The public is inited to stop by and wish Supt. Clark the best in his retirement.
The reception is being held prior to the Crittenden County Board of Education's regular monthly meeting. It will be Clark's last board meeting as his retirement becomes effective June 30 and Asst. Superintendent Tonya Driver will assume the superintendent's role.
Family Literacy Night and Community Baby Shower event has been moved to Marion Baptist Church's Family Life Center due to the excessive heat index expected on Tuesday.
Held since 1888, the non-denominational, revival event includes a youth camp during the day and nightly meals, singing and worship.
Evangelist this year is Bro. Steve Stone with music every night by the Stone Family, plus appearances by Classy and Grassy on Monday and Bro. Danny Hinchee on Sunday, June 19.
Hurricane Camp Meeting is held on the grounds of Hurricane Church off Ky. 135 on Hurricane Church Road.
Meals will be served starting at 5:30 each evening with services to beginning at 7 p.m. On Sunday, the last day of Camp Meeting, there will be services at 11 a.m., and 7 p.m. Parent Night is Thursday.
After an emergency draining of Lake George earlier this spring, the city is struggling to find enough raw water to purify and meet demands of its 1,500 customers.
City Administrator Adam Ledford said all options are being explored, including retesting a large volume of water underground that exists at the former Lucile Mine near the city’s maintenance garage. The water was tested in 2013, but found unsuitable at the time due to high concentration of fluoride and sulphur.
Other short- and long-term options continue to be explored. Princeton Water District appears to be capable of meeting Marion’s demand for just under 500,000 gallons of drinking water a day, but there’s a question of how to deliver it. A small line near Shady Grove ties Crittenden-Livingston Water District to Caldwell County Water District. Whether that four-inch pipe is capable of transmitting sufficient help remains to be determined.
Meantime, the City of Marion is beginning to stockpile resources such as bottled water and notifying state agencies and the National Guard in case the situation reaches an emergency level.
Right now, Marion continues to draw from its only remaining raw water source, Old City Lake. However, it has less than a 20-day supply, and the forecast for the next week to 10 days is calling for very dry and hot weather.
Tedrick, 92, was a longtime pastor at Marion Church of God. She was a religious conservative who was very outspoken on her faith, and instrumental in the community for decades. Tedrick was for many years a columnist for The Crittenden Press, an author of books and for a time operated a school at her church.
She was featured in a Crittenden Press’s Women in Local History video in March shortly before she fell ill. She had been in and out of the nursing home and local hospitals since having abdominal surgery at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville.
Arrangements for Tedrick are under the direction of Gilbert Funeral Home, but incomplete at this time.
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It will be rather pleasant on Saturday, the NWS said, with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s with low humidity. However, the area will see highs on Sunday ramp up into the upper 80s to lower 90s with a gradual increase in humidity.
By Monday, highs will be in the lower to mid 90s with very humid conditions in place. Tuesday looks to be the warmest day of next week, and some locations could see actual air temperatures reach 100 degrees, the NWS said. Record or near record highs are expected on Tuesday.
While high temperatures and humidity levels could drop a bit by Wednesday and Thursday, night time lows will likely stay in the mid to upper 70s. The heat index will likely be 100 to 105 degrees Monday through Wednesday.
The region will also move into a prolonged dry period tomorrow through at least Thursday, with no substantial rain chances in the forecast. Marion leaders announced Wednesday that its raw water availability is lower than previously believed.
Livingston County Tourist Commission will unveil its latest in a series of roadside historic markers this week in Burna.
A monument dedicated to the history of the community’s rich mining industry will be formally dedicated during a 2 p.m., service Friday, June 10 in front of the former Greyhound Station on Burna Church Road in Burna.
The monument recognizes the mining history of Livingston County from its fluorspar that provides a critical component of modern industry to limestone deposits that incubate fluorspar and other minerals.
The oldest Livingston County fluorspar mine, F.B. Moodie’s Royal Silver Mine, opened in 1860. It was worked for the Galena content, but fluorspar was recorded as the dominant mineral. By 1905, the United States Geological Survey showed 100 fluorspar prospects and mines in the county with shafts 100-750 feet into the earth. Fluorspar mining flourished throughout the mid-1940s, particularly during World War II.
Klondike Mine alone employed 500 people during the Great Depression, making it the largest employer in Livingston County.
The new monument will be the seventh in a trail series of Livingston County historical markers. The history trail offers visitors and residents an opportunity to explore the beauty of Livingston County as they connect to the stories of the past.
Livingston County Tourism Commission sponsors the trail. Future plans include additional historical monument sites throughout the community.
“Our student athletes feel the love and support of our community, and they are eager to return the favor,” the school district said in a news release about a survey it’s conducting online.
Residents are asked to complete a very brief survey that will help the local school district launch its Rockets Give Back program. GO HERE to participate in the survey.
Crittenden and McCracken are the only two western Kentucky counties in Red, but several have turned yellow over the past few days.
Pennyrile Area Health Department reports that Crittenden has had more than 30 new cases of the virus this week.
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Marion’s raw water supply is significantly less than previously estimated, prompting city leaders to issue a news release Wednesday spelling out a potential for a greater crisis.
The City of Marion learned this week results from a Kentucky Division of Water’s analysis of Old City Lake, which is currently the town’s only source of raw water. Marion leaders had largely relied on historic documentation several days ago when they said Old City Lake was holding about 12 million gallons, or roughly 25 days of raw water. Now, the state’s analysis has found that it’s holding only 8 million gallons. That’s about 17 days of raw water, which can be processed at the nearby plant to make drinking water.
In times of normal precipitation, there could potentially be adequate rainfall to maintain an adequate amount of raw water in the lake to meet needs of the city’s 1,500 customers. If it turns off dry this summer, there could be a crisis.
“In the event of a prolonged drought or limited rainfall, the city is in danger of exhausting the water supply,” City Administrator Adam Ledford said in the news release. “Everyone should be doing their part to eliminate non-essential water use at home and at work.”
The city issued a conserve water order earlier this spring when problems arose at Lake George, which has traditionally been Marion’s secondary source of raw water. It held about a year’s supply, but was drained earlier this spring when the levee began to fail.
“In an effort to extend our limited supply, the city is working with the Division of Water, Water Supply, Crittenden-Livingston Water District and Webster County Water District to provide around 4 million gallons monthly to augment our usage,” the city’s news release said.
Four million gallons a month is less than one-third the drinking water Marion needs to meet typical demand.
“Furthermore, the city is working with two engineering firms who are working on options to expand available storage of drinkable water as well as utilizing the basin of Lake George to supplement water needs,” Ledford said in the statement.
“I will ask that everyone proceed forward with good judgment and be fully aware of the risk the summer months provide to a sufficient supply of water,” Ledford said in the news release. “The City of Marion remains committed to exhausting all short-term water supply options while also proceeding forward with organization a long-term solution. Please remember that we are all in this together and individually we can take steps to prolong the water supply.”
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The Ohio River Ferry Authority will meet at 6pm tonight at the Crittenden County Courthouse.
The ferry authority is the local governing body overseeing operation of the Cave In Rock Ferry.
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Hogrock, the adult-only event held annually in Cave In Rock, Ill., is set for this week, June 9-12.
Travelers headed to the four-day party in southern Illinois will be moving through Crittenden County and crossing the ferry this week.
Typically, long lines build at he ferry landing as folks head toward the event.
Rocket Youth Football Camp will be June 20-22 on the high school campus.
The camp is for youngsters age 5-15. Cost is $30 and there is a discount for families with multiple children.
Camp is from 9-11:30 a.m., daily with lunch served afterwards. Registration will be held on the first day of camp starting at 8:30 a.m.
Each camper will receive instruction in all facets of football from the Crittenden County High School coaching staff and current CCHS players. Campers will also receive a T-shirt. There will be flag football games at the end of workouts each day.
Days away from the filing deadline for non-partisan races in the November general election, a handful of candidates have signed up to run for Marion mayor and city council.
Three are seeking to become the town's new mayor and eight individuals have filed to run for city council. Six will be elected to the council.
Filing deadline is this week at 4pm on Tuesday, June 7.
Registered to run for mayor are current city council members Phyllis Sykes, a former teacher, and Donnie Arflack, a former healthcare worker and longtime rescue squad chief. Austin Valentine, an instructor at the Earl C. Clements Job Corps, has also filed.
Two incumbents have filed to seek re-election on the council. They are Mike Byford and Dwight Sherer. The rest are Taylor Davis, Troy McGahan, Marty Wallace, Bobby Belt and Thom Hawthorne and his sister Tracy Cook.
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) plans to place a daytime lane and load width restriction on the U.S. 60 Cumberland River Bridge at Smithland starting Tuesday, June 7.
This lane and 8-foot maximum load width restriction is to allow a detailed inspection of the bridge structure. The restriction is expected to be in place Tuesday through Thursday from 8 a.m., to about 3 p.m., each day.
Motorists should be prepared to encounter one-lane traffic with alternating flow controlled by flaggers. Appropriate caution is required where equipment, flaggers and inspection personnel are working along the bridge is close proximity to traffic flow.
The width restriction is required due to the use of a UBIV- Under Bridge Inspection Vehicle placed on the bridge deck to allow inspectors to reach all elements of the bridge structure. Some minor delays are possible during the movement and placement of equipment to facilitate the inspection.
All Kentucky bridges get a detailed inspection every two years, with long-span lake and river bridges getting an extra walk-through inspection annually. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is responsible for inspecting all bridges on public roadways in the Commonwealth.
A 13-year-old pedestrian was hit by a motorist on Main Street near C-Plant Federal Credit Union around 5:30 p.m., today. The boy was LifeFlighted to a nearby trauma center but did not appear to have life-threatening injuries.