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Today's News

  • Fiscal court receives first draft of 2013-14 budget

    Marion County Judge/Executive John G. Mattingly presented the first draft of the 2013-14 budget during the May 2 meeting of the Marion County Fiscal Court.
    The initial proposal shows $14.59 million in revenue and expenses for the next fiscal year. The general fund is projected to be $6.64 million.
    The court tentatively scheduled a work session for June 8 to work on any revisions to the budget. The magistrates must approve two readings of the budget before it is approved, and the budget must be approved by the end of June.
    In other business:

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  • Superintendent Hamilton unexpectedly announces his retirement

    Almost two years to the day after Dr. Chuck Hamilton was hired to become the Marion County Superintendent, he unexpectedly announced his retirement Thursday evening, May 2.
    Hamilton’s announcement came during a special-called meeting at the Marion County Board of Education office.
    At 5 p.m., the board went into executive session to discuss personnel under KRS 61.810(1)(f).
    The closed session lasted only two minutes and the board reconvened into open session and unanimously accepted Hamilton’s retirement, effective June 30.

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  • Patriot Pride

    Lebanon Middle School was recently named one of the 2013 Kentucky Schools to Watch. There are currently only 13 schools statewide and 400 schools nationally that have achieved this honor. It puts LMS in an elite group of schools that have proven to be “academically excellent.”
    The Schools to Watch program is part of an initiative developed and guided by the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform.

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  • Board chairman: ‘We accomplished nothing’

    The Marion County Board of Education, principals, teachers, school councils and parents gathered together April 23 at Marion County High School to review each school’s improvement plan. After more than two hours of presentations and discussion, Board Chairman Michael Mullins said he was “extremely disappointed” with the meeting.

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  • Fiscal court meeting at 4 p.m. today, May 2

    The Marion County Fiscal Court is scheduled to meet at 4 p.m. Thursday, May 2, on the second floor of the David R. Hourigan Government Building.

    The agenda for the meeting includes the following:

    - Minutes of the previous meeting

    - Audit report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 201, White  and Co.

    - draft budget for FY 2013-2014

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  • School board schedules special meeting today on personnel matter

    The Marion County Board of Education has scheduled a special-called meeting for 5 p.m. Thursday, May 2, at the board office, 755 E. Main Street in Lebanon.

    The agenda is short, including student learning and support consent items and an executive session to discuss personnel under KRS 61.810(1)(f).

    This provision allows the board to hold an executive session on matters that may lead to the appointment, discipline or dismissal of an employee, member or student. The law does allow the individual in question the right to hold a public hearing if requested. 

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  • Neighborhood watch program up and running

    The Lebanon Police want your help, so they can help you. Part of that effort has been the formation of a local neighborhood watch program.
    “It’s getting people in the community involved,” said Sgt. Donald Jewell, who is the neighborhood watch coordinator for the police department.
    Jewell said the groundwork for the program started under former Lebanon Police Chief Joe Bell, and the first neighborhood watch group was formed about a year and a half ago.

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  • Lebanon man pleads guilty to rape

    A Lebanon man pled guilty to third-degree rape, and two other Lebanon residents pled guilty to charges stemming from the same incident in Marion Circuit Court recently.
    Dylan Humphrey, 21, of 342 Oak Street in Lebanon entered a guilty plea April 18 to third-degree rape.
    Natasha M. Humphrey, 21, also of 342 Oak Street in Lebanon pled guilty April 18 to complicity to third-degree rape.
    And Randall P. Smith, 24, of 627 Doctor Street in Lebanon pled guilty April 25 to first-degree wanton endangerment.

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  • Gravel Switch man indicted on sex abuse charges

    Jacob A. Hourigan, 33, of 2775 Beech Fork Road in Gravel Switch was indicted for six counts of first-degree sexual abuse (child under 12 years old) and one count of second-degree persistent felony offender in Marion Circuit Court recently.
    According to the indictment, between Nov. 1, 2012, and Feb. 14, 2013, Hourigan subjected another person to sexual contact who is incapable of consent because he or she is less than 12 years old. The indictment also reads that he is over 21 and has been convicted of at least one felony after his 18th birthday.

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  • Louisville man files federal lawsuit over arrest

    A Louisville man who is facing assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct charges in Marion District Court has filed a civil lawsuit against the City of Lebanon, the Lebanon Police Department, the Marion County Sheriff’s Department and several individual officers.
    James G. Walker Jr., 47, of 7500 Farm House Lane in Louisville was arrested at 12:11 a.m. Dec. 24, 2011 at McB’s.

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