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Fassio doesn’t ask why

Lt. Col. Mark Fassio didn’t feel sorry for himself when, on his birthday in 2012, he learned he had a rare form of cancer.

Fassio — in a demeanor usual to those who know him — never asked why, but why not?

Diagnosis

In May 2012, Fassio went to Baptist Hospital Northeast in La Grange due to rectal bleeding. Physicians thought Fassio had an inflamed bowel and that an ulcer caused the bleeding and sent him home.

Bucket List for Bonnie

Bonnie Lynn overcame doctors’ expectations when as a child she learned to walk and talk. Now, Lynn hopes to fulfill the expectations of her bucket list and she’s almost halfway there.

Lynn was born with fluid on her brain. Physicians’ didn’t have a positive outlook for Lynn, expecting her to have a life of complications due to her developmental disability similar to Down syndrome.

Lose the macho on Father’s Day

By Joe Yates

Even at dusk it was still a bit muggy, and when you looked way down Main Street toward the old school, the air above the pavement shimmered. But the heat of the day was dissipating, becoming bearable again, and the youngster — say about 14 — leaned back against one of the cast iron columns buttressing the storefront of the New Castle Pool Hall, and lit a cigarette. Life was good, and although the kid wasn’t old enough to understand a notion of this sort, he did not have a care in the world.

Sisters seek shoppers somewhere...

Two sisters from Smithfield have a dream not just for their business, but the entire shopping district of Eminence.

Roberta (Morgan) Blakemore and Bonnie (Morgan) Martin never thought in their retirement they would be running the Somewhere in Tyme  store.

Blakemore and her husband purchased the old five-and-ten store and the building that housed the Eminence Theater on South Main Street. The couple repainted the store and filled the space with vendors.

Boy dies in ATV wreck

An 11-year-old Henry County boy died Thursday, June 6, in an apparent ATV crash.
Henry County Coroner Jimmy Pollard declared Dylan Thurman of Pleasureville dead at the scene.
Preliminary results of the investigation indicated Thurman was operating the ATV on his family’s farm when he crashed and was ejected from the vehicle.
Kentucky State Police Detective Tim Moore is leading the investigation. Henry County EMS and the Henry County Sheriff’s Office assisted at the scene.

Kentucky Renaissance Faire keeps...

The Kentucky Renaissance Faire offers new and staple attractions including a gypsy encampment; a Guinness World Record breaking juggler/fire breather and a royal court jester show for all the lords and ladies in your family.

The Pickled Brothers Circus show will keep the crowds and crown mesmerized with circus stunts involving the fire eating and breathing brothers Travis Fessler and Erik Kloeker. Travis Fessler formed the troupe and they along with Fessler’s wife, Susan Fessler, have performed on the Tonight Show and appeared on Guinness World Records.

Take 5 Pete Raymer

Basic bio

Born in Middletown in 1922.

Attended school in Smithfield and New Castle.

WWII veteran; served in the U.S. Army’s Coastal Artillery at Miami Beach and the Philippines.

How did you end up in Henry County?

Public Record for the week of...

Marriages

Christina Sanford,20, Sulphur, to Anthony Snook, 26, Sulphur.

Leah Christian, 21,Campbellsburg to Michael Butts Jr., 20, Campbellsburg.

Divorces

Leslie Todd Rankin, 43, Pleasureville, and Jennifer Hammon, 39, Campbellsburg.

Adam Taylor, 23, Shelbyville, and Terri Bastin, 22, Campbellsburg.

Documentary to air on KET...

Henry County native Joe Guthrie whose work with Carlton Ward and other conservationists attempting to raise awareness for the need to create a wildlife corridor in Florida was featured in the Henry County Local last summer will have a  documentary on the issue aired by KET Channel 68 (Insight Cable Channel 15) on at 5 p.m. June 23, and 4 p.m. June 27.
The documentary follows the expedition that Guthrie and others took from the southern tip of Florida to the northern border with Georgia to highlight the dangers of development to Florida’s unique wildlife.

Water rates to increase in New...

New  Castle residents will notice a rise not just in the temperature in July, but in their water and sewer bills beginning July 15.
The New Castle City Commission approved the second reading of the rate increase June 3. The new minimum water bill will increase from $23.72 to $26.08 per 2,000 gallons or less a month. The new water rate will apply in increments of 100 gallons or less after the minimum rate.