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Chynah Thompson was crowned at Miss Bath County
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Auditorium at the flnish this year's Mist Bath County Pag-
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Taylor Thompson was named 2nd Runner-Up; Jesselin
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The BCHS Ladycals Softball Team shared their ioy on Saturday afternoon and
ioined the May Day Parade following their
l H win over East Carter earlier that morning in the lsl round of the 16th
Region Tournament. The Lady Cats celebrated
their first 61st District Championship last week. They fell in the 2nd
round of the l th Region Tournament lo Ashland Paul
Blazer on Tuesday, 8-1, but go out in the season with a record, the most
wins of any season, under Coach
Kenny Williams.
State allocates $1.1 million to Both count! lllilllllo School renovation
By Cecil Lawson
. KyNewsGroup,
cecil@kynew$group.com
The Bath County School
District is slated to receive
an offer of assistance of
$7,146,482 in funds from
the state s School Facili-
ties Construction Com-
mission for renovations
at Bath County Middle
School.
Last Tuesday Gov. Andy
Beshear announced $127
million is headed to local
school districts to fund
construction and reno-
vation projects as part
of his Better Kentucky
Plan, a $1.3 billion plan for
schOols, expanding inter-
By Cecil Lawson
KyNewsGroup
cecil@kynewsgroup.com
Bath County s newest
business opened its gates
early Monday morning and
is ready to provide for your
batch asphalt needs.
Freedom Asphalt LLC is
located at 3053 East High-
way 60, just off the I-64 Exit
123 near the Bath County
Ag Center.
Freedom Asphalt is
owned by Daron and Lisa
Dean of Boyd County, Ken-
tucky.
Daron spokes with
the News-Outlook last
Thursday and said he has
worked in the asphalt busi
ness with his father since
he was 14 years old, and he
r opened his rst blacktop
plant when he was 25. I ve
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been doing this all my life,
he said;
He and his wife own two
other plants in Kenova,
West Virginia, and St. Al-
bans, West Virginia.
Owingsville is a good
location . for us, Daron
said, noting that the region
is growing and there is a
need for an asphalt source
for. locations from Win-e
chester and Mt. Sterling to
Morehead, along the I-64
corridor. 1 can see Bath
County growing. '
Dean said he wantedito
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avoid a heavily populated
area and said he found
Bath County to be full of
very friendly people. The
Owingsville plant is also
convenient for him, located
about an hour on I-64 from
his home.
He said that while there
are other blacktop plants
in the area, they are big
operations that use drum
mixing and are focused on
Asphalt
cont. on pg. 14
net access, and assisting I
with water and sewer sys-
tems,
The Kentucky {School
Facilities Construction
Commission (SFCC)
voted to make an offer of
assistance to 13 'school
projects around the state
in Hart, Martin, Floyd,
Boyd, Bellevue, May eld,
Jackson, Grant, Breckin
ridge, Bath, Cumberland,
Pendleton and Carter
Counties. The school
districts will receive the
American Rescue Plan Act
(ARPA) funds this sum-
mer, contingent on alloca-
tion by the US. Depart-
ment of the Treasury.
These funds are going
to make a tremendous dif-
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Bath County Middle School
ference in the lives of our
kids. From safety to tech-
nology, these changes are
going to give Kentucky
kids the educational leg-
up they deserve, said
Chelsey Couch, executive
director of the SFCC.
The School Facilities
Construction Commis-
siOn was established as
an independent corporate
agency in 1985 to provide
Renovation
cont. on pg. 14
Sharpsburg City Councildiscuss
V property 1ssues 1n Clty *
By Cecil Lawson
' KyNewsGroup
cecil@kynewsgroup.com
The Sharpsburg City Coun-
cil s effort to sell a property
it acquired to settle a tax lien
will have to be rebid following
a consultation with the city s
attorney.
During Monday evening s
regular city council meeting,
Mayor Dorothy Clemons and
council members opened
sealed bids on property at 505
Main Street Steve Calvert
submitted a bid of $7000, and
Thomas and Vickie Crouch
submitted abid of $5400.
Following discussion of the
bids, council members agreed
that they had considered the
property to be a part of the
late Jimmy Martin s proper-
ty, which sold at auction last
month to the Crouch s and
which they plan to restore,
and they voted to accept the
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Crouch s bid.
Mayor Clemons said on
Tuesday, she contacted city
attorney Earl Rogers HI re-
garding the bids, and she said
he advised her the council
could not accept the lower bid,
but they would have to reject
both bids and readvertise the
property for bid.
Clemons told
members during Monday s
meeting she was contacted
by County Judge/ Executive
Bobby Rogers last Friday,
who she said asked her to con-
sider using the city s upcom-
ing federal American Rescue
Act funds to extend the city s
sewer service from the city
limit to the new convenience
store which will be loCated by
the Dollar General Store.
She said she told him that
the city had several years ago
attempted to offer sewer ser-
vice to the east side of Sharps-
burg, beyond the city limit
when funds were available
through Gateway Area Devel-
council
opment District, but only two
residents from the area were
interested, While the rest vo-
cally protested the proposals
at a public hearing. .
She said that resident Steve
Calvert, who lives on Main
Street, had also contacted her
earlier and said he knew of
three additional residents on
the north side of Main Street
who would now be interested
in city sewer service. She said
that Judge Rogers had called
her on Calvert s behalf. ,
She explained if the city did
move ahead with annexation
and adding a sewer line down
the rest of east Main Street to
, Sharpsburg
cont. on pg. 14
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