The Richmond Register

County to get more emergency sirens
Madison County Fiscal Court approved a contract Tuesday that will more than double the number of emergency warning sirens in the county’s network.
In a unanimous vote, the fiscal court gave approval to negotiate a $743,763 contract with Safer Services to increase the number of sirens from 29 to 65 sirens. The contract enables the county to upgrade 19 sirens in addition to buying new ones.
Madison County Emergency Management Agency Director Carl Richards said the growth of subdivisions in previously undeveloped areas has prompted the need for the additional sirens.
More responsibility for insurance firms
The Kentucky League of Cities (KLC) is doing things differently this year when it comes to shedding light on initiatives passed during the 2008 Kentucky General Assembly.
Meetings are being conducted in key cities throughout the state in lieu of large, wrap-up meetings, J.D. Chaney, counsel for KLC Member Legal Services said Tuesday at a special-called meeting of the Richmond City Commission.
Man pleads guilty to rape, sodomy charges
Instead of going to trial Monday, a Richmond man pleaded guilty to raping and sodomizing his neighbor in December.
Joshua Ryan Hughley, 20, of McDaniel Drive, accepted a plea agreement with a 15-year sentence each for one count of first-degree sodomy and one count of first-degree rape, said Madison Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Jennifer Hall. The commonwealth recommended that the sentences be served concurrently, for a total sentence of 15 years.
Richmond man arrested after brief pursuit
A 34-year-old Richmond man was arrested early Sunday morning on multiple charges after a brief vehicle pursuit by the Madison County Sheriff’s Department.
Patrick Miles was charged with reckless driving, second-degree fleeing and evading, operating on a suspended license, first-degree driving under the influence, first-degree criminal mischief, failure to maintain insurance and failure to wear a seat belt.
Sgt. Mike Marcum and Deputy Kevin Crutcher were driving on Lancaster Avenue toward downtown Richmond around 1:25 a.m. when they observed a black GMC Envoy going about 70 mph toward the Eastern Bypass.
EKU student, faculty member recognized for business plan
An Eastern Kentucky University student and a faculty member recently were recognized in an inaugural statewide business plan contest for entrepreneurs.
Idea State U, sponsored and managed by the Department of Commercialization and Innovation within the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, is designed to help identify and support the next generation of Kentucky innovators and entrepreneurs.
Greg Compton, who graduated this past weekend with a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting, was judged to have the best undergraduate student “Elevator Pitch,” a 60-second oral synopsis of his business plan.
Saving the river
The final exam for several Eastern Kentucky University students is more about just getting a good grade.
For a group of eight students under the leadership of professor Alan Banks, director of the EKU Center for Appalachian Studies, their final exam could result in saving the Kentucky River.
Students Ivy Brashear, Christopher Mullikin, Kelley Davidson, Ashley Evans, Ashley Hallis, Warren Oliver, Jeremy Roberts and Gary Underwood have worked to compile survey questions that are being distributed to elected officials representing the 41 counties located along the Kentucky River watershed.
Model named a Green and Healthy School
Model Laboratory School was one of 53 schools across the state recognized Tuesday for joining a new program designed to make significant health and environmental improvements.
Through the Web-based Kentucky Green and Healthy Schools program, students complete health and environmental inventories of their school buildings in nine areas, including health and safety, water, transportation, energy, indoor air quality, green spaces, instructional leadership, hazardous chemicals and solid waste.
Confederate president portrayed at battlefield
June 3 will mark the 200th anniversary of an American president born in Kentucky.
It is not Abraham Lincoln. The 200th anniversary of his birth is Feb. 12, 2009. A two-year national celebration of his bicentennial began this year.
June is the birth month of that “other” native-Kentuckian who headed a national government, Jefferson Davis, first and only president of the Confederate States of America.
A more subdued commemoration of his birth will take place Sunday, June 8, in Fairview, where a 351-foot concrete obelisk, taller than a football field is long, rises above the Todd County countryside.
Benefit to save Whistle Stop Stables
Whistle Stop Stables owner Chris Seals has faced several challenges throughout the past three years, including a continuing battle with lyme disease and the rising costs required to keep the Berea-based riding stables in operation.

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