Lewisport Heritage Festival
Heritage Festival Baby Contest Winners
GRAND CHAMPION BABYS The 2023 Lewisport Heritage Festival Baby Contest Winners are: 0-4 Months Winners Girls: 1st Place: Oaklee Bernardi – Parents: Emilee & Jeffery Bernardi 2nd Place: Luka Kate Garrison – Parents: Lexi Nicholas & Trevor Garrison 3rd Place: Oaklyn Obenchain – Parents: Summer Hurst & Dylan Obenchain …
Read MoreLewisport Heritage Festival receives big crowds, big success
Lewisport City Administrator Jason Roberts said the 2023 Heritage Festival went very well, and the weather was perfect. “It was the first festival I’ve worked where we didn’t have to worry about a chance for rain at some point,” he said. “We had a record number of vendors including food and crafts. New…
Read MoreLewisport Heritage Festival starts today, June 1; 3 days of fun!
The 34th Annual Lewisport Heritage Festival is this Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June 1st- 3rd. Many of the fun, favorite events will be there this year, as well as some new ones you won’t want to miss! A Meet & Greet with Farmer Grayce is happening at the Antique Tractor Pull on…
Read MoreLewisport getting ready for big event; discusses property violations ordinance
The Lewisport City Council meets on the third Thursday of every month. This month’s meeting was Thursday, May 18th, and it was approved to use the remainder of the city’s water fund monies to move forward with the water plant pilot program. “At last month’s meeting, Matt Curtis (with Bluegrass Engineering) was in…
Read MoreDiscovery of $100,000 grant money to be applied toward Lewisport’s main Lift Station
At the Lewisport City Council meeting, February 16th, Mayor Chad Gregory made an announcement that he was surprised to find two older grants totaling $100,000. Those are available to rehabilitate Lewisport’s main lift station. “That grant (the clean water grant) was kind of old and forgotten about it,” Gregory said. “I made an error. It…
Read MoreGetting to know you; Lacey Mosby
Lacey Mosby, North Hancock Elementary’s Family Resource and Youth Services Center Coordinator, grew up in Hawesville near Vastwood Park. She and her family spent many evenings at the park with little league and softball and enjoyed the playground and walking trail. Lacey played volleyball, Summer League Softball and tennis. She graduated from Hancock County High…
Read MoreLewisport Heritage Festival June 2-4, wide entertainment on tap
The 33rd Annual Lewisport Heritage Festival is set from June 2 until June 4 in downtown Lewisport. Highlights of the festival include pageants, live music, food booths, children’s rides, a 5K walk/run, antique car and motorcycle cruising, and a tractor show and pull. June 2 On Thursday, June 2, the festival will open at Chapman…
Read MoreGetting to know you; Emma Wilson
At only nineteen-years-old, Emma Wilson is already running a successful baking business from her home in Lewisport. She launched EMazing Cupcakes & Treats in March of 2020, and graduated from Hancock County High School that year as well. Emma’s parents are: Sara & Todd Roberts and Chadd & Layla Wilson. She has three siblings: Paige,…
Read MoreGetting to know you; Brent Wigginton
In 1978, Brent Wigginton moved to Hancock County with his family. His parents, Jerry and Kay Wigginton bought a farm in Pellville. Jerry worked at NSA and Kay was a Homemaker. Wigginton grew up farming and said he, “learned early in life, what it was to have to do hard work and see a job…
Read MoreEmmick’s tractor wins Most Unusual and Unique award
At the Lewisport Heritage Festival two weeks ago, an entry by Byron Emmick and son Kasey won the Most Unusual and Unique award at the tractor show. They entered a Christmas tree sprayer tractor built in the late 1940s. “It is a 1948 Farmall A & C cross,” Byron said. “A guy built seven of…
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