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Today's News

  • Budget differences still need work in the homestretch

    The General Assembly’s top priority this legislative session – adopting a two-year budget to run state government – entered its final stages late last week, when House and Senate leaders sat down Friday morning to begin looking for common ground that both chambers could support.

    While there are a lot of similarities between the two spending plans, there are still some considerable differences.

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  • State Senate passes its version of budget

    Rapidly nearing the last days of the 2018 Regular Session, the Senate passed our version of the state budget that contained no new taxes during the 12th week. The Executive Branch Budget, contained in House Bill 200, put an emphasis on public safety by investing in law enforcement, the state crime lab, frontline social workers, and foster and adoption services.

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  • Get out of KentuckyWired deal

    There are few ideas worse than governments getting into the internet business. Doing so is a certain path to financial disaster, as cities like Burlington, Vt., Provo, Utah, Bristol, Va., Monticello, Minn., among many others, have learned the hard way. Kentucky now appears next to be added to an already long list of spectacular financial failures with its ill-conceived “KentuckyWired” program.

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  • Looking Back and Do You Remember? | March 29, 2018

    March 31, 1988 (30 years ago)

    Family, fans and friends gathered as Heath Taylor signed a letter of intent to play basketball for Brescia College. Brescia was Taylor’s only school preference that wasn’t considered a Division I school. Taylor said he liked Brescia’s coach Alan Walter and the atmosphere of Owensboro, where the college is located.

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  • Hymn Sing is April 5

    The Trimble County hymn sing starts at 7 p.m. at the Apostolic Church of the Living God. Everyone is welcome to attend. For more information, call Pastor Bobby Wade at 502-255-7510.

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  • Easter Activities | March 29, 2018

    Apostolic Pentecostal Church

    Easter Cantata “He is He is” will be 6:30 p.m. Easter Sunday, April 1, at the Apostolic Pentecostal Church of the Living God, 124 Smith Lane, in Bedford. Everyone is welcome, deaf ministry available, and candy for the children. For more information, call Melinda 502-525-7185.

    Pleasant View Baptist

    Pleasant View Baptist Church will have its Good Friday service at 7 p.m. Friday. An Easter egg hunt will follow morning services on Sunday.

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  • Enjoying the ride

    Editor’s note: This column from 2009 is being rerun in honor of Nancy Kennedy’s husband, Barry, who turned 65 this week.

    When I first met my husband he drove a totally hot car, a brand-new 1973 Mercury Comet GT, white with burnt orange pinstripes and burnt orange interior – and a manual transmission.

    Because we were young and newly in love and Barry had miles of patience, he attempted to teach me to drive it. It helped that we lived in northern Maine where there wasn’t much to crash into except snow banks and caribou.

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  • KSP conducting traffic safety checkpoints

    CAMPBELLSBURG – The Kentucky State Police will be conducting traffic safety checkpoints in the counties of Carroll, Gallatin, Henry, Oldham, Owen and Trimble counties during the period of April 1 through April 30.

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  • Voter registration drive at Trimble County High School

    The Trimble County Board of Elections was at Trimble County High School Thursday as part of a voter registration drive. Pictured left to right are Dale Vincent, Beery Welty, County Clerk Tina Browning and Dale Ralston.

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  • Rowlett among WKU students completing new research

    BOWLING GREEN – Western Kentucky University students Jodi E. Thomas of Los Alamos, New Mexico, Tithe Ahmed of Cave City, Katie L. Alexander of Louisville, James M. Biddle of Vine Grove, Makenzie K. Daniels of Smiths Grove, Jenna R. Rowlett of Bedford and Taylor E. Senay of Elizabethtown recently published their analysis of newly sequenced viral genomes.

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