May 8, 1992

Rockwell International’s Winchester employees will vote Saturday on a tentative agreement to close the plant. The vote is scheduled from 1 to 4 p.m. at the United Auto Workers Union Hall on the Rockwell Road.

State regulations requiring construction of a new landfill will cost the Winchester Municipal Utilities Co. more than the estimated $1.3 million to design, permit and construct the new facility. WMU commissioners learned at their meeting Thursday that disposing of garbage in an out-of-county landfill until a new landfill is completed here could cost as much as $308,844 per year, the low bid submitted by Waste Management of Kentucky at the     commission’s April 16 meeting.

An employee of The Kroger Co., Town and Country Plaza, told Winchester police a 15-year-old Winchester male was observed taking a 25-cent snack cake from the store at 6:53 p.m. Thursday.