The superintendent of a local school district has announced that she will be taking a leave of absence starting next week. Mrs Kelli Bush, superintendent of Elizabethtown Independent Schools, shared that it was necessary for her health and well-being to take leave from her role starting May 1. She announced that Assistant Superintendent Chase Goff would be handling her duties and responsibilities in her absence. The district wanted to reassure students, parents and staff that the district’s commitment to excellence in education and services would not be impacted by Bush’s leave.
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The Elizabethtown City Council held its regularly scheduled work session meeting last night. “Nellie Thomas with Mission Hope for Kids, which is now Hope Academy, came and spoke. She went through, what they do and what their program looks like. Larry Vance spoke about the World War II Reenactment that will happen at the Nature Park and that’s going to be on May 27 and he has a full lineup of activities. Ed Poppe talked about some things we’re doing in-house, giving an overall capital projects kind of a wrap up because we’re heading into the end of the fiscal year,” shared City Of Elizabethtown Spokesperson Amy Inman. Inman also wanted to remind citizens that this is the last week for the Elizabethtown Spring Cleanup. “If you have appliances, you need to call Public Works to make an appointment for them to come pick those up but this is the last week of that. We have done several loads. We’re really trying to encourage everyone to be a good neighbor and to do the right thing. So if you have junk or debris laying around your house, go ahead and bring that up to the curb and our Public Works team will take care of that.” The next regularly scheduled meeting will be held on May 1.
The U.S. Army Human Resources Command will hold its eighth annual Raise The Bars Motorcycle Ride on April 26. “April is the Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month and it’s highlighted all across the U. S Army at all of our installations and globally. This is just one of many events that we’re highlighting over the month. We do this to bring awareness to sexual assault and harassment, but also to help protect our people with the prevention of sexual assault and harassment. The motorcycle ride is one of those events where we get to gather, we get to reaffirm our commitment to the prevention and the resources available to survivors,“ shared Public Affairs Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Ally Scott. HRC has 43 credentialed sexual assault victim advocates within its command who ensure that victims are made aware of local, regional and national support services. “The Chief of Staff of the Army, General James McConville, says we are all charged with setting conditions that enforce Army standards to prevent sexual offenses. Protecting our people is protecting our mission. We take that very seriously here at the Human Resources Command and across the Army. If we can create a happy health life balance here at work and at home, that is our goal with all of our service members and staff.” The event is open to the public and begins at 1:00 PM at the Human Resources Command on Fort Knox. The rain date is April 28.
The victim from a shooting in Radcliff has died and a juvenile has been charged in his death. According to Radcliff Police Chief Jeff Cross, a call came in about 6:30 pm on Sunday evening of a shooting on Kingswood Way. When officers arrived, they found a male subject who had been shot and he was transported to the University of Louisville Hospital. “We took a seventeen year old juvenile into custody that was responsible for the shooting. That juvenile was charged with Attempted Murder, Assault First, Possession of a Handgun by a Minor and seven counts of Wanton Endangerment. We learned that the victim had died at University Hospital, and the charge of Attempted Murder was upgraded to Murder. The case is still being investigated,” shared Radcliff Police Chief Jeff Cross.
On Monday, North Hardin High School was placed on a soft lockdown. “This means that the instructional day continued as normal and special procedures were in place. As a precautionary measure, we asked for additional community support to include local law enforcement and the presence of additional officers,” stated Hardin County School Spokesperson John Wright. School officials are asking parents to remind their students to speak up if they have concerns. “We want our parents to know that our students are safe at school. and if they communicate with our parents during the school day or at home, we just ask our students’ parents to encourage their students to tell an adult if they see anything on social media or hear anything that concerns them. We always appreciate the support of our parents and community.” Activities taking place on campus Monday were canceled as a precaution. We will update this story as it develops.
The City of Elizabethtown has been monitoring the weather and has made a decision about this evening’s Lawn Party event at Freeman Lake. “We are canceling tonight’s Lawn Party at the bandstand at Freeman Lake Park. It was supposed to start at 6:00 PM. We were going to do a ribbon cutting to kind of christen the bandstand. But unfortunately, it looks like that is when the rain is going to hit. Of course, the safety of our citizens is our number one priority. And so we just did not feel it was appropriate to move forward with what we have coming in. But we’re moving tonight’s event. We’re going to add a Lawn Party in September. So all is not lost. We’re just going to not have it tonight,” said City Events Spokesperson Beth Pyles. The next concert in the series will take place in June. “It is June 21 so we hope people will make plans to attend that one. At that one, we will feature Casey and Romey and then the band The Caribou. The parks always will open at 5:00 PM and the event will be at 6:00 PM. So we’re just going to, hopefully by June, have the sun will be shining on us, and we’re going to move forward.” To view future dates and artists participating in the Lawn Party concert series at Freeman Lake, go to EtownEvents.com