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Local health departments across the Commonwealth can now issue citations to businesses not enforcing mask mandates. The Lincoln Trail District Health Department says the purpose of the citations are to educate and correct businesses they permit.
Burgan says that while the first offense is a warning, additional citations bring with them fines, ranging from $50 for the second offense, up to $100 for the fourth and subsequent violations.
The health department received their citations last Friday.
Kentucky continues to see the same level of COVID-19 cases it has for the majority of the last few weeks.
Last night, it was announced that 655 new cases of the virus were present in the Commonwealth, with 40,926 cases total for the state thus far. It is believed that at least 9,331 Kentuckians have recovered from the virus, however there were 12 new deaths last night, bringing the state’s total to 842 Kentuckians lost.
Locally, totals are as follows:
New information about the possible human remains found in Nelson County was released yesterday.
Officials with the Louisville FBI field office say the remains are estimated to be that of a female, though they cannot completely rule out the possibility of a male. The subject is likely between the ages of 24 and 82, and height is estimated to be somewhere between 62.6 and 70.9 inches. The FBI says their lab is continuing analysis, now attempting DNA extraction.
The remains were found near a creek on the Nelson/Washington county lines last month.
Tuesday morning marked one of the final chapters in Hardin Memorial Health’s history.
The Board of Trustees met for the final time before the hospital’s sale to Baptist Health in September is finalized. President and CEO Dennis Johnson acknowledged the milestone, but said that a bright future is still ahead for the healthcare provider.
The community hospital was originally founded in 1954.
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College announced their first positive COVID-19 case Tuesday afternoon. The college’s Healthy at Work Officer Whitney Taylor says that the college is being transparent about the issue, notifying students, staff and the public about the case.
Taylor says the college has done extra sanitizing and cleaning of affected areas, going on the say that the college is working with the Lincoln Trail District Health Department in order to complete contact tracing.
