Wind damage, flooding follow
round of severe storms
Family loses three barns
By Donna Carman
Editor
Like many people on the night of Feb. 5, and into the early-morning hours of Feb. 6, Bill and Beverly Pierce were aware that severe storms were heading toward Casey County.
With television news stations broadcasting warnings by the minute, no one was escaping what Mother Nature was dishing out that night.
The Pierces, who live on Ky. 198 just outside Middleburg, knew the wind was getting up, but they didn’t realize how much because their house has a natural buffer of trees and woods around it.
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Items from storm victims found
in parts of Casey County
By Donna Carman
Editor
Marshall Caudill was walking across a field on Casey Creek Road Friday when something caught his eye.
He picked up a laminated insurance card with the name “Linda Stephens” on it. The card bore an address in Scottsville, Ky.
Caudill turned the card over to Fish & Wildlife Officer Roger Weddle on Saturday, who took it into the Casey County Sheriff’s Department.
Boil water advisory remains in effect
City's water treatment plant to undergo extensive repairs
By Brittany Emerson
Staff Writer
Water customers of the East Casey County Water District and the City of Liberty remain under a boil water advisory, which was issued on Thursday morning.
The advisory is expected to continue through this week and possibly through the weekend while repairs are being made at the city's water plant, Mayor Steve Sweeney said.
Another charged in drug roundup
Another person charged in the Jan. 23 Operation Joint Effort has been arrested.
Steven D. McCubbins, 33, of 723 Hustonville Street, Liberty, was extradited from Indiana and appeared in Casey Circuit Court Monday for his arraignment on drug charges. He pleaded not guilty, with a pre-trial conference set for Feb. 18.
Pets perish in Monday fire
A fire destroyed a home on Sheepskin Road Monday afternoon, claiming the lives of a couple's pets.
John McQueary, assistant chief of the Clementsville Volunteer Fire Department, said when firemen arrived at the 2:10 p.m. blaze, the house was fully engulfed in flames.
“We sprayed water on it, but it was a useless fight,” McQueary said.
