The 4,300-mile TransAm Bike Race will pass through Marion in the coming days. The event started June 5 in Astoria, Wash.
Cyclists cross into Kentucky on the Cave In Rock Ferry, follow Ky. 91 to Marion before heading out of Crittenden County on Ky. 120. Forty-two cyclists are participating.
The 2019 winner completed the event in 16 days. Watch real-time progress on transambikerace.com.
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Crittenden continues to lag behind most other adjoining counties in the percentage of residents who have been vaccinated. Almost 1 out of every 4 people in Crittenden County have been inoculated for COVID-19. Crittenden ranks fifth when compared to contiguous counties and among the low third in the state.
Woodford, Franklin and Fayette counties have the state’s highest percentage of people who have been vaccinated. All are over 50 percent inoculated. Christian ranks the lowest in Kentucky at 17 percent.
In Crittenden County, 2,247 people have been vaccinated. Of those age 65 or older, half have been vaccinated and 31 percent age 18 or over have gotten their shot(s).
Many Kentucky residents are now eligible to renew their driver's license online. This includes motorcycle licensing.
Simply go to dlrenewal.ky.gov. You can complete the renewal process online as early as six months before your licenses' expiration or for up to a year after it expires. The entire process takes only a few montages.
Pay with a debit or credit card, and there is a small service fee.
Remember to check your DL expiration date as the state stopped sending renewal notices a few years ago.
Online renewals work for standard licenses as well as Real IDs, but you'll still need to visit an office in-person to make the initial switch to a Real ID.
Those replacing a lost or stolen driver's license, upgrading from four-year to eight-year expiration period, getting a commercial license or changing their name or address will also need to renew in person.
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Crittenden County Sheriff’s Department reports say Bryan Baumann was the driver and only occupant of a 2003 Mitsubishi Galant that was traveling westbound when for an unknown reason exited the right side of the highway, went over a guardrail, down an embankment and struck a utility pole.
The crash happened shortly after 10 p.m.
Sheriff Wayne Agent said the wreck remains under investigation.
It was the first fatal traffic accident in the county this year.
North Livingston Elementary School was notified that it received a grant totaling $10,347.67 through the System of Care FIVE Partner Grant. These funds will be used to place calming areas in classrooms and other areas throughout the school. Within these areas, the children will have continuous access to materials needed to control outbursts, meltdowns and disruptive behavior.
Sensory paths will also be placed throughout hallways to encourage movement and provide opportunities to learn self-regulation strategies without being disruptive to others in the classroom. Sensory and calming kits
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Each month, the newspaper has published a comprehensive look at the pandemic's figures in the county, breaking down age and gender data.
Here's a sample of what the full edition of the newspaper has been providing throughout the pandemic.
You can subscribe to the full hand-held, traditional paper edition, an electronic edition online or have the full newspaper emailed to your inbox each week in PDF form. Subscribe here.
Hurricane Camp Meeting has been rescheduled.
It will be held July 26-Aug. 1.
Originally scheduled for June 14-20, the non-denominational church revival was rescheduled due to a conflict with one of the members of the Stone Family.
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Pennyrile Area Development District (PADD) and the Pennyrile Allied Community Services (PACS) will be reopening Senior Citizens Centers in Crittenden and other Pennyrile counties on July 1.
The counties also include Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Lyon, Livingston, Muhlenberg, Todd and Trigg.
Centers will return to their normal hours of operation and services prior to the pandemic. All centers will continue to follow Centers for Disease Control (CDC), state and/or local guidelines.
Centers will resume congregate meals. During the month of July, PACS will also continue providing curbside meal pickup. To better assist PACS in knowing how many meals to plan for it is asking everyone to call the local senior center to reserve a congregate or curbside meal.
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With just days left in the City of Marion’s fiscal budgetary year, it’s clear that local liquor sales are outpacing last year.
Marion legalized liquor sales in August of 2019. The city receives a five-percent tax on the sale of wine, beer and distilled alcohol, and places that sell must buy a license. Those revenues are remitted each month to the city. After 10 months reporting from FY21, tax revenue generated from liquor sales and licenses has been $63,006.37. That’s well above the entire first year of tax taken in from legal liquor sales.
FY20 tax receipts were $46,766.95, but that was for 11 months because sales were not legal until the second month of the fiscal year.
Sales tax revenue for alcohol was $5,449.06 in March and $6,090.19 in April, both below average for this budgetary cycle. Tax revenue derived from the legal sale of alcohol is primarily spent on law enforcement.
If not, you can still get a copy or read it online with a subscription to the electronic edition.
The new school leader has super connections to the area and he's excited about coming home.
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Crittenden set several new team and individual records this year. See more about the historic run in the full edition of The Crittenden Press. You can also review local sports historian Andy Hunt's Rocket Baseball History Book and see the team's full 2021 results and statistics at the Rockets Scoreboard.
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| Former CCHS track coach Angela Starnes was at the regional meet and congratulated some of Crittenden's state qualifiers. |
Top two finishers in each category earn a berth in the state meet.
CCHS regional champions were Tristan Davidson in the high jump, Kate Keller in the 1600 and 800 meters and Mary Martinez in the 3200 meters.
Regional runners-up were Eli Moss in the 400 meters and he was joined on the state-qualifying 1600-meter relay team by Noah Perkins, Rowen Perkins and Kaleb Nesbitt.
There are still some at-large state berths available based on finishes when compared statistically to others across the state. The CCHS team will know if it has additional qualifiers early this week.
The KHSAA state track and field meet is June 10-12 on the UK campus in Lexington.
