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The roof of the newly-acquired Robertson building is ‘leaking like a sieve,’ according to city administrator Laurie Smith during the regular-scheduled city council meeting on Tuesday of last week.

Smith said the architect that is working with the city, free of charge, advised that a new roof be put on the building, and quick.

After 32 years of working for the city,  Springfield city administrator and treasurer Laurie Smith is reaping the benefits of hard work, long hours and public service.

Smith was named recently as the Kentucky League of Cities runner-up city employee of the year.
She began her career with the city in 1979 as an administrative secretary. She moved up to serve as city treasurer, then city clerk / treasurer. Ten years ago, she was appointed as city administrator.

The city and St. Catharine College teamed up recently to move along in the construction of the Emily W. Hundley Library and School of Graduate Studies.

At a Sept. 29 special-called public hearing, the second reading was approved for an issuance of Industrial Building Revenue Bonds of up to $3 million to SCC.

Local farmers, listen up. If you grow it, or maybe want to grow it, they will come. ‘They’ are food distributors that want and need more local food for their clients.

Louisville Farm to Table and Washington County Cooperative Extension are teaming up to put food distributors that need locally grown food in the same room as folks in the state that either are or are willing to consider growing it.
To set the table, a meal of locally grown food will be prepared for those attending the conference.