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City of Athens Feb 17, 2021 The Athens Water Plant has turned the pumps back on and and water is starting to slowly fill the lines throughout town. Customers should start to get water again this evening as long as there are no other problems. Conservation is key at this time. We’re asking all customers to limit the amount of freeze prevention activity involving running faucets. Allowing water to drip from faucets during freezing weather is a good practice, but only the faucets farthest fro...

1 of 6 Gov. Andy Beshear and Rocky Adkins, his senior adviser, visited the Boyd County Convention & Arts Center on Wednesday afternoon.   SUBMITTED PHOTO Matt Jones | The Daiy Independent Downed power lines were a common site around the region on Tuesday following an ice storm on Monday. Matt Jones | The Daily Independent Customers streached around the building at fast food resturants in downton Ashland on Tuesday afternoon. Matt Jones | The Daily Independent Fresh fa...

DECATUR — Decatur City Council members are used to grappling with problems of how to stretch too few tax dollars to cover the city’s needs. But their meeting Wednesday night presented them with a new and more pleasant financial conundrum: how to spend more than $458,000 of taxpayer money made available to them by the federal government for the sole purpose of helping people. Mayor Julie Moore Wolfe had earlier suggested council members come up with their own ideas for spending the Cor...

SALEM — Higher education advocates are joining with a group fighting hunger to support a bill in the Oregon Legislature aimed at helping relieve food and housing insecurity for students.

KATHLEEN REYNOLDS Bored on a Saturday? Why not head over to the Wheelhouse Roller Rink, Paradise Mini Golf, or the Kay-Von Drive-in to skate, putt or snuggle in your car to watch movies? Oh, wait. The skating rink at River Park Shopping Center closed in 1988, the mini-golf course on Third Street was demolished to make way for the Flood Project in 2005 and the drive-in theater was gutted by fire in the 1970s and shut down in 1981. In her newest book, “Lost Napa Valley,” aut...

SARAH MANSUR Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s proposed $41.6 billion spending plan for the coming fiscal year relies, in part, on ending nine tax incentives for businesses in an effort to preserve an estimated $932 million in state revenues. However, Pritzker’s proposal to end what he called “unaffordable corporate loopholes” would require action by the Illinois General Assembly. “This will be one of the most challenging budgets ...

The Monroe County government staff has been tasked with coming up with plans to reopen county libraries and its planning department and the county will vote on it next month. On Wednesday, the Monroe County Commission directed staff to come up with a plan to reopen public libraries and the county’s planning department to in-person visits. The libraries and planning department have been closed to the public because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The library is conducting curbside services for bo...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations are warning taxpayers about a new wave of COVID-related scams as the agency delivers the

FEBRUARY 18

Roads in Columbia are being treated regularly, but not many think about what makes up the salt applied on the roads.