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For the past year, the results of the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the way that government business is conducted at the local level. Many of the interactions that used to take place in-person inside government facilities have been altered or eliminated completely.
The Pike County Commissioners are looking to return to some sense of normalcy in this regard by pushing for the reopening of the County Government Center in Waverly.
The Pike County Government building in Waverly has been closed in some capacity for the past number of months in response to the limits that have been put in place due to COVID-19.
One of Pike Countyâs longest tenured public servants recently wrapped up over 45 years of work in the community.
Blaine Beekman has entered retirement, a state he sarcastically called âperfectâ, because there isnât much to do these days but turn on the news and view all the chaos that is taking place.
For a man who has kept as busy for as long as Beekman has, retirement will likely be a significant change of speed, but given the broad and lasting effect he has had on his community, it is a well deserved break.
Beekman began his career as an educator- the occupation in which he says his true identity is found. His first teaching job was at Southeast Community College in Cumberland Kentucky as a Political Science teacher.