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The Casey County News
P.O. Box 40
Liberty, KY 42539
(606) 787-7171
FAX: (606) 787-8306
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OshKosh fails to honor
$50,000 bond agreement
By Linda Carmicle
Staff Writer
Casey County is $50,000 richer since Liberty's OshKosh B'Gosh closed its doors for good. But the added money has raised the question on how it should be spent.
Josh Ayoroa, Executive Director of the Liberty/Casey County Economic Development Authority, said in a Feb. 14 economic development board meeting that OshKosh failed to honor a $50,000 bond grant agreement made by the state Cabinet for Economic Development Financial Authority. He said the CED is reimbursing the county for the amount.
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Ag agents helping
at extension office
By Donna Carman
Editor
Casey County farmers have had nowhere to turn for advice since the county's agriculture agent resigned last July.
With the Casey County Extension District Board, and the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service, currently involved in a lawsuit with former 4-H agent Jan Atwood, UK says it cannot advertise the position until the suit is settled.
Results of teacher's
tribunal still unknown
By Donna Carman
Editor
Sixteen witnesses testified over a three-day period last week as the tribunal for a Casey County teacher fired from her job was held at the Casey County Courthouse.
Tonia Gosser, who taught language arts at Casey County Middle School, was relieved of her duties on Nov. 2. She had taught in the local school system for the last four years.
At presstime yesterday, the results of the hearing were still not known. The members of the teacher's tribunal panel have between one and 10 days in which to issue their findings.
Court agrees to borrow
money for jail expansion
Jail paying own way; loan is a precaution
By Linda Carmicle
Staff Writer
Casey County is $700,000 away from having its $3.6 million, 125-bed detention center paid for without having to borrow money to meet the payments. But Judge-Executive Ronald Wright changed that at Monday night's fiscal court meeting.
Wright said a time will probably come when the county may need to borrow money, since construction on a new $1 million, 50-bed addition to the jail is creating some financial drain on the budget. He has talked to several banks that will approve an intergovernmental loan, he said, but the loan must first meet state approval.
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