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  • Flat tax rate, new hours OK’d for health department

    New hours and a flat tax rate have been approved for the Anderson County Health Department as the agency continues to combat its financial problems.
    Interim Health Director Tim Wright said the department’s hours beginning July 9 will be 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thursday; and 8 a.m. to noon on Friday.
    Its current hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
    The change cuts the hours the department is open from 37.5 to 34.5, meaning each employee will be paid for three less hours each week.

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  • City to bill Legion, fiscal court for water

    The City of Lawrenceburg has informed the fiscal court and American Legion Post 34 that each will have to start paying water and sewer bills in July.
    City Clerk Robbie Hume said this change was due to language in the city’s Series 2012 General Bond ordinance, which specifically mandates no free city water service for anyone — including the city itself.
    Hume said the county park and American Legion, as well as city hall, had been receiving free water and sewer service for years, and did not know when that particular agreement was established.

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  • Fiscal court considers 5.5% spending increase

    Spending is up just over 5.5 percent in the Anderson County Fiscal Court’s proposed 2012-13 budget.
    The budget, which was introduced on first reading during Tuesday’s fiscal court meeting, calls for an additional $376,000 in spending over the current year, but also anticipates an additional $327,000 over what was budgeted for 2011-12.
    The budget release drew no comments from magistrates, nor did the first reading of the budget require a vote. A second reading is scheduled for 6 p.m. May 15 at the fiscal court’s chambers on Main Street.

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  • Truck pull promoter says rumors, innuendo better stop

    The promoter of the annual truck and tractor pulls that provide funds for the county park told magistrates Tuesday that if the rumors and innuendo don’t stop, he will put them on somewhere else.
    “I’m just fed up with it,” said Eddie Carey of the locally operated Carey’s Motorsports. “I know it’s coming from within here [the fiscal court] and it’s time that person says it to my face.”
    No one on the fiscal court or audience spoke up.

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  • ‘Injured’ men try to kick open trunk, tear hole in seat after car smacks tree

    Three men were injured enough in an early-morning one-car accident to be taken to an area hospital, but apparently not enough to try to kick open the trunk and cut a hole in the back seat of their vehicle before help arrived.
    The accident occurred Tuesday around 5 a.m. on Highway 53, about a mile off Highway 44 near Glensboro. The unidentified men were traveling north when their vehicle left the road and struck a tree. They told emergency personnel at the scene that they had swerved to miss a deer and a trash can, both of which they claimed were in the road.

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  • Local soldier injured in Afghanistan

    Jeff McCormick received the phone call early Sunday morning every parent of a soldier fighting in the war on terror dreads — that his or her son or daughter has been injured.
    McCormick’s 22-year-old son, Don, was injured sometime over the weekend while fighting in Afghanistan.
    A Marine Corps lance corporal, Don McCormick was based Nawa as a infantryman with the 6th Marines, Golf Company, Infantry Platoon, and is a 2009 graduate of Anderson County High School.
    It was his second tour of duty fighting in Afghanistan.

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  • Library board rejects 3 percent salary increase

    The library board examined its proposed draft budget for the upcoming fiscal year, with the director proposing a 3 percent salary increase for library employees and an anticipated $7,000 decrease in spending.  
    The library’s overall budget for 2012-2013, at $3.236 million, includes $1.336 million in spending and $1.9 million in surplus revenue.

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  • News briefs: 4-25-12

    Pinning ceremonies to honor BCTC nursing students
    Bluegrass Community and Technical College (BCTC) will honor Lawrenceburg campus nursing students at its annual pinning ceremony on May 3 at 6 p.m. at the Anderson County High School.

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  • King donates special session pay to Red Cross

    Since taking office last year, state Rep. Kim King (R-Mercer) has insisted that legislators should not be paid for budget-related special sessions.
    On Tuesday she put her money where he mouth is and announced that the pay she will receive from the recent special session will be donated to the American Red Cross.
    And not just her net pay. King said she will donate her gross pay, even though she has already paid taxes on the amount.

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  • Vietnam vet stops here while walking to Washington

    Dan Lyon carries a 30-pound pack, food and water.  
    He carries the daily worry of not knowing where he’ll be sleeping that night.  
    The Reno, Nev., resident also carries the memories of seeing young homeless vets in the lines at soup kitchens and in shelters.
    Now the 60-year-old will walk about 2,800 miles to carry his message about the plight of homeless veterans straight to his representatives in the nation’s capitol.  

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