BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – If you live in or around Bowling Green, there are multiple options for places to celebrate the Fourth of July with professional fireworks shows. Edmonson County will host their fireworks show at the Freedom Fest in Chalybeate Friday, July 2nd, at 5:00 p.m. Saturday at the Blue Holler Offroad Park at Mammoth Cave, people can attend…
FRANKLIN, Ky. – Senior Executive Director at Fluor, a Franklin engineering company, James Hartman said it’s extremely hard right now to hire trade skill workers. “There’s a true shortage across all the trades right now,” said Hartman. Hartman said that despite the wages between blue-collar and white-collar jobs leveling around the 2000s, companies in need of trade jobs can’t compete…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Habitat for Humanity has partnered with other organizations to create a mixed-income, mixed-use, green, affordable housing community as a local and statewide demonstration known as Durbin Estates. This development is located between W. 12th Ave. and Glen Lily Road and is within Census Tract 112. When the development is completed, it will comprise 44 single and…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – In recent weeks, the CDC issued a health advisory about respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. The disease is the most common cause of bronchitis and pneumonia in kids younger than one year old. According to the CDC, older infants and toddlers might now be at increased risk of severe RSV-associated illness since they likely have not had…
GLASGOW, Ky. -Barren County’s famous tourism hotspot, Guntown Mountain in Cave City is completely getting a fresh makeover. Also, Glasgow will soon start its Summer concert series in the Glasgow square. Guntown Mountain will soon change its gift shop, update the haunted house, create a VR arena and install a horror escape room. They will soon sell guns, incorporate an arcade…
GLASGOW, Ky. – The Barren County Reads and Feeds bus lights up children’s faces every time the horn starts honking. The non-profit provides meal kit boxes – always served with books – for families in need of extra help. The bus runs five days a week, serving breakfast and lunch. The Reads and Feeds runs through the Barren County Nutrition…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – This year, the Bowling Green Kiwanis Club celebrates its 50th Anniversary Thunderfest at the National Corvette Museum. The celebration takes place July 3, and gates open at 4 p.m. There will be music, entertainment, food vendors and events for all the kiddos in attendance. Tickets are $25 per car load, so make sure to pack in…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The Bowling Green Police Department said they have already gotten 71 calls regarding misuse of fireworks since June 1. The Consumer Product Safety Commission shows that in 2019 alone, firework injuries accounted for 10,000 hospital visits, and 36 percent of these injuries happened to children younger than 15 years old. Bowling Green firefighter Cameron Wallace warned…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The SoKY Patriots are raising money toward their organization with T-shirt sales on their Facebook page. All of the money from these sales goes back to the patriots who work with veterans, as well as feed the hungry in Warren County with their food backpack program and help disabled people in the community by building ramps…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – This week, Governor Andy Beshear announced his new return-to-work incentive. The money will pay Kentuckians on unemployment insurance a one-time $1,500 bonus to rejoin the workforce by July 30. But those looking to get in on this money may want to act quickly, because only the first 15,000 people who qualify will be approved for the…
