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The Simpsonville city budget for 2013-14 is a fait accompli.

In a short, spring-break-affected meeting Tuesday night, city commissioners gave their unanimous approval to the second reading of an ordinance that establishes that budget.

City Administrator David Eaton was absent from the meeting, but Finance Commissioner Cary Vowels read into the record the terms of the budget, which did not change from the first reading.

That budget, which goes into effect on July 1, calls for:

One might assume that the president of a university’s alumni association would earn some perks along with the job. Maybe free tickets, access to coaches and staff or maybe even the occasional courtside seat.

But Reggie Van Stockum, a Shelby County resident, said that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Four months after pleading guilty to failing to give titles to people who bought cars from him, dealer Donnie Ethington has been cited again for the same offense, police said.

On Thursday Kentucky State Police cited Ethington for failing to give a motor vehicle title to a customer.

A crowd of about 50 people came away from a meeting Thursday with postal officials in Bagdad as satisfied as they could be under the circumstances.

Their post office will not be closed, but it will be operating in a shorter business day.

Effective in May, the post office will go from an 8-hour business day to 6 hours, a measure that already has been put into place at Pleasureville and Finchville, where hours were cut from 8 to 4. All post offices will continue to be open six days a week.