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  • Country singer’s steakhouse to be auctioned off next month

    By the Advocate-Messenger
    HARRODSBURG — Eddie Montgomery’s Steakhouse will be put up for bid on the steps of the Mercer County Courthouse next month in a forced sale to repay some of the country music star’s debt.
    Boyle Circuit Judge Darren Peckler ordered the sale recently after declaring Montgomery and ex-wife Tracy Nunan in default on nearly $12.7 million in loans held by Central Bank and Trust Co. of Lexington.

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  • Inmate escapes day before being paroled

    Had an inmate who officials say “walked away” from a work site last Wednesday and ditched his escape vehicle at the boat ramp in Tyrone simply waited one day, he would have been set free anyway.
    “He got paroled and then [the parole board discovered] he had a holder from someplace else, so the parole board said to wait on it, because they were going to review it, so he took off then [yesterday],” Shelby County Jailer Bobby Waits said. “But [Thursday], they said he made parole still, so he did a stupid thing.”

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  • Truck crashes on Willisburg Road
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  • ‘Cram the Cruiser’ donates 3,050 pounds of food to Open Hands

    Anderson County residents donated approximately 3,050 pounds of food to Open Hands through Kentucky State Police’s ‘Cram the Cruiser’ December food drive.
    The ‘Cram the Cruiser’ drive asked Anderson County residents to donate non-perishable food items at pack them into Kentucky State Police patrol cars stationed outside of Kroger, Walmart and Save-A-Lot.

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  • Officers play Santa for a day during ‘Shop With a Cop’

    Santa’s got some helpers in the disguise of Anderson County cops, who volunteered to help more 50 children pick out clothes, toys and shoes for Christmas this year.
    Anderson County Sheriff Troy Young said Shop With a Cop raised more than $15,000 to spend on children in need who otherwise wouldn’t be receiving Christmas gifts.
    More than $10,000 came from the inaugural Shop with a Cop fundraiser ‘Misery Manor,’ held during the month of October.

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  • Show featuring Burgoo Cook Off champs rescheduled

    The television show scheduled to feature Burgoo Cook Off champs Jesse Sanford and Jeff Royalty later this month has been moved to another date.
    Sanford and Royalty were scheduled to appear Dec. 30 on TLC’s “Hungry Brothers” show. Their appearance is now scheduled for sometime during the first three months of 2014, according to an e-mail from Sanford.

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  • Volume of material increases for recycling program

    David Ruggles, 1st District Magistrate and chair of the fiscal court’s solid waste committee, spent last Wednesday looking at other people’s trash in Meade County.
    More than four months have passed since the fiscal court ended curbside recycling in Anderson County, but Ruggles’ attention to the county’s recycling program hasn’t waned.

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  • Grandmother’s plea date changed

    The woman charged with tying up her 3-year-old granddaughter had the date to enter what is expected to be a guilty plea moved from Tuesday to Jan. 7.
    Carolyn Case is expected to change her not guilty plea to guilty after verbally agreeing to an undisclosed plea offer from the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office.
    No reason was give as to why the date was changed, other than that Case was not on the Circuit Court docket Tuesday morning.

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  • Sand Spring homecoming to host local, national musicians

    Sand Spring Baptist Church is mixing the Christmas season and a little bit of a Gaither Homecoming this Sunday.
    The church will present “A Sand Spring Christmas Homecoming” on Sunday, Dec. 22 at 3 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The program will feature some of the best in local talent along with some nationally known gospel music artists.

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  • Pipeline questions answered

    Buoyed by a show of support from local organized labor and the fact that their effort to secure property easements in Anderson County is nearly halfway complete, officials with the companies proposing the Bluegrass Pipeline answered a host of questions from concerned residents during a public hearing Monday night.

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