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After 32 years of working for the city,  Springfield city administrator and treasurer Laurie Smith is reaping the benefits of hard work, long hours and public service.

Smith was named recently as the Kentucky League of Cities runner-up city employee of the year.
She began her career with the city in 1979 as an administrative secretary. She moved up to serve as city treasurer, then city clerk / treasurer. Ten years ago, she was appointed as city administrator.

As things settle into place in the fall 2011 semester at St. Catharine College, new students are not the only new faces around campus. There have been several new hires since graduation happened last May.

Melinda Lynch was hired as SCC’s new Director of Financial Aid. Stephanie Testa is the new Department Chair of Surgical Technology, while Lisa Taylor is the new Laboratory and Clinical Coordinator for Surgical Technology.

Springfield’s Abraham Lincoln bronze sculpture, entitled “In Sacred Union,” by Paula B. Slater of Hidden Valley Lake, Calif., has been selected to be part of the Kentucky Civil War Heritage Trails.

Kentucky Civil War Heritage Trails is a new state program to help visitors and residents understand how the conflict shaped the commonwealth as the nation observes the Civil War’s 150th anniversary.

Local farmers, listen up. If you grow it, or maybe want to grow it, they will come. ‘They’ are food distributors that want and need more local food for their clients.

Louisville Farm to Table and Washington County Cooperative Extension are teaming up to put food distributors that need locally grown food in the same room as folks in the state that either are or are willing to consider growing it.
To set the table, a meal of locally grown food will be prepared for those attending the conference.