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WRECK ON TWO MILE ROAD CAUSES INJURIES Two victims were transported to Clark Regional Medical Center for treatment after two pickup trucks collided head on just outside the city limits on Two Mile Road. Photo by James Mann SCHOOL BOARD REPORTS ON INFINITE CAMPUS PROGRAM The Clark County Board of Education reported at its meeting Tuesday that the Infinite Campus program, which will give teachers, parents and students 24-hour access to information about grades, testing results and attendance in a Web-based system, is not going as well as expected.

(Sun photo by James Mann) lark County Deputy Sheriff Mark Colliver, background, discusses the removal of a semi-truck and trailer from Paris Road with a wrecker operator Wednesday afternoon. The semi-truck was heavily damaged when it left the roadway and collided with several trees. The truck and a Kentucky State Highway Department snow plow truck came around a curve in opposite directions, and the semi-truck had to move to the shoulder of the road to avoid the snowplow. The driver of the truck, Darrell Vaughn of Ohio, was not injured.

The Wilmore City Council decided to hold off on making a hasty decision on whether or not to put fire hydrants in the June-Rich Farm subdivision Monday evening. The development, which is located outside the current city limits, already receives water from the city, and wants the hydrants for fire protection. During the meeting, several questions arose about whether or not the city wants to set a precedent in providing this type of service for developments and other residents who live beyond the city's boundaries.

BURGIN - Burgin City Council gave first reading of a new noise ordinance Monday that lays out acceptable decibel levels inside the city limits. The push for a new law began several months ago after concerns were raised over a possible race track on Ky. 33 toward Danville. The ordinance prohibits motors, compressors or other mechanized equipment that operate at levels higher than 70 decibels when measured at a distance of 300 feet from the source during the daytime and 50 decibels at night.

JUNCTION CITY - Police Officer David Prather confiscated seven marijuana plants with an estimated $2,500 street value in a field behind Penn Ventilator and at a residence Tuesday and Wednesday. No arrests have been made. Prather was patrolling the building when he found a footpath that led to a field. He said he smelled the odor of marijuana and then he found the plants. Prather and Chief Jimmy Gipson burned the plants and some other drug evidence from the past month Wednesday on the public works department's brush fire.

JUNCTION CITY - During the regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday, Junction City Council members heard and approved the second reading of a controlled burn ordinance within city limits. During the first reading of the ordinance at the Nov. 14 meeting, Mayor Jim Douglas revealed the ordinance was being instituted after residents had been caught burning items such as carpet, treated wood, and tires. All of these are items that violate EPA burn rules. According to the ordinance, anyone caught in violation will receive a fine of not less than $50 and not more than $500.

Danville commissioners have decided to bring the city to its manager as a way to abide by the requirement he live in the city limits. At Monday evening's City Commission meeting, City Manager Ron Scott and his wife, Janis Scott, addressed the commission “as may any citizen” to request annexation of their property. At 3245 Harrodsburg Road, the Scotts' property is just outside the city limits off U.S. 127 across from First Church of God. Scott said he thinks the voluntary annexation of their property of 20 years would be an asset to Danville.

HUSTONVILLE - Hustonville City Council has passed first readings of five ordinances aimed at curtailing certain behaviors within city limits, but the city has refused to release the text of the ordinances to the public. The ordinances were read aloud by Mayor Marc Spivey at the city's Aug. 7 regularly scheduled meeting. Ordinances 54 and 55 would impose fines for jaywalking and parking illegally, respectively. Ordinance 56 would make "shielding of a person's face to where the person cannot be recognized or identified" illegal within city limits unless the outside temperature is cold enough that face protection is needed.

A mutual-aid agreement between the embattled Stanford Fire Department and the Lincoln County Fire Department could be finalized tonight when Stanford City Council meets at 6:30 at the L&N Depot. The county has already signed its end of the deal, said Mayor Bill Miracle, and all that remains is for councilmen to sign off on the pact. "I don't foresee a problem," he said. The mayor said he believes all councilmen support the agreement, which calls for county firefighters to help the city's firefighters on fires that occur within Stanford city limits.

A drawing by Lyman C. Draper, an early writer who put the Draper Manuscript Collection together from works and papers of several early Americans, is being used as a model for reconstruction of Logan's Fort in Stanford.  The fort is located on a tract of land within the city limits about 500 feet from the original site of the fort built by Benjamin Logan who arrived in this area in 1775.  Irene S. Jaggers, president of Logan's Fort Foundation of Sanford, talked about the project Tuesday at the Boyle County Genealogical Association meeting in Perryville.