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We make going viral our constant goal

 Last Friday served as a fairly routine day around the “Henry County Local” office as I typed up notes, answered phone calls and sent e-mails, despite the fact the newspaper could celebrate another unsurpassed online achievement.

Shores pleads guilty to manslaughter in fatal 2016 accident

By Kristen Lowry

News@hclocal.com

A 21-year-old Dayton, Ohio, man pleaded guilty in Henry County Circuit Court July 13 to manslaughter and two other charges stemming from a deadly March 2016 car crash that killed a Kentucky State Park worker. 

Traffic concerns aren’t enough to halt Thorntons rezoning

 Questions raised about the Thorntons travel center proposed for the Interstate 71 at Pendleton — mostly road and traffic conditions — did not deter the Henry County Planning and Zoning Commission at its July 12 meeting from recommending approval for the zoning change needed to develop the 5,500-square-foot store.

Science, reading enlightens library’s summer carnival

By Kristen Lowry

Louisville man’s body found in Bates Lane field

An autopsy may provide investigators with an indication why the body of a 59-year-old Louisville man was found June 30 in a field near Bates Lane in Henry County, according to the Kentucky State Police (KSP).
KSP Post 5 in Campbellsburg received a 911 call at approximately 7:45 p.m. reporting a deceased male in the field, found near a vehicle, according to Trooper Josh Lawson, a spokesman for the state police.

Still haulin’ after all these years

A tow truck serves as the most appropriate vehicle to use during a proverbial drive down memory lane with Scott Burrows about the success of his multi-generational family business in Sligo. 

Working anywhere else than Burrows Wrecker Service and Burrows Garage, founded in 1917, never even occurred to Scott.

By request, Eminence may allow golf carts to take to certain streets

A citizen request has put Eminence City Council on a path that may end up authorizing the use of golf carts on streets with 25 mph speed limits, under certain conditions.

Council members first began researching golf carts after the June meeting, when Robert Heightchew appeared to ask for a way to make them street legal.

Her Crowning Glory

Jenna Jo Jeffries has always been a girly girl.
“Jenna’s always been the little girl who walked around on the back porch in my high heels and little dresses, and she’d watch herself walk in the glass door of the porch,” said Jenna’s mother, Renee Jeffries.

Trooper Brewer earns recognition for helping to keep Kentucky roads safer

The Kentucky Office of Highway Safety (KOHS) recently honored law enforcement officers from 122 agencies across the commonwealth for their efforts to increase the use of seat belts and child restraints in motor vehicles, including a Kentucky State Police trooper from Post 5 in Campbellsburg, according to a news release.

Roberts resigns from Pleasureville

Pleasureville City Commission will appoint a new representative within 30 days as a member recently resigned seven months into his term.
During the commission meeting July 6, Mayor Rodney Young and City Attorney Bill Brammell acknowledged receiving a letter of resignation from Howard Roberts, who had been elected for the first time to the city commission last November.