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  • Woman with Trimble ties injured in crash

    Patricia Harden, daughter of Trimble County Circuit Court Clerk Theresa Edwards, is recovering at her home in Madison following a horrifying, two-vehicle traffic accident last week.

    According to a news release from Jefferson County (Ind.) Sheriff John Wallace, officers from his department responded to the intersection of U.S. 421 and Highway 62 on Madison’s hilltop at 10:41 a.m. on Thursday, May 31.

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  • EPA weighs in on LG&E

    A recent letter from Region 4 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has weighed in on several aspects of a proposed landfill project at LG&E’s Trimble County Generating Plant, located at Wise’s Landing on the Ohio River.

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  • Stevens to resign

    Trimble County Judge-Executive Randy Stevens has announced his resignation from that office to accept the position of Executive Director of the Kentucky Council of Area Development Districts. The resignation will be effective in early August when Stevens begins his new role.

    “It’s with a mixed bag of emotions that I have come to this decision,” Stevens said Friday. He had informed the members of Trimble County Fiscal Court during a public hearing concerning road use funds on Friday morning.

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  • Two-year-old dies after being struck by car

    Trimble County residents, members of the law enforcement community and emergency responders are overcome with grief following the death of a two-year-old child who was struck by a car in Bedford on Thursday.

    Kloie Garcia had been with her family at a yard sale in front of their home on Highway 421 North in Bedford, law enforcement authorities said.

    Troopers from Kentucky State Police Post 5 in Campbellsburg responded to the call at 11:06 a.m., according to Trooper Brad Arterburn, who is leading the ongoing investigation.

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  • Beach joins Trimble Banner staff as intern

    STAFF REPORT

    Carroll County native Sarah Beach has joined the staff at The Trimble Banner as a summer intern.

    Beach, a 2011 Carroll County High School graduate, just completed her freshman year at Western Kentucky University where she is a communications studies major. At CCHS, she played tennis and soccer and was student body president, as well as a member of the academic team.

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  • Former Trimble resident promoted to Sgt. Major in Kentucky National Guard

    By SARAH BEACH
    Trimble Banner Intern

    Sgt. Maj. Pat Copas knows the importance of family.

    As the first member of her family to join the Kentucky National Guard in 1981, she influenced her two sisters, Tammy Long and Edith Bledsoe, to join two weeks afterward.

    Now, more than 31 years later, she has achieved the rank of sergeant major — one of the most elite positions in the Guard. Copas achieved this position Feb. 11, 2011.

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  • New TCHS Principal Adams pays a visit

    New principal Rachael Adams was in Bedford on Tuesday to meet the faculty and staff, as well as other district administrators for lunch.

    Adams comes to TCHS after serving as assistant principal at Edmonson County High School in Brownsville, Ky., where she was in charge of curriculum and instruction. Previously, she taught biology, anatomy, physiology, zoology and other science classes at Greenwood High School in Bowling Green, Ky.

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  • Bruner elected county’s Circuit Court clerk

    Stacy M. Bruner will be the county’s next Circuit Court Clerk.

    Bruner beat her opponent, John C. Edwards, by a 654-425 margin in the Primary Election on Tuesday, May 22. She carried all but two of the 12 precincts. With no Republican candidate in the race, Bruner will be unopposed in the General Election on Nov. 6.

    The Bruner/Edwards matchup was the only county office on the ballot this time around.

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  • Fiscal Court holds first reading of budget

    The members of the Trimble County Fiscal Court on Monday held a first reading of the proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2012-2013. The summary of appropriations and expenditures amounts to nearly $3.3 million.

    The General Fund, projected at $2 million, includes appropriations and expenditures of $660,742 for general government operations, $358,775 for protection of persons and property, $121,280 for general health and sanitation among others.

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