Local News

By SHARON GRAVES

The News-Democrat

Carroll County will receive a $63,000 grant from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security for improvements to the county’s 911 system.

Randy Tharp, the county’s 911 supervisor and Carrollton’s fire chief, said the funds will be used to replace the system’s telephone controller. Installed with the rest of the system in 1994, Tharp said the controller is becoming obsolete.

Acting responsibly with the earth’s resources was the focus of a dinner held Thursday by the Carroll County Conservation District.

The event was the group’s  annual cooperator’s meeting, with guest speaker Ray Adams, a familiar voice from WHAS Radio with the farm reports with Barney Arnold.

Adams, who also works on the state conservation board,  treated the audience to several stories about life in general, but conservation in particular.

Kentucky State Police are investigating claims that additional men may have fallen victim to a “companionship” scam allegedly committed by a Milton couple.

Angela M. True, 32, and her husband, George Michael True, 33, were arrested in September and charged with felony theft after a Shepherdsville, Ky., man claimed the pair scammed him out of more than $200,000.

The victim told police he met Angela True in early 2008. Eventually, he said, True propsed marriage to him, at which time he divorced his wife to be with her.

The new automated calling system for the Carroll County School District passed it’s trial run Oct. 17, according to Superintendent Lisa James, except for “a few glitches with work numbers.”

The system dialed numbers from the district’s database of student home phone numbers; recipients received a message informing them that the call was a test.

The system will be used to warn parents, guardians and students of emergency conditions and unscheduled school closings caused by inclement weather or other situations, James said.