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Historic Downtown Elizabethtown Business Association looks to foster support and promotion

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Several Elizabethtown businesses are forming an association to promote growth and support in the downtown area.

According to a release, the mission of the Historic Downtown Elizabethtown Business Association “is to foster success of businesses in the downtown area through local programming and marketing in effort to promote tourism and support the merchants in operation of their business.”

Association PResident Dana Garrett says downtown businesses are looking to pick up where the former Heritage Council left off when it dissolved during the COVID pandemic, but organizers want to extend efforts further.

“We realized with the growth that we’re seeing that if we really wanted to kind of bring it to the next level that we would need to have more of a formal organization,” Pyles said, “so over the last several months we’ve met to kind of see what that looks like, and then officially got the framework together to launch that this past month, and we’re ready to get other businesses on board and move forward to exciting things that I think will come from it.”

Garrett says she and other business owners frequently get asked by visitors about what is going on downtown, which is a motivating factor for the association’s initial actions.

“At first one of our main goals is to get the website that the Heritage Council started updated, create a map whether it whether you can access it online or have printable copies, so that way anyone who is downtown will know what all we offer, and then also continue on some events we’ve already started to help make them bigger and better and give people another reason to come downtown,” Garrett said.

The association will be open to all businesses located within the boundaries of the Hub. Any interested business owners are encouraged to attend the association’s official kickoff meeting Tuesday, August 15 at 7 p.m. at Waters Edge Winery.

Hardin County Fiscal Court hears Animal Control, Emergency Management reports

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The Hardin County Fiscal Court heard reports on Animal Control and Emergency Management during their regular meeting Tuesday.

Animal Care and Control Director Mike McNutt said the animal shelter took in 84 dogs and 91 cats during the month of July. 76 dogs were adopted out, 12 were returned to owners, 8 were secured, and 15 were euthanized.

McNutt said while the euthanasia rate is up, it is not due to time and space in the shelter, and stressed that the adoption rate has also increased. He also said the biggest drop off has been in the number of dogs getting returned to their owners.

“Not as many people are coming and getting their animals back from the shelters, and that’s a nationwide problem going on now,” McNutt said. “For the second quarter it was up to a 26 percent increase over the past two years. We’re hoping that stables off eventually because the shelters can’t handle much more.”

The live release rate for cats in the shelter is 95 percent, and 268 spay/neuter surgeries were performed on dogs and cats in July.

Hardin County Emergency Management Director Joey Scott discussed some of the incidents his department responded to in recent months. King also praised members of his staff who have developed strategies for responding to incidents on the Nolin River.

“This year we’ve had quite a few incidents coming down there,” Scott said. “I think we’re just trying to be more efficient in our response to that, so with Nick (Douthitt) and Richard (DeWitt)’s work on a mapping process for us down there I think it’s going to really speed up our response time to lost people on the river location-wise.”

Ahead of their next regular meeting, the fiscal court will host its first town hall forum at the former West Point School on August 27 at 5:30 p.m. Magistrate Fred Clem said he wanted to correct a previous report that topics at the forum had to be submitted ahead of time.

“We’ll have a little bit of an agenda, and then it’s just going to be opened up to where the folks can have a dialogue back and forth with county officials, so the formality of it is going to be disposed of,” Clem said. “Just come with questions, comments, and suggestions.”

The Hardin County Fiscal Court will next meet for a regular meeting on August 29.

Hardin County Sheriff’s Office warns of scam attempt

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The Hardin County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents of another scam attempt.

According to the sheriff;s office, an area resident fell victim to the Publisher’s Clearing House scam, in which they were told they had won a large sum of money but first needed to send money to cover taxes and other fees.

The sheriff’s office says they were able to recover several thousand dollars for that victim, but funds can not always be recovered from scams.

Hardin County Sheriff John Ward says if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

“When you get a call, and you don’t think it’s right, you’re probably correct,” Ward says. “Don’t give them any information. Just hang up.”

If you have been targeted in a scam attempt, you can report it to law enforcement, including the sheriff’s office by calling 270-765-5133.

HCS announces Distinguished Alumni honorees

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Hardin County Schools will recognize five graduates with Distinguished Alumni Awards.

HCS will honor the distinguished alumni during a luncheon at the Hardin County Schools Early College and Career Center on September 27.

HCS Community Relations Specialist John Wright says the five selected graduates are a great representation of district alums.

“We are truly thankful for all the nominations that we received, and we are so proud of all of our HCS alums and the success that they have achieved,” Wright said. “These five people are a true representation of how our district’s graduates use their curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular experiences to excel in their chosen career fields and in their communities.”

The five selected alumni are:

  • Robin (Fulkerson) Boggs, 1997
  • Jason Booher, 1992
  • Vincent Holloway, 1980
  • Jeff Key, 1985
  • Monica (Kuykendoll) Quarterman, 2007

Nominations were accepted during June and July. Any nominee must have graduated from a current or former HCS high school no less than five years ago.