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Taylor County Cattlemen's Association will accept applications for the County Agricultural Investment Program beginning Monday, April 22, at Taylor County Extension Office.

Applications will be accepted through Friday, May 3, during regular business hours from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Investment areas are agricultural, diversification, large and small animals, farm infrastructure, fencing and on-farm water, forage and grain improvement, on-farm energy, poultry and other fowl, technology and leadership development and marketing.

It will soon be cool again at the Taylor County Courthouse.

On Monday, magistrates agreed to replace the courthouse's air conditioning chiller for about $50,000.

The chiller, which is used to cool water, began leaking a few weeks ago, Taylor County Judge/Executive Eddie Rogers said. The chiller hasn't worked since.

During Tuesday's meeting, magistrates heard proposals to fix the air conditioning system from Carrier, the company the county currently contracts with to provide maintenance on the system, and Perfection Group.

Campbellsville/Taylor County Chamber of Commerce will host its annual banquet on Thursday, April 25, at Campbellsville University’s banquet hall.

A reception is planned for 6 p.m. and the dinner will start at 7.

Guest speaker is Kentucky Secretary of State Allison Lundergan Grimes.

The chamber’s annual awards will also be presented to local educators, residents and businesses.

Tickets are $25 and reservations are required.

When they come back after summer break, most students in the Campbellsville School District will head to different classrooms, in different buildings.

And work to make sure those buildings are ready is already under way, with the effort to kick into high gear in a couple weeks.

In February, Campbellsville Board of Education members gave their approval to reconfigure the district’s school buildings for the 2013-2014 school year, which will begin in August.