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  • ‘Two deep breaths and that was it’

    Chris Evans was curious.
    A volunteer with Lawrenceburg Fire and Rescue, Evans was looking out of a side window while working at the Five Star convenience store to watch workers cut the top of a large tree behind a home on Plum Drive when the unimaginable happened.
    Evans said he saw a Townsend Tree Service worker cut the top of the tree while co-workers on the ground used a rope to pull the treetop away as it fell.
    That’s when things went horribly wrong, Evans said.

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  • ‘Operable’ grenade found near school

    The last thing middle school football coach Brian Holloman expected to see Monday when he pulled into the Phoenix Academy parking lot was a grenade.
    But when he got out of his truck, that’s exactly what he saw and it didn’t take long for him to call for help.
    “That’s the closest I’ve ever been to a grenade,” said Holloman. “I really wasn’t scared. In my mind I was thinking is this real or a toy.
    “Once I realized what it was, my next step was to call someone.”

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  • Parents face thousands in fines over missed school days

    The parents of an Anderson County public school student are facing fines in excess of $7,000 because their child missed too much school in the past year.
    Darren Hockensmith, 41, and Charlotte Hockensmith, 42, of 1141 Versailles Road, Lot 14, Lawrenceburg are scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Anderson District Court on a summons that claims their child had 29 unexcused absents or tardies during the recent school year, according to documents on file in the Anderson Circuit Court clerk’s office.

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  • Fair, horse show starts Saturday

    After 141 years, the annual Lawrenceburg Fair and Horse Show is still going strong, and ready to offer a week of laser tag, carnival rides, championship horse shows, mud races, pageants and more for 2013.
    The 2013 Lawrenceburg Fair and Horse Show, sponsored by the American Legion and Auxiliary Unit 34, will kick off on Saturday, June 22 and end Saturday, June 29.
    Gate admission is $10 per person per night and all carnival rides, shows and events are free with gate admission.

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  • Library denies ‘unlawful taking,’ claims immunity

    The Anderson Public Library’s board of trustees is denying nearly all of the allegations in a class action lawsuit filed last month that accuses it of “unlawful taking” and seeks hundreds of thousands of dollars in refunds to taxpayers.
    The library’s attorneys filed an answer to those allegations last week, claiming “sovereign immunity” against charges of conversion and unlawful taking.

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  • Relay for Life begins Friday night

    Anderson County Relay for Life wants $1 million.
    They’ll get a $1 million to be donated for cancer research, but they need the community’s help.
    The 12th Anderson County Relay for Life fundraiser will be held this Friday, June 21 starting at 6 p.m. until Saturday, June 22 at 6 a.m. in the city park.
    Relay for Life chairman Derek Ruble said via e-mail that if Anderson County raises more than $90,000 this year (the goal is officially $85,000), that’ll put the county’s total at $900,000.

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  • Two hit-and-runs are two too many

    James Davis picked up a few leftover pieces of a Chevy truck off the grass.  
    The broken plastic will join the rest of the property owner’s burgeoning collection: vehicles that have crashed into his house at 2046 Fox Creek Road.
    The first hit-and-run accident, which occurred November 2012, left an estimated thousands of dollars in damage to Davis’ property, he said, and Davis doesn’t have insurance on the residence to pay for repairs.

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  • Council selects new Early Childhood Center principal

    Janice Meredith will begin her new position in the district as the Ezra Sparrow Early Childhood Center principal starting July 1 for the 2013-14 school year.
    According to Superintendent Sheila Mitchell, Meredith has 21 years of experience in the Anderson County School District in special education at the elementary and middle school levels, as well as experience in administration.

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  • 2013 Fair pageant titles up for grabs

    The Lawrenceburg Fair and Horse Show is home to carnival rides, horse shows and of course, pageants.
    This year’s pageants will begin Saturday, June 22 with the Miss Teen, Young Miss and Princess pageants at 7 p.m. at the American Legion fairgrounds.
    The 2013 Miss Lawrenceburg pageant — for unmarried young woman ages 16-20 — is scheduled for Monday, June 24 at 8 p.m.
    Baby pageant shows will also be held during the week of the Fair.
    The under 2-year-old baby show will be Tuesday, June 25 at 6 p.m.

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  • Church briefs: 6-19-13

    Pigeon Fork hosts homecoming
    Pigeon Fork Baptist Church special Homecoming service will be held June 23 at 11 a.m.
    The Rev. Brian Owens will be preaching and New Vision Gospel will be singing. The public is welcome. Pigeon Fork Baptist Church is located at 5090 Hickory Ridge Road, Lawrenceburg.

    St. Lawrence Catholic to host
    yard sale and craft bazaar
    St. Lawrence Catholic Church will host its first yard sale and craft bazaar June 22 from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

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