03.15
Another local business robbed.
According to WQCH, sometime before 6:30 AM Wednesday a thief or thieves broke into Mitchell’s Plumbing on North Duke St. About $2,000 in copper plumbing parts were stolen along with cash from the office. The parts will eventually turn up at a metal recycler; the problem is figuring out which one.
Anyone with information about the theft is encouraged to call LaFayette PD, which is located literally across the street from the burglarized business.
If you’ve got a business in Walker and plan to expand, be prepared for county leaders to exploit you.
PSI Fibers’ announcement about moving five miles north into another building in the same town has been hijacked by Commissioner Heiskell and Rev. Larry Brooks who keep attaching their own names to the news, even though they had absolutely no role in the decision.
In a normal community, business expansion stories would be accompanied by photos of the business. Here when businesses expand the paper slaps up file photos of Bebe.
LaFayette has decided to retain Barwick name on the local airport. The field will still be renamed in a future council meeting, to either LaFayette-Barwick Regional or Barwick-LaFayette Regional. A decision wasn’t voted on this week due to responsible members of the City Council being out sick.
- WQCH Radio, 03/12/14: “THE LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL TABLED A REQUEST MONDAY, TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE BARWICK-LAFAYETTE AIRPORT, BECAUSE BOTH COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO SERVE ON THE AIRPORT COMMITTEE WERE ABSENT DUE TO ILLNESS.
- “IT WAS MADE CLEAR, HOWEVER, THAT THE ‘BARWICK’ NAME WILL BE RETAINED. A SUGGESTION WAS AIRED AT LAST MONTH’S MEETING THAT THE NAME BE CHANGED TO DROP ‘BARWICK’ FROM THE TITLE. MANY LOCALS EXPRESSED AN INTENSE DISLIKE FOR THAT IDEA AS BARWICK MILLS WAS LAFAYETTE’S MAJOR EMPLOYER FOR DECADES, AND E.T. BARWICK HAD MUCH TO DO WITH THE AIRPORT’S DEVELOPMENT.
- “WHEN COUNCIL COMMITTEE MEMBERS CHRIS DAVIS AND JUDY MEEKS ARE PRESENT AT NEXT MONTH’S MEETING, THE WORD ‘REGIONAL’ IS EXPECTED TO BE ADDED TO THE NAME SO IT’S LIKELY TO BE RE-NAMED EITHER THE ‘BARWICK-LAFAYETTE REGIONAL AIRPORT’ OR THE ‘LAFAYETTE-BARWICK REGIONAL AIRPORT’.”
Adding the word “regional” probably has some kind of impact on state/federal funding, grants, or rules…
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