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The Fort Harrod Jazz Festival Is Shakin’ Things Up
Despite Change Of Venue, Festival Is Still All About The Music Robert Moore Herald Staff rmoore@harrodsburgherald.com Fort Harrod Jazz Festival is back, but not at Fort Harrod this year. Because of the difficulties with planning events during the COVID-19 pandemic, the organizers were forced to move the festival to Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill this…
Read MoreJuneteenth Celebration this weekend
Jennifer Marsh Herald Staff jmarsh@harrodsburgherald.com Mercer County will celebrate Juneteenth this Saturday at West Lane Park, located at 345 West Lane with events starting at 10 a.m. A pre-celebration will be held Friday, June 18 at the park with a movie and street dance at dusk. The US House passed legislation Wednesday, June 16, that…
Read MoreVFW Poppy Sales this Saturday
The Harrodsburg Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) annual memorial day Poppy Sale will be set up in front of Bluegrass Chriopractic on Saturday, May 29, from 8 a.m. to noon. The VFW building is in desperate need of repair and member Jo Lynn Pike has been holding online sales, rummage sales and online auctions since…
Read MoreQueen Bee Peanut Butter hit the ground running in 2020
Jennifer Marsh Herald Staff jmarsh@harrodsburgherald.com Starting a business during these troubling times is scary, but according to Emma Buchanan, it was the forced time at home that brought her Queen Bee Peanut Butter business. Started in September of 2020, Queen Bee Peanut Butter has gained quite a following on social media. “I’m a senior at…
Read MorePark board ready for new year
Jennifer Marsh Herald Staff jmarsh@harrodsburgherald.com The first meeting in 2021 for the Anderson Dean Park Board was full of ideas and possibilities. Don Wilburn, event organizer for the park was excited to finalize the plans for the upcoming baseball tournaments run by the park. March begins tournament season and 2021 will be the first year…
Read MoreBeverly Baird
Beverly Baird Beverly Grall Baird, 63, wife of Keith A. Baird, died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, from complications due to Alzheimer’s. Born Feb. 12, 1957, in Harrodsburg, she was the daughter of the late Henry J. Grall and Conchita (Brashear) Grall. She was a 1975 Harrodsburg High School graduate and was a clinical psychologist in…
Read MorePatricia Semones
Patricia Diana Semones, 74, of Harrodsburg, died Friday, July 24, 2020, at Baptist Health in Lexington. Born Feb. 21, 1946, in Lexington, she was the daughter of the late Henry Homer and Eva Beulah Thompson Bussell. She was a graduate of Lafayette High School in Lexington, an employee of IBM/Lexmark and was a member of…
Read MorePickling cucumbers made easy
Pickles are a summertime favorite for some families but the act of making them isn’t as common it was in the past. Bobbie Hancock of the Mercer County Nutrition Education Program shared an easy pickle recipe for kids from Chopped Magazine on social media. “I think all kids like pickles,” said Hancock. “They’re incredibly easy…
Read MoreSheriff’s office reacts quickly to prevent accident
Deputy Wes Gaddis was able to react quickly Monday afternoon when he received a distress call at 1 p.m. about a mother on Highway 127 who was unable to stop her vehicle. Lyndsey Tyler called the Harrodsburg 911 Center when her vehicle began accelerating with no way to stop it. Deputy Wes Gaddis and Sheriff…
Read MoreWhen Harrodsburg isn’t home
Robert Moore Herald Staff rmoore@harrodsburgherald.com Government officials and members of the public met last week to discuss one of the most vexing problems facing Harrodsburg and the nation: the swelling numbers of homeless people. Over half a million Americans are homeless, according to endhomelessness.org, with 4,079 people in Kentucky being homeless. But it’s a difficult…
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