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Frankfort Regional Medical Center is offering an event titled “Taking Charge of Your Health” as part of the hospital’s “Dinner with a Doc” physician lecture series Thursday, April 11 at 6 p.m.
The event includes a complimentary dinner and will be held at The Lantern at Morning Pointe of Frankfort at 66 C. Michael Davenport Blvd.
Presentations will be made by the following physicians and topics:
Joseph Dobner, MD - Orthopedic Surgery
Willis McKee, MD – Wound Care
Steven Vallance, MD – General Surgery

A Florida man is charged with video voyeurism for allegedly setting up a video camera in the home of a Lawrenceburg woman.
Dale Chrisien, 56, of 291 Mango St., Fort Meyers allegedly set up the camera in a “private living area” of the home, located on Edge Hill Drive in Lawrenceburg.
The incident dates back to July of 2005.
Chrisien entered a plea of not guilty through his attorney, Michael Hawkins, last Thursday morning in Anderson District Court.

Two separate tractor-trailer crashes, happening about 30 minutes apart, closed down sections of the Blue Grass Parkway near Lawrenceburg on Monday afternoon.
According to County Fire Chief Mike Barnes, a flat-bed tractor-trailer, heading eastbound, flipped onto its driver’s side on the off-ramp near Exit 59 on the Martha Layne Collins Blue Grass Parkway.
The semi was hauling two big rolls of aluminum when it overturned at about 5:55 p.m. Monday, Barnes said.

The county’s health director is proposing a 33 percent property tax rate increase to make up for funds his department did not receive from a Medicaid insurance provider and end furlough days for employees.
Director Tim Wright is asking the county’s board of health to increase the tax rate from 30 cents per $1,000 of assessed value to 40 cents, an increase of 33 percent. That increase is expected to generate $150,000 in additional revenue, from about $460,000 to $610,000, a 32.6 percent increase.