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KFW hosting events for Hunter Education Day this Saturday

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With Kentucky’s fall hunting season getting under way in mid-August, Kentucky Fish and Wildlife is helping to prepare new hunters for a safe and successful season. 

KFW will be offering 20 in-person hunter education classes and live fire-range opportunities across the commonwealth as part of Hunter Education Day this Saturday, August 2. The annual education opportunity is held in conjunction with National Shooting Sports Month.

KFW offers a range of hunter education courses including hunter ethics, wildlife conservation and identification, field care of game, first aid, firearm safety, archery, and muzzleloading. Courses are offered in person and online, with the final sessions for in-person courses including a written test and a live-fire exercise while online participants may complete their live-fire exercise at a KFW range day.

All in-person courses and range days are open to participants nine years of age and older. The courses are free and participants will be provided with necessary equipment for testing free of charge, but registration is required.

Area locations participating in Hunter Education Day include the Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point and the Grayson County Ag Park in Leitchfield. Learn more about Hunter Education Day and other hunting requirements at fw.ky.gov.

Heat and humidity continues as the week gets going

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Meteorologist C.J. Padgett with the National Weather Service in Louisville says as this week gets under way, we’re not really seeing a break in the heat.

“Highs for Monday through Wednesday are going to be in the mid to upper 90s,” Padgett said. “It’s going to be fairly humid as well, still. We’re going to see heat indices in the lower 100s. I wouldn’t be surprised if the heat advisory that is currently ongoing will continue into next week.”

Padgett says it looks like highs will come down to the 80s this Thursday and Friday. He says while temperatures right now are trending a little above the average for this time of year, it isn’t anything the area hasn’t seen before.

“I hate to even call it a heat wave,” Padgett said. “It’s more of just a warm stretch of weather, and just with the humid air masses, it’s kind of amplifying those hotter temperatures in place, so it’s not something that’s completely like something that we haven’t seen before. It’s just kind of: it’s summer, it’s hot. We’re just a few degrees above normal type scenarios.”

Padgett says remember to take precautions in the hot and humid weather. Stay in the shade when you can, limit strenuous activity to the cooler parts of the day, and drink plenty of water.

Hardin and Bullitt counties included in next round of Public Assistance approvals

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Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear announced during Thursday’s Team Kentucky Update that additional approvals for Public Assistance were made by the White House for counties impacted by severe weather in April, meaning all 90 counties requested have been approved.

“The support is essential for the communities to rebuild, that we don’t see counties or city governments bankrupted by a natural disaster that just inflicts so much damage, so I’m grateful to the President and Secretary Noem,” Beshear said. “I also told the President that the FEMA team members on the ground after each of these natural disasters are doing great work for Kentuckians.”

Included in the second round of approvals were Bullitt and Hardin counties. Hardin County Judge/Executive Keith Taul said Public Assistance is very important to the county’s recovery efforts.

“It’s a high expense for us,  and as you know, and many people know, Hardin County Government’s budget is really, really tight, and this financial assistance is critical for us,” Taul said.

Taul said Public Assistance will help offset the cost of services related to responding to the severe weather such as additional ambulances as well as cleanup services such as dumpsters.

“You just start to add up all those costs, and then we on top of that have some significant damage to several county roads that when you add it all up, I haven’t got the exact number yet, but it’s probably going to push upward to maybe $1 million just for the county roads,” Taul said.

Friday is the deadline for homeowners and renters in the approved counties to apply for Individual Assistance. Visit FEMA’s Disaster Recovery Center at Kentucky State Police Post Four in Elizabethtown, go online to www.disasterassistance.gov, or call 1-800-621-3362 to apply.

June unemployment sees improvement across Lincoln Trail District

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Unemployment rates in several Lincoln Trail District counties saw improvements in June compared to the year prior. 

The Kentucky Center for Statistics says unemployment rates decreased in 115 counties, increased in four counties, and stayed the same in one county when comparing June 2025 with June 2024.

The state unemployment average for June was 4.9 percent. That is up from the 4.4 percent rate reported in May but is down from the 5.4 percent average reported in June 2024. Four of the eight Lincoln trail counties were at or below the state unemployment average in June.

Hardin County’s unemployment rate for June was just above the state average at 5.1 percent. That is up from the 4.7 percent rate that was reported in May but is down from the 5.5 percent rate reported in June 2024.

Grayson County posted the highest June unemployment rate in the district at 6 percent, followed by Breckinridge County at 5.6 percent. Washington County had the lowest rate in the district, and tied for the sixth-lowest rate in the state, at 4.2 percent.

Learn more about how the unemployment rate is calculated and find more labor market information by visiting kystats.ky.gov.