It took Doug Nash several years to decide to return to his home county as the place to spend his retirement years. It didn’t take him long after he got here to decide he wanted to get involved in improving his new/old Kentucky home.
     In his second year as a member of Russellville City Council, Nash is one of two candidates for mayor, subject to next week’s General Election.
     A 1960 graduate of Lewisburg High School, Nash spent 30 years working for freight companies. He worked for McLean Trucking for 15 years until it went out of business. He was immediately hired by Yellow Freight Systems and worked for that company another 15 years before retiring in 1999
     He had and his family had lived in Memphis, Florida and California. With two and a half years studying business in college, he ran a real estate business in both California and Florida. His grown children live 45 minutes apart in Memphis and Mississippi, but in 2004 he and his wife Vera came back to Russellville to make their retirement home.
     Two of his sisters, Jessie Sears and Joyce Bonds, live in Russellville, and a brother, Irvin Nash, makes his home in Auburn.
     Doug Nash started voicing his opinion in public circles when Russellville City Council raised water rates. Many citizens gathered at a council meeting in opposition to the action, and Nash expressed his outrage “a bunch of times,” noting “I’m not afraid to speak my mind.”
     In his first try for public office, Nash was elected to the council in 2008 and is concluding that term. He represents the council on the Electric Plant Board.
     Nash is a member of Russellville Lions Club and has been a Mason for 40 years.
     Doug Nash counts among his accomplishments as a member of the council spear-heading the filling in of the planned fish pond at City-County Park and the removal of taxes from health and life insurance. If he’s elected mayor, he promises to 1) provide leadership, integrity, and accountability, 2) reduce excessive spending and build a reserve fund, 3) maintain water rates, 4) focus on improving streets, 5) clean up the streets, and 6) remove the speed bumps and cutouts that are “destroying the vehicles.”
     “As a former owner and manager of a small business, I have experience in management and leadership,” Nash says. “I will be a full-time mayor and work for the taxpayers. I’ll work to make the city of Russellville a better place in which to live.”