Area News

Robert Moore Herald Staff [email protected] If you visit downtown Harrodsburg this weekend and everybody seems a little green around the gills, don’t worry. Hogtown is going green for the first annual Downtown Harrodsburg’s Shamrock Shuffle on Saturday, March 18. The Harrodsburg First Main Street Program and the Harrodsburg-Mercer County Tourist Commission invites everyone to enjoy…

Robert Moore Herald Staff [email protected] Bluegrass 911 are blaming the 911 outage earlier this month on the windstorm and an overload of 911 calls. “The 911 system just got overloaded, ” said Russ Clark, 911 director for Bluegrass 911 Communications, which has handled handled 911 operations for Harrodsburg, Burgin and Mercer County for nearly two…

Robert Moore Herald Staff [email protected] Two local residents are in jail after the Harrodsburg Police Department discovered a number of illicit substances and weapons while searching a residence on Tabler Avenue. At about 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 10, HPD officers entered the residence shared by Thomas Wadell Fryman, 46, and Samantha Royse, 30, both…

Robert Moore Herald Staff [email protected] County officials are wondering what happened with the 911 system during the windstorm on Friday, March 3. At the Mercer County Fiscal Court regular meeting on Tuesday, March 14, Mercer County Emergency Management Director Brad Cox said the 911 phone lines went down. That was followed by a failure in…

Robert Moore Herald Staff [email protected] The City of Harrodsburg took another step towards allowing distilleries and spirit warehouses to open within city limits. At the Harrodsburg City Commission’s regular meeting on Monday, March 13, the commissioners gave first reading to text amendments that would allow for craft distilleries as conditional uses in I-1 (Industrial) zoning…

Robert Moore Herald Staff [email protected] It’s time once again to move our clocks ahead one hour. Daylight Saving’s Time happens at midnight on Sunday, March 12. The Friday Night Fish Fry at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill (3501 Lexington Road). Every Friday from until April 7, the Trustees’ Table will host a fish fry starting…

Robert Moore Herald Staff [email protected] An intense low pressure system swept through the area on Friday, March 3, producing produced violent thunderstorms, dangerous winds, flooding and several small tornadoes. Wind gusts of 73 miles per hour were recorded in Mercer County, according to the National Weather Service. According to the Mercer County Sanitation District, nearly…

Casey Roberts Herald Staff [email protected] The Mercer County Titans boys basketball season came to a painful end Thursday, March 2. In the first round of the 12th region tournament,the Titans fought hard and held the lead at the end of the first quarter, but could not sustain it, eventually falling 65-48 to Pulaski. The Maroons…

What New HPD Would Like To Do For City Robert Moore Herald Staff [email protected] Harrodsburg’s newest chief of police said he has “a strong desire to serve.” Tim Hurt was appointed the new chief of the Harrodsburg Police Department. Hurt, who joined the HPD as assistant chief in 2019, said he values the sense of…

Zoning Commission Recommends Historic District Expansion Robert Moore Herald Staff [email protected] The Harrodsburg-Mercer County Joint Planning and Zoning Commission has recommended approval of a text amendments which would allow Harrodsburg homeowners to apply to have their properties included in the city’s historical district and could possibly allow distilleries and spirit warehouses in the city and…