In June 26 - July 2 issue
JAMESTOWN - An alcohol "petition" — of sorts — has been circulating throughout Jamestown in hopes to obtain enough signatures from Jamestown's eligible voters to garner a "moist" vote being placed on a future ballot, according to George Alford, owner of The Meeting Place restaurant and the upcoming Jamestown Center.

In June 26 - July 2 issue
RUSSELL SPRINGS - If enacted it could have been the largest smoking ban in Kentucky. Officials at the Lake Cumberland District Health Department could have banned smoking in public places within all of the ten counties the agency oversees. A resolution in support of making that decision was soundly defeated at the quarterly meeting of that board in Russell Springs Tuesday night.

In June 26 - July 2 issue
JAMESTOWN - It is the classic good-news bad-news situation in Jamestown. The state approved the phase 1 drawings for the new judicial building, as well as the purchase of the property.

In June 26 - July 2 issue
JAMESTOWN - During last month's meeting of the City Council, Councilman Larry Joe Murray suggested that the city look into buying two new police cruisers. This month, however, Murray had a change of heart and Police Chief Mike Keaton had an alternative choice for the city's new police vehicles — Kawasaki's "Mule," a large all-terrain vehicle.

In June 26 - July 2 issue
COLUMBIA, Ky. - "The last information I have is that it is on schedule," said local Transportation Cabinet Spokeswoman Stephanie Daffron. "And people should be driving on it in two weeks."

In June 26 - July 2 issue
RUSSELL SPRINGS - A City Commission's special called meeting last Thursday saw city leaders hear and accept the second readings of this past fiscal year's amended budget ordinance and the budget ordinance for the 2008-09 fiscal year, among other business.