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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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FRONT PAGE NEWS
First Day
Casey students went back to school last Wednesday, with some looking forward to a new year and some not so sure about this "school" thing. RIGHT, Phillips Elementary kindergartner Makayla Lee was having a hard time leaving her mother, Amanda, in Donna Cooper's class. |
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ABOVE, Isaac Turpin was having fun in Marilyn Ellis' kindergarten class at Douglas Elementary, as he stacked blocks. RIGHT, Phelps Elementary first-grader Casperina Barradas inhales deeply as she smells her fruit-scented erasers. |
| photos/DONNA CARMAN & LINDA CARMICLE |
Watson may not be eligible
city council candidate
By Donna Carman
Editor
A candidate who has filed for a seat on the Liberty City Council may not be eligible to serve.
According to personnel at Liberty City Hall, Lana Watson, who lives at 132 Beech Street, does not reside within the Liberty city limits. However, a current councilman seeking re-election — Jim Ellison, of 20 Beech Street — does.
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CLEAN IT OR LOSE IT
City to toughen up on nuisance law violators
By Linda Carmicle
Staff Writer
The City of Liberty is only days away from getting tough about its nuisance law that will leave those who are not in compliance with having tough choices to make.
Mayor Steve Sweeney asked the city council on Wednesday to consider condemnation of certain properties whose owners have been given adequate opportunity to abide by the city's nuisance ordinance. He said several of the properties have been in violation of the ordinance for a number of years, along with the owners having not paid taxes on the properties in question.
Ag council roughs out scoresheets
Farmers to be graded on points system
By Donna Carman
Editor
Ideas for scoresheets were debated by those attending a meeting of the Casey County Agricultural Development Council Aug. 8. And not everyone went away happy.
After a couple of hours of discussion, the council had hammered out the framework for a points scoring system that will be used to determine eligibility in the cost-share model programs. The council is scheduled to meet again at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Casey County Extension Office to determine a final scoresheet, and also possibly discuss the distribution of Casey's $472,000 allocated for cost-share programs this year.
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Cut-off date for free
water meters is Sept. 30
By Linda Carmicle
Staff Writer
A deadline has been set for families living along 15 roads in the county to apply for a free water meter before the next water project begins.
East Casey County Water District board members agreed in an Aug. 8 meeting to establish Sept. 30 as the final day that low income families can apply for a free meter for the upcoming Scattered Water Project. The board believes the more than six weeks allowed to apply for treated water service is adequate time. After the deadline passes, families who qualify for free meters will have to pay to have one installed.
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