New sign coming to I-165 in Warren County welcoming visitors to Bowling Green

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A project in the works on I-165 is set to make visitors from Butler County and beyond feel welcome in Bowling Green.

It may look like a pile of dirt now, but an area of the interstate will be home to the newest sign welcoming drivers to Warren County.

“There’ll be two stone walls here… have big red Bowling Green letters at the top… Warren County and then home of Western Kentucky University… flagpoles behind it… we’ll have a 130 foot flagpole flying a 30 by 60 foot American flag… and then other flagpoles flying all the branches of the various military,” Johnny Webb, the chairman of Operation PRIDE says.

The land is donated by its owner Malcolm Cherry, who says he was approached with the idea during a flag raising ceremony at the Corvette Museum.

“Johnny approached me and said ‘You don’t know who owns that piece of property on the corner there, do you?’ and I don’t know if that was a set up or not, but I’m glad it happened… and I said ‘I own it, and I will gladly donate it to this project,” Cherry says.

When complete, this new project will look just like the signs you’re used to seeing on I-65 at exits 20, 26 & 30. Webb says he wants to make sure every person who visits Warren County, whether from the south, north or west, feels welcome.

“People coming in to Bowling Green from western Kentucky, southern Illinois, southern Indiana… this is how they would come in to Bowling Green… so we’ve been missing… a gateway, if you will, for those folks,” he says.

Webb says he anticipates the project will be complete in about 6 weeks.