Today's News

Starting against Anderson County in the season opener last Wednesday night, Eminence baseball coach Mark Payton is trying to break his team’s mold of playing well in spurts with long, unproductive droughts.

Payton said he was happy with his players against a team of Anderson’s caliber in the first game of 2010, but there were some stretches where his team fell apart. Eminence allowed 12 runs in the top of the third inning and Anderson drove away with a 17-1 win after five innings. It was Anderson’s seventh game of the season, and Eminence’s first.

I’m pleased to say that the most exciting thing I witnessed Monday night was the display of hoops excellence that was the Duke-Butler battle for the NCAA championship.

Thanks to a subdued Pleasureville City Commission meeting, the game truly was the most exciting thing of the night.

When last I wrote about the Pleasureville meeting, it definitely was not in a favorable light.

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For the third year in a row, the Henry County Public Library will celebrate National Library Week by giving back to the community.

Librarian Suzanne Banta said that from Monday, April 12, through Saturday, April 17, people are asked to bring non-perishable food items in to the library.

For each item donated library users will receive $5 off library late fees.

“We use it as a way to do something for our patrons and the community,” she said.

William Joseph Welty Sr., has joined United Citizens Bank as a new director. Welty, a Carrollton resident, was raised in Trimble County where he also attended high school. He also attended Georgetown College.

Previously, he was the owner of Welty Enterprise Inc., worked at Rotary Lift, served in the U.S. Army reserves, and owned apartments, a restaurant and a donut shop.