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| Thursday, August 07th, 2008 |
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Added on August 7, 2008 at 1:56 pm - Filed under: Local News
The Voice has learned that a change of plea will be announced at the court case of Paul K. Terry of Jackson tomorrow (Friday) in Rowan Circuit Court in Morehead. Officials at the Rowan County Circuit Court Clerk’s Office said that the court docket for tomorrow shows Terry to be in court at 1 p.m., to change his plea in the case. By Jeff Noble
Voice Editor
A son’s visit with relatives turned tragic for the family of a Breathitt County teenager last weekend, after learning that he died in a traffic accident in Southern Indiana. 15-year-old Richard Malone Miller of Jackson was killed early last Saturday morning, when the vehicle he was a passenger in swerved to avoid hitting a deer, then hit a tree and flipped over on Shaw Hollow Road, northeast of Madison, Indiana near the community of Canaan. The vehicle came to rest on top of its roof in a dry creek bed. Miller was pronounced dead at the scene by Jefferson County Coroner Alice Carlson Jackson, who said the 15-year-old died of compressional asphyxiation. By Jeff Noble
Voice Editor
This year of 2008 has been a banner one for those wanting water along Route 30 East. And it got better thanks to a a gift of a half-million dollars for that proposed waterline project from 5th District Congressman “Hal” Rogers. Last Friday, the Somerset Republican announced that a key subcommittee in Congress approved the $500,000 to support the Breathitt County Water District (BCWD), in their efforts to extend water service to 380 new customers along the Route 30 East area. By Jeff Noble
Voice Editor
Taking a tip from a City Councilmember, Jackson Mayor Mike Miller told members of the local media the reasons for the recent changes in the city’s water and sewer system. Since the installing of Jackson’s new “Radio Read” water meters, Miller acknowledged there were complaints and confusion from residents when they received their bills this summer. That’s also been the case since the passing of a rate increase for water and sewer customers in late June by Jackson City Council. “People have come up to me and said, ‘What are you concerned about this for? You don’t have to pay a water bill’, Miller said during the meeting at his office Monday morning. “And I’ve told them, ‘Being Mayor of Jackson doesn’t entitle me to special priviledges. I pay a water bill, too’.” By Jeff Noble
Voice Editor
The Breathitt County School Board approved a plan from their Transportation Department on Tuesday that would result in savings of $392,673.44. Saying “We’ve been asked to make some changes, and that’s what I’m here for,” School Transportation Director Steve Banks presented the plan at the Board’s Special Meeting at the Breathitt High School Library. The plan presented is broken down to several main sections. First, bus routes were re-examined and redone, which eliminated some routes that overlapped. Second, two vans transporting children would be eliminated, because the plan said the two vans were heavy fuel users. However, no bus drivers would lose their jobs. By Jeff Noble Voice Editor
The new school year starts out bright and early next Monday morning at Jackson City School, and the start looks even brighter as the Jackson Independent School Board approved the Financial Report for the the new school year, which shows a surplus of over a hundred thousand dollars. “We won’t be on the ‘Watch List’ this year, and we won’t be a ‘Distressed District’, said City School Superintendent Tim Spencer at their Regular Meeting at Central Office on Patton Avenue. “We budgeted $105,511 to end the year, and that will be our Contingency Fund. The final total will be revealed after Mr. Sparks (of the school’s auditing firm, Summers, McCreary and Sparks) does his work. But we will end above that budgeted total for the school year.” By Jeff Noble
Voice Editor
The man who’d like to replace Mitch McConnell in the United States Senate brought a bit of full service to a self-serve gas station in Jackson on Monday. That visit from Democratic nominee Bruce Lunsford saw him pumping gasoline and talking to motorists in Breathitt County, hoping to connect with voters who say they’re frustrated with rising energy and cost-of-living prices. Lunsford’s team pulled up at Jiffy Mart on Highway 15 an hour before the candidate’s scheduled appearance at 10 a.m. The visit in Jackson lasted four hours, and during the first half of the event, Lunsford chatted with folks as they drove up to the pump to put in a few gallons of gas in their vehicles. By Jeff Noble
Voice Editor
Once again, concerns about the Jackson Water and Sewer Company, and the recent rate adjustment ordinance on water and sewer service passed last month by the Jackson City Council, were the main items at last Thursday’s meeting. In fact, the session at City Hall was broken into two sections. The first part dealt with regular services and concerns excluding the water and sewer company, while the second part dealt exclusively with water and sewer problems. By Jeff Noble
Voice Editor
The past weekend was a nervous one for Lisa Jackson Arnold. For her father, Steve Jackson. And for other extended members of the Jackson family. That’s because they’re in a business where fast delivery - in their case, of pizzas - is a major part of their success. But early Sunday morning, the father and daughter team, as well as other employees, were sweating bullets at the new location of Little Caesar’s Pizza in the Jett Shopping Center. “We were on pins and needles, because we didn’t have our ovens installed until eleven o’clock yesterday,” said Lisa, who goes by her married name of Lisa Arnold. By Jeff Noble
Voice Editor
With the start of school just days away, the organizer of an event for schoolchildren hopes this Saturday’s festivities will be as successful as the one he put on a decade ago in Central Kentucky. With the start of school just days away, the organizer of an event for schoolchildren hopes this Saturday’s festivities will be as successful as the one he put on a decade ago in Central Kentucky. “Ten years ago, I was a Pastor in a church in Lexington, and I read about this idea for a ‘Kids Fest’ in a book that I had,” said Reverend Von Hanshaw, who is also a student at Kentucky Mountain Bible College at Vancleve. “The idea came from a church in Los Angeles, and it involved giving school supplies to needy children, as well as words of inspiration and encouragement. At the first one, there were 1,800 children that were helped.” |
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