Category Archives: Local News

Council discusses pending park in closed session, returns void
Wes Simpson, chairperson of the Downtown Park Steering Committee of the Glasgow City Council, reviews a proposal to build the park, which was received at Glasgow City Hall Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. Scott...
Kenneth Rizo Mar 14, 2022

GIS to end formal COVID updates, SGE's construction continues
Allison Commings, an associate principal architect with Sherman, Carter, Barnhart Architects, speaks to the Glasgow Independent Schools' Board of Education. (WCLU NEWS FILE PHOTO) GLASGOW - The Glasgo...
Mark Buckles Mar 14, 2022

Barren Co. Property Transfers - Week of March 7, 2022
GLASGOW - The following property transfers were recorded in Barren County from March 7 to 11, 2022. Tax information is not reported when money is not exchanged. Such instances include foreclosures, ma...
Kenneth Rizo Mar 14, 2022

Explainer: What's happened to Ky. Driver Licensing?
Krissie Coe Fields, Barren Circuit Court Clerk, examines a document during a meeting of the Barren County Project Development Board of the Barren County Judicial Center. Fields' office has issued driv...
Kenneth Rizo Mar 14, 2022

Emergency food, shelter funding application opens
A car passes by the Barren County Government Center, located inside Glasgow's downtown Square. (BRENNAN CRAIN/WCLU NEWS) GLASGOW - Barren County Government announced Monday the county was selected to ...
Kenneth Rizo Mar 14, 2022

Barren County cleanup week begins March 28
GLASGOW - County-wide cleanup week is scheduled March 28 through April 1, which is a week after Glasgow's city-wide cleanup. County trucks and dumpsters will be at various locations across Barren Coun...
Kenneth Rizo Mar 14, 2022

Fire crews respond to Sunday fire at landfill
A Glasgow Fire official rolls a hose at the scene of a fire in Glasgow in January 2022. (BRENNAN CRAIN/WCLU NEWS) GLASGOW - Fire officials responded to a fire at the local landfill Sunday. The fire wa...
Kenneth Rizo Mar 14, 2022

Subway employee robbed Sunday while emptying garbage
(BARREN COUNTY DETENTION CENTER) GLASGOW - An employee at a Subway in Glasgow was allegedly hit over the head before he was robbed Sunday. Glasgow Police responded to the restaurant on the Square in r...
Kenneth Rizo Mar 14, 2022

Barren County social worker summoned to court for failure to report abuse, neglect
GLASGOW - A social worker in Barren County has entered a plea of not guilty in connection to the sodomy of one child and abuse of several other children in her Market Street home. Lanita Neal, an empl...
Kenneth Rizo Mar 11, 2022

Hicks recognized for impaired driving arrests, citations
Glasgow Police Major Terry Flatt presents the 2021 Governor's Awards for the 2021 Impaired Driving Enforcement and Occupant Protection Enforcement to Sergeant Wesley Hicks. (GLASGOW POLICE DEPARTMENT)...
Kenneth Rizo Mar 11, 2022




