What's in the news this week...

Crittenden County’s top election official anticipates fewer than 1 in 5 voters to turn out Tuesday. “My initial guess was 17 percent, and I'm starting to get worried about that,” County Clerk Carolyn Byford said last week, gauging by the low number of absentee ballots cast by that time. Tuesday is primary election day in Kentucky. Republicans and Democrats will go to the polls to select their respective nominees for statewide constitutional races that will be decided in November. Chief among them will be the contests for gubernatorial nominations.

Read more about Tuesday's election and the following stories in this week's issue of The Crittenden Press:

• Rural water district earns quality award.
• Chittenden to retire as superintendent of Livingston Schools.
• Planting finally making headway.
• CCEDC struggling financially, but optimism prevails.
• Civil War created divide for Kentucky families, friends.
• Board of education puts price on naming rights.
• Local Memorial Day events slated.
• Police: Burna fire set intentionally.
• Estimates: County cattle numbers fall.
• Industrial park road nearly done.
• Local church marks 180 years.
• Area students receive diplomas from WKCTC.
• Rockets, Lady Rockets winding down seasons.