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Making Gingerbread Houses At The Library
Eleven-year-old Kaia Davis (left) concentrates as she squeezes more icing onto her gingerbread house while Sara Slone (at right) taste tests the sticky confection. Last Thursday 40 area youngsters (and a couple of oldsters) took part in the annual holiday tradition at...
City of Austin Bans Smoking In Public Places
Using Tobacco, E-Cigarettes Can Mean A $25 Fine In January smoking in public places will be against the law inside Austin city limits. At their Dec. 10 meeting, the Austin City Council voted unanimously to ban smoking of tobacco and e-cigarettes in public places. That...
Annexations Result in Scott County Precinct Boundary Changes
Unless objections are filed by the end of this month, three precinct boundaries in Scott County will be changed, according to a public notice ad found on Page 8 of this week’s Times print edition and in the Public Notices section of crothersvilletimes.com. The...
Holidays Delay Trash, Recycling Collection
Since Christmas and New Years fall on Tuesday, the usual collection of trash and recycling in Crothersville will be delayed a day. Weekly trash will be collected next Wednesday, Dec. 26; trash and recycling will be collected on Wednesday, Jan. 2.
Maybe It Wasn’t The Grinch Who First Stole Christmas
by Curt Kovener A law was passed requiring everyone to pay a tax in his hometown. That was the law decreed over 2,000 years ago by an occupying Roman government authority. So without government involvement, Old Testament prophecy would not have been fulfilled and...