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The increased popularity of bourbon across globe was good news for Anderson County as both of its distilleries sunk millions into expanded facilities.
Wild Turkey made the biggest splash by announcing in February that bottling its world-famous brand would return to Lawrenceburg after leaving in 2006.
The distillery’s $44 million bottling plant remains under construction and is expected to provide around 60 new jobs.

The Anderson County Fiscal Court received what amounted to a lump of coal in its Christmas stocking when bids for its new recycling center proved to be at least double the amount it previously approved to spend.
Bids for the proposed $325,000 building were opened during a special called meeting Thursday morning. The lowest bid of four came from Smith Contracting, Inc., for $667,000.
Each of the other bids were over $700,000, the highest being from the Walker Company for $779,000.

Forget chasing criminals.
On Christmas Day, nearly a half-dozen police offers spent the better part of an hour chasing two pigs around Thoroughbred Estates, a housing development on North Main Street.
Officer Jeremy Cornish of the Lawrenceburg Police Department said he and other officers with the Kentucky State Police and Anderson County Sheriff’s Office were involved in tracking down two pigs that had escaped from a pen at the end of Walker Lane near Peachtree Estates.

The Anderson County Fiscal Court ignored a group lobbying to keep synthetic marijuana legal and voted in January to make possessing or selling the controversial substance illegal.
In what turned out to the year’s most outrageous quotes, one person arguing in favor of the substance during a public hearing said the fiscal court doesn’t have the right to tell users what they can and cannot do.
“If someone wants to sit in their living room and have sex with chickens, they should be able to do that,” he said.