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Annual Rotary Club radio auction to begin
The local chapter of the Rotary Club is excitedly prepping for their annual radio auction, which is slated to begin on Tuesday, May 15 at 6 o’clock in the evening. The event, which runs through Thursday evening, is held each year in order to raise funds for the club’s student loan fund and scholarships, which benefit local students. “The annual event has become a large part of the local community with many patrons and contributors anxiously...
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Three area offices targeted under latest Postal Service plan
Three area post offices will see their service hours reduced under the U.S. Postal Service’s latest plan to cut costs. Under the plan, announced Wednesday, May 9, the Big Clifty office would go from being open eight hours per day weekdays to only six hours. The post offices at Millwood and Falls of Rough would only be open four hours per day. The postal service estimates that the new plan — which reduces hours at 13,167 offices nationwide...
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Photo/Brittany Wise Marcia Downs, Principal at Lawler Elementary School, was surprised to be recognized by the students and staff at the school and given a beautiful bouquet of flowers to show their appreciation.
Students, teachers and staff recognized at school board meeting
The May Grayson County Board of Education meeting felt more like a celebration than a business meeting on Thursday afternoon. In addition to the awards and recognition given to a host of students, teachers and staff, the students and teachers of Lawler Elementary School showed off their dance skills in a choreographed performance to the popular song “Dynamite.” At the close of the performance, confetti shot into the air as children squeal...
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Photo/Submitted Cleo C. Hogan, Jr., Major USA (Retired), a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War who also served in the United Nations Command in Seoul, Korea, will be the guest speaker at the Memorial Day Ceremony on May 26.
Veterans to be Honored at Memorial Ceremony
The annual community-wide Memorial Day Ceremony will be held Saturday, May 26 at 10 am, at The Centre on Main. County veterans who lost their lives during service to our country will be honored as family members and friends carry signs bearing their names from the Leitchfield Fire House on South Main Street to The Centre. The ceremony will feature guest speaker, Cleo C. Hogan Jr., Major USA (Retired), a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War ...
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Charges follow one-vehicle accident
A Leitchfield man was charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol/drugs, and leaving the scene of an accident following a Sunday, May 6, 2012 incident during which he left a path of destruction. The Grayson County Sheriff’s Department was dispatched to Sunbeam Road at around 7 o’clock Sunday morning to the spot where the vehicle being driven by 26-year-old Robert M. DeWeese, of Sunbeam Road in Leitchfield, final...
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Tractor accident claims life in Clarkson
Emergency personnel responded to a tractor rollover on Saturday afternoon in Clarkson that killed one man. According to a press release from Grayson County Coroner Joe Brad Hudson, 51-year-old Kenton D. Seely, of Bloomfield Road in Bloomfield, was trapped beneath the tractor with attached bush hog when first responders from Clarkson Fire Department and Grayson County EMS were dispatched to the scene. The accident occurred just off of Whee...
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Furry patients help ease kids’ fears
A group of furry volunteers were stitched, bandaged and splinted this week at Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center — all in the hope of helping children. The hospital held its annual Teddy Bear Clinic on May 8 and 9, with more than 200 kindergarteners from Wilkey, Lawler and Canneyville elementary schools and Leitchfield Christian Academy participating. The students learned about proper hand-washing habits, received nutrition and healthy li...
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Groundbreaking for pavilion at Firefighter Park
Almost eight months after it was approved, work began this week on the new pavilion at Firefighter Park. Members of the Leitchfield City Council and the city’s Tourism Commission held a short ceremonial groundbreaking at the park, on Brandenburg Road, Monday afternoon, May 7. The tourism commission is funding the $166,000 price tag for the project. Public Works Director Darrell Harrell previously said the facility would include 1,600 ...
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New fiddling contest receives national designation
The new fiddling contest planned for downtown Leitchfield in July will now carry national implications. Organizers learned Tuesday afternoon, May 8, that the July 21 festival has received national certification. That means a new name — “Twin Lakes National Fiddlers’ Championship” — and the potential for its winners to compete at the National Oldtime Fiddlers’ Contest in Weiser, Idaho. Steven Elder, a Leitchfield businessman and city counc...
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Discovering Leitchfield?
An offer from a former NFL player’s show could mean national exposure for Leitchfield. The city recently was contacted by “Today in America,” a television program hosted by former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback and football analyst Terry Bradshaw about the possibility of Leitchfield being featured on the show. The initial call, about a week and a half ago, came out of the blue, City Clerk Erin Embry said. “We’re not sure how they...
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Fan company coming to Leitchfield
A new tenant for the former Trim Masters building could mean as many as 150 new jobs for Leitchfield. Leitchfield officials announced late Monday, May 7, that New York Blower Co. will be opening a facility in the city. The Willowbrook, Ill.-based firm will set up its local operations in the former Trim Masters building. The company is expected to employ at least 100, and potentially as many as 125 to 150 people within five years of openin...
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Governor signs special ed bill
Governor Steve Beshear signed into effect on Monday a bill that will allow special education students in Kentucky high schools to receive a diploma upon graduation. Senate Bill 43 will replace the Certificate of Attainment, which was previously given to students in such programs upon completion of high school, an actual diploma. The diploma will differ somewhat from that given to traditional students in that it is an alternative diploma s...
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Fire damages Caneyville home
A morning fire Wednesday, May 2, damaged a Caneyville mobile home, but caused no injuries. Fire Chief Anthony Clark said firefighters were called to 207 W. Maple St., Lot 16, shortly after 8 a.m. The fire apparently started in the dining room and was contained there, but the entire home had smoke damage, he said. The fire started in the area around a window air conditioning unit. Kentucky Utilities and Caneyville’s water superintendent, A...
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Gas prices falling in Grayson, surrounding counties
Gasoline prices are falling in Grayson County, matching trends in the rest of the state. Over the last week, the price of a regular gallon of unleaded has fallen from $3.89 at some Leitchfield stores to $3.78 Friday morning, with one store — Center Court on Brandenburg Road — at $3.72. In the past two weeks, average retail gas prices in Kentucky have fallen more than 14 cents per gallon, averaging $3.66 per gallon Friday, according to the...
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Visitor’s Center, other changes in the works at Rough River
A new visitor’s center, improved campgrounds and a new heritage trail are some of the changes planned this spring at Rough River Dam State Resort Park. Park Manager Diane Stratton said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and volunteers from Friends of Rough River Lake teamed up to convert a house across the road from the Corps project office into the visitor’s center. “I’m very proud of the visitor’s center,” she said, explaining that the Co...
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Men arrested for stealing wheel from vehicle
Two Livingston County, Ky., men were in the Grayson County Detention Center late Tuesday, accused of trying to steal from a car parked along Main Street. Joseph Holder, 27, and Shane Johnson, 28, both of Ledbetter, are charged with theft by unlawful taking from auto over $500. No bond information was available for either man. According to a Leitchfield Police Department report, officers responded Monday, April 30, to a report of “su...
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Forty-plus years of white cows at Caneyville farm
Motorists approaching the Caneyville exit off the Western Kentucky Parkway can often see gleaming cream and white cattle dotting the hillsides. The herds — one on the north side of the parkway, and one on the south — are the pride of H & S Charolais Farm, and the work of three generations. Hargis Day bought the gently rolling farm just south of Caneyville in 1957, initially turning Brown Swiss cows out on its pastures. But after more th...
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Mistaken identity leads to car vs. motorcycle accident
A Leitchfield woman is facing criminal charges after a case of mistaken identity — and an apparent jealous streak — led to a car vs. motorcycle accident. Whitney White, 28, was arrested Sunday, April 29, on charges of first degree wanton endangerment and leaving the scene of an accident. She was being held in the Grayson County Detention Center, and as of Tuesday morning no bond had been set. According to a Leitchfield Police Department...
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Helping home gardeners grow
You might say a love of growing things led Sue Lindsey down the gardening path. “I had a small child. I was working in Leitchfield in an office, and I wanted to be able to stay home and raise my son,” she said of the decision that led her to start her own business, Lindsey’s House of Plants, in the late 1970s. By the time her enterprise was underway, an infant daughter had joined the family as well. That was about 34 years ago. Today Li...
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National commander to visit Leitchfield’s American Legion Post 81
The national commander of the American Legion will visit Grayson County next week, during a tour of western Kentucky. Fang A. Wong is scheduled to attend an 11 a.m. public meet and greet and luncheon at American Legion Post 81 in Leitchfield on Wednesday, May 2. It’s one of several planned stops that day, and during Wong’s three-day visit to Kentucky. After the luncheon, Wong will head to Fort Knox to visit its Wounded Warior Trans...
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To Catch a (quilt) Thief
The brightly colored quilted world map had hung on a waiting room wall in Dr. Gay Fulkerson’s 310 Main St., Leitchfield, offices for years. Children would rush to trace country boundaries on its surfaces, planning future adventures and passing the time. But earlier this month, it simply vanished from the office. Fulkerson said she and her office staff think the quilt was taken around lunchtime April 19. One of her employees was out of t...
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New bluegrass festival planned for Leitchfield
It won’t be the state championship, but a fiddling contest will be held in Grayson County this July. Just days after word broke that the 2012 Official Kentucky State Championship Old Time Fiddlers Contest has been called off because a sponsor couldn’t be found, a group is stepping up to hold a contest in Leitchfield. Steven Elder, a Leitchfield businessman and city council member, said the goal is to make this a community celebration of...
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Pool study costs coming in higher than expected
Determining whether an indoor pool complex is feasible for Leitchfield will cost a little more than initially planned, members of the city’s Tourism Commission learned Tuesday morning. Last month, the commission voted to hire Murphy.Graves Architects of Lexington to conduct a professional architectural and engineering study to get a better feel for actual costs for building the type of pool complex it wants. In December, the commission ha...
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2012 Fiddler’s Contest Cancelled
After months of sponsorship negotiations, the 2012 Official Kentucky State Championship Old Time Fiddlers Contest has been called off. In a statement on the contest’s Web site, its organizers note that six months of negotiations with a potential new sponsor ended unsuccessfully late last week. “We regret to inform you that due to the late date and no sponsor for the 2012 contest we have decided that there will not be a contest this summer...
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