Category Archives: Local News
Kentucky death toll to 4 from April’s severe weather
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS Glasgow News 1 Four people are dead following the multiday severe weather that battered the commonwealth for four days at the beginning of April. In his April 7 statewide flooding ...
Apr 07, 2025
UPDATED: Many Barren County roads reopen, remain closed after multi-day severe weather
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS Glasgow News 1 Barren County roads are beginning to be reopened as the severe weather that brought roughly 9.8 inches of rain, according to the Kentucky Mesonet, makes its way out ...
Apr 07, 2025
Barren County students win awards at FFA region
By WILL PERKINS Glasgow News 1 A week before constructing a garden behind Red Cross Elementary, members of Barren County High School's Future Farmers of America chapter demonstrated their knowledge of...
Apr 07, 2025
Dropped baggie leads to Glasgow man’s arrest
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS Glasgow News 1 Randy Claxton, 39, of Glasgow, was arrested on five drug- and vehicle-related charges after allegedly dropping a baggie of cocaine on the ground outside his vehicle,...
Apr 07, 2025
BRAWA requests donations after precautionary evacuation
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS Glasgow News 1 After evacuating all animals on Thursday afternoon, The Barren River Animal Welfare Association is requesting donations of paper towels, Lysol wipes, Dawn Dish Soap,...
Apr 07, 2025
Mary Wood Weldon Library offers nation’s first apprenticeship program
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS Glasgow News 1 Mary Wood Weldon Memorial Library now offers a registered apprenticeship for employees. "We are the first library in this country to have this registered apprentices...
Apr 07, 2025
Portions of four state roads remain closed in Barren County
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS Glasgow News 1 After severe weather hammered Kentucky late last week and over the weekend, several state roads remain closed due to high waters. “The rain has finally moved o...
Apr 07, 2025
Glasgow fire fighters battle Ply-Tech blaze
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS Glasgow News 1 For roughly three hours the Glasgow Fire Department worked a fire at Ply-Tech Corporation at 845 Industrial Drive on April 2. Glasgow Fire Department responded to re...
Apr 07, 2025
Barren County under tornado watch until 9 p.m.
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS Glasgow News 1 The National Weather Service in Louisville has placed Barren County in a tornado watch until 9 p.m. on April 5. A watch means "the risk of a hazardous weather or hyd...
Apr 05, 2025
No county warning sirens activated due to ‘unknown radio frequency’
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS Glasgow News 1 The 28 Community Outdoors Warning Sirens — COWS — spread across Barren County failed to activate during the brief time when a tornado warning was active ...
Apr 04, 2025