Wednesday, August 28, 2019

US 641: A new path to interstate

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Crittenden County’s interests were well represented Tuesday at a public meeting to reveal the preliminary preferred alternate for the U.S. 641 improvement project in Caldwell and Lyon counties.

More than 200 people, including local and regional officials, attended the open house-format presentation in Fredonia to meet with Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KyTC) representatives, study plans and provide input on the alternative. As many as a quarter of those in attendance were from Crittenden County, including Judge-Executive Perry Newcom and several magistrates whose primary interest is to see that the long-awaited widened and realigned corridor to interstate travel is completed.

"We aren't concerned with where it goes, necessarily," Newcom said. "We just want to make sure it goes."

The plan as presented Tuesday claims nine homes along its course in Caldwell and Lyon counties and affects 55 property owners, including 95 acres at Western Kentucky Correctional Complex and 270 overall acres of public lands. But those figures could .... see more in this week's printed edition of The Crittenden Press.