Elizabethtown High School senior Rush Clagett says he had never had much of an interest in poetry prior to his class’s involvement in the Kentucky Poetry Out Loud competition. “I did a competition inside my classroom and I did well in that, and then I won the school-wide competition and I was just like ‘I’ll see how far this goes,’” Clagett said. “I’ve never really done anything poetry-related before so it was […]

The City of Elizabethtown Planning and Development Department will host a neighborhood meeting on the North Downtown Master Plan Thursday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Central Avenue Baptist Church. “This is actually the second meeting that we’ve held in this neighborhood,” said City Administrator Ed Poppe at Tuesday’s Elizabethtown City Council meeting. “The first meeting was back in the fall. We got a lot of good public input on […]

The Elizabethtown City Council met for their second meeting of the month Tuesday. The council approved a municipal order approving the purchase of 522 Commerce Drive for $25,000. The purchase is part of work on the Commerce Drive Corridor Road Improvement Project. “The city has budgeted funds for the expansion and extension of Commerce Drive from Executive Drive to its terminus at Springfield Road, to include the acquisition of additional public street […]

Kentuckians are encouraged to take precautions during Spring Wildfire Hazard Season, which runs now through April 30. According to the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, during Spring Wildfire Hazard Season burning is prohibited in or within 150 feet of any woodland or brushland between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. The Energy and Environment Cabinet says the Kentucky Division of Forestry responds to more than 1,000 wildfires annually, with 517 occurring during last […]

The former Campbellsville University student accused of killing another student two years ago was back in court Tuesday. Charles E. “Zeke” Escalera appeared via Zoom before Taylor Circuit Court Judge Kaelin Reed for a pretrial conference to discuss the defense’s intention to call any expert witness testimony. Attorneys for Escalera said they are still reviewing possible witnesses regarding criminal responsibility, and requested an additional pretrial conference for about 90 days ahead of […]