Question: Who is responsible for maintaining private fire hydrants and can firefighters use them to fight fires?
Answer: Lexington fire Captain Bill Woodward had the answeres to your questions:
1) How many private fire hydrants are there in Lexington? A count was just completed and there are 1,100 total private hydrants now in the city.
2) What color are these [...]

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Question: Does Kentucky have a free roadside service program for Kentuckians traveling our highways, parkways and interstates?
Answer: Yes Kentucky does have a roadside assistance program called SAFE Patrol which operates in the Roadway Assistance Branch of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s Division of Transportation Security.
According to their Web site, the patrol is a part of a [...]

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Question: What happened to the obelisk with the camel on top that was located on Main Street Viaduct in front of the Union Station?
Answer: The answer to your question appeared in a previous Ask Us column on March 23, 2003. The original location of the statue was the zero mile marker to measure starting distance [...]

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Question: Where can we go to recycle glass in Lexington?
Answer: The answer comes from the city’s waste management department. If you have a Rosie recycler, it has a tray at the top of the large trash bin that is used to dispose of glass. But these containers are being phased out and replaced by a [...]

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Question: A city in Oregon has a Citizen Radar Patrol Program in which police lend radar guns to people concerned about speeders in their neighborhoods. If a citizen spots a speeder, the police send a letter to the registered owner of that car. It can be helpful, the police chief was quoted as saying, [...]

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Question:What conclusive physical evidence is there that Lexington does not exist in the Euclidean universe? D.H.
Answer: The person who asked this question, thankfully, provided an answer to his own question:  To save you the effort of figuring it out, here’s the answer: Not far from the H-L building, you will find the corner of East [...]

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Question: I’ve got some questions, some about things of which you have written.
1) I understand that the street relocation on Reynolds will cost over a quarter of a million dollars? Is that true?
2) Why is Parks Dept putting up French flags downtown?
Answer: For question number one, we reported in the April, 2007, Herald-Leader that a traffic signal [...]

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Question: Have you found out anything about where and how the 911 phone tax per line number money is going? And when if ever will they stop it.
Answer: According to the State Commercial Mobile Radio Services Board: Kentucky has two statewide taxes on phone services. One of these taxes is set by state law (at [...]

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Question: Why does my property tax bill show fair cash value and taxable value when both amounts are different? And which amount do I actually pay? Are different people taxed at the two different rates or is only one amount applicable?
Answer: This answer comes from Fayette County Clerk Don Blevins. The fair cash value is [...]

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Question: Who were the Mason Headleys? I know something of the Beaumont Farm Southwest of Lexington and the Headley family - but who were the Masons? Can someone provide information on both of these families?
Answer: The Headley family owned Beaumont Farm, which included hundreds of acres in what is now south and southwest Lexington, according [...]

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