Stories from Tuesday, January 6, 2004

Clay City's Brittany Rood guards Cloverdale senior Daniele Neese during Monday's 67-54 Clover victory. CLOVERDALE -- With three weeks off during the holiday season, the Clay City Eels showed little rust during the first quarter against Cloverdale...

Sarah Kennedy (left) and Daniele Neese tipoff the Monday night game between the Eels and Clovers.

The power outage in Brazil this morning started as brief outages around 6 a.m. Residents noticed the electricity would go out for several seconds and then switch on again. This created some concern about keeping homes and people warm. The Riddell National Bank thermometer downtown registered zero at 5:30 a.m...

When the State cracks down on less than forthright gaming parlors, Brazil residents can yell, "Bingo!" Sandy Goebel, administrative assistant to the Annunciation Church parish, says 100 percent of the revenue from the church's bingo games at Kennedy's Crossing goes to help fund Annunciaton School...

Cameron Carroll, at home Wednesday, shows the purple purse she saved her pennies in to help get Christmas gifts for grown-ups. - Local girl makes sure adults have a Merry Christmas "Santa brings gifts for kids, but who gets gifts for grown-ups, Papaw?" little 4-year-old Cameron Carroll asked her Grandpa Heagy the week before Christmas...

Clay County government is getting off to a slow start this year, and a ladder is to blame. County Commissioner Harold "Buddy" Knox, doing some work on his barn's roof, took a spill when the ladder went one way and he went another. "I violated a cardinal rule of setting up a ladder and now I'm paying for it," Knox said. "I was stepping down from the roof onto the ladder, and I fell."...

It was the first meeting of the year, but not much more than the annual presidential votes came out of Monday's County Council meeting. The meeting was called to order with five of seven members present. Both Rita Rothrock and Mark Dierdorf could not attend...