Woodford County

We're not, we're not getting to the deep stuff yet.

The first one is that we had all seen the large fire that had taken over Glenn's Creek Distillery in Woodford County back on September 30th.

The blaze had broken out around 3:30 PM at the historic former site of the old Crow Distillery, and it had destroyed the old historic rickhouses and a storage facility before spreading into the nearby brush.

Local officials confirmed that no staff were injured and no spirits were lost in the fire.

people are really really hurting out in our rural communities and farming is hard enough uh you know most of these farms were just a drought or a flood away from going under anyway and for these completely owned goals whether it's the canadian tariff wars whether it's all the equipment being too expensive the cost of fertilizer being through the roof no matter how you look at it this is an anti-farmer administration in congress and so they're ready for a change

I listened to Pantsuit Politics, which I don't often listen to, but I met those ladies at the Woodford County Dems event and they were great.

And I listened to the interview they did with you and really good, like your thoughts about the kind of AG, you know, getting on the AG committee even, we don't wanna put the cart before the horse.

Yeah, but we definitely want to, you know, you want to have an impact.

Yeah, yeah.

Woodford County High School here in Versailles.

Uh, I have to give a shout-out to my grandmother who raised me and my other first cousin.

Okay.

So then from there i- I'm just, well, I'm saying it because she has a, a large influence on my life growing up and she shaped me in a whole lot of ways and I'm still like that today with a whole lot of things she put in me.

Yeah.

But then from there I went to high school at Woodford County, was blessed to be able to go to college and get a scholarship to play basketball in college, which I say it was a blessing itself, you know?

Okay.

We've seen successes in this district.

Woodford County enecte- enacted the first data center ban.

That was what they determined was appropriate for their citizens.

Lexington has extended a local moratorium.

The article reads, a large fire destroyed several vacant buildings at Frankfurt-based Glens Creek Distillery on September 30th.

The bourbon, rum, vodka, and blue agave spirit distillery is located in the old buildings that once housed the Old Crow Distillery in Kentucky's Woodford County.

The fire, which broke out at the warehouse complex on Wednesday afternoon around 3.30 p.m., reportedly engulfed multiple buildings, including historic rickhouses and a storage facility.

Local officials have confirmed that no spirits were stored in the lost buildings and that no staff members were injured.

Woodford County Judge Executive James Kay stated, good friend of the podcast, stated that the destroyed parts of the facility were not in operation and that the distillery's production areas were unaffected.

glens creek distillery confirmed the news on facebook accompanied by a video of a burning warehouse and a statement stating i don't know how to write this so i'll just say that we're all okay but lost several buildings i wanted to make sure you heard it here first and that was no loss of product there was no loss of product or anything but the buildings oh wow

nice

We're having a fire sale.

Because-

I thought it was filed in Woodford County.

I thought it was filed here as well.

Oh, was it? Oh, okay.

I thought it-

I think it was filed in Woodford County

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but it's a sealed case, so nobody has access to the records.

We're going to the campaign corner again.

We got David Graves, who is running for Woodford County's Statehouse District, and Ryan Stanford's running for Jessamine, I think a wee bit of Fayette County's.

State House District.

So a couple of great candidates who've been hitting the campaign trail hard.

You're going to hear from them.

You're going to hear us chat with them, and then you get to make your decision about these candidates.

But I'm thrilled to bring onto the show David Graves, who is coming to us from Woodford County.

one of our favorite counties for sure, and one that I think, you know, highest voting turnout in the 6th District is Woodford County.

Mm-hmm.

Such as, you know, what happened in Woodford County with the fiscal court there passing a permanent ban, not a temporary moratorium, but no data centers at all.

Um, lawmakers in Frankfort seem to be more geared towards what you said of setting a regulatory framework, providing protections and standards in place before, you know, potentially more hyperscale data center developments, um, you know, come throughout the state.

Um, but it, it remains to be seen if there was, you know, standards put in place, if that'd satisfy constituents completely.