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The Elizabethtown City Council met for their second meeting of the month Monday.
The first reading was held on ordinances to annex property at Leitchfield Road and to rezone 106 East Memorial Drive from Neighborhood Office (C-1) to Neighborhood Commercial (C-2) and 237 West Poplar Street from Urban Residential (R-4) to Downtown Mixed Use (C-5).
The council approved the reappointments of Corey Blount and Rick Horn to the Civil Service Board, and Elizabethtown Mayor Jeff Gregory discussed the reappointments of Willie Wood and Glenn Deaton to the Airport Board and Pat Clark and Todd Davis to the Elizabethtown Tourism Board.
The council approved a municipal order accepting a bid from Schroeder Construction Inc. for the West Railroad Avenue project.
“This is the first phase of our Community Development Block Grant project moving over into the neighborhood just north of the downtown area,” said City Administrator Ed Poppe.
The bid was accepted at $497,833.
“This project will help us upgrade sidewalks, fix some drainage, do some reconnection of some sewer lines, and then also make some street improvements on about a two block section of the roadway, but we need to move the project rather quickly because of some funding requirements from HUD on this phase of the project,” Poppe said.
The council also approved a proposal for banking services from Magnolia Bank. That contract runs five years with two city options for renewal.
The Elizabethtown City Council will next meet March 23.
Area jobseekers are invited to participate in the Kentucky Career Center – Lincoln Trail’s Let’s Talk Tuesdays virtual job fair happening Tuesday.
“We have a virtual job fair platform that we use, and we have a virtual job fair every first and third Tuesday of every month, and so that’s a great opportunity for those folks to meet a whole different slew of employers that may be available on that platform,” said KCC Lincoln Trail Center Manager Robin Gooden.
There is no fee for jobseekers or employers to participate.
“You just go onto the platform, you register, you upload your resume, and then you go into that platform and it goes live from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. and you can go in there and talk directly to employers,” Gooden said.
The virtual job fair is a convenient way for employers and employees to connect directly.
Jobseekers can connect with their local Kentucky Career Center for a range of services.
“A lot of times people come into the center because they need a new resume,” Gooden said. “They haven’t written a resume in 20 years, and so we help them do that. We help them with mock interviewing. We help them get ready. We also have a list of open current positions that are available, so we give them those resources, and also just kind of help them and guide them through their career planning.”
Find the registration link for the virtual job fair on the Kentucky Career Center – Lincoln Trail Facebook page or by visiting www.ltcareercenter.org.
Camping season has begun at most Kentucky State Park campgrounds, although some are closed for upgrades or repairs.
Kentucky State Parks says 19 campgrounds operated by the state are open now through mid-November.
The state park campgrounds that opened for the season on March 13 are Barren River Lake, Big Bone Lick, Blue Licks Battlefield, Carr Creek, Columbus-Belmont, Dale Hollow Lake, General Burnside, General Butler, Grayson Lake, John James Audubon, Kincaid Lake, Lake Cumberland, Lake Malone, Natural Bridge, Paintsville Lake, Pennyrile Forest, and Yatesville Lake. The campgrounds at Lake Barkley and Kentucky Dam Village will open on April 1.
Kentucky State Parks says the campgrounds at Taylorville Lake, Cumberland Falls, Jenny Wiley, Carter Caves, Greenbo Lake, My Old Kentucky Home, and Kenlake will open later in the season as renovations and upgrades at those sites are completed. The campgrounds at Nolin Lake, Green River, and Fort Boonesborough state parks will not open in 2026 due to damages caused by extreme flooding in 2025.
All state park campgrounds have water and electric services, dump stations or sewer hookups, bathhouses, picnic tables, and fire rings. Primitive camping sites are also available. Learn more about the campgrounds at parks.ky.gov.