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As part of the department’s strategies for monitoring and preventing the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease, the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife will be hosting a special antlerless-only season in counties within the established CWD Surveillance Zone.

KFW says the four-day season will run from September 25 through 28 in counties located in Deer Zones 1, 2, and 3, which includes Breckinridge, Hardin, and Meade counties. Firearms, bows, and crossbows may be used but only antlerless deer may be harvested.

Zone bag limits apply, and testing is mandatory for deer harvested during the special season regardless of method of take used. Hunters must drop off the harvested deer’s head at an unstaffed CWD Sample Drop-Off Site or submit a sample using a CWD sample mail-in kit.

Additional strategies, such as restrictions on transporting deer carcasses in and out of the CWD Surveillance Zone and restrictions on the use of certain types of feeders, are also in effect. Find more information on the CWD webpage at fw.ky.gov. Members of the public may also report sick or dead deer or elk by using the online form on the Report Wildlife Disease webpage.

The Radcliff City Council met for their second meeting of the month Tuesday.

The first reading was held on an ordinance levying city ad valorem taxes for 2026.

“Assessed valuation (per $100) as follows: on real property, .126 and personal property .184, including real and personal property of public service companies,” said City Attorney Mike Pike, reading from the ordinance. “On privately owned and registered vehicles and watercraft, .199, and bank deposit tax, .00025.”

Radcliff Mayor JJ Duvall presented Mayor’s Recognition Awards to Boundary Oak Distillery and Red Hill Cutlery, and recognized City Clerk Ashley Russo, for their efforts in hosting and organizing last Saturday’s Bourbon and Blades Festival. Duvall said the Radcliff Police Department estimated the event saw more than 10,000 total visitors.

“It was a great show, probably the largest show that we’ve had,” Duvall said. “The weather was great. Everything went very smooth and well.”

In other meeting news, the council approved 2026 Trick or Treat times for the city. Trick or Treating in the City of Radcliff will run from 5 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, October 31.

The Radcliff City Council will next meet Friday morning to hold the second reading on the tax ordinance, after which the council will next meet for a work session on October 13.

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

The first reading was held on ordinances setting 2026 city tax rates. City Attorney Ken Howard read the three ordinances, detailing the tax rate for motor vehicle and watercraft (11.6 cents per $100 assessed value), the franchise tax rate (0.025 percent on all eligible deposits), and the tax rate for real and personal property (10.5 cents per $100 assessed value). Elizabethtown Mayor Jeff Gregory said the first two rates are unchanged, while the property tax rate was lowered from 10.7 cents.

“So when you have people tell you all the time that we’re raising their taxes, we have actually lowered their real and personal property this year, and I think we did last year too, so it is not true if they tell you that,” Gregory said.

The first reading was also held on an ordinance that amends the zoning for 1010 and 1020 Prospect Pointe Drive from Neighborhood Commercial (C-2) to Regional Commercial (C-3).

The council approved a municipal order accepting a $139,720 bid from Schroeder Construction for sanitary sewer improvements on Yale Drive, and a municipal order revising the contract scope with Congleton Hacker for the SteelGrove Amphitheater to accommodate additional work.

“We got a donation from somebody that doesn’t want to take credit for it for $1 million to the City of Elizabethtown to go towards that project, and so what we planned on doing with that donation was to go ahead and finish paving those parking lots and then erecting a storage building that they desperately needed that we had cut out of the first design,” Gregory said.

The order notes that the authorized cost of the project remains at about $41 million.

In other meeting news, Elizabethtown Police Chief Jeremy Thompson said the EPD will be featured in a video for the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s annual conference along with the organization’s website. The city recognized 10 employees who recently completed their CDL certifications, four fire recruits who graduated from the EFD’s Recruit Academy, and two parks department employees who earned their certified playground safety inspector certifications.

The Elizabethtown City Council will next meet September 21.