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Breckinridge County Schools Superintendent Dr. Nick Carter said seeing the groundbreaking for the new Breckinridge County Middle School earlier this month was an exciting moment.
“You know, we’ve been working for almost six years to get to this day, and it’s been great to see it all come together, so we’re really excited to break ground, and progress is moving, so we’re very hopeful for good weather and to keep moving along and have that building ready to open for students in August of 2028,” Carter said.
The new middle school building will replace the current facility, the former high school building, which is now more than 60 years old. The district discussed renovations previously, but it was found that the cost would exceed 75 percent of new construction.
“Now that we’re there, we think about how wonderful this new building is going to be, and it will set up our students for years and years and years in Breckinridge County to have that new middle school,” Carter said. “It’ll be designed with modern learning spaces. It’s just truly exciting.”
Carter said the new building was made possible by a generous and supportive community.
“Things like this don’t happen in a rural community without the support of incredible people, and I’m very thankful to our state legislators, Senator Steve Meredith and Representative Josh Calloway, our Breckinridge County Board of Education, and everyone who has supported this work, supported this project,” Carter said. “It’s a great day to be a Tiger.”
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Elizabethtown Mayor Jeff Gregory said the city’s annual report, which was released this week, shows the hard work city employees in multiple departments have put into making the city a better place to live.
“In the last three years, our overall crime rate has dropped by 23.7 percent,” Gregory said. “I think that’s quite an accomplishment especially that we’re growing like we are. Public Works picked up 952 cubic yards of debris on the side of the road in different places across town which is equal to 50 full dump truck loads.”
Gregory discussed the annual report during Monday’s Elizabethtown City Council meeting. The report states that the city budget in 2025 was $130,000,000, and the city employs 400 people including 115 at the Elizabethtown Police Department and 74 at the Elizabethtown Fire Department.
Gregory said traffic collisions in Elizabethtown were down five percent in 2025.
“I think that’s the outcome of some really good police efforts,” Gregory said. “It’s the outcome of some good, safe design in our road networks, but we’re seeing that accident number go down, which is always a great thing, especially as everybody can tell we have more traffic on the road than we ever have had in Elizabethtown.”
Gregory said the city paved 11.29 miles of city streets at a cost of $1.265 million last year, and completed more than 2,000 feet of sidewalk improvements.
“We’ve been budgeting $350,000 a year to build sidewalks in parts of town that don’t have them,” Gregory said. “We’ve been budgeting that same money to restore sidewalks in the older parts of town, and you’d be surprised. There’s certain neighborhoods and areas of town that have gaps.”
The annual report can be found at Elizabethtown City Hall.
March is Women’s History Month, and state officials this month published updated numbers on women’s health in Kentucky.
Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman, the Kentucky Commission on Women, and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services released a new report on the status of women’s health in the commonwealth.
According to a release from the lieutenant governor’s office, the report was developed in partnership with the Division of Women’s Health at the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to highlight public health data indicators related to women including rates of insurance coverage, chronic disease prevalence, mental health data, and maternal health indicators, among other data points.
The data shows that eight percent of women in Kentucky are uninsured, which is on par with the national average, but Kentucky has the highest cancer mortality rate in the country. About 22 percent of Kentucky women ages 18 to 44 say their mental health is “not good” and about 1 in 10 Kentucky high school girls attempt suicide. Nearly half of Kentucky women have experienced domestic violence or stalking during their lifetime.
Coleman said in the release: “As someone whose life was saved by early detection through screenings, we should celebrate the advances that have been made for women’s health while also admitting there are severe deficits and far too many women cannot access the care they need and deserve.”
The full report and more statistics can be found at women.ky.gov.