Breckinridge County Schools Superintendent Dr. Nick Carter said seeing the groundbreaking for the new Breckinridge County Middle School earlier this month was an exciting moment. “You know, we’ve been working for almost six years to get to this day, and it’s been great to see it all come together, so we’re really excited to break ground, and progress is moving, so we’re very hopeful for good weather and to keep moving […]

Elizabethtown Mayor Jeff Gregory said the city’s annual report, which was released this week, shows the hard work city employees in multiple departments have put into making the city a better place to live. “In the last three years, our overall crime rate has dropped by 23.7 percent,” Gregory said. “I think that’s quite an accomplishment especially that we’re growing like we are. Public Works picked up 952 cubic yards of […]

March is Women’s History Month, and state officials this month published updated numbers on women’s health in Kentucky. Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman, the Kentucky Commission on Women, and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services released a new report on the status of women’s health in the commonwealth. According to a release from the lieutenant governor’s office, the report was developed in partnership with the Division of Women’s Health at […]

The Elizabethtown City Council met for their second meeting of the month Monday. The first reading was held on ordinances to annex property at Leitchfield Road and to rezone 106 East Memorial Drive from Neighborhood Office (C-1) to Neighborhood Commercial (C-2) and 237 West Poplar Street from Urban Residential (R-4) to Downtown Mixed Use (C-5). The council approved the reappointments of Corey Blount and Rick Horn to the Civil Service Board, and […]

Area jobseekers are invited to participate in the Kentucky Career Center – Lincoln Trail’s Let’s Talk Tuesdays virtual job fair happening Tuesday. “We have a virtual job fair platform that we use, and we have a virtual job fair every first and third Tuesday of every month, and so that’s a great opportunity for those folks to meet a whole different slew of employers that may be available on that […]