Community News

Anderson County Jailer Joani Clark has been re-elected to the Kentucky Jailer’s Association Board of Directors, the agency announced in a news release.
Clark has served on the KJA Board since 1999.
Clark was re-elected to the board during the KJA annual conference, which was held in early June in Bowling Green.
“Well, our county’s jail is not open anymore,” Clark said, “but being on the board helps us know what’s going on across the state.

The man who admitted making another man eat his own beard last fall will be sentenced Aug. 16 for violating his probation.
Troy Holt was convicted earlier this year in Anderson District Court of violating a domestic violence order against his wife and failing to pay restitution to Harvey Westmoreland, the man forced to eat his own beard.
Those incidents got him hauled back into Anderson Circuit Court on Tuesday morning, where Judge Charles Hickman set a $5,000 surety bond and set a date for his sentencing.