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Today's Features

  • Helmets for safe biking

    SHEPHERDSVILLE - The Bullitt County Cooperative Extension Service hosted a Home and Farm Safety Field Day.

    Students from Mount Washington, Old Mill and Roby Elementary, along with area home-schooled students, received helpful information from local experts.

    Safety topics included ATV, bathroom, bicycle, electricity, sun, tractor and water safety.

    An ambulance display was featured courtesy of Bullitt County EMS. Educational fire trailers were hosted by Mount Washington, Shepherdsville and Zoneton Fire units.

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  • Bullitt East High struggles through trying times by working together

    MOUNT WASHINGTON — Sometimes it seems like it rains for days, and then just when the clouds break, another storm comes along.

    Bullitt East students, staff and faculty know that scenario all too well. The student body has experienced its share of proverbial storms since the beginning of school.

    From two students sustaining life-threatening injuries to a student’s death by suicide, the school’s ability to band together and overcome tragedy has been tested in the past two months.

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  • Getting parents involved may have been key to BC recognition

    SHEPHERDSVILLE ee" The annual Cowherd Award for Center Excellence is presented to the state’s top Youth Service Center, Family Resource Center and combination of both.

    Though there are no combination centers in the county, two Bullitt centers claimed the state’s YSC and FRC awards, including Maryville/Overdale Elementary Hand In Hand FRC coordinator Betty Marshall.

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  • Remembering the 1917 Train Wreck: Hartley finishes book project

    SHEPHERDSVILLE - On December 20, 1917, the deadliest train accident in Kentucky history took place in Shepherdsville.

    In 2007 a memorial service was held at the Bullitt County Courthouse, located near the wreck site, to commemorate the 90th anniversary. The Bullitt County History Museum featured a booklet about the 1917 event during the ceremony.

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  • Hebron Estates man makes bid to collect over 100,000 books

    HEBRON ESTATES - Maybe one day someone from Bullitt County will donate a biography about Jim Davis.

    The Hebron Estates resident is attempting to begin a book collection drive with a lofty goal of attaining 100,000 books.

    A retired truck driver for the military and former motivational speaker, Davis developed his idea while watching a television show about schools needing more books in rural eastern Kentucky.

    “The kids didn’t have any school books or libraries,” he said. “I thought this would be something to benefit them.”

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  • Breast Cancer awareness event at post office

    In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the creation of the Breast Cancer Research Stamp, the staff at the Shepherdsville Post Office has been dressing in pink each Friday.

    The public is invited to come out on Friday, Oct. 30, to join the staff for a Pink Out in the front lobby. The attempt is to fill the front lobby with pink.

    Since July 1998, the first-class stamp has been on sale. A special rate can be offered on this stamp with funds going to research. Since the creation of the stamp, over $69 million has been raised for research.

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  • Busy week at Bernheim Forest

    Beyond The Dripline:  Ecology For Green Design Professionals - Wednesday, October 28

    This program, presented by Bernheim in cooperation with the Kentucky Chapter of the USGBC, examines the ecological design principles that connect the built environment to the natural environment.  Discussions include the challenges and successes of Bernheim’s LEED Platinum Visitor Center, the recent American Life and Accident Insurance Company Green Roof Project and The Green Building.

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  • Young aiming for new challenge as director

    SHEPHERDSVILLE - Eighteen years ago Jeff Young came to Bullitt County.

    His goal was to serve effectively as the leader of the Bullitt County 4-H program with the University of Kentucky Extension Service.

    He hopes some of the work has paid off as Young begins his next challenge in life as director director for the extension service.

    Young begins his new position of overseeing 15 county extension offices.

    “It doesn’t seem that long,” Young said of his 18 years in Bullitt County.

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  • Kentucky starts hotline for swine flu questions

    FRANKFORT – The Kentucky Department for Public Health (DPH) encourages Kentuckians to call a new toll-free hotline with their questions related to 2009 H1N1 influenza (swine flu) and seasonal flu for the latest news and information about flu. The toll-free hotline number is 1-877-843-7727, and it will operate from 8 a.m.-10 p.m. daily.

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  • Attorneys can work together to help Center for Women

    SHEPHERDSVILLE - Members of the legal community see first-hand every day some of the struggles that occur in life.

    Whether they are prosecutors, defense attorneys or members of judicial system, they understand better than most some of the issues which plague society.

    Recently, the Bullitt County Bar Association decided that it wanted to get more involved in the community.

    Its first project was helping to provide some manual labor to fix up a new facility for the Center for Women and Families in Shepherdsville.

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