Local briefs for Oct. 3, 2016

Published 11:07 am Monday, October 3, 2016

City meetings rescheduled

Tuesday’s Winchester Board of Commissioners meeting has been rescheduled from 5:30 p.m. to 10 a.m.

Today’s Winchester Licensing Board has been canceled and rescheduled for 5 p.m. Oct. 10.

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Sylvania retirees meeting Oct. 11

Winchester GTE/Sylvania/Osram/UAW retirees will have a short meeting at the Union Hall at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11, and travel to Natural Bridge Park for lunch at 11:30. All Winchester Sylvania retirees and former employees are always welcome to join us for lunch.

Class of 1948 meeting 

The Clark County High School Class of 1948 will meet for lunch at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at Maddie’s on Main.

Extension District audit available online 

The Clark County Extension District Board’s most recent audit and adopted budget can be viewed anytime on the Department for Local Government’s Public Portal website at https://kydlgweb.ky.gov/Entities/specDistSearch.cfm. To view the most recent financial statement, please visit the Clark County Extension Office, 1400 Fortune Drive, between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Zoning adjustments special meeting

The Winchester-Clark County Board of Zoning Adjustments will have a special meeting and public hearing at 6 p.m. Thursday in the city commission chambers at Winchester City Hall.

Grimes is October featured artist 

The Winchester Black History and Heritage Committee is sponsoring featured artist Le Datta Grimes and “Words to Live By,” at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Bluegrass Heritage Museum. Grimes is an award-winning newspaper journalist whose work has appeared in national magazines such as People and Newsweek. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Kentucky, where her research includes early 20th Century African communities and Rosenwald schools.

County pay grade committee meetings

The Clark County Fiscal Court’s classification and pay grade committee has called the following special meetings for county employees:

— 8 a.m. Wednesday at Clark County Animal Shelter for shelter employees

— 9 a.m. Wednesday at Clark County Animal Shelter for home incarceration employees

— 8 a.m. Oct. 18 at Clark County Road Department for department employees.

First Settlers meeting Oct. 11

The sixth meeting for residents of the Ford and Kentucky River area will be at 6 p.m. Oct. 11 at the First Settlers House on Old Boonesboro Road.