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Basketball is forever in the...

 SHEPHERDSVILLE – Everybody loves snow at Christmas.

Nobody likes snow when it is four weeks into the start of the baseball and softball seasons.

Yet even this past weekend, snow has been part of the conversation despite temperatures near 80 late last week.

Oh well. At some point spring will really arrive and stay. In the mean time, let me clean out my note pad on a few things sports related.

Collins’ Hiring

Area ball parks set to kick off...

 MOUNT WASHINGTON— The birds are chirping and a recently renovated park is ready to be used.

The Mount Washington City Park, located at 100 Newman Way behind Mount Washington Elementary, has seen a lot of changes in the past few years and Parks Director Sheryl Paxton has prepared an opening day celebration to showcase those changes.

On Saturday, April 14, the day will kick off with the Mount Washington Youth Baseball and Softball Opening Day Parade throughout the park.

Woman arrested for giving false...

 SHEPHERDSVILLE  -- A word of wisdom is to not give police officers false information when they pull you over at a traffic stop.

On April 4, the Street Crimes Unit for the Shepherdsville Police Department made a traffic stop in the 1300 Block of Highway 44 East.

A passenger in the vehicle gave officers false information about her identity. Officers were able to properly identify the female and determined that she had an active warrant.

She was also found to be in possession of methamphetamine, heroin and ecstasy.

Kentucky Blood Center opens...

 HILLVIEW - Down the stretch of Antle Drive near the Hillview Wal-Mart comes the newest location of the Kentucky Blood Center.

KBC is the largest independent, full-service, non-profit blood center in the Commonwealth.

The new Hillview location celebrated its grand opening as a Kentucky Derby Festival event, with Derby Pie and funnel cakes available for donors, as well as a visit from the KDF’s Pegasus mascot.

Softball still struggling

 SHEPHERDSVILLE – Heading to Florida for spring break worked out to some extent for both the Bullitt East Lady Chargers and the North Bullitt Lady Eagles.

First and foremost, the two teams found some good weather and got in plenty of action, something that was lacking here at home over the first two weeks of the season. What didn’t improve was the winning percentage as both teams posted 1-4 marks on their trips.

Pension bill big mistake

 FRANKFORT -- Of all the facts and figures surrounding the public-pension debate, two speak volumes about what happened last Thursday at the Capitol: nine and 291.

The first is about how many hours it took for House and Senate leaders to publicly unveil their plan to reform the state’s public retirement systems and then steamroll it through both chambers.

Eagles grab first win and a lot...

  MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — The start of the 2018 season has not been what coach Brian Wise and his North Bullitt Eagles would have wanted.

However, getting a big win on Friday in the finale of the Cal Ripkin Experience made the trip back from Myrtle Beach a whole lot more enjoyable.

The 12-2 victory over Bishop Watterson of Columbus, Ohio, was the first in seven outings for the Eagles.

But, it showed that when you pitch well and defend well, you can win ball games.

Bullitt East rolls in Florida...

 MOUNT WASHINGTON – Off to a 6-0 start this season, the Bullitt East Chargers were ready to cap a successful spring break trip to Florida, but came out flat on Friday morning and dropped a 10-0 decision to a team from Highland Park in Illinois.

That loss put a damper on what was still a successful week at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World for the red and gold. More than anything, the team played five games, a great improvement after playing two games in two weeks at home because of bad weather.

Pharmacy secures grant for...

 SHEPHERDSVILLE - A local pharmacy found a new and unique way to help protect and serve the community.

B&B Pharmacy acquired an opioid action grant through the Narcan manufacturer Adapt. Narcan is the drug that temporarily suspends an overdose.

Co-owner Ellen Barger, Pharm D, RPh, applied for the grant through the pharmacy on behalf of the area’s first responders. She learned about the grant through Cardinal Health, one of its distribution companies.

Chippiness needs to stop if city...

 It seems like just yesterday when the Shepherdsville City Council might have been described as dysfunctional.

Legal issues were flying. Councilmembers weren’t attending meetings. Without a quorum, meetings had to be cancelled.

Lo and behold, we had elections. There were a majority of new councilmembers elected. A new mayor was placed into office by the voters.

Good times seemed to be ahead.

Well, the honeymoon lasted for awhile but things seemed to unravel at the latter part of 2017.