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Leitchfield residents may soon see their garbage disposal bill increase. The Leitchfield City Council approved the first reading of an ordinance that, if passed into law, will increase the City’s monthly waste disposal bill at a rate of ten percent for four consecutive years, during the Council’s regularly-scheduled, Monday, May 21 meeting. If passed into law, the ten-percent waste disposal bill rate increase will go into effect on July 1...
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Brittany Wise | News-Gazette A four-door Ford, which appeared to have been driven by Tony Dupin, came to a rest 100 feet from the roadway after flipping multiple times.
Two flown to U of L after one-vehicle wreck
Two local men were airlifted to University Hospital in Louisville following a one-vehicle wreck on St. Paul Road Monday. Immediately prior to the accident, Tony Dupin and Robert Grant were travelling toward Big Clifty on St. Paul Road at an extremely high rate of speed, according to witnesses at the scene. An investigation is still underway, according to Grayson County Sheriff Rick Clemons, but it appears at this point that the four-door ...
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Investigation to follow Peter Cave drowning
An investigation is ongoing after the body of a Vine Grove man was recovered from the waters of Peter Cave on Monday evening. Grayson County Sheriff Rick Clemons said Tuesday that he is “just a little reluctant to call the death a normal drowning,” and said there appear to possibly be other factors at play. The body belonged to 36-year-old Kyle Richard McGonigle, according to Deputy Coroner Howard Tomes, who responded to the scene at appr...
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Brittany Wise | News-Gazette Wesley Parks, third from left, presented a check to 4-H students. Also present was Representative C.B. Embry, left.
Caneyville Milling donates to 4-H, FFA
Caneyville Milling presented local 4-H and FFA groups with checks for $835 each on Wednesday, making good on their promise to donate $1 for every ton of feed sold in Grayson County between January 15 and April 15. The company’s General Manager, Wesley Parks, presented the checks. He said of the company’s decision to donate to these groups of agriculturally-minded students, “We are a farm store - feed, fencing, gates - and without future far...
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Caneyville to enter trust agreement with KLC
The Caneyville City Commission elected to enter a Trust Service Agreement with the Kentucky League of Cities (KLC), during its regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, May 13. The trust agreement would be for health, life, and dental insurance during the 2013-2014 fiscal year, should the City accept the KLC’s price quote. Caneyville City Clerk/Treasurer Brenda Brown said the KLC informed her that it would be forming a trust, a large group t...
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Chamber names Escue as Director
The Chamber of Commerce Board has selected a new Chamber Director, who will begin work on Monday. Becky Escue, the new Director, is a familiar face to many Chamber members. Escue served as Director of the organization about 12 years ago, according to current Director Tara Elder. Elder, who is leaving to return to her hometown of Mayfield, said that Escue told her, “You either love this work or you don’t, and I loved it.” During Escue’s ...
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Lee, Meredith named health department directors
Both the Medical Director and Interim Director for the newly independent Grayson County Health Department were named on Tuesday, May 7. The Health Department Board voted to name Gigi Meredith, the current Clinical Director, as the Interim Director to handle the clinical aspects of the health department during its switch from being managed by the Lincoln Trail District to being locally-run. Dr. Joseph Lee, a pediatrician at Leitchfield Ped...
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Sarah Keown, 25, pleaded guilty to two counts of theft by deception including cold checks under $500, and was sentenced to 10 days probation after two hours served on each charge. Keown was ordered to pay $183 in court costs. A bench warrant was issued for Brian Stephen Geary, Sr., 52. A bench warrant was issued for Dewey K. Shepherd, 40. Tamra Blakeman pleaded guilty to illegally taking a deer or turkey, and was ordered to pay $203 in ...
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Brittany Wise | News-Gazette School Board members and architects from design firm Clotfelter/Samokar looked over the final plans for the Board of Education's new Central Office building during Thursday evening's regular board meeting.
Multi-million dollar improvements approved for schools
Grayson County schools will be receiving more than $2 million worth of upgrades over the summer, including the previously proposed plumbing renovations along with some new additions to the plan. The need for significant plumbing work at H. W. Wilkey Elementary and Grayson County High School has been discussed by the School Board at length in the past months, and bids were opened on Thursday for each of those projects. The lowest bidding c...
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Rotary gears up for annual Radio Auction
It’s time again for the Grayson County Rotary Club’s annual Radio Auction fundraiser. The auction, which is the club’s largest fundraiser of the year, features a number of items donated by community members and local businesses. Some of the big-ticket items this year include a five day Panama Beach vacation and household appliances like a new dryer and dishwasher, according to Rotary President Matt Wiseman. The auction, which is manned by...
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Cause of fatal fire found
The cause of a VanMeter Road fire that claimed three lives on Sunday night has been discovered, according to Fire Marshall Chris Crawford. After a thorough investigation of the mobile home, Crawford determined that the fire was entirely accidental and originated with a light fixture in the kitchen. “It was not an electrical failure,” Crawford said. “Radiant heat off of the fixture broke down and caused a failure in the ceiling panel and t...
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Brittany Wise | News-Gazette Police tape surrounded the remains of a VanMeter Road home which burned Sunday night. A toddler and two adults died in the flames.
Toddler, two others die in mobile home fire
Three lives were lost in a mobile home fire late Sunday night, May 5, according to Grayson County Coroner Joe Brad Hudson. The youngest of the victims was one-year-old Cole Clouse, who perished in the flames along with his father, Edward Clouse, 41, and family friend Kalvin King, 42. Hudson said that autopsy results showed that each of the three victims died from smoke inhalation, with the secondary cause of death being thermal injuries, ...
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Brittany Wise | News-Gazette Each participating family received books to take home and read together, thanks to sponsor Plastikon.
Early-ed pilot program finishes up first year
Families who participated in Wilkey Elementary School’s Toyota bornlearning Academy celebrated their graduation from the program on Thursday night. The early-education program, which was started this year, was made possible by United Way of Central Kentucky, a generous grant by Toyota, and local organizers, sponsors, volunteers and caregivers. Wilkey was chosen as one of only ten schools to participate in the program this year, and accord...
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Brittany Wise | News-Gazette Local students lined up around the old courthouse on the square during part of Thursday's National Day of Prayer activities around the county.
Locals come together to celebrate Day of Prayer
Grayson County was one of the many communities across the nation to celebrate the National Day of Prayer on Thursday, May 2. The largest local event was held on the steps of the Judicial Building and included a variety of speakers from local churches as well as area elected officials who gathered to pray for the community as well as local and national government. A brief performance by the Grayson County High School Band and a cookout han...
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Matt Lasley | News-Gazette Leah VanMeter (left), of VanMeter Family Farm, makes a sale to Krista Wilson (right) during the first annual Wilson and Muir Bank Spring Fling on Friday, May 3.
Wilson and Muir hosts Spring Fling
Community members filled the parking lot of Wilson and Muir Bank’s (WMB) main Leitchfield branch on a sunny Friday, May 3 during the first annual WMB Spring Fling. A number of local businesses with springtime-oriented products set up booths to allow prospective customers, who might not otherwise have heard of the businesses, to view and purchase items, including farm machinery, lawn care products, various flower and plant arrangements, and ...
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Brittany Wise | News-Gazette Firefighters from Annetta and Leitchfield Fire Departments battled the blaze which destroyed a storage building, multiple boats and a truck on Ponderosa Road.
Fire damages business, boats and truck
A relaxing morning on the lake turned scary when Mark Haeberlin’s truck caught fire while backing his boat into the storage unit he rents for it on Ponderosa Road. By the time the flames were out, they had destroyed Haeberlin’s Ford Explorer, four boats, and a large section of the storage slots. “I just bought it, cleaned it, and took it out for a test drive so I could take the kids out on it next weekend,” Haeberlin said of his boat as h...
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Seven indicted in Circuit Court
Robert T. Hoben was among six men and one woman indicted in Grayson County Circuit Court in April. Hoben, 21, of Claggett Road in Leitchfield, was indicted on charges of criminal mischief in the first degree, assault of a police officer in the third degree, attempted assault of a police officer in the third degree, three counts of assault in the fourth degree with a minor injury, two counts of terroristic threatening in the second degree, r...
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A silver Chevrolet Impala overturned on the Western Kentucky Parkway at around 2 p.m. on May 1.
Overturned car leads to second wreck on WK Parkway
A silver Chevrolet Impala overturned on the Western Kentucky Parkway around 2 p.m. on Wednesday, May 1. The Impala overturned near the 117 mile marker on the westbound side of the parkway. The Grayson County Sheriff's Department (GCSD), the Clarkson Volunteer Fire Department (CVFD), and Grayson County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) responded. The GCSD said four individuals, probably from Louisville, were inside the Impala at the time of th...
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Photo/Submitted The KET crew filmed inside the Wilkey Elementary School gymnasium on April 17 for the upcoming airing of their Education Matters program.
Wilkey to be featured on KET
Some familiar faces will be appearing on KET’s Education Matters program next week when a segment airs featuring Wilkey Elementary School’s Toyota bornlearning Academy. A film crew from the television network was on sight at the most recent bornlearning Academy event, a Teddy Bear Tea held on Wednesday, April 17. Education Matters is a monthly program hosted by Bill Goodman, who explores a variety of education issues across the state....
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Two arrested after Clarkson drunk driving stint
Two local men were arrested following a whiskey-fueled spree on Main Street in Clarkson at around 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 21. Raymond E. Smith, 31, of McClure Cemetery Road in Leitchfield, was driving a 2004 Hyundai at high speeds along South Main Street when Grayson County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Chris Bates, who happened to be in the area, observed the vehicle. According to a report later filed by Bates, he turned on his blue lights ...
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Court accepts bids on Caney Creek clean-up
Bids were opened from four companies for work on the long-awaited Caney Creek clean-up project Friday morning. The project has been championed by Caneyville resident John Likins, who has lobbied local and state officials to accomplish the clean-up, which will hopefully help to ease Caneyville’s flooding problems. The Grayson County Fiscal Court read the bids at their regular meeting, but declined to accept any bids until looking at them i...
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Aquatic center budget undergoes changes
The budget for the new Leitchfield aquatic center recently changed after the bonds that will fund the project were sold on April 9. Lea King, of the Alliance Corporation of Builders and Managers, informed the Leitchfield City Tourism Commission - during the regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, April 23 - that after the bond sale, the previously projected budget for the project was found to be $400,000 short. King said when the bonds we...
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Photo/Subhmitted Tim Jenkins and daughter Annalise at Jenkins' Lexington office.
Elder Wealth welcomes Kretz, Jenkins and Jenkins
Local business Elder Wealth Management has welcomed three new faces to its office on Public Square in Leitchfield. Certified Financial Planners Mike Kretz, Tim Jenkins and Toby Jenkins are excited to join the Grayson County community and have been working diligently to get to know their new clients as well as other community members. Kretz said that Leitchfield’s small-town feel and friendly citizens were a huge draw for the three busines...
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Tourism to help fund Labor Day parade
The Leitchfield City Tourism Commission agreed to grant $1500 to the Grayson County Fair Board to help fund the 2013 Labor Day Parade during the regularly scheduled Tourism Commission meeting on Tuesday, April 23. Fair Board member Rick Embry had approached the Commission previously to request $1800 to help fund the parade and its cash prizes. However, after reviewing costs, Embry told the Commission at the April 23 meeting he had determine...
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