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  • Library board delays decision on next fiscal year’s budget

    Library board trustees tabled its 2013-2014 fiscal year budget to weigh decisions about capital outlay and future library expansion funds, as well as possible salary raises for library staff.
    Board members unanimously voted to table a final budget until its next board meeting on May 21, some trustees citing an “overwhelming” amount of information presented to them during last Tuesday’s meeting.
    Earlier in the meeting, several Anderson County residents indicated a potential lawsuit would be filed against the library regarding its tax rate.

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  • Magistrates hand business license job to sheriff

    Without a hint of conversation or controversy, the Anderson County Fiscal Court handed over business license collection and enforcement to the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office during its meeting last Tuesday night.
    The licenses have been a sore spot for magistrates for years, particularly on how to fairly enforce the requirement that businesses pay an annual fee.
    They were formerly collected by the county clerk’s office, which had no enforcement powers. That power was assigned to the county’s code enforcement office.

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  • Fiscal court approves paving projects

    The Anderson County Fiscal Court approved nearly $700,000 in paving projects during its meeting last Tuesday night.
    Nearly $600,000 of that amount is being provided by the state’s Rural Secondary Road program and will be used on a 5.3-mile stretch of Kays and Fairview roads between Highway 52 and US 62, which was last resurfaced in 2000.
    Another $100,000 will be used on a 1.3-mile stretch of Bonds Mill Road, which was also resurfaced in 2000 and leads to the distillery at Four Roses.

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  • Pick-up truck catches fire Thursday

    Diana and James Keith Weber of Versailles had an appointment to get James Weber’s blood pressure checked when their pick-up truck caught fire last Thursday evening in front of Anderson Primary Care.
    “We came out the back and somebody said a truck is on fire, and the only truck out here is ours,” Diana Weber said, surveying the damage.
    Her husband, she said, was inside Anderson Primary Care, trying to get his blood pressure down.

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  • Burned barn struck by lightning

    A barn burned down after it was struck by lightning during a severe thunderstorm that hit Anderson County last Tuesday night.
    Nicholas Crouch’s 30-foot by 40-foot structure, located on Bardstown Road on US 62 in Lawrenceburg, caught on fire around 11:30 p.m. on April 16, according to County Fire Chief Mike Barnes.
    Filled with mostly hay and some farm equipment, the barn burned to the ground and the fire damaged a corn crib behind it, Barnes said. He said he’s pretty sure the cause of the fire was due to lightning.

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  • Library may face suit over tax rate

    Anderson Public Library may soon face a lawsuit from a group of Anderson County taxpayers for allegedly failing to follow state law in setting its annual tax rate.
    Attorney Brandon Voelker, who brought similar lawsuits against libraries in Campbell, Boone and Kenton Counties, will be filing a lawsuit against the Anderson Public Library on the grounds that it has been illegally setting its local tax rate, according to a group of Anderson County taxpayers.

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  • Man injured in ATV crash

    Roy Waldridge, 23 of Springfield, Ky., was airlifted by helicopter from Burgin Road Sunday evening for injuries following a four-wheeler collision, police said.  
    Walridge, who police said may have had head trauma, was transported to the University of Kentucky medical center via helicopter at about 5:30 p.m. on Sunday night.
    Emergency personnel said they could not describe the seriousness or extent of Waldridge’s injuries because EMS spent minimal amount of time with the patient before he was flown to UK.

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  • Car bursts into flame in Edwardo’s parking lot

    A car burst into flames in the back parking lot behind Edwardo’s Pizza last Tuesday night just as an employee was coming back from a pizza delivery.  
    City fire received a call at about 7:18 p.m. on April 16 of a car on fire behind Edwardo’s Pizza, located at 1090 Glensboro Road, City Fire Chief Bobby Hume said.
    “[The fire] was fully involved when they called us out,” Hume said as firefighters sprayed more water on the vehicle, “caused a little damage to the car on the opposite side of it.”

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  • Alton Station Road standoff ends in arrest

    A man was subdued by police last Thursday after assaulting his 68-year-old mother and barricading himself inside his Alton Station Road residence.
    Timothy “Timmy” Ray Sutherland, 40, of 1070 Alton Station Road, Lawrenceburg, was arrested and has been charged with fourth degree assault-no visible injury, third degree criminal mischief and resisting arrest, according to Kentucky state police.
    Sutherland was arraigned Monday morning in Anderson County District Court.

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  • Morgue approved for coroner

    Anderson County will establish its first official morgue and office location following a vote last Tuesday night by the Anderson County Fiscal Court to rent office space for the coroner’s office.
    Magistrates unanimously approved increasing the line item for rent in Coroner Dr. Mark Tussey’s office by $6,000, and approved him to rent a location near Eagle Lake for $650 per month.
    Tussey said he was able to obtain a federal grant to purchase two cooler systems in which to store bodies, and needed a location to put them.

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