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It’s a shame that after years of effort and no small amount of compromise the new sign ordinance being proposed by the Anderson County Chamber of Commerce does absolutely nothing to fix the current ordinance’s fatal flaw.
Not that the chamber could do a thing about that flaw, which is simply that two zoning boards of adjustments — one city, one county — can override the ordinance at will by granting waivers.

A hearing regarding the upcoming fiscal year’s school board tax rate is tentatively scheduled to be held Wednesday, Sept. 4 at 6:45 p.m., according to an e-mail from Superintendent Sheila Mitchell.
A special-called board meeting will be held following the meeting in order to vote on the rate, which would increase 4 percent based on a budget OK’d earlier this year.

Last Wednesday was not a particularly good one for a Hammonds Creek Road man now behind bars on burglary and drug charges.
Zachory Butts, 20, of 1853 Hammonds Creek Road, was wearing boxer shorts when two Anderson County Sheriff’s deputies knocked on his door last Wednesday afternoon. A short time later he was dressed and on his way to jail on charges that he broke into Smith’s Grocery in Alton and was growing more than 50 pot plants in his home.

Had Duane Allen not become a mega-success with The Oak Ridge Boys, chances are he would have become a highly successful basketball coach at some level.

At least, that is how he had it planned.

“I get right into the very intricacies of coaching,” Allen said last week before taking the stage at the Kentucky State Fair. “I had dreamed when I was in school that I would be doing this until I got tired of it. I never dreamed it would last as long as it has.