Six months after damage from winter weather forced them out of the building, students returned to the Radcliff Head Start facility for a grand reopening and back-to-school event last Thursday. The Central Kentucky Community Action Council, Head Start’s parent agency, said despite extensive structural repairs being necessary, the work on the facility was completed ahead of schedule. “This reopening is a true testament to what can be accomplished when a […]
Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana invites area girls to come see what Girl Scouts is all about during two upcoming Taste of Girl Scouts events. The first will be held at the Williams Pavilion at Freeman Lake Park in Elizabethtown this Friday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The second will be held at Creekfront Park in Hodgenville this Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. “That gives prospective Girl Scouts, girls that […]
A Bullitt County man will serve nine years in federal prison after his sentencing on wire fraud charges. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky says Stacy Allen Taylor of Shepherdsville “conspired with others in an international wire fraud scheme to defraud more than forty victims out of over $23.6 million.” Victims of the scheme believed they were investing into a private trading platform “that would provide […]
The Elizabethtown City Council met for their second regular meeting of the month Monday. The council approved, on second reading, an ordinance establishing text amendments to the city Zoning Code related to data centers. City Attorney Ken Howard read the summary of the ordinance, which amends the code in nine sections “to update the text relating to regulations for data centers to include definitions, zoning district restrictions, square footage limitations, and specific design […]
A report of a stolen vehicle led to a multi-agency, multi-county vehicle theft investigation. “Shortly after 7 p.m. Friday evening, our officers received Flock alerts involving vehicles being stolen from the Lexington area,” said Elizabethtown Police Department Public Information Officer Chris Denham. “A short time later, Radcliff Police located one of those vehicles and took the driver into custody.” The EPD says Flock notifications indicated a stolen vehicle travelling south on Patriot […]
An Elizabethtown woman faces federal charges after allegedly vandalizing a memorial on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Melissa Farris, also known as Melissa Lovewell, is charged with Willfully Injuring or Committing a Depredation against Property of the United States and Destruction of a Veterans’ Memorial. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Farris was charged by criminal complaint Friday after allegedly vandalizing the Atlantic Theatre […]