ASHLAND —
Fairview board tries to block vote
The Fairview Board of Education is seeking an injunction to invalidate the petitions signed by community residents calling for a vote on the utility tax. Board members are tying to make it sound like this is “normal procedure” but when have you ever heard of this before?
I am saddened that these people are so desperate that they will try to undermine the will of the people. They are using taxpayers’ money to take away the people’s right to petition for a vote.
Citizens don’t have the funds to hire lawyers to protect their rights. These heavy-handed tactics intimidate people from believing that they can call for a recall vote on taxes. They have used the residents’ own money to try to strip us of our rights.
I hope people will see this for what it really is and stand against it. Let everyone you know that your voting rights are being assaulted. I truly believe that our judicial system will allow the voice of the voters to be heard and that people’s rights will be preserved.
All the citizens of his community want is the right to vote on what taxes we have to pay.
Bill Coburn, Ashland
Blazer ’63 class seeks classmates
The Paul G. Blazer High School Class of 1963 is planning its 50th reunion for this fall. We are trying to find information on the following classmates. If you can supply any information for these people, please call Ken Smith at (606) 571-3861 or Sheila Kerns Thornbury at (606) 585-7407.
Missing members are:
Una Carol Akers, Mary Katherine Ball-Castle, Katherine Lee Bandy, Diann Mary Barnett-Moore, Curtis Bryan, John Wayne Carroll, George H. Clark, Virgil Michael Conley, Michael Dawson, William Michael Duncan and Kenneth Russell Earley.
Marie Oakley French, Michael Wallace Fugitt, Patricia Ann Hale, James Sterling Hall, Wendell Carol Hall, Carl Hickman, Nancy Josephine Hills, Charlee Sheryl Hoke, Paula Jean Holbrook, Ramona Hunt and Lee Irving.
Gary Lee Johnson, Jeanette Johnson-Stone, John J. Johnson, Shirley Ann Johnson-Williams, Henry B. Lanning, Carolyn Jean Martin, Donald May and Roy Edward McClain.
Johnnie Louise McComis, Raymond Fayne McFarlin, Carole Ann McGraw-Humburger, Pamela Sue Miller, Floyd Bryan Moles, James W. Moore, Mike Moore, Susan Phyllis Nalle-Fohs, Sandra Sue Newsom and Michael K. Osborne.
Shirley V. Payne-Brown, Charles Sidney Price, Jennifer Lynn Quillen-Smith, Robert Blaine Reutherford, Harvey Edward Rose, O’Donna Faye Salyers, Jaynie Darlene Scott, Cheryle Robin Shaffer, William Cyril Simpson and Richard Earl Sloan.
Sandra Lynn Sloan, Susan Smedley-Burks, Linda Sue Smith, Willie Smith, John Mason Steele, Susan Irene Taylor, Edith Mae Thomas, Alene Tolbert, Clyde Trimble, Mary Frances Tufts, Larry Richard Williams and Nancy Alice York.
Ken Smith, Russell
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Resentencing
The U.S. District Court of Appeals has rightly ruled that even those sentenced for crack cocaine violations before the approval of a 2010 law that restored a bit of sanity and fairness to federal sentencing laws can be resentenced under the 2010 law.
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It's the law
On Jan. 22, Greenup County voters — or at least those who took time to cast ballots in the special referendum — rejected a proposal that would have allowed the legal sale of alcohol in the county by a rather convincing margin of 4,872-3,830.
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Retiring
As members of the Ashland Board of City Commissioners look for a replacement for retiring City Manager Stephen W. Corbitt, they should seek someone just like Corbitt.
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On the increase
It’s certainly good news that a new report by Kentucky’s Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet has found the economic impact of tourism grew by 5.2 percent in eastern Kentucky in 2012, outpacing the overall statewide growth rate. However, we would be more excited bout the report if we had more confidence in how tourism spending is calculated by state government.
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After the crash
Like thousands of other Kentuckians, we remember well May 14, 1988, when a drunken driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton struck a church bus returning home to Radcliff after day at King’s Island, causing one of he most deadly vehicle accidents in this nation’s history. The horrific crash killed 27, many of them teenagers, and injured 34 others.
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High price tage
Much has been said and written about the rapid and dramatic decline of air passenger service at the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport. Much less has been said and written about the tremendous economic impact the loss of air service has had on the entire region.
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Return of pencils
It is a question asked by all of us whose lives and jobs are dependent on computers with email and Internet access, fax machines, cellphones and other other electronic essentials of this modern age: What do you do when the electronic devices fail?
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