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State officials say Kentucky schools are continuing to make progress towards statewide school safety goals. The Kentucky Office of the State School Security Marshal on Wednesday released the annual School Safety Risk Assessment Report. According to the report, 1,325 schools across the commonwealth are in compliance with the School Safety and Resiliency Act, a compliance rate of 99.81 percent. State School Security Marshal Ben Wilcox said in the report that the […]

The Hardin County Fiscal Court met for their second meeting of the month Tuesday. The fiscal court approved a resolution to set the county’s property tax levies for the 2024-2025 fiscal year. “The recommendation is to adopt the real property tax rate at the 4 percent increase, and this results in a tax rate of 11.1 cents per $100 valuation for real property,” said Hardin County Judge/Executive Keith Taul. “This actually ended […]

After lower temperatures were seen across the area the past few weeks, the heat appears to have returned with a force. “It sure did rebound here in the opposite direction,” said Meteorologist Mike Kochasic with the National Weather Service in Louisville. “Strong high pressure over the area has resulted in temperatures around 10 degrees, 13 degrees above average, and near record-setting here for the next couple of days.”  Kochasic says the […]

Kentucky Fish and Wildlife has resources available to help hunters prepare for fall hunting seasons that are set to open in the coming weeks. KFW says the fall dove hunting season and the early Canada goose season in the western goose zone open on September 1. For the doves, hunters can begin searching for birds at 11 a.m. on opening day, although KFW says they will likely wait until cooler afternoon […]

The Elizabethtown City Council met for a work session Monday evening. City Public Works Director Don Hill gave an update on projects the city’s Public Works Department has been working on. Hill said investment from the city has helped with efficiency in the Sanitary Sewer Department, which completed several installation projects. “On the sewer construction side, they installed 985 feet of sanitary sewer line, they installed 500 feet of water line at […]