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Today's Opinions

  • Community improvements

     

    Tony Young

    Campbellsville Mayor

    When I was a young boy, my father would drive around the block three or four times downtown to find a parking space. There wasn’t a vacant store in downtown at that time. After shopping centers and strip malls became popular, our downtown stores began to move to those areas. But recent efforts to revitalize downtown have reversed that trend.

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  • Payroll taxes good for employee raises

    I was glad to hear that city and county employees will receive their raises next year. If they hadn’t, I would have been curious as to why not, as I am paying not one, but two payroll taxes, to the city and county. I would have wondered where all the money was going.

    I have not had a raise in three years, and I have friends who haven’t (had one) in four or more. It’s a tough economy, you know, and I certainly appreciate the city and county employees who serve us so well. So all those who are blessed to get pay raises should be thankful.

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  • Golf scramble sponsors thanked

    The Hiestand House-Taylor County Museum Board of Directors would like to thank Mike Kehoe, the Campbellsville Country Club and the teams of golfers for a successful golf scramble experience on June 22.

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  • Campbellsville needs its residents to be leaders, dreamers

    Campbellsville is a good city that is quickly on its way to becoming great. Main Street is being resurrected right before our eyes. Every time a broken thing gets mended, every time a brick gets put back into place, every light that gets turned back on brings a new level of hope, and hope is the spark that ignites fires.

    In the past couple of years, a great deal of momentum has been achieved but we are nowhere near critical mass.

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  • Clean up litter in Taylor County

    As children, how many of us were not taught to pick up after ourselves, to clean up our surroundings and to take pride in completion of the tasks?

    Many evenings lately I have been taking my dog, Macie, for walks on my neighborhood streets. As we walk, I am repeatedly shocked by the amount of litter that is thrown onto the streets and curbs. Water bottles, soft drink cans, fast food wrappers and cigarette packages are the most common items. I have expressed my concerns about this mess to many, and the common response is that people simply do not care.

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  • Recipient gives thanks to Impact Taylor County

    What [the members and volunteers of Impact Taylor County] did for the people of this area was a blessing. I love my door and knowing the floor is fixed where the rain had come in. This [letter] can’t express enough for what this means to me.

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  • Use caution with fireworks during drought

    Weeks without a good rain and days of 100-plus degree temperatures have left Taylor County and many others in Kentucky parched.

    Still, as of the writing of this editorial on Monday, Taylor County is not under a burn ban and the county’s annual fireworks display is still scheduled to go on as usual. Many residents will also take the opportunity to enjoy their own fireworks displays at home.
    While it’s legal to use a wide array of fireworks, even in these dry conditions, that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

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  • June a hot, busy month

     

    Eddie Rogers

    Taylor County Judge/Executive

    This past June has been an unseasonably hot and dry month. Due to the extremely dry conditions, we have to be very careful during this time.  I have talked with the Division of Forestry and, if needed, we would announce a burn ban.

    I always go along with the recommendations from the governor’s office on issues such as this.

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