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Deadline to switch party affiliation ahead of May 2024 primary is December 31

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A voter registration deadline for the May 2024 Primary Election is actually at the end of this month.

“December 31 is the deadline to change your party affiliation in order to vote in that party’s May primary election in 2024,” said Hardin County Clerk Brian D. Smith. “We’ve got a presidential election coming up. We’ve got other federal delegation elections coming up, so we encourage everybody to go to govote.ky.gov and double check their party affiliation and make sure it matches the way they plan on voting in the primary in May of 2024.”

By law, a voter registered as Democrat or Independent after December 31 may not vote in the Republican primary, and any voter registered Republican or Independent after December 31 may not vote in the Democratic primary. The law does not apply to new voter registrations made after the new year ahead of the primary registration deadline.

Smith also said Hardin County residents should remember that a statewide computer conversion will impact vehicle registration at the start of 2024.

“Vehicle registration of any kind will not be available from January 1 until at least January 9,” Smith said. “We ask for the patience of the public as we continue to make this conversion. Once we get this up and running, feel free to come in or call the county clerk’s office. We should be able to take care of you.”

Contact the Hardin County Clerk’s Office for assistance.

Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources will take your live Christmas tree when you are done with it

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If you and your family purchased a live Christmas tree this holiday season, instead of heading to a compost pile your tree can be put to another environmentally-friendly use.

You can help improve Kentucky’s fisheries by donating your natural tree to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources’s Christmas for the Fishes Tree Recycling Program.

Kentucky Fish and Wildlife says trees donated to the program are used to improve fish habitat, which in turn enhances public lakes across Kentucky for anglers. The donated trees help restore woody structures in lakes, providing cover and shade for fish in the water.

Donated trees are anchored to environmentally-friendly weights and submerged at various depths, providing refuge and feeding habitats for game fish, small fish, and invertebrates that call Kentucky’s lakes home. Locations where donated trees are submerged typically become hot spots for fish species targeted by anglers.

Kentucky Fish and Wildlife will be accepting real evergreen trees that should be free of lights, garland, and decorations from December 26 through January 15 at 29 drop-off locations, including the North Fork Boat Ramp parking lot in Hardinsburg and the Nolin River Lake Moutardier Boat Ramp in Leitchfield.

Visit fw.ky.gov for more locations and details.

Radcliff City Council wraps up 2023 meetings

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The Radcliff City Council met for their final meeting of 2023 Tuesday.

The first reading was held on three ordinances annexing about 47 acres on the west side of North Dixie Highway between W.A. Jenkins Road and Les Dawson Road, a property at 5571 North Dixie Highway, and a property at 5511 North Dixie Highway. First readings were then held on ordinances that rezone those properties from either R-1 or C-2 to R-6 High-Density Residential or Planned Unit Development. At the council’s previous work session, Mayor J.J. Duvall said the developers of the property have been working on this step for a while.

“This is right between the Aaron’s and the cabinet shop,” Duvall said. “There’s a development we’ve been working with nine or 10 months, so they’re finally deciding to move forward.”

The council approved a bid from Realty World for $8,500 for a property at 2589 Vonoa Drive, and approved an update to the city’s COVID-19 policy reducing the amount of paid leave from 5 days to 3 based on recent guidance.

With the meeting being the last of the year, Council Member Jerry Brown thanked his fellow council members for a productive year.

“We want the best for Radcliff,” Brown said. “We want to fight for you. We want to give you the best, and we think that that’s the first step in what’s going to be many. Mark this year. Mark today. It’s going to get better and better in this city.”

Duvall said he believes Radcliff is in the best shape it has been in for some time, and credited that to the dedication of city officials, council members, and city employees.

“We don’t have the huge budget,” Duvall said. “We’re at $13 or 14 million. Elizabethtown’s at $100 million. You just look at the numbers and we do a lot with very little, and that’s not to complain. That’s just to say that’s really what we have to work with, and so all of the employees always step up – police, fire, our non-hazardous employees, and so we work hard to get things done.”

The Radcliff City Council will next meet for a work session on January 8.

Department of Labor urges residents to search for possible unpaid wages

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The Department of Labor says nearly 2,000 Kentuckians have more than $994,000 of wages to be claimed.

Department of Labor Public Affairs Specialist Erika Ruthman says the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division enforces the nation’s labor laws and investigates potential violations, which sometimes reveals money that is owed to workers.

“When they find violations, they recover, sometimes, unpaid wages on behalf of employees,” Ruthman said. “When that agency does so it makes every effort to locate and notify all employees of back ages that are due to them.”

Ruthman says the quickest way to find out if you are one of those workers is to go online.

“All they need to do is go to the Department of Labor’s website, navigate to the Wage and Hour Division, and they’ll find information on Workers Owed Wages, or WOW,” Ruthman said.

The Department of Labor can only hold onto found wages for three years, after which time the money is turned over to the Treasury Department, so it is important to search sooner rather than later.

“It’s best if anybody at all thinks that they might have wages due to them to go ahead and just plug some information into that searchable database WOW on the U.S. Department of Labor’s website so that they can find out if some of that cash might belong to them,” Ruthman said.

Department of Labor data shows that wages have been found for workers in several area communities including Elizabethtown, Bardstown, Radcliff, and Glendale.