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Dalton Christopher Herald Staff [email protected] The Mercer County Relay For Life will take place at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 12  at Anderson Dean Park. Relay For Life is a free community event for the entire family focused on honoring cancer survivors and those who have passed from the disease. Although the event is free to…

Dalton Christopher Herald Staff [email protected] There is nothing that can bring a community together quite like growth. Whether it be new industry, business, or progress in sports and life, there is something about seeing something grow that causes inspiration. For further proof, look no further than the backyard at the Mercer County Senior Citizen Center.…

April Ellis Herald Staff [email protected] Showing livestock is not for everyone. It’s hot, hard work to get an animal in the show ring and it takes hours to get them ready. So why do it? Earl Nichols answers  with one word, “family.” A Mercer County farmer, Nichols, along with his brother Glenn Nichols, is one of…

The oldest city in Kentucky has been chosen to be part of a unique initiative to preserve oral history. Harrodsburg is one of eight cities asked to join the City Stories Project, a collaboration by the Kentucky League of Cities (KLC) and the University of Kentucky Nunn Center for Oral History. According to the KLC…

The Mercer Board of Education has agreed to give Superintendent Dennis Davis a raise they thought they’d already given him. In May, they voted to give a one-percent across the board pay increase to the staff. The board thought Davis was included in that vote, but Finance Officer Amber Minor told them Davis could only…

The Mercer County Fair and Horse Show closed out its 190th consecutive show Saturday night awarding the five-gaited championship, inducting three men into the Hall of Fame and officially naming the motorsports track  after the late board member “Big Joe” Wilson. The 2017 Hall of Fame inductees were saddle bred trainer George Knight and past board…

An eventful year for the Mercer County Fair and Horse Show ended Sunday night with a fire. Fire destroyed a barn at the fairgrounds in Harrodsburg late Sunday night, but no horses or people were injured. The fire was reported about 11:30 p.m. Sunday at the fairgrounds on Linden Avenue. Harrodsburg Fire Chief Ric Maxfield…

Four inmates needed medical treatment after using illegal drugs smuggled into Northpoint Training Center by a guard last Friday. All four were sent for outside medical treatment, according to Mendalyn Cochran, deputy warden and public information officer at Northpoint. Cochran said three inmates were returned to the medium security prison located outside Burgin within five…

Campbellsville University is taking another step towards making Harrodsburg home to a full college campus. Construction is beginning on a new 4,500-square-foot facility at the Conover Education Center that is estimated to be completed in October. The new facility will house an academic support wing, classrooms, a chapel and office space. This is the first…

A guard at Northpoint Training Center sits in jail after being accused of smuggling drugs into the prison. On Friday, July 21, at 10:57 p.m., Rahjon Roberto Neal, 26, of Stanford, was arrested and charged with 1st-degree promoting contraband. Earlier that day, Neal smuggled “spice”—a synthetic marijuana compound—into  Northpoint concealed in his boot, police say. According…