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HARRODSBURG — Mercer County Senior High School junior and cheerleader Alyssa Kelty had the brightest smile on the sidelines. She shared it earnestly and unselfishly with fans, friends, family, classmates and the community at large.

So when her smile was tragically missing from Friday night’s football game, the crowd replaced it with a moment of silence that seemed to last throughout the evening.

After a tearful plea from the victim’s family, a decision to put a man behind bars was made in a court case just over a year after a fatal wreck on US 150.

Steven W. Sizemore, 55, of East Bernstadt, was sentenced to 12 months in Laurel County jail on Wednesday of last week in Washington County.
Chief Circuit Judge Allan Ray Bertram sentenced Sizemore to seven years in prison on the amended charge of manslaughter second degree, a C class felony.

Free air time turned into a high honor for the Springfield Tourism Commission.

At last year’s Kentucky Travel Industry Association (KTIA) awards ceremony, Kathy Elliott, Springfield Tourism Commission’s executive director, won $2,500 of free advertising with Insight Cable in the Lexington and Evansville markets.
The tourism commission teamed up with Springfield native Michael Breeding, of Michael Breeding Media in Lexington, to make a television commercial that would go on to earn high praise.

It’s been a big year for Washington County High School teacher Marilyn Peters.

She would say the biggest news is that her student’s work won three out of six art awards at the recent Kentucky Art Educators Association (KyAEA) contest recently.
Then, she went on to claim second place for her work in the teacher category for a portrait of her granddaughter in the womb. She had never placed in the contest before.