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  • The hunt for great food gets easier with Buy Local

    FRANKFORT — Kentucky Proud has unveiled Buy Local, a new program intended to encourage restaurants and other food service businesses to purchase locally produced food products, Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles has announced.

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  • Rusty Williams, My Old Confederate Home: A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans
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  • AG partnering with Council of Churches to stop child abuse, senior scams

    FRANKFORT, KY. – Attorney General Andy Beshear and the Kentucky Council of Churches have announced a statewide partnership to prevent child abuse and scams targeting seniors.
    With the collaboration, the council will provide warning signs of child abuse and scam prevention information to its 1,100 member churches statewide.
    Beshear and the Council share a common mission — to better protect some of the state’s most vulnerable populations: children and seniors.

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  • Kinman pleads guilty, resigns

    By KRISTIN BECK
    The News-Democrat

    Carroll County Sheriff Jamie Kinman pled guilty Monday, April 3, to five felony indictments, three misdemeanor indictments and three malfeasance violations and resigned his position as sheriff.

    He accepted a plea agreement that requires him to successfully complete a one-year residential substance abuse treatment program at Canaan Land Ministries in Autaugaville, Ala., and complete a five-year pre-trial diversion program.

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  • Newspapers in neighboring Carroll have been numerous

    EDITOR’S NOTE: Our sister newspaper, The News-Democrat at Carrollton, is entering its 150th year of publication. The following is a review of the numerous newspapers that have been in business in our neighboring county down through the years.

    By DAVE TAYLOR
    Landmark News Service

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  • Easter buffet, events planned at Kentucky State Resort Parks

    FRANKFORT, Ky. – Make plans to bring your family to a Kentucky State Resort Park for the annual Easter buffet on April 16 for a great meal.
    The menu at the resort park restaurants includes roast beef carved on the line; baked country ham; catfish and hushpuppies; and a chef’s favorite entree selection. The meal will also include fresh fruit, a cheese bar, garden vegetables, salad and desserts.

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  • Confederate veterans home event planned

    Staff Report

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  • State park campgrounds open tomorrow

    FRANKFORT, Ky. -- If you’re planning to enjoy the outdoors this year and go camping, make sure to try out a Kentucky State Park campground.
     The parks have 30 campgrounds across the state. To help kickoff the camping season, the state parks will hold its annual “Camper Appreciation Weekend” on April 28-30, when campers can get two nights for the price of one.

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  • Carroll sheriff arrested on felony charges

    By KRISTIN BECK
    Landmark News Service
    Carroll County Sheriff Jamie Kinman was arrested March 22, and charged with two counts of first-degree burglary, a class B felony, and two counts of theft by unlawful taking-controlled substance, and class D felony.
    Circuit Court Judge R. Leslie Knight issued a warrant for Kinman’s arrest on March 20.
    Kentucky State Police Det. Josh Noble arrested Kinman at 11:50 a.m. March 22, at the Grant County courthouse in Williamstown, according to the citation.

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  • Quarles participates in natl ag summit on Farm Bill

    WASHINGTON — Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles said Monday that industry and government leaders must do more to attract young people to careers in agriculture.
    “We must do all we can to make farming attractive to young people so our country can continue to produce and export agricultural products to sustain us at home and to export around the world,” Commissioner Quarles said at the Agri-Pulse Farm Bill Summit at the National Press Club.

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