Today is the first day of the City of Elizabethtown’s Spring Clean-Up program, which will run until (tentatively) May 1. “The schedule coincides with brush collection, however, because of the amount of debris that is put out through the month, we will go through the areas not by the week, but we’ll start in area one on March 30, and we’ll continue to run the route schedule through the four […]

The summer closure of Interstate 65 through downtown Louisville is just over two months away. Five miles of I-65 will close between Interstate 264 (Watterson Expressway) and Jefferson Street on Monday, June 1, with a scheduled reopening to traffic on August 1. Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District Five says the complete closure of the interstate will allow for accelerated work replacing the I-65 bridges over Kentucky and Brook streets; Hill Street, a CXS […]

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has ordered flags at all state buildings be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset Friday, March 27 in honor of Staff Sergeant Benjamin Pennington. According to a release from the Governor’s Office, flags will be lowered on the day Pennington’s remains will be inturred at the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery – Central in Radcliff in a private ceremony. Funeral services for Pennington were held last Saturday […]

Elizabethtown/Hardin County Industrial Foundation President and COO Andy Games says after his conversations with Ford Motor Company officials he believes “we are, possibly, in a better situation than we were prior” with the BlueOval SK property in Glendale. “It’s Ford Motor Company,” Games said. “They’ve been in Kentucky for 100 years. The legislature has been very good with the Ford Motor Company people. They keep in touch with me. They’ve already […]

An Indiana man is in custody after a pursuit that began in Hardin County ended after a wreck in LaRue County. Dusten Sauer of Pendleton, Ind., faces multiple charges including first degree Fleeing or Evading Police, first degree Criminal Mischief, and third degree Assault following his arrest Tuesday. According to the LaRue County Sheriff’s Office, on March 24 LaRue County Dispatch was notified of a pursuit involving a stolen vehicle […]