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🌱 How new courthouse repairs and tax changes could affect Danville residents

Danville, Kentucky Patch AM: a 4 min read

Good morning Danville! We're back in your inbox this morning to keep you in the loop with what's happening in and around town. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • How new courthouse repairs and tax changes could affect Danville residents
  • Why Danville just renamed South Street for Leon Smith

Also on today's calendar: Charlie and The Chocolate Factory - Boyle County Performing Arts Center and 5 more events.

Today's riddle: How do you measure a fish? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Mostly sunny and very warm, with a high of 81 and low of 50 degrees.
  • Thursday: Very warm with plenty of sun, temps: high: 81, low: 55.
  • Friday: A few afternoon showers, with a high of 82 and low of 60 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Fiscal court approves transfers, hears courthouse update - The Advocate-Messenger (amnews.com) — Boyle County leaders meeting in Danville just approved major budget and cash transfers, including $1 million from occupational taxes, while greenlighting a leaner $2.2 million Extension budget with lower tax rates. Magistrates also backed an Earth Day proclamation and heard plans to repair structural and water damage at the historic courthouse, with phased work possibly starting in May.
   

• Danville City Commission honors KU lineman for historic achievements (lanereport.com) — Danville has officially renamed South Street as Leon Smith Way, honoring the city’s first African American Kentucky Utilities lineman for his trailblazing career. Community members and city leaders gathered at City Hall for the street-naming ceremony, timed with National Lineman Appreciation Day and celebrating Smith’s decades-long impact on local civil rights and opportunity.
   

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  • Family-owned furniture store serving Lexington and Central KY to close after 35 years (kentucky.com)
  • Gov. Andy Beshear welcomes Nicholasville cannabis company with open arms (fox56news.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: By inches because they have no feet. (Thank you Gypsy S. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Danville

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