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 The town of Jellico spent nearly two weeks in the red last summer as finance problems slowly came to a head.

It was May when the town first became overdrawn, according to bank statements obtained by the LaFollette Press. 

The statements are records of only some of the town’s accounts according to Mayor Les Stiers.

“That’s for most of the accounts, not all of them,” he said. 

LaFOLLETTE—On Monday, the LaFollette Utilities Board awarded Improved Technologies Group a contract for sewer rehabilitation. Improved Technologies Group placed a bid of $305,403. LUB will use money from a Community Development Block Grant to finance the project. LUB applies for the grant every two years and has been using the money for sewer rehabilitation.
The utilities board also approved a one-year extension to General Manager Kenny Baird’s five-year contract and approved the purchase of the Loby Blox property for $115,000.
 

It’s not too late to sign up for the Shepherd’s Home’s third annual golf tournament. People can sponsor four-member teams for $300 until tee time 1 p.m. May 15 at the Greens of Deerfield.
“It’s a fun event,” said Larry Tanis, president of the Shepherd’s Home Board of Directors.
The tournament is an 18-hole, four-man scramble with a shotgun start. This means each team will begin at a different hole so teams can begin at the same time. After each stroke, players will choose the best ball hit.

Calvin L Daugherty, 60, died Friday.
Daugherty received a head injury during a logging accident in the Vasper Community, according to a report from Campbell County Sheriff's Deputy Travis Bostic. Daughterty was cutting a series of trees off Sharp Lane. These trees were falling slow, according to a witness, Bostic said. One tree fell into a smaller tree, dislodged the tree top, and caused it to spin towards Daugherty. Daugherty was knocked to the ground by the falling tree top.