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Today's News

  • Local banks are secure

    We have received numerous questions regarding bank safety and insurance coverage on deposits. These consumer concerns are warranted; given the highly publicized meltdown of the sub prime mortgage market, housing market crisis, IndyMac Bank issues, state of the overall banking industry, etc. I want to take this opportunity to address some of the more frequently asked questions.

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  • Local election filing deadline is Aug. 12

    General Manager

    With less than a week to go before the filing deadline for local elections, 13 county residents have filed to run for local offices.

    The deadline to file to run for local elections is Aug. 12 at 4 p.m.

    Two seats on the Eminence Board of Education are up for election, as are three on the Henry County Board of Education and all city council and commission seats.

    That makes 25 local seats up for election, for which just 13 people already have filed.

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  • N.C. talks skate park again

    Staff writer/photographer

    The New Castle City Commission once again considered the issue of a skate park Monday night as New Castle area Magistrate Nick Hawkins came before the commission to plead the case for a skateboard park in Henry County.

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  • Foreclosures on the rise in Henry County

    Staff Writer/Photographer

    It’s an issue that’s received considerable attention in regional and national media — foreclosure. While officials and realtors in Henry County report that Henry County hasn’t been as hard hit as some major metropolitan areas, the number of foreclosures is increasing.

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  • Henry County Community Calendar for July 30, 2008

    Wednesday, July 30

    Karate classes will be held at the Community Center from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

    Children’s Story and Craft hour every Wednesday from 10 to 11 a.m. at Pleasureville Christian Church. Also, the community library at the church is open to the public from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesdays.

    Thursday, July 31

    TOPS 298 will meet at Orville Baptist Church. Weigh in 4:30 p.m. and meeting at 5 p.m. New members welcome.

    Friday, August 1

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  • Burgers and friendship

    News Intern

    Tucked away in the town of Pleasureville lives a group of loafers that frequent the Pleasureville Pool Hall on a daily basis.

    “I don’t know where else I’d go,” Julius Willhoite, who has been coming to the Pool Hall for about 70 years, said. “There’s not really any place to loaf like there used to be. There used to be a lot of little old stores where people used to loaf, but they closed up.”

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  • Public Record for the week of July 30, 2008

    Marriages

    Kristin Lee Simonson, 21, Smithfield, to Jeffrey Todd Wheeler, 23, Smithfield.

    Brandie Michelle Morgan, 31, Pendleton, to Benjamin Michael Willen, 24, Pendleton.

    Rachel Lynn Oller, 35, New Castle, to Tracy Maran Hayes, 41, New Castle.

    Linda Faye Pierce, 60, New Castle, Indiana, to Terry Alan Denney, 49, New Castle, Indiana.

    Property transfers

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  • It's harvest time

    Staff writer/photographer

    A record crowd and special attractions may have combined for what organizers consider a very successful 9th Annual Harvest Showcase.

    WHAS-11 personality Reed Yadon held a live remote broadcast from the Henry County Fairgrounds early Saturday morning and commented that he didn’t remember ever seeing so many people arrive so early for an event that did not open until 10 a.m.

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  • What a cabbage!

    Pictured above is Susie Troxell of Eminence who grew this 17-pound, 45inch circumference cabbage in her back yard garden.

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  • Special session helped strengthen public retirement system

    Last month’s special legislative session may have been a major step forward in strengthening Kentucky’s public retirement systems, but it was never intended to be the only step. My legislative colleagues and I, and many others with ties to these systems, realize there is more work to be done.

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