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Radcliff council approves recovery residences ordinance

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The Radcliff City Council met for their second meeting of the month Tuesday.

The council approved the ordinance establishing certification requirements for recovery residences on its second reading. The ordinance mirrors similar guidelines established by the Elizabethtown City Council and the Hardin County Fiscal Court. The council also held the first reading of a zoning map amendment that converts about 8.5 acres on the west side of the intersection of Bullion Boulevard and North Logsdon Parkway from Commercial to R-4.

Radcliff Mayor JJ Duvall said a software issue was the reason why three of the city’s emergency sirens did not go off during recent severe weather.

 “Long story short, the company did come down, they did set them off, they did fix the issue,” Duvall said. “One of them had an issue up in the mechanical top of the rotation device that turns the siren around, so the sirens are all functional. They’re all working. They’re all back to where they’re supposed to be.”

The Radcliff City Council will next meet for a work session on May 13.

Transportation officials ask drivers to stay focused on the roadway during National Work Zone Awareness Week

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The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is reminding motorists to help protect themselves, their families, and their neighbors by using caution when driving through work zones as National Work Zone Awareness Week is recognized this week.

According to the KYTC, in 2023 Kentucky recorded 1,251 crashes in highway work zones which resulted in 247 injuries and 17 deaths, nearly triple the number of fatalities from the year prior.

KYTC District Four Public Information Officer Chris Jessie says the most important thing for a driver to do when on the road is pay attention.

“One of the main challenges in operating a work zone is distracted driving, and that’s not really anything new, and the phone continues to be that primary distracting factor for vehicle operators,” Jessie said.

The KYTC continues to try to implement safety measures in work zones, which come in many forms.

“The zones aren’t just those obvious big projects like we have going on at the interchange at Glendale or north of Lebanon Junction on I-65, but they’re mowing, they are striping when we’re repainting the road, patching a pothole, or replacing a pipe underneath,” Jessie said “So put that phone down, slow down, and pay attention to work zone signage. That’s for the safety of our crew that is out there working and our contractors, as well as your own as a motorist.”

Visit the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet on the web to learn more.

Voter registration deadline for Kentucky primary election this Monday

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The deadline for Kentucky voters to register for the May 21 primary election is less than a week away.

“April 22 at 4 p.m.,” said Hardin County Clerk Brian D. Smith. “That is the deadline to register to vote to participate in the May primary, so we want to make sure, especially the folks who have newly moved here to Hardin County, and we see that a lot in our growing community, come on in and register to vote.”

The April 22 deadline is for new registrations, as previously-existing registrations had to be set to their current party affiliation by December 31.

Smith says if you are eligible to register, come on down.

“You can stop by the clerk’s office, you can do it at govote.ky.gov, or you can call our office at 270-765-6762,” Smith said.

Smith says with 2024 being a presidential election year a larger turnout is expected, so the county is preparing by adding extra machines to larger voting locations and expanding options.

“Last year we had 12 locations,” Smith said. “We’ve expanded to 15 to kind of fill in some of the gaps in our community where we felt like we needed to add additional locations to make it easier for folks to vote. The three new ones are Cecilia Valley, Heartland Elementary, and then Glendale Christian Church.”

Visit www.govote.ky.gov for more election information.

Officials hold ribbon-cutting for ‘substantial completion’ of Glendale I-65 interchange

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Federal, state, and local officials celebrated the progress being made at the new Interstate 65-Kentucky Route 222 interchange in Glendale Friday.

Planning on the interchange improvement project began more than a decade ago when local officials began preparing the Glendale Megasite for a potential manufacturer, which arrived in 2022 with the announcement of the BlueOval SK plants. The ribbon cutting Friday celebrated “substantial completion” of the interchange.

The project realigns Kentucky Route 222 and provides a safer, more efficient interchange for car and truck traffic. New on and off ramps for I-65 and new intersections, one at KY-222 and U.S. 31-W and the other at the entrance road to the BlueOval SK site, were also part of the project.

Governor Andy Beshear was in attendance Friday, which he mentioned during his appearance on the Quicksie Morning Show as part of the AT&T Morning Line Monday.

“We were at the new interchange, which is incredible at Glendale,” Beshear said. “That’s going to take a little bit of the pressure off the residents of Glendale that have been so good to the rest of the Commonwealth, welcoming that largest investment in the history of Kentucky, that game-changing state-changing investment, BlueOval SK.”

Work on the project will continue into the summer. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is still evaluating further improvement projects in the area as part of the Glendale Mobility Study.

EPD invites public to Chalk the Walk event Wednesday

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The Elizabethtown Police Department is inviting area families to an awareness event Wednesday.

“In acknowledgement of April being Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Awareness Month, we are hosting a Chalk the Walk event at the police department this coming Wednesday between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. in an effort to raise awareness and put a stop to these heinous crimes,” said EPD Public Information Officer Chris Denham. “Citizens will be provided with sidewalk chalk as well as a space to draw murals or slogans that show their support for victims. Juanitos Tacos will be on site and dinner will be provided free of charge to all participants. In the event of inclement weather, we will move the event into the lobby of the police department and the art will be drawn on large poster boards.”

The EPD says that statistics show that nearly 2 in 5 women and 1 in 5 men will experience contact with sexual violence in their lifetime, and Kentucky is ranked sixth in the country for child victims of maltreatment at a rate of 14.7 per 1,000 children, nearly double the national rate.

More information on the event can be found on the Elizabethtown Police Department Facebook page.

Two juveniles in custody after allegedly vandalizing Meade County church

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Two juveniles are in custody after allegedly vandalizing a church in Meade County.

The Meade County Sheriff’s Office says on April 9 deputies responded to the Saint Theresa of Avila Catholic Church in Rhodelia in regards to a vandalism complaint.

“The deputies met with some of the church staff who were able to provide some videos of two juveniles on the property vandalizing the exterior of the buildings,” said Meade County Sheriff Phillip Wimpee. 

Deputies entered the building and discovered more than $10,000 in damages.

“It appeared that the juveniles had dispersed several fire extinguishers inside the church and destroyed numerous religious artifacts, and some of these religious artifacts are irreplaceable because of the church being so old,” Wimpee said. “The juveniles spread holy oil all over the floor of the building, destroying the carpet, and turned one of the crosses upside down on the altar.”

Deputies processed the scene and collected evidence at the church and in the church’s cemetery where headstones were found to have been damaged.

“The detectives were able to identify two juvenile suspects who were in custody at this time,” Wimpee said. “The suspects are being charged with Burglary in the second degree and Criminal Mischief in the first degree.”

The investigation has been turned over to the Meade County Attorney’s Office and the Commonwealth Attorney’s Office for prosecution.

Baptist Health Hardin excited to expand diagnostic imaging services

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Baptist Health Hardin CEO Rob Ramey says the recent 2,000-square-foot expansion of the Ring Road Diagnostic Imaging center is part of a $4 million effort to provide area patients with better options.

“We’ve now got four imaging centers where we have 3D mammography available for everybody,” Ramey said. “We’ve upgraded and we’re continuing to upgrade our MRIs and our CTs around the entire market. We’re adding additional x-ray capabilities. We’ve added at the hospital ion robotic imaging, bronchoscopy imaging.”

Baptist Health Hardin hosted an open house at the center on Friday. The open house was an opportunity to highlight some of the additional features the expansion made possible including a women’s center to provide more privacy, a new MRI machine that decreases time and increases patient comfort, and an additional CT scanner that will allow the center to process more than 5,000 additional CT scans a year.

“We know that we need that capacity for our community, for the growth we’re seeing, and with this new machine the images are better, the processing is faster, so it really hopefully will help streamline the processes for our patients and give them an even better experience as well,” Ramey said.

Ramey says the expansion will enhance a diagnostics team that is already a well-regarded one.

“We also understand that you all have a choice, that our community has a choice in where they go for care, and just the other day we were over here and we were celebrating with our staff because they were recognized as being in the top 8 percent nationally of all the diagnostic centers around the entire country,” Ramey said.

The Baptist Health Hardin Diagnostic Imaging center is open Mondays through Fridays.