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Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest invites you to come out for Connect, their annual summer festival of art, music, and nature.

“It’s a great evening event,” said Bernheim Forest Director of Marketing and Communications Lynette Cox. “We’re going to have six bands playing on two stages. We’re going to have an illuminated art trail. We’ve got Louisville Silent Disco coming in, and hands-on activities. There’s really something for everyone at Connect.”

The annual celebration will take place along Bernheim’s Lake Nevin Loop on Saturday, August 15.

Cox said the shift from day to night makes Connect an event unlike any other.

“You bask in the glow of the sunset as the forest opens up for the night,” Cox said. “We have great activated art and musical performances, just got enchanting experiences, spontaneous art. We’ll have light and sound and movement displays of artists.”

Other featured activities include the family area at the start of the event and the Astronomy Alley with Dark Skies Kentucky after the sun goes down.

Tickets are available at www.bernheim.org or at the gate on August 15.

A man is dead and a woman injured after an alleged domestic incident Monday.

Hardin County Sheriff John Ward says at approximately 6:25 p.m. on July 27, deputies responded to a residence on the 75 block of Battle Drive in Elizabethtown for a reported domestic disturbance.

“As deputies arrived on the scene, they heard a single gunshot coming from inside the residence,” Ward said. “A short time later, an adult female exited the home, suffering from an apparent gunshot wound to the chest.”

Deputies rendered aid and secured the area, and the recently-formed Hardin County Sheriff’s Office Special Response Team was activated for the first time. After making entry and searching the home, team members located an adult male suffering from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

“The female victim was transported for medical treatment and was later released.,” Ward said. “The male was pronounced deceased at the scene.”

The incident remains under investigation by the sheriff’s office’s Criminal Investigations Unit.

If you are heading through Louisville today, you’ll have more travel options as four of the six closed lanes of Interstate 65 in Louisville reopened ahead of schedule at midnight last night.

“We’re still a little ways from completing the full infrastructure project, but the disruption of having I-65 fully closed is over, and I can promise you this: even though some work will extend into March of next year, we won’t be shutting down this crucial roadway all the way back for this project again,” said Governor Andy Beshear during a press conference Tuesday.

The governor, and Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District Five Chief District Engineer Matt Bullock, credited the work of project engineers and construction workers for their accelerated work which saw the setting of 70 steel beams and more than 200 precast deck panels. Bullock said it was important to note that I-65 through downtown is still a construction zone.

“The speed limit, I think it’s important to note, will be 40 miles per hour just south of the CSX Bridge to the north end of the project in the Spaghetti Junction,” Bullock said. “We’re going to have barrels and barrier walls used to guide traffic.”

Because of the reduced capacity still in place, officials are asking drivers who are not going to downtown destinations to continue using the signed detour route in place on Interstate 264. Visit www.i65centralcorridor.com for more information and updates.