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EPD assists in arresting man wanted for Indiana shooting

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The apprehension of a man wanted for an incident in Clarksville, Indiana, blocked traffic on Mulberry Street in Elizabethtown briefly Wednesday.

“We were contacted by the Clarksville Police Department, who requested our assistance in locating the suspect in a shooting that occurred in Clarksville,” said Elizabethtown Police Department Public Information Officer Chris Denham. “Members of our agency were able to locate the suspect, Eric Tabor, at the Motel 6 on North Mulberry Street. Our tactical team was alerted and responded to the scene. Tabor was taken into custody without incident. He was lodged in the Hardin County Detention Center.”

According to the Clarksville Police Department, Eric Tabor was wanted for a Wednesday morning shooting that left a man in Clarksville with a gunshot wound to the face. The victim’s injuries are considered non-life-threatening, and he is in stable condition in a Louisville hospital.

Elizabethtown Police respond to threatening subject at Baptist Health Hardin

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The Elizabethtown Police Department responded to the area of Baptist Health Hardin shortly after 4 p.m. Monday due to a male subject reportedly threatening to harm himself or others.

According to the EPD, hospital staff implemented lockdown procedures out of an abundance of caution. Officers quickly located the subject in question and determined him to be unarmed.

The EPD says at no point did the man present a threat to staff or patients. The man was determined to be of diminished capacity and was evaluated and stabilized.

Baseball legend Cal Ripken Jr. to serve as Heartland Homecoming Parade grand marshall

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A sports legend with a local connection will serve as grand marshall for the upcoming Heartland Homecoming Parade.

“We welcome everybody on August 26 to the Heartland Homecoming Parade, where we will have perennial Major League Baseball Hall of Famer and All-Star Cal Ripken Jr. representing the Ripken Experience, which is a partnership we have formed at the Elizabethtown Sports Park,” Elizabethtown Mayor Jeff Gregory said. “We ask everybody to come out and welcome him to our great community.”

Cal Ripken Jr. is a World Series champion, member of the 3,000 hit club, and owns the Major LEague Baseball record for most consecutive games played. The former Baltimore Oriole shortstop’s organization Ripken Baseball opened the Ripken Experience Elizabethtown at the city’s Sports Park this summer, hosting youth baseball and softball tournaments, camps, and experiences at the complex.

Elizabethtown Events Program Manager Beth Pyes said the city wanted to recognize Ripken for the Ripken Experience’s success.

“I don’t think anybody in our community can deny the impact the Sports Park has had on our community as a whole, so we thought it would be a great honor to have him be the grand marshall,” Pyles said.

Pyles also says Ripken fits in well with this year’s parade theme: World of Sports.

“We’re thinking about the impact sports has not only on our community but in everyone’s life, whether they have a favorite college team, professional team, or they go cheer on their children or their grandchildren at their soccer game or football game or baseball game,” Pyles said. “Sports is a pretty important component of pretty much everybody’s life whether they participate or are just a fan.”

The 2023 Heartland Homecoming Parade will make its way from downtown Elizabethtown to St. John Road beginning at 10 a.m. on August 26.

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.