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Nolin RECC warns of scam attempt

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Nolin RECC is warning customers of an apparent scam attempt.

According to a post of the Nolin RECC Facebook page, the co-op has been made aware of somebody impersonating a utility employee in the Nolin service territory that is approaching homes and telling residents that they need to change out their electric meter. The person does not have proper identification for themselves and is not in a marked utility vehicle.

Nolin RECC says this person does not represent the co-op or any of its contractors, and any Nolin employee or contractor that would be doing work on a customer’s property will have proper identification and a properly marked vehicle.

If somebody comes to your door and says they are with Nolin RECC and you are not sure, contact the co-op office at 270-765-6153 to confirm, and as with any scam attempt never give out payment or personal information without confirming who you are giving it to.

New hunting schedule for Canada geese season starts Sept. 1

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Area hunters planning to hunt Canada geese in the month of September will want to make sure they do not run afoul of the new schedule.

In the past, the Canada geese hunting season for all of Kentucky has run September 16 through 30, but Lee McClellan with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife says changes were made to better accommodate hunters.

“Hunters approached their representatives on the Fish and Wildlife Commission,” McClellan said. “They felt that they would have more productive hunting in western Kentucky had the season opened earlier, so they split it and in west Kentucky now it is September 1st through the 15th, and in the eastern zone, which is a pretty big chunk of the state, it is the old date of September 16th through the 30th.”

Hardin, Meade, Breckinridge, Grayson, Hart, LaRue, and Nelson counties are all located in the western zone, while Bullitt County is located in the eastern zone.

McClellan says other than the September 1 through 15 dates for the western zone and the September 16 through 30 dates for the eastern zone, regulations for Canada geese season remain the same, including the daily limit of five per day.

Before hunting, all hunters must complete the Harvest Information Program survey available by clicking the “My Profile” link at www.fw.ky.gov.

U.S. News and World Report ranks Elizabethtown High School No. 17 in Kentucky

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Elizabethtown Independent School District is celebrating recognition for Elizabethtown High School.

The high school was ranked the 17th best in the state of Kentucky by U.S. News and World Report.

The high school received an overall score of 89.88 out of 100 from the publication, which Elizabethtown Independent School District Director of Communications Mattie McCoart said is based on several factors.

“They rank those based on college readiness, state assessment efficiency and performance, underserved student performance, college curriculum breadth, and graduation rate,” McCoart said.

McCoart said the high school has shown consistency with its ranking in recent years.

“In the past five years, Elizabethtown High School has been ranked in the top 20 three times, so this honor of being ranked in the top 20 is not new to us, but we are continuing to work to excel from previous years, and so being ranked 17th is a big honor for us,” McCoart said.

U.S. News and World Report’s profile of Elizabethtown High School says the graduation rate is 93 percent, and 54 percent of students took at least one A.P. exam. The school was ranked 18th in college readiness.

McCoart said the push for success comes from both inside and outside of the classroom.

“It really does take staff, faculty, and families working together to excel and build on the tradition of excellence that we’ve built at Elizabethtown High School, and this ranking, being No. 17 in the state, just proves that our community really is working together,” McCoart said.

You can find the full rankings and the profile for Elizabethtown High School at www.usnews.com.

Hardin County Fiscal Court reviews budget, road design ordinances

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The Hardin County Fiscal Court met for their second meeting of the month Tuesday.

The court approved the first readings of two ordinances. The first is an amendment to the county budget to take care of about $6 million in unfunded receipts. Judge/Executive Keith Taul said most of those funds are library bonds for the expansion of the Hardin County Public Library.

“There’s money that’s being pulled in, bonds that were sold, and that money is coming into Hardin County government, into our treasurer’s department, and then being dispersed back as needed as they build and as they move forward with that,” Taul said.

The second ordinance relates to the creation of a guide for the design and construction of county roadways. During public comments, Settler’s Crest resident Dave Foreman said he hopes the new ordinance will make up for a lack of design that has been seen in previous road planning, which he says results in unsafe conditions for county residents.

“We need to make sure that what we do today is going to have a positive, lasting impact over the next 25 or 50 years, because on the rear end like where we currently live there was no planning, no ordinances or a lack of, and you end up with a very, very serious situation,” Foreman said.

The court also approved a resolution concerning a bid for the purchase of three new Type 1 ambulances.

During department reports, Hardin County Sheriff John Ward said from April through July the sheriff’s office made 409 arrests, issued 606 citations, and responded to 2,246 complaint calls. Ward said the office has responded to more than 12,000 calls so far this year, which puts them on pace to pass last year’s total of about 17,000 calls.

Hardin County Clerk Brian D. Smith said his office has seen about 100 new voter registrations each month. Smith said the county will be adding two new voting locations, the clerk’s office and the Colvin Community Center, and will replace the Pritchard Community Center as a voting location with Elizabethtown High School. The deadline to register to vote is October 10.

The Hardin County Fiscal Court will next meet September 12.

Helping Hand of Hope returning to pre-pandemic proof of income requirements

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Helping Hand of Hope has announced that beginning September 1 proof of income will be required for all services including food boxes, personal hygiene bags, and the pet food pantry. 

Helping Hand of Hope Executive Director Hope Burke says the policy is not a new one, but rather a return to pre-pandemic standards.

“When COVID started, we know that there were so many people losing jobs, and there were so many people going on unemployment and different things like that, and food stamp offices were getting backed up, so we had lowered our guidelines to where people didn’t have to bring anything when it came to our food boxes,” Burke said.

Burke says the policy change is necessary in order to serve as many people as possible in good faith, as demand at the organization has boomed. 

“We’re starting to see such a huge increase of food, pet, hygiene, all of these things that where we were used to doing 400 to 500 food boxes a month we’re hitting almost 1,000,” Burke said.

As demand increases, anybody wanting to support Helping Hand of Hope’s mission is welcome to reach out.

“They can go to our website, www.helpinghandofhope.org, or they can always call us at 270-769-3092 and ask to speak to me,” Burke said. “I am always willing to show someone around, show them the moving parts of what we do, how it looks, how our numbers are increasing, and what all of that looks like.”

The policy change does not apply to USDA food bags, which are available regardless of income level.