Metcalfe County News

The Edmonton City Council voted earlier this week not to enter into a contract with the Metcalfe County Board of Education.

Employees of the Caverna Independent School District will be receiving a pay increase slightly higher than what was mandated by the state.

After a slight decrease in April, May's unemployment rates jumped up. The nation's, state's and local counties' rates all increased.

Another suspicious house fire occurred Wednesday in the Hiseville area. The Barren County Sheriff's Office responded to a house on fire northeast of Glasgow on Center Road at around 4:40 p.m. This is the third suspicious fire that has occurred recently within the Hiseville area, said Sheriff's Chris Eaton.

The Metcalfe County School District was one of several recently to receive a United Way of Southern Kentucky Inc.

Three people were injured in a single-vehicle rollover wreck around 12:30 Wednesday morning on Coral Hill Road, according to the Barren County Sheriff's Department.

Summer Shade Elementary will soon have a new principal. Ron Hurley, who has been principal of the school for three years, will remain with the Metcalfe County School District, but will be in charge of several district programs during the 2009-10 school year, including director of the 21st Century Community Learning Center, preschool and ...

The Kentucky Attorney General's Office has issued an opinion that Barren County Jailer Leland Cox's actions do not rise to the level of misfeasance or malfeasance.

Most area education officials say they'll take the money generated by expanding gambling to replace schools in their districts if it is offered to them.

A downed tree damaged surrounding trees and the nearby power line in the front yard of a home on North Race Street Tuesday.

A federal grand jury is looking into bidding practices on road paving projects in Barren and Metcalfe counties in southern Kentucky to determine if any wrongdoing has occurred in the awarding of contracts.

The metal roof of a barn that stands near the Cumberland Parkway is tangled atop a power pole.

MC Chamber Summer Picnic Chamber Meeting at Memorial Park The June meeting of the Edmonton-Metcalfe County Chamber of Commerce will be a Summer Picnic sponsored by Edmonton State Bank.

A storm that passed through the area in the early morning hours Thursday downed several trees in the Hiseville and Austin and Tracy communities.

An arrest has been made in connection with several fires that occurred over the last couple of months in the Center community in Metcalfe County.

Breaking news: Metcalfe Co. blueberries are ripe! This just in: Valley View Orchard have blueberries! You can call 432-3919 or stop by 2606 Breeding Road, Edmonton Cee Bee also has Metcalfe County Grown Blueberries! I haven't talked to the Martins on Subtle Mountain but I am sure their crop is ripe also.

Emergency responders in south-central Kentucky have a new tool that should save time and possibly lives.

April's unemployment rate has dropped a fraction nationally, statewide and locally according to numbers from the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training.

In the last month first-responders throughout Barren and Metcalfe counties have had a new tool to help them when they have a call involving a person who doesn't speak English.

An appeal from Sycamore Springs: for specific computer desk Want to Buy Cindy Meyer scoured the most major section of the "400 Mile Yard Sale" on US68-all the way from Edmonton to Black Gnat and even from the capitol of Metcalfe County into the village of Glasgow, and back again: Despite cabbaging some great deals, even a bargain mounted deer head, ...