Butchertown News

The Eye Care Institute at 1536 Story Ave. in Butchertown was hit by graffiti vandals early Tuesday, and the institute's chief executive is asking the public for help in tracking down the perpetrators.

The JBS Co. pork plant in Butchertown has appealed a Nov. 16 Metro Board of Zoning Adjustment ruling saying it needs to apply for a separate conditional use permit to continue parking refrigerated trailers on a lot on Cabel Street.

The JBS pork plant in Butchertown and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 227, which has workers at the plant, will make their fifth annual presentation of gifts today to children at the Home of the Innocents, 1100 E. Market St.

The tight economy is affecting everyone from state budgets to local retail but one area is experiencing trickle-down economic growth thanks to Louisville's new basketball arena.

Paul Young is the owner of My Old Kentucky Homebrew store in Butchertown. in Butchertown and the first thing you notice is the warm aroma of grain, as the scents of malted barleys mingle in the air.

The Louisville Metro Council on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a resolution in support of keeping the JBS pork plant in Butchertown, with only two council members voting against it.

Metro Council will encourage a controversial meat packing plant to stay in Butchertown.

Once the stuffed Thanksgiving turkey has given way to stuffed guests, professional chef Maria Bell suggests a simple but exotic option from the Greek Isles for using turkey leftovers.

The JBS Swift plant in Butchertown provides well-paying jobs with good benefits for some 1,300 people.

The city says the JBS Swift packing plant should stay open in Butchertown. Louisville's Board of Zoning Appeals voted 4 to 2 that JBS Swift broke zoning law.

A new restaurant in Butchertown and a building renovation project on East Market Street are among companies awarded small-business loans recently by Louisville Metro Government.

Metro Council President David Tandy asked a city zoning board not to revoke the JBS pork plant's permit at a hearing Monday morning.

LOUISVILLE, KY The Swift plant has been in the Butchertown neighborhood for a long time.

The last of the Butchertown butchers went head-to-head with residents of that Louisville neighborhood Monday in front of the Metro zoning board.

Workers at the JBS Swift plant in Butchertown held a rally this weekend. The plant is going before the city's zoning board on Monday because some nearby residents want the board to revoke a conditional-use permit for the plant.

Monday morning, the Metro Board of Zoning will take up the battle of Butchertown.

Neighborhood Planning and Preservation, a neighborhood advocacy organization, will hold its annual meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Mary Alice Hadley House, 1638 Story Ave.

Kayla Walker, a 27-year-old single mother who works at UPS and lives in Okolona, takes her two youngest children each weekday to Wesley House Community Services on Preston Highway, where they attend preschool.

The Rev. Greg Bain, pastor of Grace Immanuel United Church of Christ in Butchertown, was asked recently if the church could help with flood relief efforts after August's downpour.

As I saw the doorman covered in blood and makeup, looking possessed, it should have been a huge hint as to what I was about to experience.