10 Years Ago February 11, 2016 Woodford County Distinguished Young Woman 2016 Lindsey Carroll celebrated her 18th birthday by winning the statewide competition on Jan. 16 in Louisville and will now represent Kentucky in the national DYW event which will be televised nationally. She credits her teachers all during her time as a WC Public Schools student and her instructors at Jane’s School of Dance for being amazing mentors. Lindsey becomes the second Woodford County DYW to wi

Editor’s Note: We are republishing excerpts from the 1891 Woodford Sun. The Constitutional Convention of 1890-91, which enacted the constitution which remains intact today with numerous amendments since, began meeting in Sept. 1890, and was presided over by Ambassador Cassius M. Clay of Madison County. The excerpts related to this will be the Clippings focus.For historical purposes, we reprint the Clippings “warts and all,” and so the presence of derogatory and racist stereo

University of Alabama Luke Gayou of Versailles was named to the fall 2025 dean’s list. Peyton Whitaker of Versailles was named to the fall 2025 president’s list.

JOANNA KIRBY’S garden, pictured on Sunday, Feb. 1, after Winter Storm Fern hit. (Photo by Joanna Kirby) Digging Out By Joanna Dunlap Kirby Contributing gardening columnist, Owner and operator of a cut flower farm in Garrard County Given the weather for the past eight days and counting, I believe that most of us have been in the ugly business of digging ourselves out. Out of the accumulation of ice on top of snow, with the ice being the tricky part of this scenario, and one th

10 Years Ago February 4, 2016 The Food Pantry for Woodford County celebrated its first-year in its new building on Beasley Road in Falling Springs, and executive director Sharon Hardin couldn’t be more pleased. “Logan’s Bench,” has been set up just outside the library at Simmons Elementary in memory of Logan Tipton who was murdered in Dec. “It’s a special place where students can go and remember their pal, Logan,” said Principal Larry Caudill. The debate over a possible by-pa

Editor’s Note: We are republishing excerpts from the 1891 Woodford Sun. The Constitutional Convention of 1890-91, which enacted the constitution which remains intact today with numerous amendments since, began meeting in Sept. 1890, and was presided over by Ambassador Cassius M. Clay of Madison County. The excerpts related to this will be the Clippings focus.For historical purposes, we reprint the Clippings “warts and all,” and so the presence of derogatory and racist stereo