• 85-100 — pass inspection.
• 70-84 — must be re-inspected within 30 days.
• Under 70 — a suspension of permit notice is sent to owner; if owner doesn’t reply in 10 days, the permit is revoked and the restaurant is closed.
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The following establishments were inspected by the Lake Cumberland District Health Department:
BURNSIDE ELEMENTARY
435 East Lakeshore Drive
Rating Score: 100
No violations at time of inspection.
SOUTHWESTERN HIGH
1765 WTLO Road
Rating Score: 100
No violations at time of inspection.
OAK HILL ELEMENTARY
1755 WTLO Road
Rating Score: 100
No violations at time of inspection.
NANCY ELEMENTARY
240 Hwy. 196, Nancy
Rating Score: 100
No violations at time of inspection.
SUBWAY
604 Ogden St.
Rating Score: 92
VIOLATIONS: Employee drinks in food preparation area (corrected); no hand towels at employees’ hand sink; floor unclean in hard-to-reach areas (under dry storage shelving).
PULASKI CENTRAL
500 Chandler St.
Rating Score: 100
No violations at time of inspection.
NEW CHINA
2835 South U.S. 27
Rating Score: 93
VIOLATIONS: Product out of original container is not labeled; food in walk-in cooler is uncovered; raw food is stored above ready-to-eat food in walk-in cooler; employee drinks in food preparation area (corrected); storage shelves are not smooth and easily cleanable; countertop is cracked – in poor repair; wiping cloths not stored in bleach water solution; hand sink is draining on floor (corrected); floor in hard-to-reach area unclean; lights in kitchen are in poor repair, some are not working, not covered with light shields; storage area in back is very dark, needs lighting.
BAXTER’S COFFEE & ICE CREAM
427 Ogden St.
Rating Score: 97
VIOLATIONS: Shelving in food preparation unclean; outside of food storage containers soiled; refrigerator door handles soiled-unclean; single-service items spilled out on floor; window opened without screen (corrected); dry storage area and food preparation area cluttered.
SHOPVILLE ELEMENTARY
819 Mark Shopville Road
Rating Score: 100
No violations at time of inspection.
PORTER HOPKINS SCHOOL
May Street
Rating Score: 100
No violations at time of inspection.
MEECE MIDDLE
Barnett Street
Rating Score: 100
No violations at time of inspection.
MEMORIAL EDUCATION CENTER
222 Langdon St.
Rating Score: 98
VIOLATIONS: Dishwasher is not operational – closed for repairs; dishes to be washed, rinsed and sanitized until dishwasher is repaired.
SOMERSET HIGH
College Street
Rating Score: 100
No violations at time of inspection.
DAIRY QUEEN DOWNTOWN
205 North Main St.
Rating Score: 100
No violations at time of inspection.
NEW CHINA
2835 South U.S. 27
Rating Score: 100
FOLLOW-UP INSPECTION: All violations corrected (continue to work on lighting in kitchen).
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Big Bang Theory
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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