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Hopkins County Schools Family Resource Youth Services Center coordinators are making plans to provide qualifying families with Thanksgiving or Christmas assistance. Families are welcome to attend workshops at the Career and Technology Center at 1775 Patriot Drive. Families requiring assistance must attend one workshop per holiday. Those not attending will forfeit the right to receive assistance. Parents and guardians need to contact their student prior to signing up for classes so the coordinator is aware of the need.
The look of downtown Madisonville is changing. Deputy City Administrator Brad Long says it’s not graffiti, it’s the work of local artist, Harry Bowles.
The Pennyrile Area Development District wants to hear from you. PADD is a public planning and development organization collaborating with local leaders, agencies and staff striving to support regional strategies, solutions and partnerships that improve the overall quality of life. The facebook page has the details about the program.
The work on the Blue Bridge in Owensboro is going to take longer than expected, The new date for the reopening of the Glover Cary Bridge will be in January. The nearly $18 million repair project is described as critical to the bridge’s future.
The Madisonville North Marching Maroons are one of the finest high school bands in the state. On Saturday evening at Western Kentucky Univerity, they placed 5th in the 4-A competition. Earlier in the day, the Marching Maroons qualified for the state finals.
Madisonville is in the process of building a new law enforcement training center off Bean Cemetery Road.It will replace the facility on Industrial Drive. Law enforcement says it will benefit Western Kentucky by allowing recruits to train closer to home instead of traveling to Richmond. It will also reduce academy wait times—from as long as eight months to just five weeks.
The Greenville police are hoping that the person who accidentaly dropped a baggie containing drugs will come by the station and pick it up. It was found on the floor of Casey’s Convenience Store at 3-49 North Main and turned into the police. The police are not expecting the owner to come and claim it, but decided to make the request anyway.
Our junior senator says both republicans and democrats remain divided on a path toward ending the government shutdown. Rand Paul says a Republican bill failed to get the 60 votes needed to end it. Speaker Mike Johnson has said the chamber will only return after the government reopens.
The president and chief executive officer of Owensboro Health will now serve on the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Mark Marsh will serve on the 60-member board that represents a cross-section of key business and industry leaders. Marsh received Western Kentucky Univerity’s Distinguished Service Medal for professional excellence and community impact.
From the C-Plant Federal Credit Union Newsroom, I’m Boyce Tate.
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