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Total Solar Eclipse Path Runs Near Hancock; 90%
The path of totality for this year’s total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8th runs through 13 U.S. states from 1:30 p.m. to 2:40 p.m. CDT. In the path are Paducah, Evansville, Indianapolis and other fairly nearby cities in relation to Hancock County. If viewing in Evansville, for example, the eclipse will be visible right…
Read MoreOne of America’s last aluminum smelters just closed. Let’s rescue Kentucky’s from that fate.
The aluminum industry’s decline is risks hobbling Kentucky’s clean energy supply chain as the electric vehicle industry should be taking off. Electric cars, above, charged at a public charging station in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Since Ford Motor Co. announced a series of major electric vehicle battery plants, anchored in Kentucky and…
Read MoreFiscal Court
There was a second reading of Ordinance 2024-01 at the Hancock County Fiscal Court meeting Monday night, January 22nd. The ordinance, once passed, will regulate the minimum requirements/trainings for all volunteer members of emergency services in Hancock County. (*A full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection at the Hancock County Judge-Executive’s Office…
Read MoreTurning 66 on Route 66
By Jennifer Wimmer Judy Priest celebrated her sixty-sixth birthday on June 25 of this year by taking another trip down the historic highway Route 66. She and her husband, Eddie, departed Hancock County in her blue, 2019 Dodge Charger on Thursday, June 23. She enjoyed a stack of pancakes with bacon on Saturday morning for…
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