Complaints

HARRODSBURG - Mercer Fiscal Court is trying to resolve problems at the county animal shelter after receiving complaints about conditions there. "It was bad out there, and we deserved everything we got," Judge-Executive John Trisler said today. The complaints included failure to keep portions of the shelter as clean as they should be. Trisler said he learned of the problems from an e-mail message and pictures he received early Monday morning. The area housing dogs was clean, but the areas for cats and kittens had not been cleaned when he went to investigate.

LEXINGTON — The Better Business Bureau of Central and Eastern Kentucky is warning businesses not to click on links in e-mails reported in this area that appear to be about unanswered consumer complaints. These are scam e-mails that are not from any BBB office. “These e-mails are not from our BBB,” said Neil Kingery, president and CEO of the BBB of Central and Eastern Kentucky. “In the past, when the scam has surfaced, companies that clicked on the link to read the complaint ended up with viruses on their computers.

The Boyle County Human Rights Commission handles complaints dealing with all forms of discrimination, including race, sex, age and disability, and involving mainly employment and housing. The main source of business for the commission is work-related complaints, most from African-Americans but some from women, older people and disabled people. Most of the workplaces involved in the complaints are fast-food restaurants; some come from factory employees but there have been fewer of those in recent years.

STANFORD - Fans of CB radio attended Tuesday's Lincoln County Fiscal Court meeting, listening as magistrates passed second reading of an ordinance pertaining to the use of CB radios by county residents. The ordinance states only that if a complaint is received about a CB will the county take action against that particular operator. It stems from a parent's complaint that a television set was picking up CB chatter, broadcasting vulgar language around a young child even when the TV was turned off, said county treasurer Teresa Padgett.

Complaints regarding the residency of Clark County Board of Education member Rick Perry have been forwarded to the Office of Education Accountability, according to a May 17 letter from Kentucky Attorney General Gregory D. Stumbo. Stumbo wrote that he received an initial complaint about Perry in February and forwarded it to the OEA, which said the office had already opened an investigation of the school board. The letter is addressed to Shelly and Scott Haggard, who have spearheaded a petition to demand Perry's resignation.

HARRODSBURG - Enforcement of zoning laws in Mercer County is now back in the hands of city and county legislative bodies. Over the past several months, officials from the Greater Harrodsburg/Mercer County Planning and Zoning Commission, Harrodsburg City Commission and Mercer County Fiscal Court have debated the best way to judge complaints about zoning violations. As it stands now, all complaints will be directed to the City Commission or Fiscal Court. Several alternatives have been discussed since late last year.

HARRODSBURG - Complaints to police about a loud party going on at Aspen Hall Saturday night went unanswered, but one police official said it will not happen again. Assistant Police Chief Col. Rodney Harlow said Tuesday that the dispatcher's log shows two calls about the party. Records show Curry Dedman called at 9:45 p.m. and Ann Robinson called at 10:32 p.m., both complaining about loud music. This incident is the latest in a dispute between the new owners of Aspen Hall and the historic home's neighbors.

Dear Editor: There's been a lot of talk in the press lately about how one activist organization, the Parents Television Council, is trying to dictate television standards for the rest of the country by encouraging its members to file complaints with the FCC. It seems that the press believes that the hundreds of thousands of complaints filed by outraged citizens over the rampant raunch on television somehow don't count simply because the complainant...

An apparent brawl outside the Henson Hotel on Main Street Thursday afternoon resulted in no arrests because the two alleged victims were "too intoxicated" immediately following the fight to fill out criminal complaints, police said today. Arrests may be pending if the victims file complaints, police said. The Danville Police Department received a call at 5:25 p.m. from someone reporting there were "several subjects fighting outside the Henson Hotel; unknown if there were any weapons," said Assistant Police Chief Jay Newell.

Mercer County was one of six Kentucky counties chosen in a random drawing today to undergo independent inquiries for any potential irregularities that may have occurred during the May 16th primary election. The other counties are: Hickman, Spencer, Montgomery, Nelson and Trimble. The post-election audits, which are required by law (KRS 15.243), will be conducted by the Attorney General's Office. In each county, these routine inquiries will include checking election forms and interviewing county officials.

When Erin and Jeremy Goldberg of Vinson Road took their 10- and 12-year-olds to Danville's Henry Jackson Park on March 30, they were disappointed by what they found. Erin Goldberg said there was a hole in a slide, a broken merry-go-round, a beer can and trash, and a large hole in the pavilion, along with various other issues. “Honestly, a lot of it didn't look safe,” she said. “The longer we stayed, the more we were disappointed.” The Goldbergs moved to Danville about a year ago to Erin's grandparents' former home.

STANFORD - Monday, after a store owner alerted a Lincoln County Deputy about a possible shoplifter, three people were arrested on drug-related charges Tuesday. Deputies stopped a vehicle driven by Anthony Taylor, 24, of Waynesburg, at Fort Logan Trading Post, 933 Lancaster St., after the shop's owner said passenger Candace Moore had attempted to shoplift. Deputies found Moore, 28, of Lancaster, in possession of 105 to 110 pills of an unknown substance. She was charged with shoplifting, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance not in the original container.

Shoplifting complaint results in three arrests  STANFORD - Monday, after a store owner alerted a Lincoln County Deputy about a possible shoplifter, three people were arrested on drug-related charges Tuesday.  Deputies stopped a vehicle driven by Anthony Taylor, 24, of Waynesburg, at Fort Logan Trading Post, 933 Lancaster St., after the shop's owner said passenger Candace Moore had attempted to shoplift.  Deputies found Moore, 28,...

LANCASTER - After rescuing more than a dozen horses from a farm in Garrard County, the president of Buckland Equine Rescue plans to file a criminal complaint against the director of Garrard County Animal Control. Chris Takacs claims Earlene Harris used her authority to sell four of the horses rescued from a farm on Jack Turner Way on Feb. 27. Takacs met Tuesday with a victim's advocate at the Garrard County Attorney's Office to fill out an affidavit, a sworn statement explaining his recollection of events.

JUNCTION CITY - With a list of concerns, Junction City resident and business owner Leeroy Hardin, among others, came before the City Council during Tuesday's meeting. Hardin owns the QuickStop in Junction City and alleged that the city is failing to properly handle the overgrowth in an adjoining field owned by Brent Woodrum. Mayor Jim Douglas said the city has a lien against the property and has attempted to clean it up but has experienced difficulty. Councilman Kenny Baldwin said people brought in to give the city a bid for mowing the property generally left quickly, saying they would not be able to work due to the rocks and other obstacles in the field.

Editor's note: Taken from the Danville 911 records, the Police Blotter represents a history of the initial calls and the information used by the dispatcher to send officers to investigate complaints. It is not necessarily an indication of what the officer found upon arrival at the scene, or of how police may have dealt with the complaint.   JANUARY 30 1:34 a.m., caller from Shaker Point Apartments is requesting an officer due to criminal mischief to his residence; caller saw a subject run between the two buildings; trouble settled.

Editor's note: Taken from the Danville 911 records, the Police Blotter represents a history of the initial calls and the information used by the dispatcher to send officers to investigate complaints. It is not necessarily an indication of what the officer found upon arrival at the scene, or of how police may have dealt with the complaint.   OCTOBER 8 8:37 a.m., report of nails in the road and a citizen attempting to pick them up at Perryville Road and the bypass.

One would think the old adage “Where there's smoke, there's fire” would apply to the Nicholasville Ethics Committee. For a number of months, allegations of conflicts of interest among the city's planning commission members have swirled around in public forums and in articles of this newspaper. This has led to a public perception of corruption among developers and appointed officials. But the ethics committee apparently has chosen to turn a blind eye in regard to looking into the alleged violations.