Plantation News

When Laurel and Hardy appear in "March of the Wooden Soldiers" at the Crescent Hill library Tuesday, it will be thanks to an avid film collector with a desire to share his love for the classics.

For 34 years, pianist Mary Means of Rolling Fields has been making music for the holidays at Farmington Historic Plantation on Bardstown Road.

Betty Sauer and other volunteers from the AARP Lyndon Chapter spent the recent National Day of Service in a Clifton warehouse sorting out unused medical supplies to send to needy communities overseas.

The Crescent Hill Community Council had a chance to tell "neighbors" from all over Louisville about its efforts to restore and improve Kennedy Court Park off Frankfort Avenue at a recent fundraiser for the Center for Neighborhoods.

Rebecca Webb, 14, and Victoria Lyvers, 15, were excited as they talked about pieces of a medicine bottle they uncovered at an archaeological dig site in Trimble County - that is, until they were asked what medicine the bottle once held.