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The Hardin County Fiscal Court met for their first meeting of the month Tuesday. The court approved, as part of its consent agenda, an updated inter-local agreement with the City of Elizabethtown allowing for use of the city’s enforcement officer for recovery residences in the county. That agreement will run for one year beginning July 1, with the city paying for the enforcement officer and the county paying for needed involvement of […]

Meade County Family and Consumer Sciences is hosting a Disaster Preparedness Awareness event at the Meade County Extension Office Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. Meade County Extension Agent Jennifer Bridge says area responders will have more than 20 booths set up at the event. “Those are primarily service agencies, people that you would contact in the event of a disaster,” Bridge said. “We’ll be giving away a lot of just […]

Officers with the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office and the Kentucky State Police Tuesday night were once again at the BlueOval SK construction site in Glendale in response to a threat. “At about 6:25 p.m. 911, Hardin County Control, received the call of a possible active shooter at the BlueOval location in Glendale,” said Chief Deputy David Lee with the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office. “Then there was another report of someone […]

The Radcliff/Elizabethtown Metropolitan Planning Organization, a division of the Lincoln Trail Area Development District, is conducting a public transportation study to look into the possibility of implementing a fixed-route public transportation system in the area. LTADD Executive Director Daniel London said this is the third such study the Radcliff/E-Town MPO has undertaken. “The committee felt like that it was time to take another look at this given the economic development sea change, […]

The Elizabethtown City Council met for a work session Monday. City Administrator Ed Poppe discussed an ordinance that will be introduced to restrict parking on Skyline Drive in the Glendale Hill neighborhood. Poppe said a citizen contacted the city with concerns and the city’s Planning and Development Department reviewed the request. “They looked at that area, looked at pavement widths, looked at accidents, and the recommendation was that yeah, we need to […]

Work to replace deck joint seals on the Western Kentucky Parkway over Interstate 65 will require lane closures this week. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says the outside/right lanes will be closed in both directions Tuesday, March 12. Ramps to and from I-65 will remain open but traffic on the ramps will be impacted. The inside/left lanes will be closed in both directions Wednesday, March 13. Work will begin each night at 8 […]