Category Archives: Local News
Zoning town halls wrap, Land Use Committee takes baton next week
STAFF REPORT Glasgow News 1 Barren County officials are preparing for a key public meeting on the county's first comprehensive zoning ordinance, with agriculture protection at the center of the discus...
Aug 14, 2026
Farmers RECC and SCRTC celebrate new shared service center in Munfordville
STAFF REPORT Glasgow News 1 Farmers Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation and South Central Rural Telecommunications Cooperative are marking a new chapter in their long partnership with a shared serv...
Aug 14, 2026
Barren school board holds tax rate at same level
By JAMES BROWN Glasgow News 1 The Barren County Schools Board of Education voted to maintain tax rates the same as they were for the previous fiscal year. During the board's August meeting Thursday ni...
Aug 14, 2026
Glasgow man’s federal sentencing delayed after guilty plea in Barren County meth case
STAFF REPORT Glasgow News 1 A Glasgow man who admitted to federal meth trafficking charges in Barren County will have to wait longer to learn his sentence. According to court documents filed in the We...
Aug 13, 2026
Mary Wood Weldon library closes through end of August for first full inventory since ’04
STAFF REPORT Glasgow News 1 The Mary Wood Weldon Memorial Library in Glasgow is closing for more than two weeks as staff complete what officials say is the first full inventory of the collection since...
Aug 13, 2026
Glasgow police arrest man accused in $150,000 organized scam
STAFF REPORT Glasgow News 1 Glasgow police say a woman in the community lost more than $150,000 in an organized financial scam carried out over a two-week period. According to the Glasgow Police Depar...
Aug 13, 2026
Final countywide zoning town hall is tonight
STAFF REPORT Glasgow News 1 The final zoning town hall meeting is tonight (Thursday, Aug. 13) at Hiseville Elementary. There have already been three of these town halls. The first was July 14 at Templ...
Aug 13, 2026
A county’s data center moratorium doesn’t include a small city considering huge project
By Liam Niemeyer Kentucky Lantern August 13, 2026 On Tuesday, the Mercer County Fiscal Court passed a one-year moratorium on data center construction, the latest turn over months of tumultuous debate ...
Aug 13, 2026
Following Muir’s footsteps through Park City
By Gage Wilson For Glasgow News 1 Nearly 160 years after naturalist and explorer John Muir walked through the area on his famous journey to the Gulf of Mexico, his connection to Park City is being inc...
Aug 13, 2026
Barren County school board to weigh 2026-27 tax rate Thursday
STAFF REPORT Glasgow News 1 Barren County school board members are facing a packed agenda Thursday as they gather for their regular monthly meeting at the district’s central office off Trojan Wa...
Aug 12, 2026