Today's News

For the past 25 years, I’ve had a home in Santa Monica, Calif., a beautiful town in Los Angeles that has a lot going for it: A beautiful beach alongside the Pacific Ocean, fresh salt air and surfing.

What Santa Monica doesn’t have is space. There are too many people, too many cars and too much residential and commercial development.

If I wanted to plant a garden the size of Groundhog Hill, I simply could not.  There is no room in that inn.

Paul Mullins, principal of LaRue County High School, will be the new superintendent of Garrard County Public Schools.

Mullins' appointment was announced about 5 p.m. Thursday by the Garrard County Board of Education.

Mullins informed his staff of his decision Thursday. The Elizabethtown native served eight years in LaRue County.

He takes over July 1.

Mullins succeeds superintendent Donald Aldridge, who announced in January that he would retire at the end of the school year. Aldridge held the post for four years.

 Kentucky Beef Council Chairman Chuck Crutcher, of Rineyville, and Kentucky Cattlemen’s Association President Don Reynolds, of Magnolia, present Gov. Steve Beshear a platter of beef in honor of Beef Month. 

 Two local students graduated from McKendree University.

Linda Gribbins of Campbellsville earned an MSN degree in nursing education.

Patty McMahan of Hodgenville, earned a BBA degree magna cum laude in accounting.