Hubble

Aug. 30 - Sept.1, 4106 Ky. Hwy. 590 (Hubble), 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Adult and boy's clothing, Home Interior, Halloween costumes, and lots more. Rain or shine.

Hubble-Wesley Mr. and Mrs. Linton Hubble of Eubank announce the engagement of their daughter, Cynthia Barbara, to Jerry L. Wesley of Moreland, son of Ova Roberts and the late Travis Wesley of Liberty. Hubble is a 1991 graduate of Lincoln County High School and 1995 graduate of Eastern Kentucky University. She is employed as the chief financial officer of PBK Bank in Stanford. Wesley is a 1988 graduate of Casey County High School and attended Campbellsville College.

The Chamber is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Playforth to the Lincoln County Chamber Board of Directors. He will be representing Partners Realty in his two-year term. Paul was born and raised in Lincoln County. He is married to Patsy Estep Playforth and they have three daughters. The Playforths have lived in the community of Hubble since 1975 on a 100 acre farm. Playforth graduated from EKU in 1972. He has completed numerous postgraduate studies and designations in banking and real estate, insurance, appraising and auctioneering.

A Stanford businessman has donated $10,000 to increase the reward to $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those who murdered two Lincoln County youths the night of Feb. 1, 2002. Harold Upton, Jr., said the businessman, who asked to remain anonymous, approached him on the street and made the offer. Upton said he hopes the increased reward will breathe life into an investigation that he feels has gone on too long. "They do have a good idea of who did it, but going to court and proving it is another thing," Upton said of investigators.

STANFORD - With plans for a middle school expansion in the wings, the Lincoln County Board of Education also is looking to preserve a much older building. One of the last known one-room schoolhouses in the county is the focus of preservation efforts by the Lincoln County Retired Teachers Association. Spokeswoman Virginia Shaw asked the board to look into moving the building from Hubble onto school property. "Our interest is in restoring the remaining one-room Lincoln County School," said Shaw.

A domestic dispute on River Crest Lane near Hubble led to a shooting Monday night around 9:45. Deputy Rob Oney arrested Julius T. Singleton, 38 at the home he shared with his girlfriend, Tiffany Dawson, 26. Singleton was arrested after Deputies Ryan Kirkpatrick and Ashley Powell determined he shot Dawson in the head after an argument. Singleton was charged with 1st degree assault and two counts of wanton endangerment. The endangerment charges stemmed from the fact that there were two children, age three and six, in the home at the time of the shooting.

An Angus Tour and Field Day is scheduled for Saturday at the Central Kentucky Angus Association pavilion, 2286 Fork Church Road, in northern Garrard County. Participants will meet at the pavilion at 9 a.m. and ride a bus to the tour events. Tour stops will be at Cliffside and C&H Cattle Co. where cattle will be on display; Akers Farm in Hubble to hear about ultrasound, herd health and lunch; Branch View Angus, Hustonville, to check out the working facilities, rotational grazing and cattle; and Tarter Gate Co., Dunnville, for a tour of production plant and view products.

Clifford Harris, 56, of Waynesburg, died Sunday, April 5 at the Fort Logan Hospital in Stanford. A native of Lincoln County, he was born Wednesday, March 11, 1953, to the late Paul and Flora Jane Wesley Harris. He was a 15 year employee of Al's Radiator Shop and a member of Parlor Grove Baptist Church. He was also preceded in death by a brother, Michael Harris. Survivors include his wife, Linda Witt Harris of Waynesburg; a son, Clifford Shane (Amanda) Harris of Broughtontown; a daughter, Dawn (Gene)

STANFORD - The tiny trailer in the tiny, out-of-the-way community of Hubble sits empty now, looking for all the world like nothing ever happened there. But more than seven years ago - Feb. 1, 2002, to be precise - something horrific did happen there that left Hubble unsettled to this day: Four males wearing blue bandannas burst into that trailer and opened fire, killing two Lincoln County residents and wounding two others. The woman who lives next door to the trailer lived there on that night.

Property transfers recorded in the office of Lincoln County Clerk George O. Spoonamore IV. Jamie L. and Adrian Waddell, Jeremy David and Nina Goggin and Carl Goggin Jr. to Harold E. and Toni K. Akers, 30 acres on Carman Lane (KY 3248), in Hubble community, $70,000. Jeremy David and Nina Goggin, Jamie L. and Adrian Waddell, Carl Goggin Jr. and the estate of Harry David Goggin to Akers Farms LLC, lease option on approximately 170 acres on Carman Lane (KY 3248), in Hubble community.

STANFORD - A Crab Orchard man is being treated after apparently attempting suicide at a park in Lincoln County. Sheriff Curt Folger said two of his deputies went to Logan-Hubble Memorial Park off U.S. 27 to train with a K9 unit. When the deputies arrived at the park's barn area, they found Joe Johnson, 36, hanging from a rope possibly used as a horse lead. “They located the subject that was hanging,” Folger said. “They got him down, performed CPR and got his pulse back.” Folger said emergency medical personnel intervened after that and, to his understanding, Johnson was airlifted to the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center in Lexington.

STANFORD - Construction may still be years away, but Lincoln and Garrard counties are planning ahead for the widening of U.S. 27 from north Garrard County to Stanford. Lincoln County Fiscal Court approved Tuesday a memorandum of agreement with Garrard County and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet setting up a plan for the new U.S. 27 to dissect Logan-Hubble Park on the Lincoln/Garrard county line. The proposed route will travel across about 23 acres of what is now an "underutilized" part of the 329-acre park, according to the memorandum.

Blanche Hubble White, 91, of Highlands Assisted Living Facility in Somerset, formerly of Waynesburg and Louisville, passed away Sunday, Nov. 18, at Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital in Somerset.  Born Friday, Aug. 5, 1921, in Lincoln County, Blanche was a daughter of the late Caleb and Kabelle Falconberry Hubble. She was a graduate of the University of Louisville and a retired teacher of 42 years for the Louisville/Jefferson County Board of Education. Blanche was a member of Double Springs Baptist Church, the Waynesburg Eastern Star,  the Kentucky Retired Teacher's Association and Alpha Delta Kappa in Somerset.

Hershel W. Hubble, 90, of Eubank, passed away Monday, Sept. 10, at his residence. Born Dec. 30, 1921, in Woodstock, Hershel was a son of the late Coy and Isabelle Abbott Hubble. He was a farmer, an Army veteran and a member of Elrod Church of God. He also attended Monticello Street Church of God. He was also preceded in death by a son, Richard Hubble; one brother, Clarence Hubble; and one sister, Wanda Norton. Survivors include his wife, Alma Price Hubble of Eubank; one son, Linton (Barbara)

100 years ago - 1912   The last session of the Kentucky General Assembly has enacted a new law that will affect public places in all cities, including Danville, Junction City and Stanford. The law states that the use of the common drinking cup on railroad trains, railroad stations, public hotels, boarding houses, restaurants, steamboats, in stores, or other publicly frequented places is hereby prohibited. Any person or corporation violating the law will be fined not less than one dollar and not more than $10.   A telephone company has been organized in Hubble with a capital stock of $2,500.

FRANKFORT — Hubble Meats of Lincoln County has been upgraded to USDA-inspected status, joined Kentucky Proud, and added a retail sales area under owner Hal Akers. “Hubble Meats provides beef and pork producers a new local market for their products while enabling consumers to find locally raised Kentucky Proud meats,” Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer said. “I commend Hal Akers and his farm manager, Sam Lawson, for their efforts and welcome them to the Kentucky Proud family.” With the upgrade, Hubble Meats now can sell meat by the piece from its retail store.

Property transfers recorded in the office of Lincoln County Clerk George O. Spoonamore IV. Jamie L. and Adrian Waddell, Jeremy David and Nina Goggin and Carl Goggin Jr. to Harold E. and Toni K. Akers, 30 acres on Carman Lane (KY 3248), in Hubble community, $70,000. Jeremy David and Nina Goggin, Jamie L. and Adrian Waddell, Carl Goggin Jr. and the estate of Harry David Goggin to Akers Farms LLC, lease option on approximately 170 acres on Carman Lane (KY 3248), in Hubble community.

STANFORD - Though Jamarkos Campbell did not take the stand Thursday, jurors in his murder trial heard his version of how things went down the night Bo Upton and Ryan Shangraw were gunned down inside Shangraw's trailer in Hubble in 2002. Campbell's accounts of the killings came in the form of two audio taped interviews with Kentucky State Police Detective Monte Owens. The first came in March 2008, after DNA evidence linked Campbell to the murders but before he was charged with the crimes.

STANFORD - The tiny trailer in the tiny, out-of-the-way community of Hubble sits empty now, looking for all the world like nothing ever happened there. But more than seven years ago - Feb. 1, 2002, to be precise - something horrific did happen there that left Hubble unsettled to this day: Four males wearing blue bandannas burst into that trailer and opened fire, killing two Lincoln County residents and wounding two others. The woman who lives next door to the trailer lived there on that night.