Area residents are invited to come out to the Riverfront Park Amphitheater in Brandenburg for an afternoon dedicated to hope, healing, recovery, and community connection at the River of Hope Event. “It's going to be like another resource fair event, but it's also going to have some different walking components and things for the family and children to do,” said CommuniCare Certified Prevention Specialist Andrea Sheroan. The event runs Saturday […]
The Hardin County Fiscal Court met for their second meeting of the month Tuesday. The first reading was held on an ordinance which would impose a temporary moratorium on rezoning and conditional use permits relating to data centers in the county for 180 days. Hardin County Judge/Executive Keith Taul said there are no pending applications related to data centers in the county, but the moratorium allows the county’s Planning Commission […]
The City of Elizabethtown is gearing up for a full day of fall fun at the annual Heartland Harvest Festival, taking place in Downtown E-Town this Saturday, September 26. “We will kick off the morning at 10 o'clock downtown with around 100 vendors,” said City of Elizabethtown Events Manager Beth Pyles. “Crafts, commercial, anything that you can think of, bring your pocketbook, and we'll have lots and lots of food […]
Area law enforcement agencies are among the recipients of federal grant funding aimed at combating drug trafficking. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear on Monday announced the awarding of more than $2.1 million to 17 state and local agencies through the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Association Grant. According to a release from the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, the funding “will allow Kentucky's law enforcement agencies, drug task forces, and nonprofit […]
The Elizabethtown City Council met for their second meeting of the month Monday. The second reading was held on ordinances setting 2026 city tax rates, all of which were approved. The tax rate for motor vehicle and watercraft is 11.6 cents per $100 assessed value, the franchise tax rate is 0.025 percent on all eligible deposits, and the tax rate for real and personal property is 10.5 cents per $100 […]