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  • Where in the world is The Anderson News?
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  • County fire hosts fundraiser golf scramble

    The Anderson County fire department will host its third annual WHAS Crusade for Children golf scramble May 11 at 1 p.m. at Wild Turkey Trace golf course in Lawrenceburg.
    Registration is $60 per person or $240 per foursome, which includes green fees, cart rental, box lunch and prizes.
    Final registration is due May 3.
    Proceeds go directly to children’s special needs, according to the press release.
    Sign-in begins at noon with a boxed lunch and tee off is at 1 p.m.

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  • American Red Cross seeks volunteers for disaster shelter exercise

    The American Red Cross is asking local volunteers to participate in a mock disaster shelter exercise at St. Lawrence Catholic Church, 120 N. Gatewood St. in Lawrenceburg, on Saturday, May 11, according to a news release.
    The shelter set-up will begin at 8 a.m., with the exercise running from 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
    “The exercise will serve to help prepare the community for any disasters,” event organizers said.
    Volunteers may serve as clients or as shelter workers. All ages are welcome. Shelter experience is not necessary.

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  • District court docket: 5-1-13

    Judge Matthew K. Eckert heard the following cases during Anderson District Court proceedings on March 7, 2013.
    Beachard W. Richardson, arraignment, fourth-degree assault (domestic violence, minor injury) – pleaded not guilty, pretrial conference April 10, disposition May 2.
    William M. Robinson, preliminary hearing, theft by unlawful taking – continued to May 3.

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  • Staff writer awarded 2013 David Dick Storytelling Award

    Meaghan Downs, staff writer for The Anderson News in Lawrenceburg, was recently awarded the 2013 David Dick ‘What a Great Story!’ Storytelling Award in the professional category from the University of Kentucky.
    Downs won for her entry, “A Promise to God,” published Dec. 26, 2012, in The Anderson News. The article reported the story of Lawrenceburg couple Hunter and Carla Mueller, who had three sets of twins born from the in vitro fertilization process.

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  • Health committee holds apparent illegal meeting

    Anderson County Public Health Director Tim Wright refused to answer a question Monday about an apparent illegal meeting last week of a committee formed by the Anderson County Board of Health.
    On Tuesday, Wright admitted distributing what he said were draft budgets during the meeting — a meeting he and health board Chairman Steve Carmichael initially contended did not happen.
    Wright and Carmichael each said Monday that the committee learned just before it was scheduled to meet last Thursday that it had not adhered to open meeting statutes and disbanded.

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  • Lawrenceburg home to Derby winner?

    Was the Montrose farm named after Montrose, the Kentucky Derby-winning horse?
    Could be coincidence.
    Could be that the Labold brothers — Alexander and Ike Labold of Cincinnati, Ohio — bred and trained the 1887 Derby champion thoroughbred right here in Anderson County.
    Or not.
    That’s where you, the reader, come in.
    I’m no equine Sherlock Holmes. Although I’ve devoured pretty much every Agatha Christie mystery ever written, my mouth falls open dumbstruck every time the killer was revealed on the page.  

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  • Obey meeting rules or move along

    Last week’s illegal meeting of a health board committee, however brief, reeks of an attempt to avoid obeying state statutes that govern open meetings.
    Those involved can contend that’s not true, but the evidence suggests otherwise.
    First, the director told this newspaper point blank nearly a month ago that it would not be allowed to attend meetings of this committee.

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  • Man charged with fourth DUI in past five years

    A Lawrenceburg man who told police he has been “living in his truck lately” was charged last Monday with his fourth driving under the influence charge in the past five years.
    John David Morgan, 48, whose address is listed in an arrest report as 1212 Jenny Lillard Road, was stopped by a Lawrenceburg police officer who said he observed him operating a vehicle with expired tags around 11:45 a.m. on Hilltop Drive, according to court documents.

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