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SOFTBALL: Lady Bearcat frosh cap stellar season with tourney wins

The future appears to be very bright for Anderson County softball after the young Lady Bearcats won a pair of tournaments on the final two weekends of the season to close out the year at 19-1. Anderson played in three tournaments, winning all three.
Several of the Lady Cat freshmen play key roles on the varsity team as well.

Over the weekend, Anderson impressively won all four games to win the championship of their own season-ending tournament.

SOFTBALL: Lady Mustangs play against older teams

The Anderson County Middle School softball team entered the Anderson County Lady Bearcat freshman tournament over the weekend and gave a good account. The Lady Mustangs won one game but lost two in the tourney.

TOWERING INFERNO: Smoke seen for miles when vinyl fire erupts

Life in Lawrenceburg screeched to a halt last Friday afternoon as residents looked skyward with a mixture of disbelief, awe and fear.
Above them was an enormous cloud of black smoke, towering over their streets and homes, intermittently blocking out the sun and prompting people from as far away as Georgetown and Nicholasville to say, nearly in unison, “What in the heck is burning?”
The short answer was a gigantic pile of a vinyl material used to bind automotive glass and prevent it from shattering.

Video shows not guilty plea entered by drunk hunting suspect

The man indicted with hunting under the influence and three felony counts of wanton endangerment pleaded not guilty April 16 in Anderson Circuit Court, contrary to what was reported in last week’s edition of The Anderson News.
In its report last week, the newspaper relied on an order for arraignment, an official document on file in the Anderson County Circuit Clerk’s office that says Gaines pleaded guilty and was scheduled for a diversion hearing May 21 at 9 a.m.

All the news that’s fit to share on Facebook

Today I’m going to use print to talk about social media.
Counterproductive?
Perhaps, especially since you cannot hover your computer cursor on the phrase “click here,” taking you straight to online coverage of last Friday’s industrial park fire in Lawrenceburg.  
Don’t worry. The technology is coming. I can feel it.
You probably snapped a photo — taken from your porch, from your driver’s seat or from your backyard — of the smoke plume over Lawrenceburg as it twisted lazily into the air.

Residents search social media for answers as fire burns

Social media was flooded with posts, comments and photos as Anderson County residents witnessed the story of the Lawrenceburg industrial park fire unfold last Friday.
When a five-story pile of material began to burn Friday near the Dlubak Glass Company in the Lawrenceburg industrial park, Anderson County residents were burning with questions and comments of their own.
As The Anderson News Facebook page uploaded photos taken at the scene of the fire, readers offered prayers for the firefighters.

Firefighters lend support, equipment

Lawrenceburg Fire and Rescue Chief Bobby Hume said 75 firefighters from across the region responded to Friday’s fire at Dbulak Glass.
Here are the totals, and where they are from:
Lawrenceburg Fire and Rescue: 20 firefighters
Anderson County Fire Department: 26 firefighters
Anderson County EMS: 10
Franklin County: 5
Versailles: 8
Lexington: 18
Jessamine County: 2

Hazardous gases produced in fire include acids, chlorine

The substance that caught fire last Friday is essentially the material that coats automotive glass and prevents it from shattering.
Called polyvinyl butyral, the material is essentially stripped away from automotive glass recycled at the plant and stored in a large pile at Dlubak Glass, located at 1052 Industry Drive.
The material is “not known to contain toxic chemicals,” according to a material safety data sheet released by one of the product’s manufacturers, Dupont, in 2010.
It does, however, release a number of chemicals when burned.

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Auxiliary lends hand, keeps firefighters cool

The Anderson County Fire Department’s Auxiliary — with the help of several local businesses — helped keep volunteers cool and fed during last Friday’s fire at the industrial park.
The auxiliary, comprised of volunteers and spouses of firefighters, made ready countless bottles of water and food during the three-hour blaze.
They said Domino’s Pizza provided 10 pizzas, and Dairy Queen provided several bags of burgers and fries.
The Salvation Army provided water and sandwiches, along with the Red Cross.

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