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Today's News

  • Bullitt education council meets with McCall

    A Bullitt County delegation, composed of members of the Bullitt County Education Council, met Dr. Michael McCall on Thursday, December 17th.

    Dr. McCall is the founding president and CEO of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS).

    The delegation was made up of local physician Dr. Mohana Arla, County Judge Melanie Roberts, State Representative Linda Belcher, Bullitt County Chamber of Commerce representative and PBI bank president Keith Griffee, and BCPS Superintendent Keith Davis.

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  • Eastside overcomes Bobcats' shooting

    BERNHEIM -- Steady and strong got the best of spectacular on Thursday night in the ‘A’ Division Championship game of the Bullitt County Middle School Basketball Tournament at Bernheim Middle School.

    The Eastside Eagles, under the direction of head coach Jerry Troutman, did just about everything right, except making free throws, as they turned back the Bullitt Lick Bobcats 51-37 for the program’s second straight title.

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  • 'B' final turns into a Sharpe affair for MW

    BERNHEIM -- With 90 seconds remaining in Thursday’s ‘B’ Division Championship of the Bullitt County Middle School Tournament, the Mount Washington Generals trailed the Eastside Eagles 38-28.

    Considering that Eastside had just reeled off the last 17 points of the game, the view was not very pleasant for the Generals.

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  • Teen's court hearing Tuesday morning in infant murder

    BROOKS - A man has been charged with murder in the death of his girlfriend's four-month-old son.

    And his bond has been set at $1 million cash.

    Samuel David Harris, 18, remains in the Bullitt County Detention Center on an upgraded charge of murder.

    Harris is charged with the beating death of his girlfriend's son, Aiden.

    The twin son, Braiden, who spent several days in Kosair Children's Hospital with injuries suspected to have also been caused by Harris, has since been released and taken into the custody of state child protective services.

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  • Lady Chargers drop two in big holiday events

    MOUNT WASHINGTON - Yes Virginia, the Bullitt East Lady Chargers did make it home for Christmas in 2009. They just didn’t stay home very long over the holidays.

    Playing in two of the top girls’ tournaments in the state, the Lady Chargers posted a 6-2 record playing in the Republic Bank Holiday Classic at Lexington Catholic and then the Culver’s Lady Gator Holiday Classic in Bowling Green. The red and gold lost one game in each of the two events.

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  • East starts LIT play Tuesday

    LOUISVILLE - The revamped Boys’ Louisville Invitational Tournament will start tonight with a new format and only one team from outside of Jefferson County - the Bullitt East Chargers.

    This will be the fourth trip to the LIT for the Chargers, but the first time that they will be there on equal footing with all the other teams. The three previous trips all had Bullitt East as one of the four ‘invited’ teams.

    This is the first season in which the Chargers became part of the pool of teams eligible for the tournament from the Sixth and Seventh Regions.

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  • Athletic teams get the best of BE

    SHELBYVILLE - The Bullitt East Chargers have already proven this year that they can compete against teams with better athletic talent.

    They did that on the second weekend of the regular season when they stunned visiting Shelby County in overtime to win 85-79. They did that by playing hard for almost every second of a 32-minute game.

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  • Cougars struggle on Lexington trip

    SHEPHERDSVILLE - Bullitt Central’s shooting woes continued last week as the team spent three days in Lexington taking part in the Sayre Holiday Classic, a 4-team round-robin event that was eventually won by the host team.

    As has been the case in recent weeks, the Cougars struggled to find the range shooting the ball. The tournament started with the maroon and gray connecting on 20 percent of its shots, then 25 percent in the second game before the team did connect on 37 percent of its shots.

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  • Lady Eagles come up short offensively in their own tourney

    HEBRON ESTATES - Amber Courtney knows that rebuilding the North Bullitt Lady Eagle basketball program will be a gradual process.

    With only two seniors and one junior on the roster, Courtney is prepared for a few potholes in the rebuilding path.

    But after playing seven games in a 10-day period, Courtney is seeing some positive signs in her young Eagles.

    That optimism comes after the team had just lost all three games it played in its own First Citizens Bank Classic.

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  • East, North broadsided by district news from KHSAA

    SHEPHERDSVILLE - In one of the strangest, and most unexpected, moves handed down by the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA), Bullitt East and North Bullitt suddenly find themselves sitting in a six-team football district for next season.

    The news came in an email early last week from Julian Tackett of the KHSAA office announcing that because of the new high school in Shelby County, Martha Layne Collins High School, that both of the schools in Shelbyville will immediately move to Class 4-A.

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