The rescue squad was initially called to the scene, but was not needed. Neither victim was trapped.
The highway was expected to be blocked or partially blocked for a period of time. The wreck occurred just before 3:30 p.m.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Injury accident on US 60 East Friday afternoon
Law enforcement and ambulance crews were on the scene of a two-vehicle, head-on collision 12 miles east of Marion of US 60 Friday afternoon. The two drivers were hurt, but neither appeared to have life-threatening injuries. One male driver appeared to have a broken arm.
Democratic Party hosts meet the candidates
Crittenden County Democrats will host a Meet the Candidates forum starting at 5 p.m., Monday, Sept. 13 at the Critttenden County Courthouse.
The party will provide music and free hot dogs.
Accident on US 641 this morning
Update: Roger Steward, 62, of Marion was taken to Crittenden Hospital by ambulance Friday morning after a two-vehicle wreck on US 641 near the Marion City Limits. Steward was extricated by the Crittenden County Rescue Squad. He was admitted at the hospital, but did not appear to have life-threatening injuries.
The other driver, Joy Briley, 64, of Marion was treated and released at Crittenden Hospital.
Judge lifts Crittenden burn ban
With almost an inch of rain over the past 18 hours, Crittenden County Judge-Executive Fred Brown has lifted the outdoor burn ban in this county.
The burn ban has been in effect for more than a month due to dry conditions that make burning a hazard.
Next Saturday is Fall Jamboree in Salem
Celebrate the coming of autumn next Saturday at Salem's Fall Jamboree.
Events are planned from 11 a.m., to 8 p.m., on Sept. 18 and will include music, vendors, food, games, mums and more.
If you'd like something more labor intensive next weekend, join Fredonia area genealogists and history buffs who will be cleaning up graves in the Old Fredonia Cemetery starting at 8 a.m.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Wear college colors on Friday
Crittenden County School District is encouraging all of its teachers, staff and the community to wear their collegiate colors on Friday.
Put on a sweatshirt, cap or anything to signify the college you attended, or perhaps the one you admire most.
Area Death
Bob VanVactor, 70, of Fredonia died Wednesday, Sept. 8. The funeral is Saturday at Morgan Funeral Home in Princeton.
Frazer posts new video
Bart Frazer, candidate for Crittenden County Attorney, has posted a new video on his Web site, http://www.bartfrazer.com.
Watch Frazer's speech from a recent rally at the Crittenden County Courthouse:
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Horse whispering Sunday at Marion's park
There will be a “horse whispering” at Marion-Crittenden County Park at 5 p.m., Sunday.
Renown speaker Paul Daily will train a local horse straight from the field, and deliver a faith-based message at the same time.
The event is free to the public and will include pony rides.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Forestry agent hurt in Livingston County fire
Kentucky Division of Forestry agent Don Lam was seriously injured in an accident while fighting a forestland fire Tuesday in Livingston County. Lam, a forester for Crittenden and Livingston counties, was flown by helicopter to Deaconess Hospital in Evansville.
Livingston County officials said Lam was injured when a burning log rolled off a bluff and struck him. He suffered head and hip injuries.
Volunteer firemen from Smithland and Burna were also on the scene of the fire.
Livingston County had a burn ban in effect at the time. The fire was allegedly started by an excavation company clearing land for development.
County will resurface 3.5 miles with state funds
Four county roads have been identified for resurfacing. The roads are Watson Cemetery Road, A.H. Clements Road, Templeton Road and part of Tribune Tower Road.
Crittenden County Fiscal Court approved the plan during a special meeting Tuesday morning. Money to complete the work is coming from the state’s Flex Fund, which diverts 20 percent of the state’s road fund money to counties. The process was begun by Gov. Steve Beshear earlier this year to lift some of the financial burden from county road funds.
Crittenden is getting $178,000 to complete the resurfacing of about 3.5 miles of roadway.
City offers free dumping Friday & Saturday
The City of Marion will have mobile dumpsters available for free dumping Friday and Saturday (Sept. 10-11) at its maintenance facility at the end of East Elm Street. This free service is for unwanted items including tires, batteries, appliances and furniture. Household trash will not be accepted. Items will be accepted from 7:30 a.m., 4 p.m., each day.
Dog case changes things for owners
A local woman has pleaded guilty to harboring a vicious animal in a criminal case that could set a precedent in how such matters are handled in the future.
Heather Kaiser, a 27-year-old mother of three, said she pleaded guilty in Crittenden District Court last week only because her dog was being withheld until the case was settled. Kaiser’s year-and-a-half-old pit bull, Kilo, had been confiscated on July 10 after it bit Charles Black, who was walking his dog on a leash on Maxwell Street.
Kaiser’s dog ran into the street and attacked Black, according to court records and statements from neighbors who witnessed the episode. The city has a law requiring all dogs to be leashed.
Black filed charges and police had the dog picked up by the animal control officer. Kilo was in essence taken to jail. He was held at the Crittenden County Animal Shelter, running up an $8.50 daily tab.
In accordance with her plea agreement, Kaiser will have to put up a new seven-foot high dog pen, keep Kilo – and her other dogs – penned at all times. If they are taken out of the pen, they must be leashed and muzzled. Kaiser’s plea comes with a 30-day probated jail sentence for two years, a $200 fine and $158 in court costs. She must also pay restitution to the county for housing the dog since July, which will be more than $450. Kaiser would have been ordered to pay Black’s medical bills, too, but his insurance took care of that. His treatment at Crittenden Hospital cost $763, which was paid by Medicare, according to court records.
The kicker in the case is that if Kaiser does not follow the court’s orders, she will go to jail herself, and the dogs will be destroyed.
County Attorney Rebecca Johnson said KRS 258.235 stipulates how such matters are to be remediated, but she’s not a big fan of the details of the law. It needs to be rewritten, she said, to clear up some of the ambiguous provisions. Marion City Council has discussed creating its own vicious dog ordinance to deal more specifically with particular breeds of dogs.
Council member Darrin Tabor spoke out against that idea during the last council meeting on Aug. 16.
“It’s ridiculous to consider a vicious dog ordinance. None of us are qualified to determine what breeds are vicious,” he said.
Tabor said a dog is a product of its environment and its training.
Particular breeds are not inherently vicious, he explained.
It’s unclear whether the council will further discuss the matter, but citizens appear to want something done. An unscientific poll by The Press Online in late July found that 81 percent of 262 respondents wanted tougher city laws for vicious dogs. What’s certain is that from now on, the court system might deal with them a bit differently.
Several months ago, a similar incident left a postman injured from a dog bite. The court ordered the dog to be taken out of the county. A few weeks later, the same dog tried to attack two police officers and it was shot and killed. The owner had allegedly moved it across town instead of out of the county.
Johnson said hindsight was the impetus for requiring Kaiser’s dogs to be destroyed if, as the owner, Kaiser fails to live up to court orders. Simply having the dog banned from town didn’t work last time, Johnson said, so future cases may get similar treatment as Kaiser.
The attack on Black on Maxwell Street this summer wasn’t Kaiser’s first run-in with police over her dogs. Chief Ray O’Neal said officers had been dispatched to Kaiser’s address multiple times, mostly for barking complaints. Kaiser said she solved that by putting a muzzle on her female, giving the dog anti-anxiety medication and moving its pen to a more remote spot on her lot so it couldn’t see activity that caused the dog to bark.
“I’ve done everything they’ve asked me to do,” Kaiser said.
All three of her pit bulls have been neutered. She’s raised them all from pups and says they are gentle enough that she lets them play with her twin seven-year-old daughters and six-year-old son.
Kaiser disputes Black’s claim that the dog bit him although three witnesses signed statements attesting to the event. She said she didn’t want to prolong the case by going to trial next month because her dog was being held at the pound, running up an expensive shelter bill. Her children were upset that the dog had not been returned, she said. They had been to the pound to visit Kilo and didn’t understand why he had to stay at the shelter. Kaiser said she was satisfied with the treatment her dog received while held at the county’s shelter.
Heather Kaiser, a 27-year-old mother of three, said she pleaded guilty in Crittenden District Court last week only because her dog was being withheld until the case was settled. Kaiser’s year-and-a-half-old pit bull, Kilo, had been confiscated on July 10 after it bit Charles Black, who was walking his dog on a leash on Maxwell Street.
Kaiser’s dog ran into the street and attacked Black, according to court records and statements from neighbors who witnessed the episode. The city has a law requiring all dogs to be leashed.
Black filed charges and police had the dog picked up by the animal control officer. Kilo was in essence taken to jail. He was held at the Crittenden County Animal Shelter, running up an $8.50 daily tab.
In accordance with her plea agreement, Kaiser will have to put up a new seven-foot high dog pen, keep Kilo – and her other dogs – penned at all times. If they are taken out of the pen, they must be leashed and muzzled. Kaiser’s plea comes with a 30-day probated jail sentence for two years, a $200 fine and $158 in court costs. She must also pay restitution to the county for housing the dog since July, which will be more than $450. Kaiser would have been ordered to pay Black’s medical bills, too, but his insurance took care of that. His treatment at Crittenden Hospital cost $763, which was paid by Medicare, according to court records.
The kicker in the case is that if Kaiser does not follow the court’s orders, she will go to jail herself, and the dogs will be destroyed.
County Attorney Rebecca Johnson said KRS 258.235 stipulates how such matters are to be remediated, but she’s not a big fan of the details of the law. It needs to be rewritten, she said, to clear up some of the ambiguous provisions. Marion City Council has discussed creating its own vicious dog ordinance to deal more specifically with particular breeds of dogs.
Council member Darrin Tabor spoke out against that idea during the last council meeting on Aug. 16.
“It’s ridiculous to consider a vicious dog ordinance. None of us are qualified to determine what breeds are vicious,” he said.
Tabor said a dog is a product of its environment and its training.
Particular breeds are not inherently vicious, he explained.
It’s unclear whether the council will further discuss the matter, but citizens appear to want something done. An unscientific poll by The Press Online in late July found that 81 percent of 262 respondents wanted tougher city laws for vicious dogs. What’s certain is that from now on, the court system might deal with them a bit differently.
Several months ago, a similar incident left a postman injured from a dog bite. The court ordered the dog to be taken out of the county. A few weeks later, the same dog tried to attack two police officers and it was shot and killed. The owner had allegedly moved it across town instead of out of the county.
Johnson said hindsight was the impetus for requiring Kaiser’s dogs to be destroyed if, as the owner, Kaiser fails to live up to court orders. Simply having the dog banned from town didn’t work last time, Johnson said, so future cases may get similar treatment as Kaiser.
The attack on Black on Maxwell Street this summer wasn’t Kaiser’s first run-in with police over her dogs. Chief Ray O’Neal said officers had been dispatched to Kaiser’s address multiple times, mostly for barking complaints. Kaiser said she solved that by putting a muzzle on her female, giving the dog anti-anxiety medication and moving its pen to a more remote spot on her lot so it couldn’t see activity that caused the dog to bark.
“I’ve done everything they’ve asked me to do,” Kaiser said.
All three of her pit bulls have been neutered. She’s raised them all from pups and says they are gentle enough that she lets them play with her twin seven-year-old daughters and six-year-old son.
Kaiser disputes Black’s claim that the dog bit him although three witnesses signed statements attesting to the event. She said she didn’t want to prolong the case by going to trial next month because her dog was being held at the pound, running up an expensive shelter bill. Her children were upset that the dog had not been returned, she said. They had been to the pound to visit Kilo and didn’t understand why he had to stay at the shelter. Kaiser said she was satisfied with the treatment her dog received while held at the county’s shelter.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Three hurt in wreck Monday near Fredonia
Three Owensboro area residents were injured in a single-vehicle accident Monday near Fredonia.
Alisha Barnett, 18, was driving north on U.S. 641 when her Chevrolet SUV ran off the road and overturned. All three occupants of the vehicle were extricated by Lyon County Rescue. Barnett and Julie Brown, 34, were transported by Lyon County EMS to Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah. Destiny Brown, 14, was airlifted by Air Evac to Deaconess Hospital in Evansville. All occupants have suffered multiple non-life threatening injuries, according to Kentucky State Police.
Alisha Barnett, 18, was driving north on U.S. 641 when her Chevrolet SUV ran off the road and overturned. All three occupants of the vehicle were extricated by Lyon County Rescue. Barnett and Julie Brown, 34, were transported by Lyon County EMS to Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah. Destiny Brown, 14, was airlifted by Air Evac to Deaconess Hospital in Evansville. All occupants have suffered multiple non-life threatening injuries, according to Kentucky State Police.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Area Death
Kenneth Rennison, 67, of Fredonia died Wednesday, Sept. 1 at Crittenden Hospital. Services at Saturday at Morgan Funeral Home in Princeton.
Woman's Club celebrates 90 years
Linda J. Hawkins shared her love and vast knowledge of the history of tea during the Woman’s Club of Marion’s 90th anniversary luncheon Sept. 1.Hawkins is an award-winning author of several adult and childrens books, and she takes her nutritional-based literature on the road, where she shares the history of tea and etiquette.
While the history of tea began in England, it spread to Japan and to the United States where it is viewed as a hospitality drink, especially in the South.
Womans Club members learned some of the popular types of teas, including lemon grass, jasmine, green and white tea, as well as less common uses of tea such as its benefit on the body in the bathtub.
Pictured above are Melissa Hunt Tabor and her grandmother Virginia Hunt looking at a sample of ground tea leaves during Hawkins’ presentation.
Chamber luncheon today at noon
Crittenden County Chamber of Commerce will hosts its quarterly luncheon today. The lunch will be held at and sponsored by Crittenden Health Systems.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Johnson unveils campaign Web site
Youth camp director hurt in ATV accident
The director of the Western Kentucky Youth Camp in rural Crittenden County was injured in an ATV accident just before noon Wednesday.
PHI Air Ambulance took David Maclin to Deaconess Hospital in Evansville following at four-wheeler wreck on Youth Camp Road near Sheridan.
According to emergency responders, Maclin was about 30 yards from his driveway when he lost control of the ATV and it went off the road and hit a tree.
Maclin, who sustained an apparent back injury, crawled a few hundred yards to his residence and called for help.
Farmer will run alongside Williams
Former University of Kentucky basketball star Richie Farmer will run as lieutenant governor on the ticket with Republican David Williams in next year's governor's race, reports the Associated Press.The two filed a letter of intent with the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance, ending weeks of speculation about whether Farmer would agree to become Williams' running mate.
Phil Moffett, a Louisville businessman, has also declared his intention to run for the GOP gubernatorial nomination.
Gov. Steve Beshear, a Democrat, is seeking re-election. Harlan County demolition contractor Otis Hensey also is seeking the Democratic nomation.
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