Government

The La Grange skate park coffer may be empty, but local causes will benefit from three hefty donations made at the end of the 2010.
Before her term as mayor of La Grange expired Jan. 3, Elsie Carter cleaned out the city’s skate park account. The account contained $12,738 before she selected three agencies to benefit from the funds on Dec. 28.

The chair of the county’s Republican Party is under fire and a local official has requested she be removed from office.
Pewee Valley resident JD Sparks, a Republican recently elected to serve as an Oldham County magistrate, has requested that Oldham County GOP Chair Anne Gernstein be removed from office.

Former La Grange City Council member Jason Taylor was appointed Monday night to replace Wally Nay.
Nay announced his resignation Jan. 28, and cited an ischemic stroke as his reason for stepping down.

A report issued Feb. 7 by the Kentucky Department of Highways states that the traffic count on Pewee Valley’s Central Avenue railroad crossing is closer to 10,000 vehicles per day, rather than a previously reported count of 900 cars per day.