Area News
Steve Canepari named Historian of the Year
Steve Canepari was honored as Historian of the Year at the Historical Society Dinner on Monday evening. He spearheaded the Jeffreys Cliffs project and worked alongside volunteers to see it to completion. They built the trails in 2017 and 2018 and started the stairs in October of last year. “I had a lot of…
Read MoreHCHS Marching Hornets, Dreams of Flight
After a one-year pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the high school marching band season returns this year, and the Hancock County High School Marching Hornets plan to compete in up to eight contests this year, new HCHS Band Director Zach Buskill said. “We plan to be in competition every Saturday until the end of…
Read MoreHornets win 44-0 over Breck county in opening night thriller
The long wait for high school football was well worth it for Hancock County fans as they watched their Hornets dismantle Breck County 44-0 in the season opener at Schafer–Glover Field Friday. “We were just excited to get out there and get going. It was great to see the crowds and to get back to…
Read MoreFlorida Pilot’s unexpected stop at Hancock County Airport
Lisa Heidinger flew her 1946 Vintage Aircoupe single engine airplane to the EAA AirVenture convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin from her home in Port St. Lucie, Florida. The event was July 22nd-31st. On her way back home, she got caught in some weather and ended up having to make an unscheduled stop at Hancock County Airport. …
Read MoreWhat I learned from dying; False alarms
This week I learned a little bit about false alarms and being falsely alarmed. Last week I was unable to receive my chemo treatments for stage four esophageal cancer because my white blood count was too low. That, at least to me, was alarming. Until that point all of my blood work had come back…
Read MoreHancock Accidents
Semi sideswipes truck A pickup truck sustained damage in a sideswipe accident with a semi four miles west of Hawesville on state Route 334. The accident happened at approximately 10:15 p.m. on August 18. Hancock County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeff Hendrick filed the accident report. Eugene Banton of Virginia went to pull his 1996 Kenworth semi…
Read MoreHilldale Methodist installs blessing box
Recently, Hilldale United Methodist Church installed a food Blessing Box in front of the church located at 750 Hilldale Road east of Lewisport. The idea originated with Jeff Beaver’s Sunday school class. “We want to use it as an outreach program to let people who are putting food in or taking food out that they…
Read MoreCovid continues to increase in Hancock
The number of COVID-19 cases continues to increase in Hancock County, and stand at 1005 total cases as of Monday, August 23, up 52 cases since August 12. Currently, one person remains hospitalized with the virus. “We are seeing an alarming rise in our incidence of new COVID-19 cases,” Clay Horton, Green River District Health…
Read MoreHancock County records strong population growth
The United States government recently started to release the results of the 2020 census on Census.gov, and the 2020 census showed several positives for Hancock County. For starters, Hancock County recorded the second strongest population growth in Western Kentucky with a 6.188-percent increase. Daviess County led Western Kentucky with a 6.887-percent population increase. In 2010…
Read MoreHancock County schools; first day big success
Hancock County Public Schools started Monday, and by all accounts the first day of school went exceptionally well. Superintendent Asberry and each school official said the day went smoothly. “It exceeded my expectations,” Asberry said. “We try to do all the planning over the summer to make things go smoothly, and the plan came together.”…
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