“Two hundred years ago today the Clark County Commissioners met for the very first time,” Clark County Commissioner Melanie Flax Wilt said. “They had serious things to discuss, and we actually just by coincidence have our meeting on the same day and it fell 200 years to the day.”
The local government was set during that meeting, Commissioner Lowell McGlothin said, and much of it is still the same today.
“It says something for the forefathers to be able to put that together for us,” McGlothin said.
The County is hosting a celebration on Friday at the Clark County Fairgrounds.
Clark County Commissioner Rick Lohnes said the local government is still dedicated to solving local issues just like it was 200 years ago.
“It’s a big deal,” Lohnes said of the bicentennial. “We are still supporting some of the same things. The county’s charge is to support all of the county’s offices and that’s what our budget does.”
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