WULF News

If you are in need of assistance with wrapping up your last-minute Christmas gifts, help is available this weekend with Empowered Life. “We are doing a gift wrap fundraiser,” said Empowered Life President Christi Schovel. “We’re asking anyone who needs gifts wrapped to come to 225 College Street. We’re just right down the road from the police station in the Project Learn building, and we will wrap their gifts for them […]

The suspect in an October double homicide has been formally indicted on the charges he faces. Dustin M. Caudill waived his case to the Hardin County Grand Jury during a court appearance November 6. The grand jury this week indicted Caudill on two counts of Murder and one count of First Degree Arson. The Elizabethtown Police Department said Caudill confessed to shooting 41-year-old Blake France of Greenville and 43-year-old Anthony Garrett of Elizabethtown […]

The Hardin County Fiscal Court met for their final meeting of the year Thursday afternoon. Hardin County Sheriff John Ward reported that his office made 193 arrests and issued 176 citations in October and November. When discussing his office’s budget request for calendar year 2025, Ward said the county’s supplement for the budget is the same as last year. “Our revenue will increase through the fees, but the judge asked us to […]

The statewide unemployment average saw a slight increase in November. The Kentucky Center for Statistics says the statewide unemployment average for November was 5.1 percent. That’s a slight increase from the 5.0 percent rate reported in October and from the 4.3 percent rate reported in November of 2023. Kentucky’s unemployment average for November also came in higher than the national unemployment average, which the U.S. Department of Labor reported at 4.2 percent. […]

Support area students and ring in 2025 with the Elizabethtown Lions Club New Year’s Day Dash 5K Run and Walk. The event will be held at the Elizabethtown Sports Park on January 1 beginning at 9 a.m. “It’s $30 for registration, and if you register by December 20 online you’re ensured to get a t-shirt, and of course if you do show up the day of the race we’ll take you, but […]

Elizabethtown Community and Technical College recognized their latest round of graduates this week. ECTC hosted their Fall 2024 graduation ceremony at Severns Valley Baptist Church Tuesday. 150 graduates and hundreds of guests were in attendance for the ceremony. ECTC says they expect to award Fall 2024 graduates with about 500 degrees and diplomas for their efforts. ECTC students also completed about 1,200 certificate programs this semester. Credentials were awarded for several […]

Drivers in Bardstown should be on the lookout for road closures downtown Friday as the city gets shown in the national spotlight. Bardstown Main Street says NBC’s The Today Show will be filming live from Bardstown Main Street’s Court Square Friday as the show spotlights Bardstown as one of the Merriest Main Street’s in America. To facilitate filming, several road closures will be in effect from 6 a.m. until filming is […]

The death of a teenager that resulted from a drug overdose has resulted in three arrests and is prompting area law enforcement to warn of drugs circulating in the community that have been laced with fentanyl. The Elizabethtown Police Department stated in a press release that officers responded to an Elizabethtown residence just before 7 a.m. Wednesday regarding a death investigation. The EPD says it was determined that the victim, a 17-year-old […]

The American Red Cross says the need for blood donors doesn’t take a Christmas break. “Our cancer patients, there is a constant need for blood with cancer patients needing different blood products, and that’s why we encourage everybody, even if you’ve never donated before, to come out and donate and give something that doesn’t cost you anything that could help sustain a life of a patient in need,” said Red […]