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Come out for Quicksie and The Wolf Night at the Hardin County Fair

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The fun continues today at the Hardin County Fairgrounds as the 2024 Hardin County Fair rolls on.

Thursday will feature the Dairy Cattle Show, which will be held at 6 p.m. at the livestock pavilion. 

In addition to great food at the restaurant and from vendors, adorable animals at the petting zoo, and exciting rides at the midway, Thursday will feature the 2024 Little Miss and Mister Pageant, which will be held at the pageant building at 6:30 p.m. UCW Wrestling will take it to the mat at 7 p.m. for their third and final night of wrestling. Thursday is the first of two nights for Bullwhip Rodeo, which will take place at the motorsports track at 8 p.m.

Thursday is Quicksie and The Wolf night at the fairgrounds. Stop by our office at 233 West Dixie Avenue in Elizabethtown or visit our websites for a coupon to get $1 off the $15 admission price.

The Hardin County Fair has lots to offer for everybody, and as Fair Board President Marty Fulkerson says: “It’s 61 years of the most fun you can have with your shoes on!”

Find the complete schedule on the Hardin County Fair website or Facebook page.

Volunteers needed to spot turkeys to help KFW

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You can help sustain the Kentucky wild turkey population by being an extra set of eyes for the state’s biologists.

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife asks anyone who spots wild turkeys in July and August to report them through the Summer Turkey Online Survey Portal.

KFW says data collected through the survey helps the department better understand turkey population trends over time. Data from the survey is used to index the hatch and survival rate of young turkeys in order to assess reproductive success, which in turn influences limits set for turkey hunting season in order to help sustain the state’s turkey population.

The turkey population is studied by department biologists and graduate student researchers, and volunteers allow staff to expand the survey area. The survey gives the researchers insight into issues facing the turkey population such as habitat destruction, predation, and disease.

The online survey portal can be found at fw.ky.gov. A printable survey form may also be downloaded that a participant can then fill out and take a picture of to email back to KFW.

KSP investigating after pedestrian killed north of Bardstown

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The Kentucky State Police is investigating after a pedestrian was killed in Nelson County Monday.

Troopers from KSP Post Four responded to a report of a single-vehicle collision involving a pedestrian at approximately 10:45 p.m. July 8.

Troopers arrived at the scene of the accident, located near the 4,000 block of Louisville Road just north of Bardstown. The KSP says the preliminary investigation shows a vehicle being operated by Langleigh Winters of Bardstown was traveling north on Louisville Road when she failed to observe a pedestrian walking in the northbound lane and struck him with the vehicle.

The pedestrian was later identified as 23-year-old Matt Berry of Bardstown. Berry was pronounced dead at the scene by the Nelson County Coroner’s Office. Winters reported no injuries from the incident.

The area of the accident on Louisville Road was shut down for several hours as troopers performed accident reconstruction. The KSP says the investigation into the accident remains ongoing.

Hardin County Fiscal Court discusses rural road funding, recycling program

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The Hardin County Fiscal Court met for their first meeting of the month Tuesday.

Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District Four Chief District Engineer Brad Bottoms and Branch Manager for Construction and Maintenance Bow Warren presented on the county roads that will receive maintenance using funds from the state’s Rural Secondary Road Program. Warren said 22.2 percent of the state’s Motor Fuel Tax receipts go to the program, with the funds allocated to the counties using a five-point formula.

“That formula is based on one-fifth equally among all counties, one-fifth based on the rural population, one-fifth based on the road miles, and two-fifths based on the land area, and then once that money is allocated to a county it cannot be transferred to any other county,” Warren said.

The program targets rural roads that are marked as secondary routes in a county. Bottoms said with 164 secondary miles in Hardin County, the funds have to go where they are most needed.

“Our guys in the county have a pretty good idea, Bow and his staff, of what roads are in need, so we kind of triage these,” Bottoms said. “We tend to pick the worst roads out of this rural secondary set of roadways every year that this pot of money comes up.”

Hardin County will receive a little more than $2 million in funds that will go towards asphalt resurfacing of a little more than 10 miles of roadway on portions of Rineyville Big Springs Road, Valley Creek Road, and South and North Long Grove Drive.

Hardin County Public Works Director Stephanie Givens reported that the county made 32 recycling trailer runs in May and 33 in June, with more than 323 tons of materials collected year to date. Givens said the county was excited to partner with Radcliff City Hall to place a recycling trailer in Radcliff city limits for the first time. It is located at 610 South Wilson Road.

“I will say that it is being utilized a lot right now, which is great,” Givens said. “It was there for seven days and on Monday it was overflowing when we came back in after the holiday, so they are using it, the people are liking it. They’re doing a really good job down there partnering with the City Hall and Public Works Department down there.”

The Hardin County Fiscal Court will next meet July 23.