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Footing is being poured for a new CVS/pharmacy on a four-acre site at the northeastern corner of U.S. 27 and Ky. 80 bypass. Mike DeAngelis, spokes-person for CVS/pharmacy, said the new, much-larger drugs-tore will open about March 2011. He described it as a free-standing store, meaning it will be the only store at that location. Somerset’s current CVS/pharmacy in Cumberland Square shopping center will close when the new drugstore opens. “It will be a seamless transfer,” DeAngelis promised. “Employees, prescription rec-ords, merchandise ... all will move. Somerset CVS/pharmacy currently has about 20 employees. DeAngelis said additional employees will be added as needed at the new store. However, “ ... it’s all about convenience ... more parking, larger selection of merchandise ... better service for our customers,” he emphasized. Jerry Ikerd, owner of Ikerd Management, said the building for the 13,225-square-foot drugstore should be completed in six months. Ikerd’s company is developing the building site and CVS/pharmacy has its own developer to erect the building, according to DeAngelis. Signs announcing the new drugstore should go up at the site within the next few days, Ikerd said. “It will have entrances off U.S. 27 and Ky. 80, enhanced by a right-turn lane off Ky. 80, he noted. Somerset’s CVS/pharmacy, formerly Super X and then Revco, has been located in Cumberland Square shopping center off Ky. 80 bypass since August 1979. CVS/pharmacy bought Revco in 1997 and the local drugstore took the CVS name. CVS/pharmacy, founded in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1963, is headquartered in Woonsocket, R.I. It is the second largest pharmacy chain in the United States with 7,027 stores in 45 states and Puerto Rico. The chain sells prescription drugs and a wide assortment of general merchandise including over-the-counter drugs and cosmetics.Local News
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A new CVS/pharmacy will be built on this site, located at the northeastern corner of U.S. 27 and Ky. 80 bypass. A spokesperson for the drugstore chain said the new store should open about next March
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Pulaski County is not at war. The booming you may hear at dusk is mock cannon fire to scare away birds.
Stuart Spillman, environmental director for the Lake Cumberland Health Department, said at least three cannons are on loan from the department to residents who want to scare away swarms of starlings and blackbirds settling in to roost.
He said a cannon is being used by a resident on Laura Lane off Ky. 39; another is in the Oak Hill Road area and a third is on Ashurst Street in the eastern part of Somerset.
Spillman said a timer on each cannon allows it to “fire” at whatever frequency is desired. The cannons must be used as the birds circle before going to roost. “After they settle in, nothing will chase them out,” Spillman said.
The Health Department doesn’t operate the cannons unless there is a specific complaint in an area where there are lots of birds, Spillman noted. He said so far this year the birds are not as bad as in the past. -
Boil water advisory is lifted countywide
The water controversy that Pulaski County has been boiling over — so to speak — for the last week is finally over.
At 10 minutes after noon Wednesday, the “boil water” advisory for the Western Pulaski Water District was lifted — almost a full week after the problems began around 1 p.m. last Thursday.
Prior to that, the Somerset Water Service — along with the other water providers in its system, including Science Hill Water, Southeastern Water, and Eubank Water — lifted their advisories, with Somerset on Saturday afternoon and the last, Southeastern, by Monday morning. Western Pulaski was the last in the system to complete sample testing for potential contaminants, due to not being able to access its Pikeville-based testing lab until Monday.
Somerset Mayor Eddie Girdler thanked the public for its patience and understanding during the duration of the boil water advisory — put in place to keep citizens from drinking water that could have been contaminated after an accident last Thursday at the water plant site — and also thanked all the city employees for their hard work during this time.
“The boil water advisory went about as well as would be expected,” said Girdler.
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