Melissa MuddGimlet Editor

House Bill 124, which was approved this month, is shedding some much-needed light on the dan-gers of substance abuse. The opioid crisis is be-coming a more increas-ing problem in the Com-monwealth. Misuse of the

opioid that can be used for medicinal purposes is cre-ating a rippling effect of overdoses on a local basis as well.

Opioids are substances that produce morphine-like effects. Medically they are primarily used for pain relief, including an-esthesia. Others include to

help with suppression of diarrhea, treating an ex-isting opioid use disorder, reversing the effects of an opioid overdose, sup-pressing a person’s cough, and suppressing opioid-induced constipation.

Under House Bill 124, the House Health and Fam-ily Services Committee

would require enhanced licensure and quality stan-dards for substance use disorder treatment and recovery after a state re-view of current standards used statewide. The en-hanced standards would cover residential, outpa-

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Peace On EarthGoodwill Towards Men—And Many Thanks To You!

Hope the coming year is rich in blessings foryou and yours. May you enjoy abundant health,happiness and good fortune in 2016and beyond.

The Edmonson News Staff

At the Monday, Dec.28 meeting of Edmonson Fiscal Court, County RoadForeman Ray Page reported that the newly-constructed salt storage bin on Hwy.70 is about half full with over 200 tons on hand. The capacity of the salt bin is500 tons.Greg Hudson, Parks and Recreation Coordinator, reported that the building atChalybeate Sports Complex is undergoing some refurbishing. The old carpetwas taken out and vinyl laminate flooring installed. The walls are being painted.Judge Wil Cannon said the improvements are looking good.In other business, magistrates:*Approved a resolution accepting $140,381 from the state for rural second-ary roads. The funds will be used for paving county roads. Judge Cannon saidthis amount breaks down to $23,396 in each of the six magisterial districts.“These funds come from the gas tax to be used on secondary roads, and are

somewhat less than in previous years,” Cannon said.*Set salary caps on county fee officials. The county clerk’s cap is $264,302.The sheriff’s cap is $406,000. Salary caps include all fringe benefits includingworkman’s comp., health insurance, vacation, sick leave, overtime, etc.*Voted to pay for a pauper funeral for David Maioli who died Dec. 17, 2015.*Okayed additional duties for the cleaning staff.*Approved bonds for sheriff, jailer, judge executive, county clerk, and countytreasurer.*Approved county treasurer’s report.*Approved attendance to the Kentucky County Judge Executive Associationwinter conference Feb. 3-5.

Last meeting of 2015

Fiscal Court sets salarycaps for fee officials

Fire believed to have started in the chimney area behind a wood stove, de-stroyed a residence on Indian Creek Road about 2:45Wednesday morning (Dec.30).A family of four, husband, wife and two daughters, escaped without injuries,according to Kyrock Fire Chief Mike Clubb.“The fire travelled up the wall into the attic. When firemen arrived, they triedto go in the burning structure but the ceiling came down and we had to come out.It was an older house which had about three layers of roofs, and when fire getsinto there, it is very hard to extinguish,” Chief Clubb said.The house was owned by Roy Hogan and was being rented to James and Cas-sandra Minton.Clubb said one of the daughters woke her mother and dad when she smelledthe smoke.In addition to Kyrock, other fire departments responding to the blaze wereBrownsville, Bear Creek and Chalybeate.

A pursuit which began in Butler County Christmas Eve brought out law en-forcement officers from six agencies.Police were chasing Lonnie Dale Woosley, 34, of Louisville, who is facingnumerous charges including theft of a vehicle, fleeing and evading, receivingstolen property, DUI, and numerous wanton endangerment charges.The pursuit went through Butler, Grayson and into Edmonson County.Sheriff’s Deputy Wally Ritter said the call from dispatch received by the Ed-monson County Sheriff’s Department pointed out that Woosley had a loadedgun in the vehicle with him, which turned out to be true.Woosley ran off the road during the pursuit and his vehicle came to rest in amuddy, waterlogged field near Hwy. 185 in the Roundhill area, where he wasarrested.Woosley was taken to the Medical Center in Bowling Green, and then to theButler County Jail.Agencies involved in the pursuit included the Morgantown Police Department,Butler County Sheriff’s Department, Caneyville Police Department, GraysonCounty Sheriff’s Department, Edmonson County Sheriff’s Department, EMSand Kentucky State Police.Deputy Ritter said, “We want to thank the numerous residents in the Big Reedyarea who came out to help us get our vehicles out of the mud.”

Man facing charges afterChristmas Eve pursuit

In an effort to make it more convenient for voters on elections days, CountyClerk Kevin Alexander said the Edmonson County Board of Elections mayvote to make precinct changes which would make it a shorter distance for someto travel to the polling place.Any plan they may suggest would have to be approved by fiscal court beforeit is implemented.In recent past elections voters living in the Steep Hollow community inBrownsville and on some sections of Mt. Zion Rd. had to drive to Bear Creekto cast their ballot. Some voters living in the Sweeden area have to go to Lin-coln to vote, and pass right by the Kyrock School voting place. For this reasonthe Election Board is looking at a possible change in drawing precinct bound-ary lines.The board is also looking at the number of voting places in various precincts.Voters who once voted at the Wingfield Fire Department now have to vote atSouth Edmonson Elementary School.In a district where there are a fewer percentage of voters (Rocky Hill/CapitolHill) there are presently two voting places.County Clerk Kevin Alexander told magistrates recently that the Board ofElections is discussing changes.

Clerk says election boardeyeing precinct changes-Photo courtesy Mike Clubb

Flames shoot from burning house on Indian Creek Rd. Dec. 30th.

Community Action of Southern Kentucky will begin operating the “Crisis”portion of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) onJanuary 11th. The program is operated on a first come first serve basis untilFederal funds are exhausted. LIHEAP assists households that are in a homeheating crisis. The deepening of cold winter weather combined with rising util-ity costs leaves many households unable to fully meet heating bills or purchasesufficient bulk fuel to keep their families safe and warm.Your local CommunityAction Partnership (CAP) stands ready to help.Last year over 300 households in Edmonson County received financial as-

sistance and emergency services from the LIHEAP Crisis component.(Continued on back page)

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The Edmonson Lady Cats Basketball team are the All "A" Region 3 Tourna-ment Champions with a win over the Owensboro Catholic Lady Aces Sun-day, ending with a score of 58 - 52. It was a close and occasionally rough game, with usual top Lady Cat scorer Caitlin Simon being covered up by two if

not three opponents. She was held to a season low scoring of 11 points but racked up 6 assists, 4 re-bounds, four free throws and 2 steals. Fellow se-nior Peyton Martin had one of the best games of her basketball life with a career high 33 points and a perfect 9 - 9 from the free throw line. Round-

ing out the scores for the Lady Cats were Chanley Logdson (6), Katlin Col-lins (5), Emma Vincent (2) and Lauren Ballance (1).

Chanley Logdson, Kat-lin Collins, Peyton Mar-tin and Caitlin Simons were named to the All "A" Tournament Team

and Abby Alexander was named to the All "A" Aca-demic Team.

This win followed a blow-out victory of Frederick Fraize High School, also the Lady Aces, from Clo-verport on Saturday with

anne Pyburn CraigJobe Publishing, Inc.

Growing up, Kristin Wilcox of Morgan-town had a dream of what life could be. “I was going to become a doctor,” she says. “And have a whole houseful of kids, grow our own food, be self-suffi-cient.”

She got her under-graduate pre-med studies done, and then had her daugh-ter Shelby. And

when Shelby was just four months old, everything changed. “She had her first seizure at four months, and by the time she was five months old, she was having hundreds of them a day,” says Wilcox. “She spent her first three Christmases and birthdays in the hospital. By the time she was four, she’d been Life

Front row: Macie McCombs, Siera Collins, Skylar Lewis, Katlin Collins, Caitlin Simons, Peyton Martin, abby alexander, Katie Lindsey, and Hallie ashley/ Back row: Terry alexander,Tyra Ballance, alexis Cook, She VanMeter, Lauren Ballance, Madison Harrison, Emme rose Vincent, Mia Goad, Emma Woodcock, Chanley Logdson, Kevin Jackson, and Christy Clark.

Opioid crisis hits homeDeath toll climbing

Medical MarijuanaMoms, wives become warriors

See medicalcontinued on page 8

“ An estimated 175 deaths per

day occurred in 2016 due to drug overdoses in the

United States per the recent

statement from President Donald Trump regarding

the nationwide opioid crisis.”

Tournament Champions

Lady Cats win over Owesnboro for All "A" Region 3 title

See championscontinued on page 12

The Edmonson County Grand Jury handed down 45 indictments on Wednesday, Janu-ary 17, 2018.

Blake R. Chambers, Commonwealth At-torney, 38th Judi-cial Circuit Court VS the following de-fendants:

•JAMES ADAMS, 2905 Raven Court, Louisville, KY 40220. Charged with Theft by Un-lawful Taking or Disposition of Auto - $10,000 or more. Persistent Felony Offender in the First Degree.

•ANGELIA D. AVERY, 314 West Reservior St., Cen-tral City, KY 42330. Charged with Tam-pering w/Physical Evidence. Posses-sion of Controlled Substance in the Second Degree-Drug Unspecified. Possession of Con-trolled Substance in the Third Degree-Drug Unspecified. Possession of Drug P a r a p h e r n a l i a . Possession of Pre-scription Controlled Substance not in Proper Container,

First Offense. Per-sistent Felony Of-fender in the First Degree.

• M A T T H E W R. AVERY, 164 Kidwell Rd., Mam-moth Cave, KY 42259. Charged with Criminal Mis-chief in the First Degree. Failure to Produce Insurance Card. Operating Motor Vehicle on S u s p e n d e d / R e -voked License. Fail-ure to Report Traffic Accident. Leaving Scene of Accident-Failure to Render Aid or Assistance.

• W I L L I A M BRYCE BARNES, 425 Eagle Way, Smiths Grove, KY 42171. Charged with Burglary in the Second Degree. Theft by Unlaw-ful Taking or Dis-position all others u/$500.

•AMY BROWN, 521 Oak Hill Rd., Brownsville, KY 42210. Charged with Possession of Controlled Sub-stance in the First Degree, First Of-

Grand Juryindicts 45

See indicTedcontinued on page 12

Melissa MuddGimlet Editor

House Bill 124, which was approved this month, is shedding some much-needed light on the dan-gers of substance abuse. The opioid crisis is be-coming a more increas-ing problem in the Com-monwealth. Misuse of the

opioid that can be used for medicinal purposes is cre-ating a rippling effect of overdoses on a local basis as well.

Opioids are substances that produce morphine-like effects. Medically they are primarily used for pain relief, including an-esthesia. Others include to

help with suppression of diarrhea, treating an ex-isting opioid use disorder, reversing the effects of an opioid overdose, sup-pressing a person’s cough, and suppressing opioid-induced constipation.

Under House Bill 124, the House Health and Fam-ily Services Committee

would require enhanced licensure and quality stan-dards for substance use disorder treatment and recovery after a state re-view of current standards used statewide. The en-hanced standards would cover residential, outpa-

VOLUME 89 NUMBER 1 THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2016 12 PAGES-PLUS INSERTS

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Fire destroys IndianCreek Road residence

LIHEAPCrisis Assistance available

Peace On EarthGoodwill Towards Men—And Many Thanks To You!

Hope the coming year is rich in blessings foryou and yours. May you enjoy abundant health,happiness and good fortune in 2016and beyond.

The Edmonson News Staff

At the Monday, Dec.28 meeting of Edmonson Fiscal Court, County RoadForeman Ray Page reported that the newly-constructed salt storage bin on Hwy.70 is about half full with over 200 tons on hand. The capacity of the salt bin is500 tons.Greg Hudson, Parks and Recreation Coordinator, reported that the building atChalybeate Sports Complex is undergoing some refurbishing. The old carpetwas taken out and vinyl laminate flooring installed. The walls are being painted.Judge Wil Cannon said the improvements are looking good.In other business, magistrates:*Approved a resolution accepting $140,381 from the state for rural second-ary roads. The funds will be used for paving county roads. Judge Cannon saidthis amount breaks down to $23,396 in each of the six magisterial districts.“These funds come from the gas tax to be used on secondary roads, and are

somewhat less than in previous years,” Cannon said.*Set salary caps on county fee officials. The county clerk’s cap is $264,302.The sheriff’s cap is $406,000. Salary caps include all fringe benefits includingworkman’s comp., health insurance, vacation, sick leave, overtime, etc.*Voted to pay for a pauper funeral for David Maioli who died Dec. 17, 2015.*Okayed additional duties for the cleaning staff.*Approved bonds for sheriff, jailer, judge executive, county clerk, and countytreasurer.*Approved county treasurer’s report.*Approved attendance to the Kentucky County Judge Executive Associationwinter conference Feb. 3-5.

Last meeting of 2015

Fiscal Court sets salarycaps for fee officials

Fire believed to have started in the chimney area behind a wood stove, de-stroyed a residence on Indian Creek Road about 2:45Wednesday morning (Dec.30).A family of four, husband, wife and two daughters, escaped without injuries,according to Kyrock Fire Chief Mike Clubb.“The fire travelled up the wall into the attic. When firemen arrived, they triedto go in the burning structure but the ceiling came down and we had to come out.It was an older house which had about three layers of roofs, and when fire getsinto there, it is very hard to extinguish,” Chief Clubb said.The house was owned by Roy Hogan and was being rented to James and Cas-sandra Minton.Clubb said one of the daughters woke her mother and dad when she smelledthe smoke.In addition to Kyrock, other fire departments responding to the blaze wereBrownsville, Bear Creek and Chalybeate.

A pursuit which began in Butler County Christmas Eve brought out law en-forcement officers from six agencies.Police were chasing Lonnie Dale Woosley, 34, of Louisville, who is facingnumerous charges including theft of a vehicle, fleeing and evading, receivingstolen property, DUI, and numerous wanton endangerment charges.The pursuit went through Butler, Grayson and into Edmonson County.Sheriff’s Deputy Wally Ritter said the call from dispatch received by the Ed-monson County Sheriff’s Department pointed out that Woosley had a loadedgun in the vehicle with him, which turned out to be true.Woosley ran off the road during the pursuit and his vehicle came to rest in amuddy, waterlogged field near Hwy. 185 in the Roundhill area, where he wasarrested.Woosley was taken to the Medical Center in Bowling Green, and then to theButler County Jail.Agencies involved in the pursuit included the Morgantown Police Department,Butler County Sheriff’s Department, Caneyville Police Department, GraysonCounty Sheriff’s Department, Edmonson County Sheriff’s Department, EMSand Kentucky State Police.Deputy Ritter said, “We want to thank the numerous residents in the Big Reedyarea who came out to help us get our vehicles out of the mud.”

Man facing charges afterChristmas Eve pursuit

In an effort to make it more convenient for voters on elections days, CountyClerk Kevin Alexander said the Edmonson County Board of Elections mayvote to make precinct changes which would make it a shorter distance for someto travel to the polling place.Any plan they may suggest would have to be approved by fiscal court beforeit is implemented.In recent past elections voters living in the Steep Hollow community inBrownsville and on some sections of Mt. Zion Rd. had to drive to Bear Creekto cast their ballot. Some voters living in the Sweeden area have to go to Lin-coln to vote, and pass right by the Kyrock School voting place. For this reasonthe Election Board is looking at a possible change in drawing precinct bound-ary lines.The board is also looking at the number of voting places in various precincts.Voters who once voted at the Wingfield Fire Department now have to vote atSouth Edmonson Elementary School.In a district where there are a fewer percentage of voters (Rocky Hill/CapitolHill) there are presently two voting places.County Clerk Kevin Alexander told magistrates recently that the Board ofElections is discussing changes.

Clerk says election boardeyeing precinct changes-Photo courtesy Mike Clubb

Flames shoot from burning house on Indian Creek Rd. Dec. 30th.

Community Action of Southern Kentucky will begin operating the “Crisis”portion of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) onJanuary 11th. The program is operated on a first come first serve basis untilFederal funds are exhausted. LIHEAP assists households that are in a homeheating crisis. The deepening of cold winter weather combined with rising util-ity costs leaves many households unable to fully meet heating bills or purchasesufficient bulk fuel to keep their families safe and warm.Your local CommunityAction Partnership (CAP) stands ready to help.Last year over 300 households in Edmonson County received financial as-

sistance and emergency services from the LIHEAP Crisis component.(Continued on back page)

The Gimlet

EDMONSON NEWS“It bores in”

Year 90, Number 49 A member of the Jobe Publishing Newspaper Network Week of January 24, 2018 Single Copy 50¢

jobeforkentucky.comDISCOVER OUR DIGITAL COPY AT

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Providing nourishmentpage 11

The Edmonson Lady Cats Basketball team are the All "A" Region 3 Tourna-ment Champions with a win over the Owensboro Catholic Lady Aces Sun-day, ending with a score of 58 - 52. It was a close and occasionally rough game, with usual top Lady Cat scorer Caitlin Simon being covered up by two if

not three opponents. She was held to a season low scoring of 11 points but racked up 6 assists, 4 re-bounds, four free throws and 2 steals. Fellow se-nior Peyton Martin had one of the best games of her basketball life with a career high 33 points and a perfect 9 - 9 from the free throw line. Round-

ing out the scores for the Lady Cats were Chanley Logdson (6), Katlin Col-lins (5), Emma Vincent (2) and Lauren Ballance (1).

Chanley Logdson, Kat-lin Collins, Peyton Mar-tin and Caitlin Simons were named to the All "A" Tournament Team

and Abby Alexander was named to the All "A" Aca-demic Team.

This win followed a blow-out victory of Frederick Fraize High School, also the Lady Aces, from Clo-verport on Saturday with

anne Pyburn CraigJobe Publishing, Inc.

Growing up, Kristin Wilcox of Morgan-town had a dream of what life could be. “I was going to become a doctor,” she says. “And have a whole houseful of kids, grow our own food, be self-suffi-cient.”

She got her under-graduate pre-med studies done, and then had her daugh-ter Shelby. And

when Shelby was just four months old, everything changed. “She had her first seizure at four months, and by the time she was five months old, she was having hundreds of them a day,” says Wilcox. “She spent her first three Christmases and birthdays in the hospital. By the time she was four, she’d been Life

Front row: Macie McCombs, Siera Collins, Skylar Lewis, Katlin Collins, Caitlin Simons, Peyton Martin, abby alexander, Katie Lindsey, and Hallie ashley/ Back row: Terry alexander,Tyra Ballance, alexis Cook, She VanMeter, Lauren Ballance, Madison Harrison, Emme rose Vincent, Mia Goad, Emma Woodcock, Chanley Logdson, Kevin Jackson, and Christy Clark.

Opioid crisis hits homeDeath toll climbing

Medical MarijuanaMoms, wives become warriors

See medicalcontinued on page 8

“ An estimated 175 deaths per

day occurred in 2016 due to drug overdoses in the

United States per the recent

statement from President Donald Trump regarding

the nationwide opioid crisis.”

Tournament Champions

Lady Cats win over Owesnboro for All "A" Region 3 title

See championscontinued on page 12

The Edmonson County Grand Jury handed down 45 indictments on Wednesday, Janu-ary 17, 2018.

Blake R. Chambers, Commonwealth At-torney, 38th Judi-cial Circuit Court VS the following de-fendants:

•JAMES ADAMS, 2905 Raven Court, Louisville, KY 40220. Charged with Theft by Un-lawful Taking or Disposition of Auto - $10,000 or more. Persistent Felony Offender in the First Degree.

•ANGELIA D. AVERY, 314 West Reservior St., Cen-tral City, KY 42330. Charged with Tam-pering w/Physical Evidence. Posses-sion of Controlled Substance in the Second Degree-Drug Unspecified. Possession of Con-trolled Substance in the Third Degree-Drug Unspecified. Possession of Drug P a r a p h e r n a l i a . Possession of Pre-scription Controlled Substance not in Proper Container,

First Offense. Per-sistent Felony Of-fender in the First Degree.

• M A T T H E W R. AVERY, 164 Kidwell Rd., Mam-moth Cave, KY 42259. Charged with Criminal Mis-chief in the First Degree. Failure to Produce Insurance Card. Operating Motor Vehicle on S u s p e n d e d / R e -voked License. Fail-ure to Report Traffic Accident. Leaving Scene of Accident-Failure to Render Aid or Assistance.

• W I L L I A M BRYCE BARNES, 425 Eagle Way, Smiths Grove, KY 42171. Charged with Burglary in the Second Degree. Theft by Unlaw-ful Taking or Dis-position all others u/$500.

•AMY BROWN, 521 Oak Hill Rd., Brownsville, KY 42210. Charged with Possession of Controlled Sub-stance in the First Degree, First Of-

Grand Juryindicts 45

See indicTedcontinued on page 12

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MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. – Mammoth Cave National Park will temporarily reopen the Green River Ferry and Green River Ferry Road to vehicular traf-fic on Monday, July 6 for service seven days a week from 6 am to 9:55 pm CST. The newly

Green River Ferry Ramp to Temporarily Reopen to Vehicles. NPS/PHOTO/Deb Spillman

Meredith WarthanGimlet Reporter

Local ECHS basketball star, Dalton Decker has signed with Lind-sey Wilson College in Columbia, Kentucky. This comes after a great season played by ECHS 2020 Senior,

Decker.

Tara Wood Decker, Dalton’s mom had this to say, “Dalton’s dad and I are so very proud of his drive and how hard he has worked during high school on

Dalton commititing to Lindsey Wilson College

Edmonson County PVA Kyle White has announced that the annual inspection period for the 2020 property tax rolls will be from July 6 through July 20, 2020. The original statement is as follows:

INSPECTION PERI-OD FOR THE PROP-ERTY TAX ASSESS-MENT ROLL

The Edmonson Coun-ty real property tax roll will be opened for inspection from July 6 through July 20, 2020. Under the supervision

of the property valua-tion administrator or one of the deputies, any person may in-spect the tax roll.

This is the January 1, 2020, assessment on which state, county and school taxes for 2020 will be due in the Fall of 2020.

The tax roll is in the office of the property valuation adminis-

Primary Election ResultsMeredith WarthanGimlet Reporter

The election totals tallied for Edmonson County for last Tues-

day’s primary race. A total of 2,511 votes were counted locally

for Edmonson County that had the following results:

Green River Ferry Service and Road

Temporarily Reopen to Vehicles

See FERRY, Page 2

Dalton Decker signs Lindsey Wilson College

PVA White announces annual inspections

See INSPECTIONS, Page 2

Edmonson County PVA Kyle White

See DECKER, Page 2