Laurel County Fiscal Court: the London-Laurel County Veterans Celebration and the Veterans Remembered Series

The court. "Laurel County Judge/Executive, 606-864-4640, [email protected], 101 South Main Street, Suite 320, London, KY 40741" - David Westerfield, who has served as Judge/Executive since 2011; office hours 8:00-4:00 Eastern, executive assistant Kelly Sutton ([email protected]). "Fiscal Court Meetings: 2nd Monday at 8:45 AM, 4th Thursday at 9:30 AM." The magistrates: Jon Swindler (District 1), Karen Waller (District 2), Joey Riddle (District 3), Bill Hedges (District 4), Gene Witt (District 5), Brock Lisby (District 6), Danny Eades (District 7). The county clerk calls the roll (Tony Harover). The celebration. The Sentinel-Echo's account of the annual event: "The annual London-Laurel County Veterans Celebration on Saturday, November 4 [2023] will give citizens the opportunity to thank veterans for their service and sacrifice to the country. The celebration will begin at 11:45 a.m. on Saturday in front of the Laurel County Courthouse. The celebration will include a 21-gun salute from the London DAV." The Fiscal Court's own page carried the next editions - "London-Laurel County Veterans Celebration. The celebration will be begin at 11:45 a.m. on Saturday, November 7. It will include special singing, a proclamation honoring veterans and a 21-gun salute" - with "All veterans and their families are welcomed to attend. For more information contact Judge Westerfield's office at 606-864-4640." The remembered series. The court's page ran a "Veterans Remembered Series" through the window - its June item is "Women Veterans Day, Wednesday, June 10, 2026, Series, Part 2026" - the court posting each veteran's remembrance on the county's channel. The court's paper record. The Fiscal Court's 2025 and 2026 agendas published on the county's site (January 2025 through October 2026) name no veteran item: the motions are the clerk's rolls, the treasurer's budget and cash transfers, the road department and the sheriff, and the 2026 holiday schedule adopted November 18, 2025. The court's veteran record is its announcements and its videos, which live on the county's Facebook page and answer no fetch (the gap goes to docs/COUNTY-REVISIT.md). No benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed. The courts. Laurel County sits in the Twenty-seventh Judicial Circuit (Circuit Judges Gregory A. Lay and Michael O. Caperton; Family Judges Stephen M. Jones and Lucas M. Joyner; District Judges Wendell Lewis "Skip" Hammons Jr. and John Paul Chappell), with Circuit Court Clerk Roger L. Schott at the Laurel County Judicial Center, 305 S. Main St., London. The Department of Specialty Courts' own page gives Laurel a certified Drug Court and no veterans treatment court (the VTCs are in Boone, Campbell, Christian, Fayette, Floyd, Hardin and Kenton counties).