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Celebrate the season with Bernheim Forest as they host their Holiday Open House on Saturday, December 6 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

“The Holiday Open House is a fun and festive day of shopping and celebrating in the forest,” said Bernheim Forest Director of Marketing and Communications Lynette Cox. “Visitors will enjoy holiday music, refreshments, and hourly giveaways while they shop for the perfect gift.”

The event is free and no registration is required.

“You can browse a selection of handcrafted gifts from Kentucky artisans including jewelry, cozy apparel, pottery, walking sticks, and more,” Cox said. “You’ll find everything that you need for the nature lover, bird lover, and cook in your life.”

If you have not had the chance to visit Bernheim, the Holiday Open House is a good opportunity to do so.

“We’ve got all kinds of gifts in the gift shop at Bernheim for nature lovers and pet lovers,” Cox said. “It’s a great time to come out to the forest and take a hike and then knock a little shopping off your list while you shop local.”

Visit www.bernheim.org for more information.

A Hardin County couple remains incarcerated after they allegedly threw a man from a balcony in Elizabethtown, leading to the man’s death.

Shawn Durbin and Nancy Durbin face charges of Complicity to Commit Murder following an incident in Elizabethtown earlier this month.

“At around 8 p.m. on November 3th, officers responded to 109 East Memorial Drive on the report of an adult male in cardiac arrest after reportedly being thrown from his second story balcony,” said Elizabethtown Police Department Public Information Officer Chris Denham. “Investigators determined Shawn and Nancy Durbin acted together to throw the victim, Mr. Bobby Pennington, off the balcony. As a result, he was critically injured and later passed away.”

Pennington was 62.

Both of the Durbins were indicted by a grand jury on November 20. They are both being held in the Hardin County Detention Center on $500,000 cash bonds.

Area residents spending the Thanksgiving holiday in central Kentucky will likely not be seeing snow in the forecast, but after moisture from Tuesday clears the area they will see colder temperatures.

“We’re going to stay pretty cloudy as the system passes to our north with some low-level cloud cover,” said Meteorologist Kyle Wilkins with the National Weather Service in Louisville. “Southern Kentucky will likely stay clear, but clouds will probably extend south through E-Town, and then we stay dry but we have clearing conditions for Thanksgiving and Black Friday coming through with the clearer skies so we are going to see falling temperatures.”

Wilkins says the high on Thursday is going to be near 40, and the high on Friday is in the mid to upper 30s. Thursday night and Friday night temperatures are going to get a bit cooler with lows near 20.

For those traveling, weather may cause travel impacts in the east and northeast, and lake effect weather could push some snow into central Indiana. Travelers on the way home in Kentucky might see some rain Saturday and Sunday, but Wilkins says if the system shifts it could bring some snow.

“On the backside of that later Sunday, we’re going to see falling temperatures again, so it’s possible any remaining moisture will freeze with temperatures going down to the mid 20s Sunday night,” Wilkins said

Keep an eye on the weather forecast. Check with the National Weather Service for updates.