Editor's Desk

High school plays, I remember them well.

Some of my most memorable moments from the old halls of Trimble revolve around the dramas presented by the junior and senior classes from days of yore.

There were a number of great productions directed by the husband and wife team James and Martha Quisenberry in the mid-1960s in old McCain Auditorium. After the Quisenberry’s left Trimble after the 1965-66 school year, Carl Rucker and Nina Coffin stepped in to direct several productions through the end of my high school days.

Saturday’s annual gathering of the alumni of Trimble County’s schools was somewhat disappointing for alumni banquet organizers.

Don’t get me wrong. The meal prepared by the Trimble County school corporation’s cafeteria staff was nothing short of excellent. The fellowship of those in attendance was enthusiastic and cheerful. The Bedford Elementary School cafeteria facility provides an outstanding venue for revelers from school days past.

What was missing? You!

First of all, I am not a Trimble County native.
I was hatched in a small hospital in the tiny, hospitable hamlet of Milan in Ripley County, Ind. Two years after Milan recovered from my birth tiny Milan High School won the Indiana high school basketball state championship. Yep, the same burr-headed Milan Indians that the movie “Hoosiers” was based on went to school with my older siblings. My brother still maintains contact with several of the former players these many years later.

Animal control can be a large expense to county and metropolitan taxpayers, and there is one central reason why: irresponsible pet ownership.
Basically, overcrowded animal shelters and overwhelmed animal welfare groups are cleaning up messes made by people who refuse to do the right thing when it comes to their pets. Trust me, I know exactly how expensive this can be.
Over the past eight years or so, Trimble and Henry counties had been paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Kentucky Humane Society to handle local animal control.