10 Years Ago January 7, 2016 At what is typically a very short meeting at the end of the year for bill-paying and transfers, the Fiscal Court saw heated debate, including a threat from WC Emergency Management Director Drew Chandler to resign, over the long-simmering issue of pay to Emergency Management Agency employees – whether to use the standard county employee pay rate or an enhanced emergency worker rate. With only Magistrates Jackie Brown and Linda Popp voting against i

Editor’s Note: We are republishing excerpts from the 1891 Woodford Sun. At this time, the Sun had grown to an average of eight pages, was operating in a new building, which it continues to publish from today, and subscriptions, printing jobs and advertising had grown considerably for the Bowmar brothers. The years from 1890 to 1891 were significant in Kentucky history, and continue to be so today. The Constitutional Convention of 1890-1891, which enacted the constitution that

Pause and Reflect By Joanna Dunlap Kirby Contributing gardening columnist, Owner and operator of a cut flower farm in Garrard County As I look out at my gardens on this cold and frosty winter morning, I see patterns in the evergreens and last summer’s fading grasses. It appears that time has stopped, and the earth is still and quiet under the hold that winter has taken. This is such a magical time as frost covers and coats all in its path and continues its beauty through the

Southern New Hampshire University Leslie Graul, of Versailles, was named to the fall 2025 dean’s list. University of the Cumberlands Anna Carmickle, James Carney, Ashlynn Gampper, Lucas Hollinden, Jessica Moore and Isabella Simpson of Versailles; and Carlie Tippett of Midway, were named to the fall 2025 president’s list.

10 Years Ago Dec. 31, 2015 Sun Reporter Bob Vlach wrote a feature “local leaders look back -and ahead,” featuring interviews of County Judge Executive John “Bear” Coyle, Versailles Mayor Brian Traugott, and Midway Mayor Grayson Vandegrift. The Sun featured photographs from every month of 2015 splashed among the pages in a feature called “The Year in Photos,” all of which had been previously published in the Sun. A good luck celebration was held for the retirement of courthous

Editor’s Note: Due to gaps in the archive, the Sun is moving forward from 1881 to 1890 this week, with plans to continue into 1892. By this time, the Sun had grown to an average of eight pages. These two years were significant in Kentucky’s history. The Constitutional Convention of 1890-1891, which enacted the constitution that remains intact today with numerous amendments since, began meeting in September 1890, and was presided over by the great abolitionist, Ambassador Cass