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Growth means a small library for rural Alexandria Scott Wartman swartman@nky.com

Alexandria will get its longawaited library branch as the southern Campbell County town becomes more suburban. A library in southern Campbell County has been talked about for more than a decade. The Campbell County Public Library in January will open a "limited service" library on the first floor of a red brick building along U.S. 27 in Alexandria. The library announced Tuesday it signed a five-year lease. It's not the 19,000-squarefoot southern branch library talked about 10 years ago. The library district shelved that idea in 2012 when voters rejected a tax increase to pay for it. But the small library will offer a collection of books, audiobooks, magazines, music and DVDs as well as computer access and meeting rooms. It's the fourth branch for the Campbell County Library. The next closest is six miles north

A 3,000-square-foot mini library will open in January on the first floor of this Alexandria office building.

in Cold Spring. "We have been actively looking at commercial properties

to lease in Alexandria for several months," library director J.C. Morgan said in a state-

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ment. "We're very happy to be getting this project off the ground. Patrons in southern

Campbell have long requested a closer branch. We're thrilled we can finally provide better services for them." The library signals more change for this once rural outpost. Drees Co. and Fischer Homes have resumed construction stalled by the recession in the massive 1,064-housing unit Arcadia. More than 125 new buildings are finished and listed between $240,000 to $430,000. Fischer's Eagle Ridge will nestle 65 homes costing $218,000 to $295,000 off Poplar Ridge between existing neighborhoods. Work building Eagle Ridge's first five homes started this year. And new home building continues in the Brookwood subdivision off the AA Highway and in Summerlake neighborhood off U.S. 27 at Alexandria's southern edge. The new library will be open 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; 10 a.m.- 5 p.m., Friday; and closed Sunday and Monday.

Nolan indicted on more charges going back 50 years Scott Wartman swartman@nky.com

The sex trafficking case against former Campbell County Judge Tim Nolan has kept growing. And it’s getting stranger. A grand jury on Thursday indicted him on eight more charges, including rape of a female over age 12 from an incident dating back to the summer of 1965. That’s when Nolan, 70, would’ve have been about 18 years old. The other new charges took place between 2004 and September 2016 and include two counts of human trafficking, one count of attempted human trafficking with a minor, one count of sodomy, and three counts of unlawful transaction with a minor. Nolan faces more than 100 years in prison on 28 felony charges, including four counts of human trafficking of a minor. The total number of victims is 22, including eight juveniles, according to the attorney general’s office. A frail-looking Nolan shuffled into a Campbell County courtroom and en-

Tim Nolan listens to his attorney, Margo Grubbs, in Grant County Court on June 12.

tered a not guilty plea Thursday on the new charges. His attorney, Margo Grubbs, directed Nolan where to sit after he wandered past the defense table. She said Nolan suffered a fall in jail and had hoped to

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the Campbell County Police Department claim women identified as Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 accused Nolan of extorting sex from them in exchange for money or under threats. Jane Doe 1 estimated she had sex with Nolan in exchange for money more than 50 times, often told by Nolan to do drugs and alcohol beforehand, the warrant stated. Both women said in the documents they were addicted to heroin. Jane Doe 1 was “essentially homeless” and Jane Doe 2 relied on Nolan for income, food and transportation. Under questioning from Grubbs, Campbell County Police Detective Donald Dornheggen said the investigation into Nolan began in December 2016 when one of the victims contacted a school resource officer in Campbell County. The victim and her grandmother lived on Nolan’s property as a tenant. Grubbs declined comment, saying she was surprised by the new indictment. The special prosecutor in the case, Assistant Attorney General Barbara Whaley, also declined comment.

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move the case along on Thursday. “I have a deteriorating defendant here,” Grubbs said. The new charges further delayed Nolan’s case. Instead of a hearing on several motions filed, Judge Kathleen Lape went back into her chambers to talk to the defense attorneys and prosecutor about the new indictment. Nolan’s downfall has garnered much speculation and attention in Northern Kentucky since police raided his southern Campbell County farm in February. In addition to being a district judge in Campbell County in the 1970s and 1980s, Nolan made a name for himself as a leader in conservative politics, often raising objections about tax increases at public meetings. He filed a lawsuit against the libraries challenging their taxes. He also campaigned for President Donald Trump in 2016. The indictments don’t contain details of the crimes. Information has come out piecemeal through court hearings and documents. Search warrants and affidavits from

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