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“The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.”

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I haven’t received many compliments in my life.

But one that I did receive was sort of a “back-handed” compliment. That means it is a compliment that also has a backhanded slam against you. A good example would be “I don’t care what people say about you. I think you’re nice!“

Sometimes a back-handed compliment is meant to hurt, sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes it’s just fact.

Tiffany Webb, a Springfield native and 2002 graduate of Washington County High School, has epilepsy. At one point in her life, she was having 100 episodes a day, though they happened so quickly, you’d never notice she had them.

And that’s why Webb, the daughter of Joyce and Del Drury, spent five years of her life and traveled across the country with her now ex-husband to make a documentary about the potentially crippling disorder.

Nick Schrager

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A Washington County woman who spent nearly 20 years serving her community has passed away.

Kay Kennedy, a former Washington County extension agent and Habitat for Humanity board member, passed away after a battle with cancer last week.

According to Darice Russell and Cheryl Mattingly of the extension office, Kennedy was the family and consumer science agent in Washington County from 1994 until 2012. Prior to that, they said, she worked for Kentucky State University and the Christian County Extension Office.

Approximately 6 inches of snow fell in Springfield last week, and both city and county government officials are happy with the way things were handled.

Springfield Public Works Director Glenn Mattingly said while the city averaged about 6 inches, some areas in town got a little more than that.

“This is the biggest snow event that we’ve seen in three years,” Mattingly said. “I got out at 7:30 p.m. on Monday night and began working with plowing at 10 p.m.”