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Lined
up
• Companies camped out to buy tax bills from
County Clerk's office
By: JESSICA
SINGLETON
For over 24 hours, the sidewalk outside the Owen County Clerk’s
Office played host to some unexpected visitors.
Representatives from the Kentucky Property Tax Service lined up
a day early for Thursday’s delinquent property tax bill sale.
They wanted to make absolutely certain that they would be first
in line to buy the bills.
One of the two camped-out employees, who did not wish to be named,
said they line up a day early for tax sales across the state.
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Open
burning banned
By: JESSICA
SINGLETON
In the past six months, Owen County has experienced an increase
in illegal burning of demolition and construction debris.
Judge-Executive Billy O’Banion said many people are not aware
that this type of an open-burn is illegal.
He said the Kentucky Division of Air Quality is very clear about
what qualifies as an illegal burn.
Illegal open burning includes barns, hay, construction materials,
household garbage, wood materials, tires, used oil and industrial
waste. Legal burns include camp fires and cooking fires.
Violators could be fined up to $25,000 per day per violation of
the burn ban.
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Survey
grades public
health
programs
By: JESSICA
SINGLETON
Owen County
has received its public health report card.
The National Public Health Performance Standards Program (NPHPSP)
released the results of a survey taken on Jan. 23. It analyzed the
overall public health system of Owen County.
Melody Stafford is a health-planner for the Three Rivers District
Health Department. Community members who participated in January
gathered to hear the results on Wednesday. Stafford said the survey
was not limited to the health department, but considered all aspects
of public health.
“We are in this together,” she said. “I am just
a facilitator.”
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The
effects of driving impaired
• Mock crash at OCHS demonstrates
the possible consequences of driving
under
the influence
By: LAURA
HAGAN
Three teenagers lay eerily still. Three more are still inside the
mangled remains of two cars.
The accident is called in, and then, the sirens begin.
This was the scene on the Owen County High School’s football
field Thursday afternoon. Though it looked real, it wasn’t.
Students Against Drunk Driving – along with Owenton and Owen
County Fire Departments, Owen County Search and Rescue, McDonald
& New Funeral Homes, Owenton Police and the Owen County Sheriff’s
Department – staged the crash to show OCHS students the dangerous
consequences of drinking and driving.
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