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  • Shelter compromise still possible

    A compromise could be in the works to keep the county’s animal shelter an adoption facility after all.

    Magistrates agreed on Monday night to have one of its committees meet with some representatives from the Taylor County SPCA to discuss keeping the animal shelter operating as an adoption facility.

    Magistrates voted in February to no longer adopt animals at the shelter, effective April 17. The shelter is to become a holding facility that day, and shelter staff members will transport animals to Adair County for care at $44 per animal.

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  • Resident accused of sodomizing child

     

    A Campbellsville man has been arrested and charged with sodomizing a child.

    According to a Taylor County Sheriff’s Office report, James Loy, 24, of 340 Ebenezer Road, was arrested yesterday morning at about 6:15 and charged with first-degree sodomy of a victim younger than 12 and first-degree sexual abuse of a victim younger than 12.

    The report states that an investigation into the allegations began on Tuesday and resulted in the arrest. Loy allegedly committed the crimes in January.

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  • Study says county residents are healthier

     

    Taylor Countians seem a bit healthier today than in the past.

    However, an annual study that ranks counties has revealed that more Taylor County residents are uninsured now than in the past.

    According to a Cabinet for Health and Family Services news release, Oldham County is the healthiest county in Kentucky for the second year in a row.

    The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute released its fourth annual county health rankings last week.

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  • St. Baldrick's raises more than $50,000

     

    They shed their locks to raise money and keep the memory of those who have lost their lives to cancer alive.

    Taylor County’s annual St. Baldrick’s fundraiser was Saturday.

    Organizer Donna Wise said more than $50,000 was raised, when including money collected from pledges on Saturday, a Color to Conquer 5k run and walk two weekends ago, along with several auctions.

    In six years, the Taylor County community has raised nearly $280,000 to fight pediatric cancer.

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  • Magistrates discuss purchasing land

    Magistrates took no action after discussing buying land for about 45 minutes last Thursday morning.

    Taylor County Fiscal Court called a special meeting for the morning, with the only item on the agenda being a closed session to discuss a potential land purchase.

    Discussion of a purchase or sale of land is allowed in closed session, according to Kentucky's open meetings and records laws, when publicity about it could affect the value of the property.

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  • Local man charged with sodomy, sexual abuse

     

    A Taylor County grand jury has charged a Monticello man with sodomizing and sexually abusing an 8-year-old girl.

    The grand jury indicted Wesley "Wes" W. Gann, 30, of 54 Victory Drive, on Tuesday on two counts of first-degree sodomy of a child younger than 12 and two counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a child younger than 12.

    According to Gann's arrest warrant, he allegedly engaged in oral sex with the girl and fondled and digitally penetrated her while a 6-year-old boy watched.

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  • Springfield man avoids prison after failing terms of diversion

     

    A Springfield man charged after a Taylor County crash left his passenger dead has been sentenced to probation instead of a prison time for failing the terms of his diversion.

    Michael A. Barnett, 23, of 301 Hagan Lane, was indicted twice in 2008, with each of the indictments stemming from a September 2007 crash after which Aaron W. Couch of Springfield was pronounced dead.

    A Taylor County grand jury first indicted Barnett in December 2008 on a charge of reckless homicide, a Class D felony punishable by as much as five years in prison.

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  • Educators hear about performance-based education

     

    He was almost a high school dropout. Now, he is superintendent of Taylor County High School.

    Roger Cook shared how he exceeded his own expectations at the Kentucky Leads the Nation Round Table meeting on Friday at TCHS.

    "We are not a product of our environment, we are a product of expectations," Cook said to the audience of educators, local and state government officials and superintendents from districts throughout Kentucky who gathered to learn about the district's performance-based education program.

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  • Programs will help veterans pursuing ag careers

    Veterans pursuing careers in agriculture might benefit from two programs launched earlier this year by the Kentucky Department of Agriculture.

    Commissioner of Agriculture James Comer said Kentucky Proud Homegrown by Heroes and Jobs for Vets are aimed at paying back the men and women who served in the military.

    The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week that the unemployment rate of post 9/11 veterans saw some improvement last year, but still hovers at about 9.9 percent.

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  • Illegal alien to serve federal sentence

     

    The man who operated a prostitution ring in Taylor County has been sentenced to serve seven years in federal prison for his crimes.

    After serving his sentence, he could be supervised by probation and parole staff members for the rest of his life.

    Adulfo De Aquino-Cancino, 28, was indicted last May in U.S. District Court on a multiple-count federal indictment.

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