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Ribbon-cutting for Breckinridge County Public Library story walk this Friday

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The Breckinridge County Public Library will be hosting a ribbon cutting for the new story walk at the Hardinsburg Main Library (308 Old State Road 60, Hardinsburg)  this Friday.

“It’s on our walking trail that we’ve had for a few months now, and what a story walk is is boards that have where you can put out a picture book, and the kids and their parents can walk around to the different boards and read a story,” said BCPL Director Sarah Flood.

The story walk was purchased for the library by the Breckinridge County Health Department through a Maternal Child Health program grant.

“It is encouraging both pregnant moms and those who have just had kids to be a little more active, so the goal is to get them out reading but also to kind of go around the little stations,” Flood said.

The library will have refreshments available and activity stations set up along the story walk. Festivities begin at 11 a.m. Central.

“Our children’s person, she’s going to do story time beforehand, and then when preschool story time’s over, we’re going to go out to the story walk and walk around it,” Flood said.

Visit the Breckinridge County Public Library Facebook page or contact the library (270-756-2323) for more information.

KFW shooting range permit fees approved

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New regulations will require permits for the use of shooting ranges managed by, leased by, or affiliated with Kentucky Fish and Wildlife.

KFW says an amendment to state regulations establishing a permit requirement for shooting range users completed the legislative process this week. The rule requires an annual or one-day shooting range permit to use firearms or archery equipment at KFW ranges.

According to KFW, the permit is free for Kentucky residents and non-residents ages 16 and older who hold an annual Kentucky hunting or fishing license. The permit is not automatically included, so qualifying license holders must check a separate box in their license portal. Participants in department-administered or affiliated events, and participants in authorized group or club events, will be exempted. For those without the annual license, the cost is $26.43 for an annual permit or $5.29 for a one-day permit.

Among the included ranges is the tube rifle and archery ranges at Taylorsville Lake Wildlife Management Area. A proposed exemption for Otter Creek Outdoor Recreation Area special activities permit and pass holders is pending legislative approval.

Shooting range permits and other hunting and fishing licenses are available on the License Sales app, the My Profile app, or at fw.ky.gov. Visit the Shooting Ranges page on the KFW website for more information.

E-Town council approves land purchase for new mountain bike park

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The Elizabethtown City Council met for their first meeting of the month Monday.

The council approved on second reading an ordinance that closes a portion of Sutton Lane. The rest of the street will become part of Commerce Drive as part of development around the outdoor music venue project.

The council approved a municipal order which denied a zoning change for 707 Saint John Road from Suburban Residential (R-1) to High-Density Residential (R-6) and Regional Commercial (C-3). The Elizabethtown Planning Commission recommended the zoning change be denied after determining at a public hearing on February 24 that the change did not fit with the city’s Comprehensive Plan. City Council Member Julia Springsteen cast the lone nay vote as she said she felt the denial “is a bit unfair” after the property owners made changes from when the proposal was originally presented last March.

“They listened to the feedback and to the changes that were asked of them, and they made significant changes to their development plan, including a potential investment in trees that boggles the mind,” Springsteen said.

The council approved several municipal orders concerning bids, applications, and contracts. Among the approved orders is the authorization of a land purchase for the property adjacent to the Trooper Lake Preserve. The city will purchase the 38.36 acre property for $20,000 an acre, with the funds coming from the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund.

“It’s on the opposite side of the interstate from where we’re doing the outdoor concert venue, and what we’re doing is we’re taking 75 acres at that location that the city already owns and has owned for some time and we’re buying another 38 acres to add to it, and we’re going to put our mountain bike park out there once we get everything put together, so it’s going to be a really nice park that we’re really excited about,” said Elizabethtown Mayor Jeff Gregory.

Other municipal orders approved Monday included:

-A $97,279 bid from Phillips Brothers Construction for bern repair at the Valley Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant
-A $156,833.30 bid from Gary W. Clifford Enterprises for the Pine Valley Drive water main extension
-A $110,126 bid from Tennis Technology Inc. for resurfacing of the Freeman Lake Park tennis courts
-A $698,200 bid from Kauffeld Brothers Construction for the Freeman Lake Park north end parking lot
-A $188,100 bid from Dirt Works Unlimited for Highland Park sanitary sewer upgrades
-The extension of the Kentucky Business Incentives in place for Lotte Aluminum
-An application for a forgivable loan of up to $30 million through the KDEFA for expansion of the Valley Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant
-An application to the KDPI for up to $2 million in economic development funding for improvements at the Gil Niceley Industrial Park

The Elizabethtown City Council will next meet March 16.

Vine Grove closes Otter Creek Road Bridge

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The City of Vine Grove has closed the Otter Creek Road Bridge after an inspection of the bridge found significant deterioration.

Vine Grove Mayor Pam Ogden said the inspection was part of the city’s process for applying for state and federal grant funding to repair the Otter Creek Road, Saint Andrews Drive, and Creekvale Drive bridges.

“We found out that the Otter Creek Bridge that we just closed wasn’t on the state registry,” Ogden said. “I do not know why, and then it had to be put on the state registry in order for us to ask for federal grants, so the actual bridge was inspected by the state and when the state inspected it, I received a letter last Thursday, very late in the evening, telling us that we had five days to close the bridge.”

Ogden said a structural engineer confirmed the state inspector’s assessment on Sunday, so she had the bridge closed Monday. She said the city is working hard on finding the funding to replace the bridge as soon as possible.

“It’s a $1.5 million investment to replace that bridge,” Ogden said. “It is not something that we have right now at the city to fund ourselves. It’s in such bad shape that the entire bridge has to be replaced.”

Ogden said the safety of residents is the city’s top priority, and the city will work as quickly as they can to get the work on the bridge done, but no timeline is in place at this time. Follow the Vine Grove City Hall Facebook page for updates.