Closings

All state offices in the Boyle County Courthouse will be closed. County offices will be open. The Boyle County clerk?s office will not have computer access Friday but will be open. Danville Post Office will be closed. Other closings: Casey County government offices. The Casey County Board of Education. Garrard County Courthouse, courthouse annex, road department, convenience center and recycling center. Mercer County circuit and district clerks? offices and the courts, and the Mercer PVA office.

Dear Editor, Not having a grocery store on Main Street in Danville has dampened the flow of folks who patronized those when they were there. It has made it hard on many people getting to the grocery store since they have been moved or done away with. We also were shocked when we found out that Captain D's had closed and that the building had been sold. Will there be another one built in Danville? All of the fish lovers really liked Captain D's. It would be great to see more of the vacant buildings have some kind of business in them.

WMU announces holiday closings The Winchester Municipal Utilities office, 150 N. Main St., will be closed Friday, Dec. 23; ;Monday, Dec. 26; and Monday, Jan. 2 for the Christmas holiday. 

Dear Editor, A very special thanks goes out to all the members of our community who stepped up in the recent disaster. Charlie Perry and the staff kept us informed of the conditions, closings and advice they shared on the radio. Jack Hendricks coordinated cleanup for the residents on East Lexington Ave., along with the Casey Fire Department and S.E. Casey Rescue for the cleanup of our neighborhood. Also, to the electric, water, phone, police, fire and rescue and others, we thank them for their continued great job and extra hours everyone put in to bring us back toward our day-to-day lives.

Holiday closings Garrard County Courthouse will close Saturday and reopen on Wednesday. The Garrard County Sheriff's office will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday. Garrard County Judicial Center will be closed Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. Learn about careers Lincoln County Public Library welcomes children ages 8-14 to learn about careers that may interest them. “A Day in the Life of” is held 9:30 a.m. on the first Saturday of each month. On Jan. 5, Phil Pendleton of 27 Newsfirst will speak.

It's been said that bad news sells newspapers. I don't know how many papers we've been selling lately, but I know many editions have been carrying a lot of bad news about the economy. Believe it or not, no one I know in our newsroom has taken pleasure in reporting the layoffs, plant shutdowns and store closings in our area that have been making front page headlines all too frequently over the last several weeks. In other words, the bad economy is not a happy beat. It's an unhappy beat not just because of the impact plant layoffs and store closings have on our own livelihoods.

Planning for a pandemic influenza brought community leaders, health workers and school officials together Monday at Inter-County Energy. The meeting is part of a multiple-phase initiative by the state Department for Health and is aimed at protecting Kentucky residents in the event of a worldwide flu epidemic. The workshop, sponsored by Boyle County Health Department, focused on school closings during such a health emergency. Participants split into groups and were given video scenarios such as news coverage of Asian Bird Flu hitting another country, then asked to answer specific questions relating to planning and preparedness.

Art League to meet Lincoln County Art League will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 20, at 6 p.m. at the Lincoln County Tourism office. We will be discussing the plans for 2009. Anyone interested in the ARTS is encouraged to attend. For more information, call Lincoln County Tourism 365-4547. Turtle man T-shirts available The Lincoln County Tourism Committee has available the "Turtle man" T-shirts. Sizes range from youth to extra large with two colors to choose from, green or white.

Rumors have been flying in the community for several days that local schools would be closing due to the number of students out sick with the H1N1 virus. But for those who thought they would get a head start on next week's fall break, that's not the case. According to Superintendent Lu Young, some of the rumors may have come from the fact that some elementary school teachers began sending home "work packets" which children can use in case of an extend school closure, much like those used for snow days.

100 years ago — 1911 Perryville was visited by a vicious mad dog last night. All night long, residents were awakened by the yelping of dogs and it’s estimated that at least 50 dogs were bitten. The big, brown setter was extremely vicious and even attacked Jesse Webb, but he successfully beat it away before he was bitten. The mad dog approached the store of J.L. Penny, and a posse of men headed by Marshal Greer pursued the dog out the Mackville Pike near the old toll house where it was shot eight times and killed.

It's been more than three years since the Eugene Gay Swimming Complex at Community Park has been in operation, but a long-term solution for the facility is under consideration. The Winchester-Clark County Parks and Recreation board discussed the future of the complex during its monthly meeting Monday night at College Park Gym. The board hasn't settled on a permanent fixture for the facility, which includes a possible splash water park, similar to one currently located in Stanton.

From noon until 11 p.m. Friday, Main Street will be closed between Third Street and Fourth Street in preparation for Bayou and Brass, part of The Great American Brass Band Festival, according to Danville Police Department.

The “U.S. to Africa” fundraising concert came back bigger and better in its second year and moved the project tantalizingly close to its goal of building a school for - and a relationship with - children in Mali. Nicholasville Elementary School music teacher Matt Sanders began the project last year with a concert featuring Nicholasville students that raised $3,500. This year's concert May 18 added choral and percussion groups from West Jessamine Middle School and West Jessamine High School and raised a gross total of $5,454 from about 500 people in attendance.

The Winchester YMCA is in need of new memberships, and in a hurry. Without a plan for sustainability, which would include increasing memberships by about 350 families, the local chapter will likely have to close the doors, according to Michael Haynes, acting director. Haynes is a retired state YMCA official who now works with what he terms “troubled” facilities throughout the state, helping them develop plans for long-term success and financial stability. He has been working in Winchester since May 8. Right now, Haynes said, he and the Winchester YMCA Board of Directors are working on a plan to help generate about $150,000 of additional income each year.

Mason Stamm and Tyler Whitehouse hit home runs Friday and Danville closed out its regular season with an 11-4 win over Model on senior night. Stamm finished 2-for-3 and added a double and drove in three runs, while Whitehouse hit a two-run blast. Cole Phillips was 2-for-4, Kyle Lange drove in two runs and Chase Ransdell walked three times for the Admirals (23-13). “It was a good all-around game to finish the regular season on,” Danville coach Paul Morse said. “It was senior night and all eight seniors got to start.

Traffic is moving a bit slower on the Mountain Parkway and likely will for the remainder of the summer. One lane in each direction will be kept open during the construction of a bridge, but the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Department of Highways announced the closures will keep traffic slowed around the 10- and 11-mile markers on the Parkway. The construction is part of the Mountain Parkway and Kiddville Road Interchange Project. The lane closures took effect May 8 and are expected to remain in place for approximately four months, according to a press release from the cabinet.

HARRODSBURG - WKYT-TV is reporting that Eddie Montgomery's Steakhouse closed unexpectedly Sunday night, citing a sign posted on the door. Co-owner Tracy Nunan also posted on the restaurant's Facebook page, which has since been taken down, that she was “sincerely sorry” to the employees for the lack of notice and quick closure, stating that it was “not within my control.” Calls to the restaurant today, as of press time, remained unanswered....

Forest Park Bowling Lanes will be closing its doors tonight after its last evening of family fun, date nights and friendly outings. Richard Heine, the owner, said he is closing the bowling alley, which opened in 1963, for the summer in hopes that someone will purchase it. Heine leased the building with his father in the early 1980s and purchased it in 2000. He said his family has owned bowling alleys in Corbin and Bardstown and as far away as Wyoming. “It's a buyable business.

LEXINGTON - Larry Warford admits he's tired of playing his bass guitar, fishing, working out, driving for no particular reason, playing video games or doing anything else he can to get his mind off this week's NFL draft. “I just want to find out (where I will be drafted),” said the Kentucky senior offensive guard Tuesday. “I am just trying to figure out where I will end up. I shouldn't be worrying because I have no idea and no control.” He says he's heard anywhere from the second to fourth round, but knows things could change.

Counterfeiting is a serious problem in our world today. Counterfeiters go to great lengths to produce fraudulent clothing, electronics and currency. Have you ever seen a counterfeit 200 dollar bill? No, of course not, there is no such thing as a 200 dollar bill. A counterfeiter does everything he can to work in all the details of an authentic dollar bill.  The most commonly counterfeited currency in the world is the American 20 dollar bill. The bank teller or merchant that is trained to identify a phony, is not trained to know what fakes look like, but in what the real dollar bill looks like.