Government

La Grange will negotiate with a man who purchased a home from the city as sold unlawfully by the city’s former mayor. 

In December, George Richard Hall, a public works employee, bought a city-owned home on the 400 block of First Avenue from former La Grange Mayor Elsie Carter.

La Grange City Council agreed Monday to have a uniform set of fines and penalties for city code violations.
City attorney Steve Emery said “law enforcement” requested a uniform set of rules, which would enable them to explain penalties more easily to offenders.
The specific penalties for each city code violation are:

Children who fly too high on the swings or slide too far from the slide at Wendell Moore Park will no longer land in a splintery heap of wood mulch.
Oldham County Parks and Recreation plans to funding from a state grant to install a new playground surface in one of the county’s most used parks.

Oldham County has lost a “gentleman’s gentleman” in Gilbert Winters, according to his colleagues.
Winters, who lived in La Grange and served a magistrate for 17 years, died Tuesday, April 12, 2011, at age 85.
He was a farmer and construction worker by trade, and served as a U.S. Marine in World War II.