Pleasure Ridge Park News

For years, loyal customers traveled to Eastern Parkway - and for decades before that to East Burnett Avenue in Schnitzelburg - to patronize a little bakery with a big reputation for quality cookies, kuchen, pastry and pies.

To better understand the potential impact that Fort Knox's $500 million expansion project could have on southwest Jefferson County, the Southwest Dream Team is organizing a bus tour of the Army post for area businesspeople and residents.

Louisville residents who were going to the clinic didn't flock to use the Transit Authority of River City's free bus shuttle.

Metro Councilman Bob Henderson is so enthusiastic about the upcoming Southwest Pride Community Clean Up, you might wonder if he knows participants will be expected to pick up garbage.

Bill Lile is the new mayor of Douglass Hills. Former mayor Phil Barber resigned unexpectedly last month after serving nine months of his two-year term.

A parent wants to get out of a lease for an apartment shared with three small children.

The youngest of three sisters, Pleasure Ridge Park High School sophomore Maria Lanceta has always wanted a little brother.

One rule of ghost hunting: Have as many witnesses present as possible. Also, don't antagonize the spirits.

Past and present fans of Dixie Highway and southwest Jefferson County have found a home on Facebook.

Ron Chilton of Douglass Hills was followed by a Pittsburgh filmmaker as he participated in the Kentucky Senior Games in Paducah the weekend of Oct.

Metro Councilman Rick Blackwell will hold a District 12 Dialogue at 7 p.m. Oct. 20 at Beechland Baptist Church, 4613 Greenwood Road.

It has been one year since the collapse and death of a Grayson County Middle School basketball player.

Understandably, pirate skeletons are not what most motorists expect to see when driving down the Pleasure Ridge Park street that Erin and Tim Phillips call home.

In 1937 there was a flood. Why? The river overflowed. In the 1940s, '50s and '60s, you didn't hear about flooding and the problems they had in different parts of the city.

Adriane Ramos and Della Webb are no strangers to working in professions dominated by men.

WDRB Fox 41's News Department is teaming up with eight Louisville-area high schools for a "TV JOURNALISM 101" - a project designed to encourage future broadcast journalists in this region, train them in the techniques they'll need in their future careers and provide exposure for their best current efforts.

Few cars have as unenviable a reputation as the 1960s Chevrolet Corvair. In his famous 1965 consumer advocacy book, "Unsafe at Any Speed," Ralph Nader wrote that the car's design was dangerous.

Shively City Hall is becoming a place that people can visit for more than just government business.

Former Pleasure Ridge Park football coach Jason Stinson was entitled his day in the sun after a jury found him not guilty of reckless homicide and wanton endangerment in the death of sophomore Max Gilpin, who collapsed and died after a difficult practice.

When eighth-graders at Notre Dame Academy began working this fall on their new recycling program, their goal was simple - collect as much recyclable waste as possible while teaching other students about the importance of being good stewards of the environment.