Free Access To Life Jackets

Free Access To Life Jackets The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources is starting a program that will offer boaters free access to life jackets they can borrow.The department is working with local groups and other public agencies to build stations for the life jackets, with the first five to be installed in…

Kentucky Fair Ticket Prices

Kentucky Fair Ticket Prices The Kentucky State Fair Board on Tuesday announced the fair’s lowest ticket prices in more than two decades.Starting Friday through Aug. 5, general admission tickets will cost only $8 and also will include free parking. You can buy them online or at Kroger stores.After that date, at-the-gate prices of $10…

FEMA Funds For Kentuckians

FEMA Funds For Kentuckians The deadline to apply for financial relief through FEMA is quickly approaching for Kentuckians.“It’s a big deal for the homeowners who have to replace damaged property, so this will give them an opportunity to try to recoup some of that money,” said Public Safety Director Buford Hurley II.Hurley says the…

Pikeville Independence Day

Pikeville Independence Day The City of Pikeville is preparing for an Independence Day weekend unlike any before.City officials said the event will soar past the annual event the city usually holds, with a three-day festival on the books starting Friday.Food trucks, vendors, and music are on the schedule all weekend, leading up to the…

Funny Fertilizer

Funny Fertilizer Government officials were recently contacted by citizens in the Briarwood, Hartland and Bent Tree neighborhoods of Bowling Green in regards to suspicious fertilizer pellets.During the investigation, officials with the Bowling Green-Warren County Regional Airport and Emergency Management found the pilot who was performing fertilizing crop-dusting operations.According to management, the product is called…

Search On For Missing Pike County Girl

Search On For Missing Pike County Girl A search is underway for a missing Pike County teenager. Police say 17-year-old Cheyann Hatfield was last seen Sunday on an old strip mining road between the Phelps and Blackberry communities. Cheyann is 5’6” tall, 160 lbs., with brown hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a…

Hazard Creates Entertainment District

Hazard Creates Entertainment District City of Hazard lawmakers vote to create a new entertainment district. An ordinance passed last week defines the area in downtown between thee parking garage, to Triangle Park. The new regulation allows for the closure of the area to traffic which officials say is important to attract festivals to the…