Today's News

By Josh Shepherd, News writer

Some people might say that Betty Jean Palmer, the Cynthiana-Harrison County Chamber of Commerce’s 2013 Healthcare Provider of the Year, started pursuing her nursing career late in life. Her children were well in their teens when she finished her degree and started work at Harrison Memorial Hospital (HMH). 

By Josh Shepherd, News writer

Though not official, magistrates of the Harrison County Fiscal Court made its first move toward cutting off funding for the Berry Data Center in the next fiscal year.

THURSDAY, March 27
Women’s Book Group. Thursday, March 27 at 6 p.m. at the Cynthiana-Harrison County Public Library. The book for discussion will be The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks.
Cynthiana Board of Adjustment will meet Thursday, March 27 at 6 p.m. in the Planning Commission Office at the Harrison County Courthouse, South Main Street. The meetings are open to the public.
 

It may come as a surprise to some, although I don’t know who, that there is a local election coming up in May.
Even if you don’t know that in Kentucky election years changed a few years back so that county races all fall at the same time, you surely have seen all the ‘VOTE FOR ME’ signs.
The idea behind moving elections was to save counties money by not having to have some sort of local election and possibly a primary every year.
What it has created is a muddle of election signs all at one time.