Wilmore News

If you are looking for a women's club with members who are concerned with shopping trips, beauty tips, and parties, the Suburban Woman's Club of Lexington, Inc., is not for you.

The history of Halloween is filled with the undead and their incorporeal issues.

Asbury Theological Seminary and H.W. Lochner presented the design plans for the $3 million streetscape project Tuesday at Wesley Village to generally good reviews from the public.

The annual Nicholasville Firefighter Toy Drive will kick off Friday with the Pennies for Presents program at Walmart, Kroger on South Main Street, Kroger in Brannon Crossing and Fitch's IGA in Wilmore.

The Wilmore City Council heard a presentation Monday from the Wilmore Fire Department about the problems it has had recruiting and retaining volunteer firefighters, an issue that had been brought before the council June 8 but not acted upon.

Destination Jessamine, a tourism group that was started in 2006 to plan for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, is entering the final phases of preparation for next September's event.

Wilmore is one step away from getting new residential zoning that will allow it to have smaller-density developments in its limits.

The Wilmore Police Department received two federal stimulus grants from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act that will pay for new digital radios and onboard radar and camera equipment for the department.

Long before Dr. Phyllis Corbitt served on the board at Wesley Village, she wanted to be a missionary to Africa.

A Lexington, Ky., nurse charged in the death of a World War II veteran has been suspended from her job, authorities said.

Was Jesus the first feminist? That's a topic that Ben Witherington III, a professor at the Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Ky., will discuss as part of the first presentation in Kansas State University's new Fred L. Parrish Lecture Series.

Walk into the ornate, 1,500-person-capacity sanctuary at the Wilmore United Methodist Church and it becomes hard to remember that before the breathtaking structure was ever built, there was an equally admired building that paved the way.

While the residents of Tates Creek Estates dig their way out from the flooding which left several homes damaged, other parts of Jessamine County were also left to deal with problems.

Wilmore Mayor Harold Rainwater was named City Official of the Year Sept. 24 by the Kentucky League of Cities at its conference in Covington, Ky.

Flash flooding forced dozens of people to flee their homes by boat in the Tates Creek Estates mobile home park Saturday.

The Wilmore City Council meeting heated up Monday night after the council voted down a proposal for proposed language for a new planned unit development ordinance.

The latest No Child Left Behind test results were released Wednesday and for the first time ever, the district met all its goals, which brought smiles to the faces of Jessamine County school officials.

An ape and monkey sanctuary in Jessamine County was featured in a Nightline report Monday night on ABC.

Realizing several years ago that steadily increasing enrollment in the district would continue, the Jessamine County Board of Education developed a plan for redistricting in 2011.

Both the Wilmore vehicle tax rate and property tax rate will stay the same after a fairly contentious discussion at the Wilmore City Council's Monday meeting.