The election was necessary after Teresa Rice, general manager and editor of the Lebanon Enterprise, resigned from the board. Rice was named recently as publisher of Filkinsí previous paper, The Perry County News in Tell City, Ind. Both are owned by Landmark Community Newspapers Inc.

Before joining Landmark, Filkins was publisher of The Seguin (Texas) Gazette-Enterprise for Southern Newspapers Inc. for six years and The Moore County (Texas) News-Press for four years. Prior to that, he was news editor/editor for The Perryton (Texas) Herald for eight years.

Filkins has a B.S. degree in history and journalism from the State College of Arkansas as well as a M.A. degree in journalism from the University of Iowa.

Filkins replaced David Greer as Bardstown publisher. Greer accepted a position with KPA as its member services director and administrator of the Kentucky High School Journalism Association.

As publisher, Filkins has responsibilities for The Standard, its cable television local origination station, PLG TV-13, Kentucky Home real estate magazine and the paper's web site, www.kystandard.com . He is also a regional manager for LCNI.