FAIR TIME
Overflow crowd packs stands for rodeo
By Linda Carmicle
Staff Writer
It was standing room only Monday night as the Broken Horn Rodeo kicked off 
special events for this week's Casey County Fair. According to gate sales, an estimated 1,600 passed through the fair gates Monday night at the Central Kentucky AG/EXPO Center.
Children of two age groups also got the opportunity to be part of the rodeo. They raced around the track of the covered arena on stick horses.
Rodeo events, which included steer wrestling, bareback riding, saddle bronco, and barrel racing, wound down around 11 p.m.
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Log truck flips, spills load
Driver escapes serious injury
By Donna Carman
Editor
When District 1 Magistrate Kenny Morgan participated in a donkey basketball 
game last month, raising money for Relay for Life, he injured his ribs in a fall.
Those ribs are a little more sore today as Morgan survived an accident Monday that could have seriously injured, if not killed, him.
Morgan, who has been driving a log truck for Tarter Gate Co. for 18 years, flipped the loaded truck on Calvary Ridge Road early that morning.
Cochran joins LPD
Officer Lee smith resigns
By Donna Carman
Editor
Only days after the Liberty Police Department gained another part-time officer, it lost a full-time officer.
Harold Cochran joined the department on May 24, while Lee Smith submitted his resignation June 1.
Liberty Mayor Steve Sweeney said he is happy to have Cochran on the force, even at part-time.
School board awards bid for new Walnut Hill Elem.
By Donna Carman
Editor
The firm that built Jones Park Elementary has been hired as the general contractor for Walnut Hill Elementary.
D.W. Wilbern, Inc. of Lexington was the low bidder from among three firms that submitted bids to construct the new school. The Casey County Board of Education awarded Wilbern the $8.9 million contract at a special-called meeting on May 30.
Other bids, which were opened on May 25, came from Isaac Tatum Construction of Lebanon, $9 million, and The Walker Company of Mt. Sterling, $9.8 million.
