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TheThe 12 PAGES / VOLUME 138 / NUMBER 26 Old Garage Should Soon Go to School THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2019 CrittendenCrittendenRead More Inside on Page 2 PressPress 24/7 BREAKING AND LOCAL NEWS / THE-PRESS.COM AN INDEPENDENTLY-OWNED, LOCAL NEWSPAPER SINCE 1879 ONE DOLLAR in your schools... The Snow days Plan County may As a reminder as winter closes in on Crittenden County, local schools once again will use non-traditional instruction (NTI) days to help bridge start fixing any education gaps when classes cannot be in session due to in- clement weather, widespread sick- ness or other reasons. Known its own roads locally as Rocket Way Snow Days, up to 10 can be taken by the school STAFF REPORT district. NTI allows students on If your chip and seal road snow days to learn from home with in rural Crittenden County take-home packets or work down- has fallen into poor repair loaded to their assigned Chrome- don’t feel alone. The county books. It continues the learning says it hasn’t been able to get any chip and seal work process and helps reduce the num- done over the past couple of ber of days that may need to be years because it cannot at- tacked on to the end of the school tract a contractor. calendar. The Press and The Press Thousands of dollars are Online will keep you posted when piled up in the county’s road NTI is activated on snow days. fund to be spent on chip and seal, but it’s not being spent. The matter is prompting county leaders to look at al- ternatives, including explor- ing costs of buying its own milling equipment and doing the job itself. During its regular monthly meeting last week, Critten- den County Fiscal Court ap- proved a plan to request sealed bids for an asphalt chipper or milling machine. The equipment can be fitted onto the front of a backhoe bucket. It would grind up New Year’s Hayride Christmas in Marion damaged areas of roadway and re-use the aggregate and If you’re looking for a way to ring in St. Nick was all ears when he visited Marion earlier this month to hear Christmas wishes from a few dozen children, including (from left on Santa’s knee) Linley Cople- residual sealing oil in the the New Year, make plans to visit land, 8; Aubry Odom, 7; and Braeden Copeland, 11, behind the jolly old elf. rubble to repair the road by Fohs Hall for the The Old Kentucky grading and rolling the reju- Hayride’s community appreciation pro- venated material. gram. Admission will be free. The Road Department Fore- He sees you when you re drinking! man Audi Maraman told event begins at 7 p.m., and might go county magistrates that ad- on until 2020. Billed as an Old Fash- STAFF REPORT with a safety campaign are being posted at gas ditional cement-like slurry ioned Country Music Pickin' Party, it It’s the first holiday that runs through New stations and bars and could be added at trouble season with legal alcohol ’ will be an interactive event. Local mu- Year’s Day. restaurants in more than spots to help make sure the sales in Marion and local Drunken driving-re- 60 cities in the state. sicians are encouraged to bring their road stays together. law enforcement, along lated crashes are 100 “While we always pa- Judge-Executive Perry instruments and join in. Or, just come with the Kentucky Office percent preventable. trol for impaired drivers, Newcom said costs vary on to listen and visit with your friends and of Highway Safety and Drivers should make a there will be extra offi- new milling units from neighbors. There will be picking and Kentucky State Police are plan for a sober ride and cers on the road as mo- around $150,000 to more reminding motorists to singing by the Hayride house band avoid getting behind the torists travel to and from than $200,000 depending on be responsible behind wheel. their Christmas and New and many others. This will be a family brand and accessories. the wheel as the “Drive Images of Santa with Year’s celebrations,” said “Even if we go with the event with storytelling and music to Sober or Get Pulled Over” the slogan, “He sees you Marion Police Chief Ray Cadillac version that’s about close out 2019. increases enforcement when you’re drinking,” O’Neal. CORRECTION See ROADS/page 8 An article in the Dec. 12 edition in- correctly stated that county busi- nesses must submit net profits reports Dog 30 days after their fiscal year ends. Actually, those reports are due the 15ht day of the 4th month following the close of the company’s fiscal year. Gone? YouTube Join more than 270 subscribers @CrittendenPress No-Kill Shelter Got some down time over the holidays, thumb through the archived videos at our YouTube Channel, and subscribe to the on Brink of Closure channel. It’s free! The-Press.com Without New Plan Join more than 4,000 daily viewers STAFF REPORT What’s it going to take to Although there will be no keep saving the lives of shel- newspaper next week, we ter dogs and cats in Critten- will keep you posted with den County? breaking news online at That’s a question those The-Press.com charged with overseeing the Mary Hall-Ruddiman no-kill animal shelter will be Facebook wrestling with after the first Kennae Fenton (pictured) is one of three part-time employees at Mary Hall-Ruddiman no-kill Join our nearly of the year. animal shelter east of Marion on Just-A-Mere Road. The facility just celebrated its ninth an- 5,800 followers The non-profit organiza- niversay, but without a new plan, there’s little chance it will see a 10th year. @CrittendenPress tion is running out of money fast, and options are limited Marion that have been there shelter will be strangled by will find the support to do Keeping up with what’s happening your local as to what will happen to the for three years or more. The operating costs sometime something,” Beavers said. dogs and cats living there schools is easy with Crittenden County Super- shelter doesn’t let just any- this summer. The options are indeed once the cookie jar is empty. one have a dog or cat. A The no-kill stipulation limited, said Melissa Guill, intendent Vince Clark’s monthly Rocket Report The shelter, which cele- videos broadcast on our Facebook Page and prospective owner has to fill means the road will be quite the county’s circuit court brated its ninth anniversary out an application and narrow en route to develop- clerk and former director for printed in the newspaper. last week, was established there’s something akin to a ing a strategy for keeping the the shelter. Guill was on the The with funding from the late background check done on shelter open. The original board in the early years. Hall-Ruddiman, who be- them. pot of money is projected to “We moved into the build- Crittenden Press queathed more than “We want to make sure the be gone by July. The shelter ing on Dec. 6, 2010,” she re- USPS 138-260 / Marion, Ky. $250,000 to the county. She animals are going to good cannot operate on donations called. passed away in 2007, en- homes,” said Kristi Beavers, or the fees it gets from Guill said the shelter’s dowing the idea of a shelter who manages the shelter. adopting out animals. The oversight board has been for dogs and cats that would For Beavers, it’s a part- cash flow will not come close terrific stewards of the never be put to sleep, even if time job and something she to paying its expenses, money Hall-Ruddiman left to ©2019, The Crittenden Press Inc. no one adopted them. Ever. loves, but the noose is get- which are about $6,000 or the community. Most knew The contents of this newspaper, Today, there are a handful ting tighter and without an- more a month. it wouldn’t last forever, in- including stories and advertising, are protected by of dogs living at the shelter other major influx of money, “There are enough animal U.S. copyright laws. on Just-A-Mere Road east of or an alternative plan, the lovers in this town that we See SHELTER/page 3 2 THE CRITTENDEN PRESS, Marion, Kentucky 42064, Thursday, December 26, 2019 Methamphetamine included in most felony indictments STAFF REPORT Force. $3,359.50. of methamphetamine. The Crittenden County •Joshua Lee Jones, 31, Grand Jury Indictments •Justin Edward Rose, •Marc Duane Whitaker, Grand Jury indicted a of Marion was indicted in 28, of Marion was in- 34, of Marion was in- number of individuals two separate cases that in its original container, ounces) of meth. Police dicted on a felony charge dicted on a felony count earlier this month. included multiple two counts of possession say it was the largest of first-degree possession of first-degree, first-of- A grand jury does not felonies, including a of drug paraphernalia, meth bust in the history of a controlled substance fense possession of a determine guilt or inno- Class B, Class C and failure of non-owner op- of Marion. (methamphetamine), controlled substance cence. It merely decides three Class D felonies. erator to maintain re- Jones was also sus- greater than two ounces, (methamphetamine) and whether sufficient evi- The most serious was the quired insurance and pected of being the per- and misdemeanor pos- misdemeanor possession dence exists to continue Class B felony for first- possession of marijuana.