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  • City plans 2-percent pay raise for full-time employees

    A 2-percent raise for full-time city employees and those who work at Campbellsville Water and Sewer Co. is included in the city’s 2013-2014 budget.

    Members had first reading of the budget at the City Council’s regular meeting on Monday.

    According to Campbellsville Mayor Tony Young, raises for city employees will cost about $90,000, and raises for water company staff members will cost about $26,000.

    Young said there will not be raises for the city’s part-time employees.

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  • Local company's products help care for exotic animals

     

    When Cox Shavings opened in 1998, general manager Jim Noe was prepared to serve the needs of horse farms, dairies and chicken farms scattered throughout Kentucky and surrounding states.

    He never expected the shavings produced in Campbellsville would one day line the dens of exotic animals such as lions, tigers and zebras. “I never dreamed that we’d be going into that,” Noe said.

    But that changed when Noe got a phone call from one of his regular dealers, Metzger’s Country Store in Simpsonville.

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  • Citizen Bank is Outstanding Chamber Investor

     

    The goal is to make money, but also to give it those in need.

    Citizens Bank and Trust Co. President Mark Johnson says his business wants to be a financial success, but also show that its employees care about those in the Taylor County community.

    And it’s the bank’s commitment to helping others that earned it this year’s Outstanding Chamber Investor award.

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  • TRH hosts Blessing of the Hands

     

    Holding out her hands, he places drops of oil on each and asks God to bless them.

    “The lives that they touch, may they be blessed,” he said, as they prayed together.

    Beside him, another clergy member asks for God’s blessings upon a nurse’s hands.

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  • Durham murder trial set for October

    Jesse Durham is now scheduled to face jurors in August and October.

    Durham, the Campbellsville man accused of killing his great-grandmother and assaulting a jail deputy while incarcerated, appeared in court on Tuesday for another hearing in his cases.

    Dressed in sweats and shackled with handcuffs and leg chains, Durham, 21, of 102 Eads St., appeared before Taylor Circuit Court Judge Allan Bertram for a hearing that lasted six minutes.

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  • A part of history

     

    Residents in Campbellsville will join thousands of individuals across the country to celebrate National Preservation Month this May. As part of the month’s celebration, Campbellsville Renaissance/Historic Preservation Commission has provided information about four historic buildings in Campbellsville.

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  • Public Record for May 6

    It is the policy of the Central Kentucky News-Journal to publish public records as they are reported by various agencies. Names appearing in "On the Record" are published without exception, to preserve the fairness and impartiality of the CKNJ and as a news service to our readers.

    Small Claims Settled

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  • Woman charged with selling meth after overdose

     

    A Campbellsville woman has been arrested and charged with making meth after another woman at her home overdosed.

    According to a Campbellsville Police report, officers responded, along with Campbellsville/Taylor County EMS personnel, last Wednesday to a call reporting a possible drug overdose at 207 E. Walnut St.

    The report states that EMS personnel found Lori Gardner unresponsive at the home. She was treated for drug ingestion.

    Officers Scotty Perian, Roy Rodgers and Bryon Simpson arrived at the home and began an investigation.

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  • Inmate charged with assaulting jail staff

     

    A Campbellsville man currently incarcerated at the Taylor County Detention Center has been charged with assaulting a jail staff member while in custody.

    John Kessinger, 55, of 1356 Saloma Road, was charged last Monday at 12:30 p.m.

    According to Kessinger's arrest warrant, he allegedly injured Sgt. William Milby when charging out of his jail cell on April 14.

    Kessinger is being incarcerated on a theft charge.

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  • Resident runs from police, charged with selling drugs

     

    A Campbellsville man has been arrested and charged with selling drugs after he allegedly ran from police when they attempted to serve an outstanding warrant for his arrest.

    On Friday, April 26, Campbellsville Police Officer Branden Wilson stopped Johnathan J. Gurley, 25, for driving on a suspended driver's license.

    Court records state that after Gurley stopped his vehicle, he exited the vehicle and ran away. After a short pursuit, Wilson and Campbellsville Police Officer Roy Rodgers apprehended Gurley.

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