Area News
Lewisport council meeting
The Lewisport City Council held its regularly scheduled city council meeting last Thursday evening. The meeting took place at City Hall at 7 p.m., and a light agenda greeted council members. One of the more important items at the meeting concerned the termination of the lease with the Hancock County Public Library. A few months…
Read MoreOwensboro woman dies from accident in Lewisport
An Owensboro woman died in an accident west of Lewisport on August 17 at roughly 2:30 a.m. Hancock County Sheriff’s Deputy Aaron Emmick filed the accident report. According to Emmick’s report, Kimberly M. Cooper of Owensboro was driving a 2007 Ford Escape at a high rate of speed on state Route 334 in the Waitman…
Read MoreCounty starts communications upgrade
At Monday night’s Hancock County Fiscal Court meeting, magistrates gave the approval for Emergency Services to start upgrading its communications equipment. The current equipment relies on out-dated analog technology approximately 30-years old, and barely works outside of Hawesville’s city limits. “We need to do this,” Hancock County Judge/Executive Johnny “Chic” Roberts said. “We spent enough…
Read MoreMore corporate jets landing at Hancock Airport
Hawesville native named president of National Association of Farm Business Analysis Specialists
UK’s Laura Powers was recently named president of the National Association of Farm Business Analysis Specialists, whose members serve 40,000 farm families in eight states. Photo by Matt Barton, UK agricultural communications. University of Kentucky’s Laura Powers was named president of the board of directors of the National Association of Farm Business Analysis Specialists during their…
Read MoreLewisport restaurant scene, heating up
The restaurant scene in Lewisport is heating up as two Mexican restaurants and a tavern are set to open in the city soon. Los Amigos restaurant plans to open a grill in the old Goal Post location in downtown Lewisport, and Los Nopales Mexican Grill plans to open in the old salvage grocery store building…
Read MoreWhat I learned from dying; everyone needs a Jamie
After a long string of seemingly only good news, I finally got some bad news this week. My white blood count was too low to do chemotherapy chemotherapy so I was sent home from the hospital to try again next week. When I first heard the news I sighed and thought, “there’s no easy or…
Read MoreHancock Accidents
Accident east of Lewisport An accident east of Lewisport damaged two vehicles, but the drivers escaped injury. The accident happened on August 10 at roughly 6 p.m. Hancock County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeff Hendrick filed the accident report. Kimberly A. Fullenwider of Hawesville went to pull onto westbound U.S. 60 approximately one-mile east of Lewisport from…
Read MoreHancock District Court Docket, August 17, 2021
The Hancock County District Court Arraignment Docket for Tuesday, August 17, 2021. The Honorable John McCarty presiding. Probate Court The estate of James E. Bittel, case scheduled for a probate hearing. Amended petition order signed. The estate of Martha A. Husk, case scheduled for motion hour. The case continued to 10-19-21 at 9 a.m.…
Read MoreMask up, get vaccinated and stop COVID
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic people furiously debated what steps we need to take to abate the pandemic. No matter the recommendation, some people claimed the steps did not work. The two most heated points of contention concern masks and COVID-19 vaccines. Many people claim masks do nothing to stop the spread of COVID,…
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