Harrods-Creek News

Chamber prepares community directory For those of you who attended and sponsored this year's Prospect Community Expo, we want to say thank you for a successful event! Our Community Expo is always a great time ...

How do you know the classical music season is upon us? Easy -- a plethora of Sunday concerts beginning at 3 p.m. That means you have to make a choice of where to go and what to hear.

Several agencies from Kentucky and Indiana responded to a report of a person falling overboard from a boat on the Ohio River early this morning, reports the Louisville Courier-Journal in its Sunday edition.

A 2-year-old boy has died after being hit with a baseball bat during a sporting event at a church in eastern Jefferson County.

Reports indicate the 2-year-old ran up to his 4-year-old sister, who was swinging a bat before T-ball practice, when he was struck.

A two-year-old boy has died after being hit with a baseball bat during a sporting event at a church in eastern Jefferson County.

A 2-year-old boy died last night after he was struck in the chest by a baseball bat at a church ball field, a MetroSafe Communications supervisor said.

What if, during the nine-month widening of the one-lane River Road bridge, scaffolding gets in the way of boats as they try to cross under the bridge on Harrods Creek? What if heavy equipment is accidentally ...

Every time I cross the charming little bridge over Harrods Creek on River Road, I count my blessings, not because I have reached the other side, but for the pleasure of the lovely old-fashioned manners not so ...

Although loath to don my 'silk stockings' outside our barn or potato patch, I myself have driven across the River Road bridge across Harrods Creek -- the latest battleground in Louisville's endless struggle ...

The two-laning of Harrods Creek Bridge is a no-brainer, right? Not really. If the current one-lane bridge is widened as planned, it may well encourage speeders to rush through an area where cars currently move ...

The conservation group River Fields is suing the state and federal highway departments to stop the long-planned widening of the one-lane River Road bridge over Harrods Creek.

“The growth (of the event) has been awesome”

Will Crawford hopes to convince Prospect residents that the drive to his Westport General Store restaurant in Oldham County is shorter than the trip to Bardstown Road in the Highlands. via The Courier-Journal

“We don't know if this has set us back at all”

Flames shot from the Big Four Bridge yesterday as firefighters grappled with how to extinguish a blaze 70 to 80 feet above the Ohio River and a quarter-mile from the Louisville shore. via The Courier-Journal

“This is just the most haunting music I have ever heard”

Music 200 years in the making Shape Note Singing: Singers face the center, a leader gives a hum, all four parts find the pitch and they sing their fa, sol, la and mi s. The four-part harmony is haunting. via Oldham Era

“We will probably lose some students.”

Tuition would rise 13 percent next year for more than 90,000 students in Kentucky's community and technical colleges under a proposal approved by the schools' Board of Regents today. via The Courier-Journal

Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology: By Stanley Hedeen; foreword by John Mack Faragher. via LEO Weekly

“Continue what I've always done”

Every year, the South Central Kentucky Jefferson Awards honor those who have made an outstanding longtime contribution to public service. via WBKO-TV Bowling Green

“We're going to have to be much more creative in plea bargaining”

State budget cuts are expected to cost about 100 people their jobs in prosecutors' offices across Kentucky, raising the possibility of case backlogs, delays and more plea bargains in state courts. via The Courier-Journal

“We've basically circumvented the parole process in which any Class C and D felon could be released, in theory, back out as soon as they are sentenced”

Some Kentucky prosecutors are concerned about a potential 'mass exodus' of felons leaving jails and prisons in coming months because of a provision in the budget allowing nonviolent inmates to serve the last ... via The Courier-Journal