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} Owingsville welcomes Kentucky Blue Spirits
By Cecil Lawson
KyNewsGroup
cecil@kynewsgroup.com
The City of Owingsville
held a ribbon cutting cer-
emony Tuesday morning
to the city’s latest
business, Kentucky
Spirits.
Kentucky Blue Spirits is
a full-service liquor store,
located at 137 Old Ky. 36
that carries a large selec-
tion of beer, wine, and li-
-quor products, including
bourbon, whiskeys, rum,
and other items.
They are located at 137
Old Kentucky 36 in Ow-
ingsville, which is the for-
mer location of Kentucky
Orthodontics Institute.
Owners and operators
are Jasvin Singh “Jessie”
Mand, Gurpreet “Sonny”
Mand, and Samba “Sam”
Lamichhane.
During the ribboncut—
ting ceremony, Owings-
ville Mayor Gary Hunt
thanked the owners for
locating their business in
mm and for their busi-
ness contributions to the
community.
Sam Lamichhane said
Kentucky Blue Spirits has
the best prices and best
customer service in the
area.
Lamichhane said comes
from a family of veterans,
and he owns Owingsville
Town & Country and will
also be opening a new con-
venience store in Sharps-
burg soon.
He said, “We love this
community, and we want
to see the city and the
community grown. We
want to do what we can for
the community.”
Kentucky Blue Spirits
will also be adding a drive-
thru window soon.
They are currently
open, and their operat-
ing hours are Monday
through Wednesday, 9
am. to 10 pm, Thursday
through Saturday, 9 am.
to midnight, and Sundays
from noon to 9 pm.
photo by Cecil Lawson
The City of Owingsville officially welcomed Kentucky Blue Spirits to town
with a ribbon-
cutting ceremony on Tuesday morning.
Shown above are, from left, Gurpreet "Sonny"
Mand, store clerk Angela Stacy, Owingsville Mayor Gary Hunt, Jasvin Singh
"Jessie"
Mand, Owingsville Police Chief Todd Tout, and Samba “Sam” Lamichhane.
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TRICK OR TREAT SET FOR OCTOBER 30
By Cecil Lawson
KyNewsGroup
cecil@kynewsgroup.com
On Monday Owingsville
City Council members ap-
proved an ordinance to al-
low them to remove fellow
council members who ha-
bitually miss meetings, and
they set a date for Trick
and Treat.
City Council members
unanimously approved the
first reading of an ordi-
nance amending the city’s
ethics policy to create a
procedure to remove coun-
cil members who miss
more than three meetings
per year without good
cause.
The ordinance allows
complaints to be made
to the city’s ethics board
regarding council mem-
ber absences. The ethics
board would make a rec-
ommendation to the coun-
cil regarding the absences
after a hearing. Council
members would then have
to consider the recom-‘
mendation and vote unani-
mously to expel another
council member with more
than three absences in a
twelve month period.
The attendance issue
was discussed briefly at the
end of last month’s council
meeting at the request of
council member Rhonda
Whitehead, and city attor-
ney Earl Rogers HI was
asked to draft language for
an ordinance.
Rogers told council
members during Monday’s
meeting that he had looked
at surrounding {communi-
ties, and'none of them had
ordinances addressing at-
tendance at meetings.
“There’s nothing on the
books,” he said. “(Atten-
dance) is just expected.”
Rogers said that civil
. penalties and docked pay
for not attending meetings
could also be considered
as options.
Mayor Gary Hunt said
the council could take up
council member compen-
sation at a future meeting ‘
when they will discuss pay
for council members and
the mayor. Any changes
made to compensation
would take effect only after
the next election.
Council member Jackie
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Anderson noted that fel?
low council member Chris
Crockett, who was not in
attendance in Monday’s
meeting, had missed 18
meetings since 2018.
“That’s far too many,”
Anderson said. ‘That’s not
doing therttaxpayeps right.”
He went on to say that
the late Ed McDaniel, who
served on the council until
he passed away this past
April, had health problems
and had missed meetings
because of that. He said
that needed to be taken
into account as well.
Council members
agreed to add a “without
good cause” clause to the
ordinance and to designate
at least three missed meet-
ings within a year.
A. secondreadingof the
ordinance wll be held at
next month’s meeting.
Council members also
agreed to have city-wide
Trick or Treat this year on
Saturday, October 30, from
6 to 8 pm.
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Mayor Hunt also re-
minded city residents that
the there is an ordinance
requiring property owners
in the city limits to address
nuisances such as grass,
weeds, and trash.
He also said that the city
has an animal control or-
dinance, and that all pets
should be under the con:
trol of their owners and not
running freely onto neigh-
boring properties. This
ordinance also addresses
animal noise including
barking.
Hunt also encouraged
property owners who mow
their lawns to clean up their
grass off of sidewalks and
streets. He said it does in-
volve liability, particularly
when grass is blown onto
public streets and roads.
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to consider an amendment
to address grass clean-up
on city streets and side-
walks.
Mayor Hunt also re-
ported to council members
that the US Census Bureau
has completed the results
of their 2020 nation-wide
census, which showed that
the city of Owingsville had
grown 4.12 percent in the
past decade, from 1530
residents in 2010 to 1593 in
2020.
He said the city of
Sharpsburg had grown 13
percent, from 323 to 365
residents, while Salt Lick
lost 18.48 percent of its
residents, down from 303
to 247.
Bath County as a whole
has grown 10 percent, and
now has 12,750 people.
Kentuc as a whole has
grown 3.8 percent, and
while urban areas grew 7.1
percent, unincorporated.
areas showed a 0.04 per-h
cent decline in population... .
Hunt, in his capacity at
alcoholic beverage con-,
trol administrator in the
city, reported that 8 busi-.
nesses in Owingsville are:
now operating with liquor,
licenses. He noted that
Kentucky Blue Spirits.
would be opening its doors,
on Tuesday morning at the
Miller Plaza in the old Ken?
tucky Orthodontics build-
ing, and liberty Mart was
in the process of applying
for a license to sell alcohol
as well.
.The next council meet-
ing is scheduled for Mon-
day, Oct. 11, at 6 pm. at
City Hall.
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