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In a 5-1 vote, the Henry County Fiscal Court voted last week to leave garbage rates as they are — $19 — for county residents.

For the last three years, the court has voted to absorb the price increases — which are set in the county contract with Rumpke — in an effort to prevent price increases on residents.

Eminence Mayor Drane Stephens announced last week that the city will receive a $42,000 matching grant from the state for a proposed splash pad water park.

In April, the Eminence City Council applied for a Land and Water grant which would fund a water recreation area at the park. City officials are uncertain as to when they will be given the grant, but Stephens said in the meeting that the governor wanted to deliver him the check personally.

As New Castle Public Works Director Scot Treece led a group of eighth grade students around the first lagoon at the waste water treatment plant, he pointed to garbage along the lagoon’s edge.

“This is why you don’t flush certain things,” he said. “They end up here.”

On the lagoon’s edge? A few toy cars. But mostly? It was plastic tampon applicators. Dozens, hundreds of them. Treece told the group he once found a dog leash.

Miranda Cisneros received her greatest compliment in the form of a rejection.

The Henry County High School senior performs as Hermia in the high school’s production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by William Shakespeare. The play opens at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29.

Henry County High School and Middle School Vocal Music and Theater Director Russell Cooper didn’t cast Cisneros as Dorothy in the high school’s production of the Wizard of Oz and the experience has made her a better actress.