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Quicksie Toy Factory sees one of its largest turnouts in recent memory

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For the 33rd year, Quicksie 98.3 partnered with area businesses to spread holiday cheer through the Quicksie Toy Factory.

As Quicksie Marketing Executive and Toy Factory organizer Jennifer Meyers escorted the Coleman Allied toy sled Tuesday, she said this year’s factories really delivered.

“It’s just incredible the amount of giving that all these folks in these factories have,” Meyers said. “This year we had the biggest turnout of toys that we’ve had in years, and it’s just incredible and we thank them so much. We thank all the factories, the Quicksie toy factories.”

After collecting toys at the 11 participating factories, a truck-load (and Quicksie Cruiser-load) of toys along with more than $1,000 in gift cards were delivered to Helping Hand of Hope. Helping Hand of Hope Assistant to the Executive Director Jaqueeta Jones said seeing the generosity from the participating factories is amazing.

“These toys are going to children here in Hardin County for families who aren’t able to financially support Christmas this year,” Jones said. “These children will still get to wake up on Christmas morning with an awesome Christmas.”

Contact Helping Hand of Hope to learn more about volunteer opportunities with the organization.

Clinic for North Hardin boys lacrosse this Friday

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North Hardin High School students are invited to come out this Friday to learn more about being part of the school’s first ever boys varsity lacrosse team.

“Friday we’re having an information session and a clinic,” said Hardin County Club Lacrosse Coach (and Quicksie Marketing Executive) Kevin Clark. “The information session is to see who’s interested in playing so we can get enough kids to form the team. The clinic portion of it is so we can introduce it to some kids because they’re not really aware of what the sport is. They’ve got hints of it, but they just don’t know the sport, so the clinic’s going to give them a little more vision of what the sport’s all about.”

The information session and clinic will be hosted at the North Hardin High School soccer field beginning at 4 p.m.

Clark says the Hardin County club team has played for several seasons, and they have been working with area schools at establishing varsity teams after the KHSAA adopted lacrosse as a spring sport beginning in 2025.

“It’s a spring sport, so it doesn’t interfere with most of the other major sports,” Clark said. “The great thing is it’s a great sport to be an add-on sport, so if you’re a football player this is a great spring sport to keep you in shape, to work on footwork and vision on the field. It’s just a great sport to add on to what you’re doing and to keep you going.”

Contact Clark for more information.

Brandenburg council tables tax ordinances

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More than 100 people were in attendance to hear the Brandenburg City Council’s decisions on two ordinances: one that would introduce an occupational tax and one that would introduce a restaurant tax. 

The crowd cheered their approval as Mayor David Pace announced that the council had voted to table the two tax ordinances to allow for further discussion.

Pace said after discussion with a committee formed to review the ordinances, the restaurant tax was kept at its proposed rate of 2 percent, but a requirement for a business to turn over their books to the city if their financial figures were reviewed was removed. The occupational tax was amended to have a zero percent rate for 2025 while figures were reported to evaluate the tax’s impact, after which the council would have the option of implementing a tax at a rate of one-third of a percent in 2026. Pace said the committee tried to balance the city’s financial needs with citizen concerns.

“We tried to alter some of that to fit some of those questions that we had, and we did appreciate the input we received after the meeting, the input we had during the meeting,” Pace said. “We tried to take that and go forward with it.”

Many of the citizens that spoke against the taxes expressed their concerns with the financial impact on small businesses and Brandenburg residents. El Camino Co-Owner Carla Bravo said area restaurant owners should be brought in to discuss solutions.

“You do need to raise funds,”  Bravo said. “I understand that, but why at the expense of the local business owners of the community that serve these people? Why at our expense? I just ask that you give us an opportunity to talk about this before you make a decision today. Know the impact that it’s going to have, not just on the restaurant owners but the consumers and on this city, because you will lose business.”

Meade County Chiropractic and Sports Rehab Owner Bridgette Brown-Scheible said she had concerns with the impact of the occupational tax on both employers and employees.

“I understand we need more money,” Brown-Scheible said. “Charge me as the business owner a higher business fee, because then that benefits me on my taxes. Don’t penalize the people that have stayed in the community to work for me when there’s much higher paying jobs outside of Brandenburg.”

The council will pick up the ordinances for discussion at their January meeting.

Waste collection transition in Radcliff ‘ahead of schedule’

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The Radcliff City Council met for a work session Monday evening.

Green River Waste Owner Dave Jolley provided an update on the company’s upcoming takeover of the city’s waste collection franchise from Waste Management. Jolley said things right now are “right on schedule, if not a little ahead of schedule.”

“Front-load boxes have started arriving,” Jolley said. “They were arriving all week last week and they’ll continue arriving through this week, and starting early next week the residential cans are going to arrive. The residential cans are being dispersed by the company that we bought the cans from, and they’re going to start doing that on December 17.”

Green River is finalizing routes and schedules and plans to provide them to the city to communicate to residents by December 20. Residents who have not done so should visit www.greenriverwaste.com and find the registration form in the “Welcome Radcliff” section.

Radcliff Mayor JJ Duvall said Waste Management will run its final scheduled routes through December 31.

“They do ask that you leave your cart out,” Duvall said. “Don’t immediately pull it back to the house once it’s been dumped that last week because their truck’s going to come by and pick those cans up.”

In other meeting news, Radcliff Planning Director Murray Wanner discussed a proposed annexation and rezoning request for 5800 South Wilson Avenue. Wanner said the property owners are asking for the annexation and rezoning in order to better match surrounding properties. The city is also proposing several amendments to the zoning ordinance that will match local guidelines for recovery residences with recently updated state regulations.

“The idea of them’s wonderful,” said Radcliff City Attorney Mike Pike. “The execution, sometimes, has been lacking, so back in the spring of 2023 the general assembly enacted, and Governor Beshear signed, the bill to strictly regulate these entities, and now it’s a brand new ball game. The recovery residences are tightly regulated, and it’s appropriate.”

The Radcliff City Council will consider those ordinances at their next meeting on December 17.

Watch for rolling roadblocks on Interstate 65 Tuesday and Wednesday nights

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Drivers heading up or down Interstate 65 in Bullitt County tonight and tomorrow should be on the lookout for rolling roadblocks.

Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District Five says the rolling roadblocks will be used in the left and center lanes on I-65 North and South between the KY 245/Clermont Road exit at mile marker 110 and the KY 61/Preston Highway exit at mile marker 118. The roadblocks will be in place intermittently from 7 p.m. to midnight tonight and Wednesday.

KYTC District Five says the roadblocks will be in place to allow the University of Kentucky Transportation Research Center to conduct core testing. Vehicles doing the testing will be moving at slow speeds with frequent stops to collect samples.

Drivers should heed signage and use caution when approaching and driving through work zones. Anticipate delays and only pass when safe to do so.

Follow KYTC District Five on social media for updates.