had not looked at the document and were not prepared to vote on it that day.

    This time, it sailed through approval with no comment or concerns raised.

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  • Sheppard, Polson bring positive message to Carroll

    By JACOB BLAIR

    The News-Democrat Intern

    Two former University of Kentucky basketball players visited with students at local elementary schools and held a community event May 30 at Carroll County Middle School.

    Champions for a Drug Free Carroll County hosted the events with Jarrod Polson, a senior guard from the 2012 National Championship team and this year’s runners-up team, and Jeff Sheppard, a guard who played for both Rick Pitino’s 1996 championship team and Orlando “Tubby” Smith’s 1998 championship team.

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