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  • Heroin subject of tonight’s event hosted by Oldham coalition
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  • Kentucky State Police plan checkpoints

    The Kentucky State Police will be conducting traffic safety checkpoints in the counties of Oldham, Trimble, Henry, Owen, Carroll and Gallatin during the period of March 10 - 24, 2014.
    The intent of a traffic safety checkpoint is to provide for high visibility public safety service, focusing on vehicular equipment deficiencies, confirming appropriate registration of vehicles and the licensing of drivers. Violations of law or other public safety issues that arise shall be addressed in accordance with Kentucky traffic and regulatory laws.
     

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  • Hornback bill SB7 signed by Beshear

    On Thursday, Feb. 26, Governor Steve Beshear ceremonially signed into law Senate Bill 7, which will expand the prescribing authority of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses. The bill creates a Collaborative Prescribing Agreement Joint Advisory Committee that will oversee a program to allow APRNs to collaborate with practicing physicians to prescribe non-scheduled legend drugs.

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  • Community support needed to pass bond issue for new campus

    A historic bond issue currently before the Kentucky General Assembly could help fund the proposed new Carrollton Campus for Jefferson Community and Technical College.
    The Kentucky Community and Technical College System and Kentucky Gov. Beshear worked together to create the “KCTCS BuildSmart Investment for Kentucky Competitiveness.”
    This public-private partnership initiative will use agency bonds in concert with local communities and employers to finance critical projects at KCTCS colleges across Kentucky.

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  • Farm Bureau members going to Washington

    Louisville, KY -- Equipped with national priority issues established during their annual meeting in December, 185 Kentucky Farm Bureau volunteer leaders are heading to the nation’s capitol during the last week of February. The group has scheduled a series of strategic discussions with Kentucky’s Congressional Delegation to examine issues facing agriculture in the Commonwealth.

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  • Chemotherapy now available at Baptist Health in La Grange

    After an absence of several years, cancer patients in the La Grange area will once again have the option of receiving their chemotherapy close to home.
    On Feb. 18, Baptist Health La Grange and the CBC Group: Consulting in Blood Disorders, opened a six-chair chemotherapy treatment area on the second floor of the Physician Office Building.
    This is the second outpatient chemo treatment area for the practice, which is part of Baptist Medical Associates. Treatment is also offered on the 3Park cancer care unit at Baptist Health Louisville campus.

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  • KSP to conduct checkpoints

    The Kentucky State Police will be conducting traffic safety checkpoints in the counties of Oldham, Trimble, Henry, Owen, Carroll and Gallatin during the period of Feb. 24 - March 10, 2014.
    The intent of a traffic safety checkpoint is to provide for high visibility public safety service, focusing on vehicular equipment deficiencies, confirming appropriate registration of vehicles and the licensing of drivers. Violations of law or other public safety issues that arise shall be addressed in accordance with Kentucky traffic and regulatory laws.
     

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  • CCMH welcomes new surgeon

    By JEFF MOORE
    The News-Democrat
    The first day on the job at Carroll County Memorial Hospital was a busy one for Dr. Farooq Mirza.
    Not only was he busy getting settled into his new offices, he also performed two of surgeries and consulted on another that he scheduled for next week.
    Mirza joined the team at CCMH Monday as the new full-time surgeon. Educated at Yale University and the University of Cincinnati, he is a board certified general surgeon.

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  • KDH hosts Diabetes Awareness event

    MADISON, Ind. - The King’s Daughters’ Health Diabetes Care Center will host a free diabetes Awareness Event at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 7 in the Oak Rooms of the KDH Conference Center, located on the basement level of the facility. Diabetes patients, their family members or friends and anyone wanting to learn more about diabetes is encouraged to attend. Please contact Debbie Cross 812-801-0611 to reserve a seat.

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  • State property tax to remain unchanged

    FRANKFORT,  Ky –  The Kentucky Department of Revenue has set the 2013 State Real Property Tax Rate at 12.2 cents per $100 of assessed value.  Kentucky Revised Statute 132.020 requires the Department of Revenue to set the real property rate no later than July 1 of each year.

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