The Hardin County School Board has voted unanimously that East Hardin Middle School will start the year online. The decision came shortly after hearing that the building failed to receive a fire alarm certification.
East Hardin will continue virtual learning until the building is certified to receive students. According to Superintendent Terri Morgan, the decision to begin virtually was the best of the worst options.
Intersection closures will be taking place along southbound US 31W each night this week.
These intersections will be affected: Ring Road, Walmart Drive, Starlite Center, Startlite Drive/Towne Drive, and Childres Court.
Work will begin tonight (Monday) through Friday between 9pm and 6am.
Walmart Drive and Ring Road will be not be closed at the same time.
The long anticipated Tokyo Olympics are finally in full swing, and one Elizabethtown high school alum will be competing for gold.
Jada Stinson will represent Puerto Rico in women’s basketball. Stinson attended Elizabethtown high school from 2013 to 2017.
While there, Stinson was a stand-out athlete, playing in more than 130 games. She was awarded player of the game over 20 times throughout her high school career.
Stinson will get to compete in the sport she loves most on the biggest stage. She is overwhelmed with joy to compete for a country that is full of pride and love.
Elizabethtown Community and Technical college was one of a select few to receive $50,000 from Metallica’s scholars initiative.
The initiative is funded by the band Metallica’s All Within My Hands program, a program that serves as a means to invest in communities to help them be sustainable. The program helps support students, causes to end hunger, and other critical local services.
The new funding will provide scholarships to truck driving students in the college’s workforce solutions commercial driver’s license program as well as students in advanced manufacturing programs.
More details about the scholarships can be found at Elizabethtown.KCTCS.edu
Changes at Freeman Lake are to be expected in the upcoming weeks after Hardin County Teen Drowned.
19 year old Kenny Robertson drowned last week at Freeman Lake while Kayaking.
Authorities say that Robertson was not wearing his life jacket at the time of the incident.
Currently it is not required to wear a lifejacket when you rent a watercraft from Freeman Lake, Mayor Jeff Gregory hopes to change that.
Gregory wants to prevent another tragedy like this from happening again by improving the rules that they currently have.
These changes are currently being talked about and will likely be announced in the upcoming weeks.
To help ease the burden of coming out of a pandemic, many school districts are going to keep offering free lunches for the upcoming year.
Some are also asking parents to fill out forms so that they can still have accurate data on the free and reduced lunch program.
Hardin County Schools for example is asking all parents to fill out the Free and Reduced Lunch form.
Director of Communications John Wright says these forms will be sent home with children on the first day of school. They can also be found at Hardin.KYschools.US
Also joining Hardin County in offering free lunches is La-Rue, Grayson, Breckinridge, and Meade counties. For information on what you need to fill out for the free lunches call your local school district.
This Saturday a benefit spaghetti dinner will be held for Damerie Lyons, a 17 year old North Hardin High School student battling bone cancer.
There will be dinner, as well as a live and silent auction.
Lyons is currently undergoing chemotherapy and multiple surgeries for bone cancer, they hope to cover some of the cost of these bills with this benefit dinner.
It will take place this Saturday at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Vine Grove at 4 PM.
Clarity Solutions has been serving Elizabethtown for 20 years. Since 2001, they have offered services for people that are pregnant whether that be expected or unexpected.
Director of Ministry Advancement Maegan Bennett says they have grown significantly with three locations. They are currently working on building a maternity home set to open this year.
A celebration will be held July 25th Sunday afternoon from 2 to 4 pm to recognize their impact on the community.
It will be held at the 116 east memorial drive location, and all locations will be open to tour.
The Heart of Kentucky men’s chorus is ready to help put some pep in your step.
They will be holding a free acappella concert July 24th at 7pm at the Emerald Cathedral, located at Freeman lake.
There will be other groups singing including Quartet from the Chorus, 9 to 5, The Revelators, and The Kentucky Babes Quartet.
Parking is available at Freeman Lake or at Grace Heartland Church.
Cool down with Fort Knox’s annual Christmas in July. The event will be held July 24th at the Fort Knox Water park.
The park will be open from 11am – 7pm, with holiday festivities beginning at 1.
For pricing and more information, visit Knox.ArmyMWR.com
