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Elizabethtown Mayor Jeff Gregory says the city has taken great strides in 2025. “We’ll start with park improvements,” Gregory said. “I think everybody is going to notice some great improvements at American Legion Park and Freeman Lake Park, and then you go to stormwater and engineering, and the street improvements and the maintenance that we’re seeing all across the city. Then we go to the PD, the police department, the expansion […]

Breckinridge County Schools Superintendent Dr. Nick Carter says he is very proud of the growth the district continued to see in 2025. “Our graduation rate was 96.6 percent,” Carter said. “That was one of the highest in the region. The post-secondary readiness rate was 98.3 percent, which was also one of the highest in the region, so we’re excited about that. Our high school earned an overall high rating with state […]

Unemployment rates across the Lincoln Trail District in September are down from where they were the year prior. The Kentucky Center for Statistics says unemployment rates decreased in 116 counties, increased in three, and stayed the same in one when comparing September 2025 with September 2024. The state unemployment average for September was 4.5 percent. That’s a slight increase from the 4.4 percent average in August but is down from […]

Kentuckians for the last twenty years have shown their support for animal shelters across the commonwealth with the Kentucky Spay or Neuter special license plate. With more special interest plates available and the same design in place for two decades, Kentucky Animal Control Advisory Board Co-Chair, and Elizabethtown City Council Member, Julia Springsteen said the board decided it was time for a refresh. “We did a statewide design competition in […]

Wreaths Across America Area Coordinator Donna Betson says the annual effort at the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery Central in Radcliff to “remember those who served, honor those who have passed, and teach the next generation” has grown more and more with each passing year. “When we started out it was a thousand, and we are now up to ten thousand buried out there,” Betson said. As the year comes to a […]

Christmas may have come and gone, but there is still time to enjoy a long-running Elizabethtown holiday staple at Freeman Lake Park with the annual Christmas in the Park lighting tour. “That will run nightly from 6 to 11 p.m.,” said City of Elizabethtown Events Manager Beth Pyles. “This year we have over 115 displays from not only the city of Elizabethtown, but many local community partners, and you will […]

Hardin County Judge/Executive Keith Taul said one of the county’s biggest accomplishments in 2025 was improvements in public safety. He said this is best represented by reduced response times for ambulances, including a near 80 percent reduction for West Point by partnering with Bullitt County EMS and the addition of a ninth full-time ambulance, housed in White Mills. “This has basically reduced response times about 50 percent in that western part […]

Dogs that were rescued during a Hardin County animal cruelty case will officially be cared for by the Hardin County Animal Shelter. Hardin County Government said in a release Friday that the 14 dogs, who have been cared for by the shelter since May of 2023, will be awarded to the shelter as a result of Morgan Jade Barrick’s conviction on Animal Torture charges. Hardin County Animal Care and Control Director […]

The Hardin County Fiscal Court met for their final meeting of 2025 Thursday. Hardin County Clerk Brian D. Smith recounted his office’s activities in 2025. Smith said his team put a lot of energy into election work. “We made nearly 50 years of election recordings available online,” Smith said. “Our elections staff completed national training qualifications. I’m really, really appreciative of the hard work they put into those certifications. We held […]