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Assistance is available for families who need help filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. 

The Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education says the new FAFSA form includes revised formulas, meaning more students are eligible for financial aid. The delayed rollout of the new form, however, made it more challenging for Class of 2024 high school students and current college students to determine the amount of aid available for them ahead of the upcoming school year.

To help Kentucky students submit the FAFSA form, the KCP’s GEAR UP Kentucky unit is partnering with the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority throughout the month of June to provide families with assistance. The goal is to assist families and increase the state’s FAFSA completion rate, which is at a five-year low.

GEAR UP Kentucky and the KHEAA will co-host a virtual session Tuesday for families that need to fill out the FAFSA that will enable participants to understand their college financial aid paperwork and processes, hear the most up to date information about the 2024 financial aid timeline, and ask financial aid experts their questions. The session will be hosted on the GEAR UP Kentucky Facebook page at 6:30 p.m. EDT.

In-person FAFSA and financial aid help will also be offered at more than 70 locations across Kentucky during the month of June. Visit www.kygoestocollege.com for details and locations.

The 2024 Summer Movie Series at the Historic State Theater kicks off today.

“The Summer Movie Series is my personal favorite event that we do throughout the year at the State Theater,” said Elizabethtown Events Manager Beth Pyles. “We’re excited for our 2024 series. It’s a family-friendly movie series offering showings at noon and 7 p.m. each Tuesday this summer beginning June 4 and running through July 31.”

Tickets to each showing are $2 and offer affordable family fun.

June will feature four Disney/Pixar favorites.

“We have Cars, The Incredibles, Toy Story, and Monsters Inc., so those are the first movies in the series, and those movies are loved by, I think, young and old, so we hope people come out and see those,” Pyles said.

July’s movies were selected to follow a theme.

“We are showing movies that are based upon books,” Pyles said. “So July 2 we’ve got Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, which was one of my child’s favorite books when he was growing up.” 

The other July movies are Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, How to Eat Fried Worms, Charlotte’s Web, and Mary Poppins.

Doors open one hour prior to each showtime, and concessions will be served.

“A lot of times people tell us this is the first time they’ve brought their child to the movies because it’s movies that they can enjoy,” Pyles said. “We have young and old, so it’s open to everybody. We hope that everybody comes out and sees us.”

Visit www.thestate270.org for tickets and a full schedule of events at the theater.

The Elizabethtown Police Department is investigating a fatal accident that occurred on the Lincoln Parkway Sunday.

Elizabethtown Police Department Public Information Officer John Thomas says shortly before 11 a.m. on June 2, emergency responders were dispatched to the intersection of Lincoln Parkway and Sportsman Lake Road due to a reported serious injury collision.

Upon arrival, responding units found an unresponsive adult female in a white Toyota Highlander, along with a juvenile female who sustained minor injuries. The other vehicle was a black Toyota RAV 4, with the lone occupant being a male driver who also sustained serious injuries.

The driver of the Highlander was taken to Baptist Health Hardin, where she was pronounced dead. The driver of the RAV 4 was transported by air to the University of Louisville Hospital, where he is in critical condition.

Thomas says the preliminary investigation indicates that the Highlander was heading south on Sportsman Lake Road while attempting to cross Lincoln Parkway. The RAV 4 was heading west on Lincoln Parkway and entered the intersection, striking the driver’s side of the Highlander.

The victims are not being identified at this time. The Elizabethtown Police Department Accident Reconstruction Team’s investigation of the crash is ongoing.