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Saturday, March 3, 2012 Volume XX, Number 90THE NEWS SOURCE OF PRINCETON/CALDWELL COUNTY

A Saturday morning pop culture phenomenon is coming to the local stage as Caldwell County High School’s annual Spring musical.

“Schoolhouse Rock Live!” will be performed at the CCHS Fine Arts The-ater Thursday, March 29; Friday, March 30, and Sat-urday, March 31, by a cast of approximately 20 stu-dents from third through 12th grades.

Shows are scheduled at 7 p.m. each night.

“This show is fast-paced and fun and involves some

audience participation which is something new,” said Denise Oliver, direc-tor of choral activities for both Caldwell County High School and Middle School.

This is Oliver’s fi rst year undertaking the big show, a tradition in Caldwell County that dates back to the 1950s, that fell by the wayside until it was revived in the 1990s and has continued every year since.

Oliver, who has served as middle school choral instructor since the 1999-2000 school year, was asked to take on instruc-

tion at both her school and the high school this year upon the departure of Susan Sheril at the high school.

“My hat is off to every director who has staged a musical here,” said Oliver. “This is really a huge un-dertaking.”

Assisting Oliver with the show is Heather Nel-son, who helped with past shows in the school district and is serving as “right hand man” for the fi rst year director.

One of the biggest sur-prises for Oliver was the cost involved in staging a

high school show.“One thing I looked for

when choosing a show was something we could do very simply as far as staging and props,” said Oliver.

“Schoolhouse Rock Live!” seems to be the per-fect choice, she added.

With its minimal band, set, costume and fl ex-ible cast requirements, the show may be performed in virtually any space, bring-ing its infectious zest to a cross-generational audi-ence. Children just dis-covering the TV series to “Generation X-ers” seek-ing a taste of nostalgia will

delight in this sure-fi re entertainment that’s sim-ply good, clean and educa-tional fun.

“It is simple, but should be popular and familiar for many members of the audience. Plus, I knew it was something the kids could really enjoy doing,” she said.

“I think this show will really appeal to audience members of all ages.”

The Emmy Award-win-ning Saturday morning cartoon series “School-house Rock” taught histo-ry, grammar, math, science

Showtime: ‘Schoolhouse Rock!’ coming to CCHSStaff Report • The Times Leader

Lightning may not strike the same place twice, as the saying goes, but some county residents learned this week that de-structive windstorms do.

A morning of severe storms that spawned 11 confi rmed tornadoes in the state did not leave Caldwell County resi-dents unscathed.

Residents on Dripping Springs Road and Otter Pond Road were the hard-est hit, with numerous downed trees, power out-age and several buildings damaged or destroyed.

For those who have been in the neighborhood a while, the damage was an unhappy reminder of an October 2007 storm that produced two torna-does along virtually the same path.

Among those prop-erties hit this week was the trailer home of John White, in the 3000 block of Dripping Springs Road.

“I didn’t know it was going to hit,” he said Wednesday afternoon. “I always go to town in the morning, to the VFW. I didn’t even know it hit un-til I got back.”

The high winds blew apart a metal outbuilding,

Pounded: Otter Pond area hit (again) by windstorm

By JARED NELSONThe Times Leader

A quest for status as a top-tier chest pain center has begun for Princeton’s Caldwell Medical Center.

The hospital is already a member of the St. Thom-as Chest Pain Network, but CEO Charles Lovell Jr. said this week that the fa-cility is looking to take that relationship a step further.

The hospital is pursu-ing accreditation through the network.

“We’re getting ready to begin the process of becoming an accredited chest pain center,” said Lovell.

“We will do the same standards in treating chest pain in our emergency

department that hospitals like St. Thomas now use.”

The chest pain network was established in 2006 with a goal of providing a uniform approach for treating cardiac emergen-

Medical center pursues chest pain standards

By JARED NELSONThe Times Leader

Directors of the Prince-ton Electric Plant Board are posed with a unique problem — how to spend a few hundred thousand dollars by the end of the summer.

The money in question includes the remnants of Build America bonds is-sued by the Plant Board in 2009 as part of a $21 mil-lion bond package.

The bulk of the money was used to fund the con-struction of a new North

Princeton substation, as well as a transformer and transmission lines con-necting the local power grid to the Kentucky Utili-ties network, plus other

Plant Board nears ’09 bond deadline

By JARED NELSONThe Times Leader

A Princeton man was arrested on drug posses-sion and burglary charges after a Center Street com-plaint Thursday.

Princeton police ar-rested Lee D. Linder, 19, of Center Street, at 7:12 p.m. Thursday.

Assistant Chief R.L. Howton said the charges came after offi cers re-sponded to a burglary

complaint at a residence in the 200 block of Center Street.

The victim, Candice Watson, told offi cers that a person or persons entered her residence and stole $2,000 in cash.

Investigation led offi -cers to interview Linder, who admitted that he and another individual entered the home and stole the

Burglary charge filed Thursday

Staff Report • The Times Leader

TIMES LEADER/Anita Baker

A farm truck owned by Henry Birrell took a direct hit from a tree blown over by high winds

Wednesday. The storm targeted the Dripping Springs and Otter Pond areas of the county.

TIMES LEADER/Jared Nelson

Dripping Springs Road resident John White spent Wednesday afternoon

making repairs to his residence, damaged by the wind.

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“My hat is off to every director who has staged a musical here. This is really a huge undertaking.”

— Denise Oliver,CCMS/CCHS choral director

“We will do the same standards in treating chest pain … that hos-pitals like St. Thomas now use.

— CEO Charles Lovell Jr.

Funds to be spent by Aug. 1