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  • Restaurant adds a new flavor to La Grange

    On a scale of one to 100, the owner of La Grange's newest restaurant hopes customers will give it a 119.

    One Nineteen West Main opened the day before Thanksgiving and already has some regulars, said owner Jason Kinser.

    The menu is "American and new Southern," Kinser said, with items like a Kentucky "Haute" Brown, a catfish reuben sandwich, fried pickled okra and a black-and-bleu burger.

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  • Task Force ‘like a boat without a rudder’

    After three meetings, members of the Fire and EMS Task Force remain unsure of their purpose.

    “We’re like a boat without a rudder,” said committee member Albert Harrison. 

    Judge-Executive David Voegele formed the committee in July and tasked members with determining if the current fire and EMS models are the most effective and efficient.

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  • Inmate labor fuels county government

    They’re behind the scenes, staffing the recycling center, cutting grass and stringing Christmas lights. They’re polite, hardworking and hard to miss in their orange shirts.

    These county jail inmates do a lot of work around Oldham County as part of the jail’s work detail program. Inmates logged more than 29,700 hours of work from January to August this year.

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  • Golf course could serve alcohol as early as this spring

    Golfers should be able enjoy a cold one this spring at Eagle Creek Golf Course.

    Members of La Grange City Council voted Monday night to approve the golf course to begin the process to obtain a license for alcohol sales.

    City officials hope the alcohol sales will increase revenue at the city-owned golf course.

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  • Superintendent boots Urban from school district committee

    An outspoken member of the school district’s Local Planning Committee will not be invited back next year.

    Jim Urban, director of Planning and Development, received an email from Superintendent Paul Upchurch that the district appreciates his time on the committee and his service is now complete. 

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  • Fire, EMS crews rally around Henry Co. family

    The Whittaker family is used to helping others, but after a devastating house fire after Thanksgiving, the tables have turned.

    The fire started around 1 a.m. Nov. 27 at the family’s home on Hickory Lane in Henry County near the county line. 

    Homeowner Ed Whittaker, an EMT for Oldham and Henry County EMS and a firefighter for the Campbellsburg Fire Department, credits his family’s pets for alerting the family to the fire. 

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  • Portion of I-71 in Buckner closed through Sunday

    Northbound Interstate 71 in Oldham County will be reduced to one lane tonight and continuing through the weekend.

    Crews from the state transportation cabinet will be working at the bridge over Ky. 393 (mile point 18.5) near Buckner to allow for expansion joint replacement.

    Lane closures are scheduled for the next two weekends. 

    The right lane will be closed from 7 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Monday.

    The left lane will be closed from 7 p.m. Dec. 9 until 5  a.m. Dec. 12.

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  • Case against former La Grange mayor continues

    La Grange city officials filed a motion Dec. 1 for a judge to reverse his decision in their case against a former mayor.

    City officials claim Elsie Carter, whose term ended last December, left office with more than $4,500 in city property. 

    City Attorney Steve Emery requested default judgement after Carter failed respond within 20 days to a May court order. Carter filed a response several days after the deadline.

    But Oldham Circuit Court Special Judge Bailey Taylor denied default judgement and called the May court order ambiguous. 

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  • Reading plan targets first-graders

    Changing the lives of students struggling to read is the focus of a new program at Oldham County schools.

    The district added the Reading Recovery partnership this fall, a short-term intervention program for first-grade students struggling to read. The program is used in more than 80 Kentucky school districts.

    The program pairs students one-on-one with a Reading Recovery teacher for 30 minutes a day for 12 weeks. 

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  • La Grange parent named to school board

    A new member joined the Oldham County Board of Education at Monday night’s meeting.

    Anne Coorssen, the district’s general counsel, swore in Jennifer Beckner to finish the division five term vacated by former board member Jennifer Jones in September. 

    Beckner, a former PTA president at La Grange Elementary, has a bachelor’s degree in counseling and rehabilitation and has worked for an adoption agency, youth homeless shelter and day care.

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