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  • Construction equipment stolen

    Campbellsville Police are investigating the theft of some building equipment from the Taylor County Detention Center construction site.

    According to a police report, between July 3 and July 7, someone took a yellow and black Caterpillar multi-terrain skid loader from the site on South Central Avenue.

    Police are asking anyone with information about the theft to contact them at 465-4122. Officer Bart Gilpin is investigating.

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  • Clerk's office closed Saturday

    Taylor Circuit Clerk Rodney Burress' office will not be open this Saturday because of computer maintenance.

    According to Burress, maintenance will be performed in the Commonwealth Office of Technology that will create a complete power outage in the office, resulting in all mainframe computer systems being down, including the driver's licensing system.

    The office is normally open the second Saturday of every month from 8 a.m. to noon. It will be open again on Saturday, Aug. 9.

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  • CHS band director resigns for LaRue post

    Superintendent Diane Woods-Ayers says Campbellsville Schools is very much committed to a marching and concert band program, despite the fact there is no band director and only $3,500 has been budgeted for the 2008-2009 school year.

    Jaime Smith, band director at Campbellsville High School since 2005, recently accepted the band director's position at LaRue County High School.

    On Monday, Woods-Ayers said that her office has posted the band director's job description and several letters of inquiry have already been received.

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  • Council gives first OK to alcohol ordinance

    Restaurants that plan to serve alcohol in Campbellsville will be charged an 8 percent regulatory fee and will not be permitted to sell alcohol on Sundays.

    During its regular meeting Monday evening, Campbellsville City Council approved the first reading of an ordinance defining alcohol fees, establishing a local Alcoholic Beverage Control board and setting hours during which alcoholic beverages can be sold.

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  • Man arrested on trailer theft charges

    Police have arrested a Campbellsville man in connection with the theft of a flatbed trailer on July 9.

    According to a Campbellsville Police report, police responded to a report of the stolen trailer at 2:20 a.m. The 16-foot flatbed trailer was stolen from Fluortubing USA on Industrial Drive.

    Four minutes after responding to the call, police stopped a Jeep pulling the trailer on Vine Street. Police arrested the driver, Christopher G. Thompson, 33, of 314 Clem Haskins Blvd., and charged him with theft by unlawful taking more than $300. He was lodged in the Marion County jail.

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  • Turning wood into art

    Covered in sawdust, Greg Kirkland sets his sights on the bowl spinning on his lathe. With not even a moment's hesitation, he leans in with a gouge. Ribbons of wood and sawdust fill the air as patterns begin to emerge on the bowl.

    There's beauty in nature. And Kirkland's passion is finding that beauty. The key is not to make plans, Kirkland said. Instead, he follows the directions laid out in the wood's own design.

    "[The wood] kind of tells me what it wants," Kirkland said. "If you plan, it won't work. If you try to fight it, you'll lose."

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  • Some choose alternative to high gas prices

    An increasing number of motorists are switching from four wheels to two in an effort to minimize the pain at the pump. And Wayne Wells says he's having fun on two wheels.

    Wells said he rode a motorcycle about 30 years ago and only recently became interested in a moped after he saw a local attorney, the late Jim Miller, riding his around Campbellsville.

    "I bought my moped mainly for camping, but it has turned out that I ride it almost every day," Wells said.

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  • Chamber: Murakami named manufacturing business of the year

    In a slumping economy, when some manufacturers are plagued by dismal sales that result in worker lay-offs, one manufacturer in Campbellsville is happy to be adding additional equipment and new product lines.

    Murakami Manufacturing U.S.A. Inc., manufacturers of sideview mirrors for the automobile industry, was recently presented this year's Campbellsville/Taylor County Chamber of Commerce Manufacturing Business of the Year Award.

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  • Local girl tries to make it big in Chicago

    Campbellsville residents traveling to take in a little theater might just find themselves watching a fellow Taylor Countian perform.

    Eva Swan, a former Taylor County High School student, has spent the past five years living in Chicago pursuing her dream of becoming an actress.

    Swan, 26, the daughter of Dr. Terry and Cinda Swan, was born in Bowling Green but spent the majority of her youth in Campbellsville, attending Taylor County schools. She was involved in dance team and chorus throughout middle and high school.

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  • City receives Preserve America funds

    Campbellsville is among eight Preserve America communities in the Kentucky Crossroads Rural Heritage Development Initiative that will receive Preserve America grants to conduct cultural resource surveys, prepare nominations to the National Register of Historic Places and support heritage tourism projects.

    An umbrella grant totaling $80,000 was awarded to the Kentucky Heritage Council/State Historic Preservation Office to be made available to RHDI communities in an effort to raise awareness and promote historic assets in rural areas. Grant funds will be expended through July 2009.

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