Speaker 1: Now we turn to the Kentucky Standard for news in
Speaker 1: Bardstown and Nelson County. Your reader today is Brian Hunt.
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Speaker 1: the addition dated May twenty fourth. Primary results lead to
Speaker 1: changes at NCSO, PVA and coroner's office. After nearly ten
Speaker 1: thousand votes were cast in Tuesday's primary election in Nelson County,
Speaker 1: residents will have a new sheriff, corner and property valuation
Speaker 1: administrator next year, with incumbents in all three races getting
Speaker 1: un upended by their challengers, according to unofficial vote totals
Speaker 1: from Tuesday nine. With a number of key local races
Speaker 1: on the ballot, including important contests for state Senate and
Speaker 1: US Representative and Senate, Tuesday featured a hive voter turnout.
Speaker 1: There were ninety five hundred ninety one ballots cast out
Speaker 1: of thirty five thousand, six hundred sixty nine registered voters,
Speaker 1: driving the percentage up to twenty six point eight nine percent.
Speaker 1: One of the busiest election days in years. The biggest
Speaker 1: surprise of the night was in the Democratic Sheriff's primary,
Speaker 1: where challenger A. J. Lewis handily defeated Ramon Pinae Roo,
Speaker 1: the two term incumbent, garnering just shy of sixty four
Speaker 1: percent of the vote with a twenty six one hundred
Speaker 1: sixty to fourteen hundred ninety eight margin. Lewis will face
Speaker 1: south against his co worker as the Bardstown's Police Department
Speaker 1: in November's general election. As Republican Jaron Culver did not
Speaker 1: face opposition in his primary. Lewis said he had an
Speaker 1: overwhelming and humbling day Tuesday. Outside of the election. Lewis
Speaker 1: said he had other commitments, from coaching his baseball team
Speaker 1: to running errands. As the night of the primaries wore on,
Speaker 1: he said he was surrounded by friends and family when
Speaker 1: the results began rolling in. Lewis said he thought it
Speaker 1: would be challenging, however, he was blown away by the
Speaker 1: support winning every precinct. He's looking to bring change to
Speaker 1: the office if elected in November. I'm ready to make
Speaker 1: some changes here for the better and be more community
Speaker 1: involved and putting our community first. He said. It was
Speaker 1: a good win. In the PVA and Warners races. The
Speaker 1: incumbent office holders were both upset in the Republican primary,
Speaker 1: and with no Democrats filing in either race, Tuesday's winners
Speaker 1: will face no opposition. In November, Stephen Hibbs captured the
Speaker 1: GOP primary for PVA, taking down incumbent Jay Williams by
Speaker 1: a fifty four to forty six percent margin. Hibbs notched
Speaker 1: twenty six hundred twelve votes to William's twenty two hundred
Speaker 1: twenty four votes, thereby limiting Williams to one term in office.
Speaker 1: Hibbs said the race was never about the incumbent, it
Speaker 1: was about running for PBA. Hibbs said based on his
Speaker 1: skills in his background in land surveying and property he
Speaker 1: thought he would be a good fit for the office.
Speaker 1: He said when he takes office next year, he is
Speaker 1: going to make sure he has the right people in
Speaker 1: place to get the job done. Hib said he will
Speaker 1: be evaluating state requirements and aims to increase the frequency
Speaker 1: of assessment process. I really want to work on trying
Speaker 1: to increase the frequency of the assessment so it's not
Speaker 1: such a financial burden, especially to the seniors, he said.
Speaker 1: I said this in all the events that I support
Speaker 1: any legislation that helped seniors on their property tax, whether
Speaker 1: it be a freeze on assessment. I would like to
Speaker 1: see seniors be exempt from property tax altogether, but that
Speaker 1: is not something I have any control over. If. In
Speaker 1: the GOP primary for Corner Carry, Monin upended in comment
Speaker 1: Danielle Chaldeck after just one term. Monin grabbed fifty eight
Speaker 1: percent of the vote, be Claudec by twenty eight hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty eight to twenty two thousand and seventy seven margin.
Speaker 1: Monin said he feels good about winning the Nelson County
Speaker 1: coroner position, and he's happy so many people have put
Speaker 1: their faith in him. It isn't really about taking the
Speaker 1: race from the incumbent, Monan said, It's something I've always
Speaker 1: wanted to do, and I truly feel I am the
Speaker 1: right person for the job. I believe the people of
Speaker 1: Nelson County know my reputation as being a lifelong emergency
Speaker 1: worker and my commitment to this community for the last
Speaker 1: forty years. He said. In the next six months, he'll
Speaker 1: be preparing to take office and working on determining his
Speaker 1: deputy coroner. Monin said he already knows the job. It
Speaker 1: will now be a matter of figuring out what equipment
Speaker 1: is needed. Claude P. D Roa and Williams weren't the
Speaker 1: only incumbents to fall on Tuesday. After losing to Adam
Speaker 1: Wheatley in the general election four years ago, in the
Speaker 1: race for second District Magistrate, Gary Coulter changed registration to
Speaker 1: Republican and turned the tables on Wheatley with a fifty
Speaker 1: five point six percent of the vote, a margin of
Speaker 1: six hundred and twenty two to four hundred ninety six.
Speaker 1: Coulters served one termament office from twenty eighteen to twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. No Democrat filed for the second district race.
Speaker 1: M T. Harned advanced to November's general election, where he
Speaker 1: will face Democrat Cameron Richards in an effort to retain
Speaker 1: his third district magistrate seat. Harneed deveated David call in
Speaker 1: the GOP primary with seventy seven point seven eight percent
Speaker 1: of the vote. With incumbent John Snow not running for reelection,
Speaker 1: there will be a new magistrate representing District five. Ted
Speaker 1: Shields prevailed at a three way race for the Republican nomination,
Speaker 1: taking sixty point nine percent of the vote, while Deborah
Speaker 1: bought Vodchski under twenty two point eight percent and Bobby
Speaker 1: Chesser claimed sixteen point two percent. No Democrat has filed
Speaker 1: for the fifth district posts. Republican incumbent Judge Executive Tim
Speaker 1: Hutchins got through in his primary with sixty six percent
Speaker 1: of the vote, and he will take on Democrat J. T.
Speaker 1: Roby in the fall. Roby dominated at a three way race
Speaker 1: in his primary with just shy of sixty four percent
Speaker 1: of the vote. Hutchins beat Don Thrasher thirty three hundred
Speaker 1: twenty four seventeen hundred and four to grab the GOP knob,
Speaker 1: while Roby tallied twenty four hundred and fifty seven votes
Speaker 1: to Shamika Ashby's eight hundred and four and Ben Quarters
Speaker 1: five hundred eighty five. It was Roby's first time running
Speaker 1: for elected office. I am feeling humbled, Roby said. Shamika
Speaker 1: and Ben were both very strong opponents and ran a
Speaker 1: solid race up until the numbers started coming in. I
Speaker 1: thought it was anyone's race to win. I was a
Speaker 1: nerdivous wreck most of election day. Thank goodness, we had
Speaker 1: an in service day at high school and a celebration
Speaker 1: dinner that evening to celebrate our Nelson County students who
Speaker 1: completed their associate degrees this year. This helped distract me
Speaker 1: from thinking about the election. I didn't start listening to
Speaker 1: results until seven forty five pm that night. I'm energeze
Speaker 1: by the support from everyone and looked forward to the
Speaker 1: next six months campaigning in state and national races. Andy
Speaker 1: Barr carried Nelson County in the GOP US Senate primary,
Speaker 1: edging out Daniel Cameron twenty three hundred seventy six to
Speaker 1: twenty one ninety nine in a crowded field. Those results
Speaker 1: reflect to Nelson County vote totals only. Statewide, however, Bar dominated,
Speaker 1: winning sixty percent of the vote to Cameron's thirty one percent.
Speaker 1: Amy McGrath beat Charles Booker in the Nelson County in
Speaker 1: the Democratic primary seventeen hundred twelve to fifteen twenty one,
Speaker 1: but Booker took the nomination by nominating dominating the vote
Speaker 1: in Jefferson and Fayette County. Booker garnered forty seven percent
Speaker 1: of the vote to just thirty six percent for McGrath.
Speaker 1: Incumbent reports Publican US Congressman Brett Guthrie handily carried Nelson
Speaker 1: County in the second district GOP race and ran up
Speaker 1: a similar wide state margin. Statewide, with eighty five percent
Speaker 1: of the vote. Guthrie will face Democrat Magan Wingfield. In November.
Speaker 1: Wingfield gathered forty one percent of the vote to win
Speaker 1: her primary by twenty points. In the fourth district, newcomer
Speaker 1: Ed Golraine outpaced incumbent Republican Thomas Massey with sixty one
Speaker 1: point eight percent of Nelson County totals, and that carried
Speaker 1: over statewide as well. On the strength of his endorsement
Speaker 1: by President Donald Trump, gol Rain had a ten thousand
Speaker 1: vote advantage over Massey and took fifty five percent of
Speaker 1: the vote to forty five percent for Massey. Golrain will
Speaker 1: face off with Democrat Melissa Strange. In November. Raine picked
Speaker 1: up seventy two percent of the vote to defeat Jesse Brewer.
Speaker 1: In the Republican primary for the fourth teenth District State
Speaker 1: Senate seat, Dallas Robinson took twenty nine point two percent
Speaker 1: of the Nelson County vote, Ben Mudd got twenty eight
Speaker 1: point thirty three percent, and James Victory took twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six point one percent of the vote. However, after totaling
Speaker 1: up all the votes in Nelson, Spencer Washington, Marion, and
Speaker 1: Lbrue Counties. Mud was the overall winner with forty one
Speaker 1: hundred twenty two votes thirty percent to Robinson's thirty seven
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty nine twenty seven percent. Victory placed third
Speaker 1: with fifteen percent of the overall vote. Mud was able
Speaker 1: to pick up a key endorsement from retiring fourteenth District
Speaker 1: State semenactor Jimmy Higden. On the Democratic side of the
Speaker 1: fourteenth district race, Carrie Turrett handily beat Malcolm Jones with
Speaker 1: nearly seventy percent of the vote in Nelson County, and
Speaker 1: she enjoyed a larger margin district Wife with seventy three
Speaker 1: percent of the vote's cast. Next, Barstown City Schools set
Speaker 1: tentative budget. Barstown City Schools approved the fiscal year twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven tentative budget earlier this week at the BCS
Speaker 1: Board of Education meeting on Tuesday. The school year is
Speaker 1: coming to an end, but the BCS Board of Education
Speaker 1: is looking ahead due next year. Tracy Rogers, BCS Director
Speaker 1: of Finance, presented the board with the fiscal year twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven Tentative Budget, the second of three versions of
Speaker 1: the budget. The budget total budget for the district is
Speaker 1: fifty five point seven billion dollars. More than half of
Speaker 1: the budget is in Fund one, the general fund at
Speaker 1: forty two point two million. Rogers said they've projected the
Speaker 1: district will have beginning balanced of four point nine million
Speaker 1: in the general Fund. Additionally, the Kentucky Department of Education
Speaker 1: sent out the forecast that Support Education Excellence in Kentucky
Speaker 1: SEEK calculations, which Rogers said was on par with what
Speaker 1: they'd previously estimated. This year's estimate for SEEK is calculated
Speaker 1: at a guaranteed base of forty six hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: six dollars by the aggregated average daily attendance. Rogers said,
Speaker 1: it is projected to bring in increase in state revenue
Speaker 1: of five hundred sixty four thousand, ninety eight dollars base
Speaker 1: funding increase to forty dollars per pupils. On the expenditure
Speaker 1: side of the tentative budget, it's going to include a
Speaker 1: recommended increase to the salary schedule. The Board of Education
Speaker 1: will approve the proposed salary scheduled later this summer. The
Speaker 1: budget includes a step and recommended increase to the salary schedule,
Speaker 1: salary and benefits over eighty percent of one one. There
Speaker 1: is also a reduction in the classified retirement rate from
Speaker 1: eighteen point sixty two percent to seventeen point forty three percent.
Speaker 1: Rogers said the most recent debt services schedule for outstanding
Speaker 1: bonds and Kentucky Interlocal School Transportation Association obligations are also
Speaker 1: included in the budget. They total four point eight million.
Speaker 1: The tentative budget also includes a two point nine million
Speaker 1: dollars contingency fund, which is seven point six percent of
Speaker 1: the budget. Rogers will present a third and final budget
Speaker 1: to the BOE in September. Looking ahead for the district,
Speaker 1: Bargstown High School will celebrate graduation next Sunday, May thirtieth
Speaker 1: at eleven a m at Garness Martin Fields. If there's
Speaker 1: rain or inclement weather, the ceremony will be held at
Speaker 1: Bardstown Elementary because of ongoing construction with the BHS gym.
Speaker 1: The Bargstown Board of Education will meet next month on
Speaker 1: June sixteenth at noon at the BCS Central Office. Next
Speaker 1: Rotary to celebrate fiftieth Wine and Cheese next Sunday, Saturday,
Speaker 1: Birdstown Rotary Club is celebrating five decades of the annual
Speaker 1: Wine and Cheese Festival next Saturday, as the flagship event
Speaker 1: continues to grow. Saturday May thirtieth, at six p m,
Speaker 1: the fiftieth Wine Cheese Festival will begin. The Bargstown Rotary
Speaker 1: Club has hosted the event over the last five decades,
Speaker 1: with each generation creating a new iteration of the beloved event.
Speaker 1: This year's celebration will hold on to recent favorites like
Speaker 1: the larger selection of wines and the expansive charcuteri board,
Speaker 1: and bring in many exciting auction items. Tara Filiatrow, one
Speaker 1: of the events organizers, said they're very excited to be
Speaker 1: celebrating the fiftieth anniversary. She said one of their exciting
Speaker 1: new editions is the three sixty photo booth. We are
Speaker 1: really focusing on what makes the festival great year after
Speaker 1: year and expanding upon that. She said. We are praying
Speaker 1: for good weather. We've got a lot of really good
Speaker 1: auction items this year, some pretty wide wide range of
Speaker 1: rare and limited bourbons and then subourbon themeed items. We
Speaker 1: also have got a few experiences, trips and things like that,
Speaker 1: so a lot of good things for our auctions. Philiatroll
Speaker 1: said they'll be expanding the Charcuteri board. This year, the
Speaker 1: wine selection ranges from sweet to dry, with something for everyone.
Speaker 1: There will also be specialty wines that will be available
Speaker 1: to purchase and are not included in the ticket. If
Speaker 1: wine isn't your drink of choice, Philiatrove said they'll have
Speaker 1: a beer tent, old fashions, and sangrea. She said, if
Speaker 1: one's not your thing, there's still plenty to come out
Speaker 1: and enjoy the evening. Philiatrow said the fellowship and the
Speaker 1: tradition come continues to bring people back year after year.
Speaker 1: In the past five years, the Wine and Chief Festival
Speaker 1: has seen it influx of attendees. Philia Troll said compared
Speaker 1: to this time last year, they have sold more tickets.
Speaker 1: She is optimistic about attendance and said if all is
Speaker 1: well with the weather, they are on track for a
Speaker 1: stellar event. Philiatroll said she feels honored and humbled to
Speaker 1: plan this event year after years. She said there's a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure to create the event. She said she
Speaker 1: doesn't want to be the one who lets wine and
Speaker 1: cheese slip away after the years of work people have
Speaker 1: put into shaping it into the staple it is today.
Speaker 1: This year's Wine and Cheese festival is also shadowed with
Speaker 1: grief and sadness after losing a beloved member of the
Speaker 1: local club. Ed and Christine Hoven were in a fatal
Speaker 1: car accident on May fifteenth, Ed passing away as a result,
Speaker 1: Christine is currently hospitalized. Philia Troll said this has been
Speaker 1: a trying time for the Rotary family. She said both
Speaker 1: were dedicated to serving their community. It's a difficult time
Speaker 1: for the Rotary Club, but they remain in our thoughts
Speaker 1: as we gather together this year, she said, we'll be
Speaker 1: thinking about them and acknowledge how great they were and
Speaker 1: what they've done for us. It's going to be hard
Speaker 1: to go on without them, but I know it would
Speaker 1: make Ed proud. Tickets for this year's fiftieth Wine and
Speaker 1: Cheese Festival can be found on the Barstown Rotary Club
Speaker 1: website or on Facebook or their website at Bardstown Rotary
Speaker 1: Club dot org. Next, Barstown celebrates student industry certifications on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Bardstown City Schools recognize students who earned certifications in one
Speaker 1: of the nine career and technical pathways this school year.
Speaker 1: Students at Bardstown High School earned one hundred fifty four
Speaker 1: certifications across ten different CTE pathways. BCS's Career and Technical
Speaker 1: Education CTE program pass to Pro honored those students on
Speaker 1: Wednesday at the Bardstown Polytechnic School. Currently BTS offers pathways
Speaker 1: and culinary, arts, construction, information technology, health science, government, law, engineering,
Speaker 1: media and arts, education, business and transportation logistics. Five students
Speaker 1: were honored with the Brenda Buffin Excellence in Career and
Speaker 1: Technical Education Award. Buffin dedicated thirty years to Bardstown High
Speaker 1: School and CTE. During her career, she worked to insure
Speaker 1: students had the business and workforce skills while creating opportunities
Speaker 1: for leadership, competition, networking, and personal growth. The Excellence in
Speaker 1: Career and Technical Education Award was given to students in
Speaker 1: five areas engineering, business marketing, health science, culinary, and construction.
Speaker 1: This year's recipients were David Linton General Contacting, Construction, Lake
Speaker 1: and Lucas Health Science, Emily Hill Engineering, Matthew Peniston Hospitality, culinary,
Speaker 1: and John Slayton Business Marketing. Sixteen students from the district's
Speaker 1: engineering pathways earned their National Occupational Competency Testing Institute Computer
Speaker 1: Aided Design Foundation certification. The certification recognizes foundational skills in
Speaker 1: caad Untechnical. Two students round the Culinary Arts program earned
Speaker 1: their SERF Safe Manager certification, a first for Bargetown City Schools.
Speaker 1: Eighteen certifications were awarded in the Business and Marketing Pathway
Speaker 1: for the end of program assessments for accounting, administrative support,
Speaker 1: and marketing. The Health Science program earned the most certification
Speaker 1: certifications this year, with seventy seven. Students had the opportunity
Speaker 1: to earn eight separate accreditations and certifications, including Healthcare Core
Speaker 1: forty two students, Medicaid Nurse Aid certification, seventeen students, Phlebotomy Technician,
Speaker 1: eight students, EKG Technician, seven students, Patient Care Tech, one student,
Speaker 1: certified Clinical Medical Assistant, one student, Veterinary Tech two students,
Speaker 1: and Pharmacy Technician one student. Some forty four students from
Speaker 1: the General Contracting Construction Pathway earned the home Builder Institute certification,
Speaker 1: which is an industry recognized certification focused on foundational construction
Speaker 1: and workplace skills. Next, Bloomfield to change garbage carriers Bloomfield
Speaker 1: City Council briefs after a number of complaints in recent
Speaker 1: months about the garbage pickup service provided by Waste Management.
Speaker 1: The City of Bloomfield is making a change. The new
Speaker 1: contract will be awarded to Rumkey, but it took a
Speaker 1: contentious vote to make it happen, as Mayor Chris Dudgeon
Speaker 1: cast a tie breaking vote as city council found itself
Speaker 1: deadlocked in a three to three tie. One of the
Speaker 1: biggest complaints against Waste Management was their heavy restrictions on
Speaker 1: what could and could not be picked up. Waste Management
Speaker 1: uses a lift arm truck to pick up specialized garbage toats,
Speaker 1: and the company typically would not pick up bagged trash
Speaker 1: or items in an unimproved receptacles. Councilman John Hammond said
Speaker 1: this was when the problem started with waste Management, as
Speaker 1: some residents would be skipped over with trash accumulating by
Speaker 1: the roadside on Other problems came when it came to
Speaker 1: a ranging pickup for large bulky items. Hammond motioned to
Speaker 1: accept the Rumkey in favor of Waste Management and Nelson
Speaker 1: County Solid Waste. Rumkey had a representative at Munday's council
Speaker 1: meeting to help explain some of the changes that would
Speaker 1: come if Bloomfield shows their bit. Among them was that
Speaker 1: Rumkey would have riders along with the trucks to pick
Speaker 1: up items not in specialized toats, and Rumkey gave Bloomfield
Speaker 1: customers the option to either use their specialized branded toats
Speaker 1: or those residents could use their own receptacles. For comparison,
Speaker 1: Rumkey would build twenty four dollars monthly if residents used
Speaker 1: their toates or twenty two dollars if they used their
Speaker 1: own receptacles. Waste management bid was twenty dollars seventy five
Speaker 1: cents per month, while Nelson Counties was twenty one point
Speaker 1: seven eight. Rumkey also permitted residents put out one large
Speaker 1: bulky item per week as a part of their contracts.
Speaker 1: While Hammond, Todd Swayzey, and Tina Long were in favor
Speaker 1: of the Rumkey bid, fellow council members Laura Burnett, Scott Stevenson,
Speaker 1: and Ken Lemon were not, as they preferred Nelson County
Speaker 1: Solid Waste. I think we get more bang for the
Speaker 1: buck if we go with the county. Stevenson said he
Speaker 1: also liked the idea that the county would allow Bloomfield
Speaker 1: residents to put out more coats, and they would also
Speaker 1: get more access to the county landfield. Hyman noted that
Speaker 1: the County garbage builing goes through Salt River Electric, but
Speaker 1: that if the city went with Nelson County, Bloomfield City
Speaker 1: Hall would still get all the customer complaints with Rumkey.
Speaker 1: As with waste management, garbage billing would go through the city.
Speaker 1: Stephenson said he preferred keeping the money in the county
Speaker 1: rather than going through an outside entity such as Rumkey.
Speaker 1: After the vote came up three to three, dudg and
Speaker 1: cast at kybreaking voat to go with Rumkey. Y'all remember
Speaker 1: that come November, Stephenson said, when Rumpky takes over garbage collection,
Speaker 1: the pick up day will change from Wednesdays to Monday.
Speaker 1: In Bloomfield. A will have a special call budget meeting
Speaker 1: Monday June one at six thirty p m. This is
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