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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.

It’s no joke: On April 1, Steve Frommeyer will retire as principal at Eminence High School and Middle School.

In an interview Monday, Frommeyer said the decision to leave the post after 22 years ranks as one of the most difficult decisions of his life.

The toughest, he said, was the decision to move away from Richmond, Ky., where he had earned a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree at Eastern Kentucky University, and where he met and married his wife, Jenifer.

Technology in the classroom can be a double-edged sword. It obviously has its merits, as the number of ways to use computers in schools has increased exponentially in just a few short years.

But it also can be distracting. More and more students have their own cell phones, and most of these devices can do so much more than just allow phone calls. Games, music and Internet access anytime, anywhere, can prove to be too tempting for students to ignore.