Author: Tucker Covey

Better Business Bureau warns about back-to-school scams

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The Better Business Bureau asks consumers to be leery of ads promoting deals that sound too good to be true, especially on big ticket items such as laptops and tablets. Many consumers fall for such ads each year, often seemingly promoting a product from a reputable source, after purchasing the product never arrives. Whitney Adkins at…

Avoiding scams when donating to victims of the Hawaii wildfires

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Many people wish to donate to help those who were affected by the recent wildfires in Maui, but the Better Business Bureau asks potential donors to be careful. Many scams get set up within a few weeks of a natural disaster happening, usually they are online scams from fake charity sites that appear legitimate. But with…

Auditions for the 8th annual Haunted Lantern Tour

BOWLING GREEN Ky. – The Historic RailPark and Train Museum will begin hosting open auditions for roles in their Haunted Lantern Tour on Saturday, August 26. The open auditions are an all call for community members who are actors or those who want to try acting. The auditions will start with a cold reading of some lines from the bespoke…

Aviation Heritage park soars to new heights under new direction

BOWLING GREEN Ky. – The Aviation Heritage Park is getting a new executive director in Bob Bubnis who is currently the curator of collections and exhibits manager at the National Corvette Museum. Bubnis hopes to focus on telling the stories of the planes and the Kentucky Aviators that flew them, bringing a more personal touch to the history of aviation…

Local schools work through staffing shortages

BOWLING GREEN Ky. – The Barren County School System, along with the Edmonson County School System, are both having unique experiences with the ongoing national staffing shortages in schools. In Barren County, there is a greater focus on maintaining auxiliary staff. According to Heather Gardner, who works with the school system, the positions that are open are mostly not teachers….

Kentucky Living announces Best of Kentucky award winners

HORSE CAVE Ky. – Two attractions miles apart were both winners in this years Kentucky Living Best of Kentucky Awards. Five Broke Girls in Horse Cave won best hamburger for the second year in a row. The small establishment run by a tight knit group of people is a local meeting place and now a roadside attraction for many people…

Glassblower in Bowling Green: Sweaty Glass

BOWLING GREEN Ky. – There is a new artisan in Bowling Green, Shane Spickard a BG native set up his new glassblowing shop, Sweaty Glass, here in town. Starting 2019, Spickard started taking classes in Tennessee in order to learn how to blow glass professionally. Now he has a studio and is even offering classes through Community Education. Registration for…

African American Museum in BG hosts grand reopening

BOWLING GREEN Ky. – The African American Museum in Bowling Green is reopening after suffering damage from not only the 2021 tornado, but also an electrical fire that effectively gutted the inside of the structure. Most of the exhibits have been returned to the building after being inspected and cleaned. The museum is going to be operating at reduced capacity…

Further details released on fire at Memphis Junction Road

BOWLING GREEN Ky. – On Sunday night, the house at 1042 Memphis Junction Road in Bowling Green burned. Browning Fire Department responded, but since the structure fire quickly devolved into two separate fires, they had to work while backup from stations such as Woodburn and Plano were on the way. The initial structure fires spread across to an adjacent house,…

Mammoth Cave National Park discusses repeated vandalism

PARK CITY, Ky. – There has been a number of instances of vandalism in Mammoth Cave National Park over the last few months. Most of these instances center on a century old building, the Joppa Missionary Baptist Church, which sits vacant and accessible to park visitors between six in the morning to 8 p.m. at night. These vandals have broken…