Local News

The consensus of several visitors in attendance at Monday’s meeting of Trimble County Fiscal Court was that Judge-Executive Jerry Powell and magistrates, Stephen Stark, Nolan Hamilton Jr., Kirby Melvin and David Scott should find ways to cut the budget rather than implement a tax on insurance companies for the privilege of doing business in the county.

Another popular idea among those who chose to address the government body was to implement an occupational tax on persons working in Trimble County.

Thomas Shay took more than a casual interest in Julie Ball Hambrick’s story about her hunt for Bigfoot in last week’s issue of The Trimble Banner. The 49-year-old Trimble resident is himself an investigator affiliated with the Kentucky Bigfoot Research Organization and has been researching unexplained, elusive creatures since 1987.

The potential hefty price rise predicted recently for milk will not occur anytime soon, according to local and statewide dairy leaders.

The average gallon of milk costs about $3, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. Recently, national media outlets had predicted a fear of prices as high as $7 per gallon due to issues related to a farm bill that was tied into the “Fiscal Cliff” in Washington.

The new cheery voice answering the telephone at The Trimble Banner office belongs to Carla Kidwell, who began her new duties last week as Office Manager at this newspaper. Carla is the new face at the front desk following the recent retirement of Hilda Parrish.