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On Dec. 1, New Castle’s Main Street manager and Locker building champion, Jeff Thoke’s words were Christmas music to the commission’s ears. “We’ve completed all 21 items to finish the project,” he said.

Volunteer workers completed required railings, a handicapped accessible ramp, lighted doors with panic bars, stairs, venting and heat for the bathroom, according to Thoke. “It looks really nice,” he said. “We accomplished everything.”

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Marla Armstrong looks differently at the familiar sight of the Eminence Cemetery when she drives past on her way to run errands and visit friends.

Marla and Bill Armstrong, an interracial couple and lifelong Eminence residents, have been married almost 40 years.

Bill Armstrong’s mother and several sisters are buried in the Eminence Cemetery, but the Armstrong’s 12-year old granddaughter shocked Marla Armstrong with a recent declaration. 

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In a now official recession, few agencies will be immune to budget cuts.

That includes Henry County Public Schools, whose board of education met Tuesday night to discuss budget cuts in a special called meeting.

HCPS Superintendent Tim Abrams said Kentucky Commissioner of Education John Draud asked superintendents through-

out the state to determine how a four percent reduction in state funding would affect their districts.

“It’s very frightening,” Abrams said.

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Two months to the day after it sent a letter to the City of Eminence to investigate the city’s pool repair fund, the Kentucky State Auditor of Public Accounts has closed its investigation.

The initial letter, sent Sept. 19, asked the city to provide an accounting of the fund after the auditor’s office received a letter which alleged that the city refused to return donations after voting not to proceed with the project.