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Boyle County will have some slightly different magisterial districts if a plan being proposed by a reapportionment committee is adopted by the Fiscal Court next week. Reapportionment takes place every 10 years, after the federal Census is conducted, to ensure each district has a relatively similar population and there is no more than a 10-percent difference between the districts with the largest and smallest populations.   “We really strived to not make any changes that were too drastic,” said County Clerk Trille Bottom, a non-voting member of the committee.

A 50-year-old Stanford man was indicted by a Jessamine County grand jury July 7 on three charges of use of electronic means to induce a minor to engage in sexual activities. Andrew Yates of 200 Shanks Lane in Stanford was originally arrested March 24 by Nicholasville police after having traveled from Stanford to Nicholasville to meet who he thought was a 14-year-old girl for sex, Sgt. Scott Harvey said after the March arrest. Yates allegedly approached someone trying to sell an item on Craigslist and during the course of several texts began to make sexual comments, Harvey said.

The A’s downed the D-Backs in a 12-8 slugfest to win the City Championship of the 9-10-year-old Minor League division of the Winchester Little League baseball tournament at Lykins Park June 25. The A’s broke open a 1-1 game with five runs in the second and three in the third inning to take a commanding 9-1 lead. The D-Backs bats finally came alive in the third inning as they plated two runs on five hits to cut the deficit to 9-3, but the A’s came right back with three more runs in the top of the fourth to push the lead back out to 12-3.

MIDDLEBURG - A Casey County elementary student was taken to the hospital this morning after the side of her school bus was scraped by another vehicle. Amber Pridemore, a second-grader at Jones Park Elementary, complained of neck pain and was transported by ambulance to Casey County Hospital. The injuries appeared to be minor, said Craig Griffin, director of transportation for Casey schools. The bus was approaching Middleburg on Short Town Road about 7:40 a.m. when the bus, driven by Peggy Hall and carrying 25 students, was struck along its driver’s side by a Ford Escape pickup operated by Donna Porter of Poplar Hill.

A Jessamine County school bus was rear-ended on South Main Street on Wednesday afternoon. No students reported injuries; the driver of a separate vehicle was taken to a Lexington hospital with minor injuries. The accident occurred around 3 p.m. when the bus had made a stop while traveling north in the 1300 block of South Main Street. A red Toyota Corolla crashed into the back of the bus. “The school bus was stopped right here to make a drop, and the car didn’t realize that they had stopped, hit their brakes and slammed into the back of the bus,” Nicholasville police officer Kevin Grimes said.

The storm front that brought high winds and heavy rains has caused minor flooding throughout portions of Jessamine County. John V. Carpenter, director of Jessamine County Emergency Management, said the worst damage was at the corner of Ross and 2nd streets in downtown Nicholasville. “We had a blocked retaining wall that helped petition off Town Branch (Creek), and due to erosion behind it and the water level (Tuesday) morning, the wall washed away, and it fell over into the creek,” he said.

A pickup truck and a school bus collided Tuesday morning on Ky. 169, sending one student to a hospital with a minor injury and resulting in the arrest of the truck driver for a previous warrant. Jessamine County’s bus No. 43 was traveling west on Union Mill Road just after 8 a.m. Tuesday when the eastbound pickup truck’s front left corner made contact with the front left corner of the bus, according to the Jessamine County Sheriff’s Office. Neither vehicle left the roadway.

Dear Editor, Herb Brock is a brave and honest man. I have been a Kentucky fan for more years than most and have deplored the scandals as I have cheered the wins. The change in college basketball (and football and other major sports) is not a cause for celebration. College teams have become little more than minor league talent pools for the acknowledged professional teams. I suspect that there are very few college teams now, at major schools, that are free from violations of the NCAA rules.

The winds of dissent are blowing in our county, and I definitely feel the breeze. The recent meeting of the Jessamine County Public Library Board of Trustees was barely over before someone was knocking on my door to see if I knew what was happening. I know only the sketchy details reported to me by a person who attended the meeting, and those reported in last week's article in the Journal by Jonathan Kleppinger. At the heart of the dispute is the library's policy regarding granting minors access to sexually explicit books.

Ronnie Moore, 24, received minor injuries when his 1996 Jeep Cherokee overturned shortly after 3 p.m. Tuesday near Camp Nelson National Cemetery. According to the Kentucky State Police, the accident happened when Moore fell asleep while driving south on U.S. 27. His vehicle left the road and struck a rock wall before rolling over and coming to rest in the ditch. The vehicle's impact with the wall catapulted a large bolder several yards onto the shoulder of the highway. Moore was transported by Jessamine County EMS to the University of Kentucky Hospital.