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The Elizabethtown City Council met for a special meeting and work session Monday. The council approved the ordinances setting city property taxes for 2025. The motor vehicle and watercraft rate is 11.6 cents per $100 assessed value while the real and personal property rate is 10.7 cents per $100 assessed value. E-Town Mayor Jeff Gregory noted that the city has maintained or lowered the property tax rate each year since at least […]

Kentucky students pursuing a career in communications are encouraged to apply for the Kentucky Association of Government Communicators’ Scholarship. The KAGC Scholarship is a non-renewable $1,000 scholarship presented annually to a student planning to study or currently studying communications, with possible career paths including journalism, public affairs, and digital content creation. According to the KAGC, the scholarship is open to Kentucky residents who are currently high school seniors or undergraduate […]

Breckinridge County Emergency Management Director Justin Frazier says his office and the Breckinridge County Health Department have been working on developing a community-led recovery group. “Disasters don’t end when the storm passes or the fires are put out,” Frazier said. Recovery is really the rebuilding, and it’s often the longest and the hardest part of the disaster cycle. We want to create a community-led recovery group made up of local churches, businesses, […]

The unemployment rate in Kentucky saw another decline. The Kentucky Center for Statistics says the state unemployment average for August was 4.7 percent. That is down .2 percent from the month of July, and down .5 percent from the August 2024 average of 5.2 percent. Kentucky’s unemployment average for August came in higher than the national unemployment rate, which the U.S. Department of Labor reported at 4.3 percent. The Kentucky Education and Labor […]

American Red Cross Account Manager Tammy Ritchie says the need for blood donations remains high. “The need for Type O, O-positive and O-negative, is in an emergency need right now,” said Ritchie. “Transfusions are happening when needed, but because that is the most common blood type, it is also the most needed, and in an emergency situation, that is what’s going to be transfused until we know that patient’s blood […]

An incident outside of Central Hardin High School Thursday prompted a soft lockdown of the school campus and resulted in an arrest. Elizabethtown Police Department Public Information Officer John Thomas said the incident began on Ring Road and ended on Leitchfield Road, where officers responded at around 2:22 p.m. “An investigation revealed that a suspect, identified as Jeremy Yates, age 50 of Eastview, engaged in a confrontation with two adult victims […]