Williamsburg alcohol petition comes up six signatures short

Monday afternoon Williamsburg Mayor Roddy Harrison was feeling a little like the television character Maxwell Smart from the 1960s television show “Get Smart,” whose famous catch phrase was “missed it by that much.”

“I wish Agent 99 would come and save the day,” Harrison said laughing.

A 328-signature alcohol petition that Harrison filed with the Whitley County Clerk’s Office Thursday afternoon proved to be six valid signatures shy of the 197 valid signatures needed to place the measure on a ballot sometime this June.