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Last updated on Tuesday, September 18, 2018
(BEDFORD) - The Commissioners approved spending $6,700 to purchase ten six foot decorated and lighted wreaths to decorate the courthouse for Christmas.
Two of the wreaths will be put on the north and south side of the courthouse and three along the east and west side of the courthouse.
In other business,
The commissioners passed an ordinance to allow the Sheriff's Department to charge other agencies $75 a day to use the county's firing range.
The money will be placed in a special fund to do maintenance at the firing range.
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Lawrence County Sheriff Mike Branham says there are 190 inmates in the jail this morning, of those 40 were females, 8 Level 6 offenders and two were parole holds. There were no Department of Correction holds in the jail this morning.
"The parole holds violated locally and were sent to our jail. They will either spend their sentence here, be released, or sent back to prison," Sheriff Branham added.
Lawrence County inmates have been flushing wrappers from items purchased from commissary, clothing and other items down the toilets at the jail thus clogging the city's sewer lines.
The county is taking steps to stop the lines from being clogged by installing grinders in the sewer systems to address the problem.
Sheriff Mike Branham says the blockage has occurred several times this year and many times the blockage has been found blocks away from the jail, causing lines to back up in area businesses and homes.
The commissioners approve RQAW Corporation to oversee the project. This morning Trent Montemayor, of RQAW presented two bids for the project. Those bids were taken under advisement.
Once a bid is accepted, the project should take about six months to complete.
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Lawrence County Highway crews continue to finish up paving projects, doing fog sealing, patching and mowing and cutting brush.
Bridge crews have been doing some concrete work on area bridges.
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Emergency Management Director Valerie Luchauer was in Indianapolis this morning attending a 911 meeting. She sent word that the county has received a grant for $10,000 to purchase weather radios.
She is also currently updating the county's hazmat plan and working with area nursing homes on their emergency management plans.
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