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It was a ceremony without a lot of pomp and circumstance, yet no less stirring as Franklin County Sheriff Chris Quire and 27 of his deputies were sworn in by Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wingate on Wednesday afternoon at the county courthouse.

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Larry Perkins and Natalie Lile will be back on the Franklin County Schools board with one representing a different district.

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Editor's note: Story updated 7:40 a.m. on Nov. 9, 2022, to include another quote from Commissioner Unger.Delays due to large voter turnout at several polling places around Frankfort and Franklin County saw this year’s election results take longer to announce than usual, with final tallies fo…

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Editor's note: Due to technical difficulties Derrick Graham's answers did not appear in the special voter guide section of the Oct. 29-30 weekend edition.

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With less than a week until the general election, several candidates for local office were shaking hands and providing literature to fans as they headed through the gates at Sower Field in Bellepoint Friday as the Frankfort Panthers and Western Hills Wolverines squared off on the gridiron.

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According to the preamble of the Kentucky Code of Judicial Conduct, “An independent, fair, and impartial judiciary is indispensable to our system of justice. The United States and Kentucky legal systems are based upon the principle that an independent, impartial, and competent judiciary, com…

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The South Frankfort Neighborhood Association and Focus on Race Relations - Frankfort will host a candidate forum on Thursday, Oct. 6 in the Frankfort High School auditorium.

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In an effort to modernize maps of Franklin County's voting precincts ahead of the May 2023 reapportionment, County Clerk Jeff Hancock presented the fiscal court with the possibility of using the latest mapping technologies to get an accurate headcount in each district.

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A Democratic redistricting expert testified Wednesday that the new map of state House districts has “perhaps the most extreme advantage for one party in a legislative map that I’ve ever seen,” and a Republican lawyer spent hours trying to discredit the expert and the methodology he used.