Local News

Washington County fiscal court announced the hiring of Washington County Solid Waste/Recycling Coordinator George Ann Palmer’s replacement on Friday. The newest county employee got started immediately, with training beginning on Monday of this week.
Brad Langford was selected to succeed Palmer, who announced last month that she will be stepping down from the position on March 1.

A Willisburg family is safe but without their home, after it was completely destroyed by a Saturday morning fire.
Fire and rescue crews were called to the burning structure on Montgomery Lane, just south of the Bluegrass Parkway, sometime between 10 and 11 a.m. on Feb. 2, according to reports from Willisburg Fire Chief Jessie Carney.
“The structure was fully involved when we got there,” he said. “We knocked the fire down on it, but everything was completely destroyed.”

 Kentucky Treasurer Todd Hollenbach says  that he and the Treasure Finders program will be at the extension office on Friday in an effort to get unclaimed property to its rightful owners. 

The program mostly returns misplaced money to its original owner, but Hollenbach said tangible items that aren’t easily converted to cash will also possibly be returned.

“We’ve identified $400,000 that belongs right here in Washington County,” Hollenbach said. “That’s 1,522 unique claims.”

The Danville Adovcate-Messenger is reporting that a Boyle County man who faces charges for threatening a Washington woman at her husband’s funeral in 2011 was released from jail Jan. 24 on a $15,000 cash bond. 

Bobby Lee Wilson, 56, waived his rights to a preliminary hearing. Wilson’s movements will be tracked by a GPS monitoring device attached to his ankle. He is allowed only to travel between his home place and work, the Advocate-Messenger reported. He faces a grand jury in Danville as early as today (Jan. 30).