Fatcow Icon
News
County Alliance sponsors Children’s Art Contest
The Grayson County Alliance (GCA) is currently sponsoring a Children’s Art Contest as part of the upcoming Art in the Park event. The contest is open to all elementary students, grades 1-5, and students may submit artwork of any medium they feel will best present the theme, “Helping Others,” according to Grayson County High School Art Teacher Beverly Dowell. GCA member Dennis Kiper said the theme for the contest derived from the Alliance,...
full story
Schools_could_save_six_figures_on_plumbing_renovations0_1364934501.jpg
Schools could save six figures on plumbing renovations
A special meeting was called by the Grayson County School Board to approve last-minute additions and revisions regarding upcoming plumbing renovations at both the high school and H. W. Wilkey Elementary School. Significant renovations to the aging school buildings’ plumbing systems are greatly needed, according to Superintendent Barry Anderson, and will begin as soon as school dismisses for the summer in mid-May. Work at the high school i...
full story
Photo/Matt Lasley Audree Pennington participated in the Daisy Scouts Easter Egg Hunt on Wednesday, March 27.
Daisy Scouts celebrate Easter with egg hunt
Assisted-living facility, Bee Hive Homes, hosted an Easter Egg Hunt for the Daisy Scouts Troop 381 on Wednesday, March 27. The event marked the second annual Bee Hive Homes-hosted Easter Egg hunt. Mary Nell Bouvier, co-owner of Bee Hive Homes, said 2012’s hunt was primarily for employees and residents of Bee Hive’s assisted living facilities. This year, however, the facility invited the Daisy Scouts to attend its Easter Egg hunt after l...
full story
Students_get_‘reality’_check0_1364587234.jpg
Students get ‘reality’ check
“It’s kinda scary,” said Carson Zurmehly, an eighth-grader at Grayson County Middle School who participated in the annual ‘Reality Store’ event on Thursday morning. Zurmehly was one of approximately 300 students who were assigned a random job, income and family size before heading into the ‘real world’ to make responsible financial decisions and budget for such things as housing, health care, groceries and even entertainment and traffic cit...
full story
Repair_Affair_deadline_approaching0_1364587226.jpg
Repair Affair deadline approaching
The Friday, April 5 deadline is fast-approaching for applicants to receive assistance during the annual Repair Affair Day, hosted by the Grayson County Alliance. The program, which is held each spring in Grayson County, is designed to assist those in need of essential home repairs who do not have the funds or ability to make the repairs themselves. The group’s public relations representative, Betty Whitten, said that while there are plent...
full story
Firefighter Park pavilion to have ribbon-cutting April 15
The new pavilion at Firefighter Park will officially open on Monday, April 15, Leitchfield Tourism Director Ilsa Johnson announced at the regularly scheduled Tourism Commission meeting. Johnson said the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new pavilion will be held at 5 p.m. before the regularly scheduled Leitchfield City Council meeting. In addition, Johnson reported that the plaque for the pavilion has been received and will display the name...
full story
Local_vets_headed_to_Africa0_1364330413.jpg
Local vets headed to Africa
A small group of veterans, including Grayson County residents Anthony Noe and Jim Lish, will be ushering in a new model of care for active-duty military personnel when they ship out to Djibouti, Africa next week. Never before has a team of veterans travelled into an active-duty military “hot zone” to help the men and women serving there to prepare for a successful return home and to civilian life after service. After a year of planning, t...
full story
Alcorn
Alcorn charged with 37 additional child pornography crimes
Michael E. Alcorn, 48, of Orchard Street in Leitchfield, was recently indicted in Grayson County Circuit Court on 57 counts of distribution of a matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor and one charge of possession of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor. Alcorn was originally charged with 20 counts of distribution of child pornography after Kentucky State Police searched his home on January 30. Since that time, he has...
full story
Leitchfield Utilities seek big debt savings
Patience has paid off for the Leitchfield Utilities Commission. During the regularly scheduled March 21 meeting, the Commission motioned to forward to the City Council a request to refinance an outstanding rural development loan from 1995. City Clerk/Treasurer Erin Embry said the rural development loan was originally intended to be used for water line and system improvements. By waiting until now to refinance, Commission Chairman Robert...
full story
Flaming_pick_up_shuts_down_South_Patterson_Street0_1363984854.jpg
Flaming pick-up shuts down South Patterson Street
First responders received a call on Tuesday afternoon alerting them to a vehicle fully engulfed in flames on South Patterson Street in Clarkson. Clarkson Police Chief Jeff King, along with the Clarkson Volunteer Fire Department were on scene quickly to combat the flames and speak with the vehicle’s owner, Billy Compton, of Clarkson. Compton explained that he had just poured gas from two gas containers into his Dodge Ram 1500 pick-up and w...
full story
Throughout the end of March, Family Video will be taking donations to help fund Lymphoma research.
Coins for a cure
Family Video, the nation’s largest movie and game rental chain, has teamed with the University of Chicago Medicine and the Lymphoma Research Foundation in the fight to cure Lymphoma. On March 15, Family Video stores across the nation began the second annual “Round It Up for Lymphoma” fundraiser, which asks customers to round up their transactions to the nearest dollar and donate the change toward the cause of finding a cure, according to Le...
full story
Armstrong
Armstrong named News-Gazette General Manager
Grayson County resident Theresa Armstrong has recently been named General Manager of The Grayson County News-Gazette . In an announcement made by Michael Bush, CEO of Civitas Media, Armstrong was named to the post on March 22. “We are extremely happy to be appointing a local to the position of General Manager of The Grayson County News-Gazette ,” said Bush. “The experience she brings to the paper is invaluable, but her commitment to the...
full story
Yes_Pepe_is_really_in_the_kitchen_0_1363984830.jpg
Yes, Pepe is really in the kitchen!
Grayson County’s newest restaurant, Pepe’s Grill, was hopping with activity on Wednesday as patrons either visited for the first time or made a return trip for seconds. A ribbon-cutting ceremony outside complemented the buzz of activity inside. Having been in the restaurant business for nearly six years, manager Antonia Arriata was able to quickly and efficiently get the newest local eatery up and running. So far, business is going well, ...
full story
City Council approves aquatic center bond ordinance
The Leitchfield City Council approved the bond ordinance for the new Aquatic Center at the regularly scheduled City Council meeting on Monday, March 19. During the meeting, the Council listened to the second reading of the bond ordinance, which, if passed, would allow the city to advertise and sell bonds to outside bidders. Embry said this, in addition to city taxes, such as the restaurant tax, would help to fund the Aquatic Center project,...
full story
TN man slated to face local murder trial
More than a year after the untimely death of 18-year-old Joshua Mudd, of Caneyville, his accused murderer appears ready to plead guilty to a number of charges related to the February 25, 2012 incident that took the young man’s life. Steven Holland, a 48-year-old from Dyersburg, TN, is being charged with murder, assault in the first degree, operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and reckless driving, according to ...
full story
Tee-ballers take a swing at hunger
Leitchfield Tee-Ball will host an opening day ceremony and food drive to benefit the Grayson County Alliance Food Pantry on Saturday, April 27, according to District Commissioner of Baseball Jose Soto. Soto said after hearing that 75% of children in the community are on either reduced or free lunch, he wanted to do something to help the needy, so he is working with the food pantry to host a food drive during the opening day of tee-ball. S...
full story
GCHD_looking_toward_independence0_1363726418.jpg
GCHD looking toward independence
Members of the local Health Department Board are hoping to ease any potential fears over the upcoming switch from being a member of the Lincoln Trail Health Department District (LTHDD) to an independently-run health department. The decision to leave the district after being a member for more than three decades was not one made lightly, according to board member Terry Mudd. “This is not a spur of the moment thing,” Mudd said, “We’ve been d...
full story
Jones
KSP searches for escaped convict in Radcliff area
Police are searching for a Hardin County Detention Center inmate who walked away on Friday, March 15. 20-year-old Ryan C. Jones was on work release duty at Saunders Springs Preserve in Radcliff on Friday afternoon when he simply walked away, according to a press release from Kentucky State Police. Jones, who is serving time for fleeing or evading police in the first degree and wanton endangerment in the first degree, is described as being...
full story
Issues arise at Caneyville wastewater plant
The recently updated Caneyville wastewater plant has encountered issues with its engineering, according to Supervisor of Water and Wastewater Avery Flener. Flener said grit (a byproduct of storm water and mud seeping into the sewer system) should be passing through the plant’s stilling well and into its grit chamber, the latter of which would contain and prevent the grit from passing into the plant. Based on Kenviron’s designs for the pla...
full story
Photo/GCSD The Grayson County Sheriff's Department was notified of an abandoned vehicle in a flooded creek near US 62 early Monday morning.
Wrecked vehicle found in flooded creek
A number of area residents contacted the Grayson County Sheriff’s Office Monday morning after seeing a vehicle in a flooded creek alongside of US Highway 62 and Clark School Road. According to Sheriff Rick Clemons, the vehicle had been wrecked the night before, on Sunday, March 17, and had been left in the creek by the driver. Clemons said that the vehicle is licensed to Big Clifty resident Vicki Carby, who left it in the creek bed before...
full story
Kevin Henderson to be new Leitchfield Police Chief
Kevin Henderson was announced as the new Leitchfield Police Chief by Leitchfield Mayor William Thomason at the regularly scheduled Leitchfield City Council meeting on Monday, March 18. Thomason said that while all six of the applicants were good and "had so many great ideas to improve the force," Henderson's previous experience with the Drug Task Force (DTF) and ideas to improve Leitchfield's own DTF placed him ahead of the rest. Thomason said...
full story
Teen injured in accident
A Falls of Rough teenager was injured Tuesday evening in a Shrewsbury Road accident. According to a report filed with the Grayson County Sheriff’s Office, a 17-year-old male was travelling on Shrewsbury Road approximately 10 miles south of the city of Leitchfield when the accident occurred at just before 7 p.m. on March 12. The teen told officers that he had looked down to check his speed and subsequently ran off of the roadway. Officer...
full story
School board recognizes new hire and retiree
The Grayson County School Board expressed both their excitement over their newest staff member and their gratitude for a retiring long-time employee at their regular meeting on Thursday evening. The introduction of the high school’s new machining program has brought with it the need for a new instructor. Russell Cheney has been hired to fill the position, and was hailed by Superintendent Barry Anderson and Board Director Carolyn Thomason as...
full story
Photo/Brittany Wise GCDC Deputy Bo Thorpe explained new standard for compliance with federally-mandated PREA standards.
GCDC rushing to meet federal mandate requirements
Grayson County Detention Center Deputy Bo Thorpe addressed the Grayson County Fiscal Court about some significant changes that the jail needs to make in order to stay in compliance with a federally-mandated program called PREA. The Prison Rape Elimination Act, which came about in 2003, has been updated by the Obama administration, Thorpe explained, and meeting the new standards is going to be “a massive endeavor.” While GCDC is already do...
full story
Weather
Sponsored By:

Lottery
Sponsored By:

Stocks
Sponsored By:

Gas Prices
Sponsored By:

Featured Businesses
Recipes
Sponsored By: