Area News

By Dave Taylor A bicycle accident along the busy state road into Lewisport Saturday highlighted what the city says is a need for a sidewalk along the road that is heavily traveled by both cars and pedestrians, but that the state has refused to install one or even let the city do it on its…

By Dave Taylor An interesting sighting of a two-story paddle wheel houseboat cruising down the river Monday became a lot more interesting when the boat suddenly turned on its side and sank. Rob Payne happened to be at his house at the edge of the Ohio River west of Lewisport when he watched as the…

By Ralph Dickerson      In July of this year David Kerr, former shop foreman at First Class Services in Lewisport, opened a mobile mechanic shop, and operated it out of his garage. Wanting more traffic to his business, he and wife Karie started to look around for some place to open a permanent shop.…

By Dave Taylor Monty Quinn, the venerable owner of Ace’s Sporting Goods, is riding off into the sunset in retirement, but the legacy of Ace’s will live on with a new owner and a new location, as well as some new offerings. Quinn, who started Ace’s Guns out of his house in 1979, is handing…

By Dave Taylor As the fight against COVID-19 continues, daily updates from both state and local health officials provide the numbers surrounding the virus: new and total confirmed cases, breakdowns by location, age, gender, and positivity rates broken down to the hundredth of a percentage. Those numbers are used to determine when to open and…

By Dave Taylor On Saturday, Krystal Sharp set up an antique school desk and an old globe in the perfect spot in Vastwood Park, taking back-to-school pictures, but these pictures were a fundraiser for her godson, a young boy who’d lost several fingers to a lawnmower accident this summer, which the boy’s parents now hope…

By Dave Taylor During a special meeting Thursday the Hancock County School Board voted to implement a split A/B model for returning to school on September 28, but not before hearing from a crowd of parents who voiced their opposition to anything short of returning to school full-time.  According to a handout given to the…

911 gets automated, speeding response times By Dave Taylor Hancock County’s 911 is about to get faster, after the installation of new software that will automate many tasks that can otherwise slow down the initial response time. The county will be upgrading its system to add automated alerting, which will integrate with the existing system…

By Dave Taylor Hawesville Mayor Charles King has been nominated for Kentucky League of Cities’ City Elected Official of the Year and will find out whether he wins during the same conference where he’ll be recognized for being presented a scholarship to two years’ of future KLC training. King is one of 25 people up…

FRANKFORT, Ky. (September 11, 2020) – On August 21, Gov. Andy Beshear announced that the state’s application for FEMA’s Lost Wages Program, federal money to aid unemployed Kentuckians, had been approved. The programmers have completed the final modifications to the unemployment insurance systems so the payment process for the Lost Wages Program (LWP) has begun.…