Local News

Farmers Deposit Bank of Eminence may be merging with Citizens Deposit Bank of Vanceburg, Ky.

The Vanceburg bank has filed an application with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for consent to merge with Farmers and with Ohio River Bank, based in Ironton, Ohio.

Neither FDB President Carroll Yates nor Michael Mineer, chief executive officer of Citizens Deposit, were available for comment on the merger on Tuesday.

Staffing changes at The Henry County Local mean some new faces joining the 155-year-old community newspaper, and in one case a new title.

Jonna Spelbring Priester was promoted in January to publisher of The Henry County Local after five years as editor and general manager.

Priester joined the Local in 2007 after working nearly five years at McLean County News, including a year and a half as managing editor. She maintains that her title is all that has changed — her duties and responsibilities remain the same as when she was general manager.

Tony Walker is a man under pressure.

The Bedford resident, who owns TW Concrete, was hired by Trimble County Fiscal Court in January to build a new animal shelter, which will be shared by Trimble and Henry counties. His deadline of July 1 is coming up fast.

Walker said concrete and masonry contracts were approved during a special Fiscal Court meeting Friday, March 2. At the end of the meeting, the plan was to begin “moving dirt” to prepare the site, located across the road from Valley View Landfill, on Monday, March 5.

Bandwidth – or, rather, the lack of it – is the root of what’s ailing the free wireless Internet system being provided by the City of Campbellsburg.

That was the diagnosis given Monday to City Council by Brent Graves of PoweredOn in Carrollton, who was hired more than a year ago to set up the system meant to provide city residents with free wireless Internet access.