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Today's Features

  • Family literacy efforts from three schools in MW

        MOUNT WASHINGTON - In an effort to get families reading together, a family literacy event was recently held at Crossroads Elementary School for preschool and head start students of Mount Washington, Crossroads and Old Mill Elementary Schools.

        Participants heard stories, made crafts and joined in reading and counting activities. At the end of the program every child was given a new book, courtesy of the Old Mill/Crossroads and Mount Washington Elementary Schools Family Resource Centers.

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  • Tourist commission honored for its new logo design

        SHEPHERDSVILLE - It took three months and several tries before the Shepherdsville-Bullitt County Tourist and Convention Commission would select a logo that best represented the county’s hospitality, natural beauty and thriving wine and bourbon industries. 

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  • Week highlights need to get flu immunizations

         FRANKFORT – State public health officials are encouraging Kentuckians to get a flu vaccination during National Influenza Vaccination Week, Dec. 5-11, to reduce the spread of illness this holiday season.

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  • 'Tis the season

             Three communities welcomed in the holiday season over the weekend.

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  • Pick-a-Tree Star helps area families in need

        MOUNT WASHINGTON - For nearly a quarter of a century the folks at Peoples Bank Mount Washington have helped make Christmas a little brighter for countless local children in need through their annual Pick-A-Tree Star program.
        This year over 300 area elementary and middle school students are expected to receive clothes and toys for Christmas through the community effort.
        And it is truly a community effort.

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  • Stockings from MW to be hung by troops

        MOUNT WASHINGTON -- It’s a harsh truth Marsha Bergmann is all too familiar with.
        Talking with her daughter, Kelly Drescher, who’s in Afghanistan serving as a pilot with the Kentucky Air National Guard 123rd Airlift Wing, Bergmann has heard the stories of soldiers who have yet to receive packages from home and don’t expect anything this holiday season.

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  • 'Model' trip from Hebron Middle to Miss World

    PIONEER VILLAGE - As the top five contestants were announced during the 2010 Miss World Final in Sanya, China, Shepherdsville native Alexandria Mills,18, stood on stage in her white evening gown, thrilled and surprised to have made it so far.

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  • First pageant memorable for local resident

         PIONEER VILLAGE - Sitting on a sofa in the living room of the Bullitt County home she has lived in since she was born, 18 year-old Alexandria Mills is braiding her best friend Rhiannon Jones’ hair as the television plays the evening news in the background; her parents stare proudly at her and her big brother glances at his phone on a loveseat next to his girlfriend.

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  • HOLIDAYS: DECEMBER 2010

     A list of holidays, designations, anniversaries and special event for the month of December.

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  • Thanksgiving Helpers

     It is a Thanksgiving tradition at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church and the First Baptist Church of Shepherdsville.

    Volunteers at both churches arrive early to prepare over 700 meals for others on the Thanksgiving holiday.

    The churches rely upon members, as well as community groups, such as the Boy Scouts, to help cook, prepare and deliver the meals around the community.

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