Middletown News

Thanks to a massive outpouring of federal economic-stimulus funds, Louisville next year will see the most ambitious sidewalk-improvement program ever undertaken here - with 70 times more spending than in most years, metro government officials say.

Brother, can you spare a swipe? For years, Salvation Army bell ringers have urged passersby to drop some change or a dollar or two into the iconic red kettles outside grocery stores and malls.

In Jefferson County, each fire district has a separate budget and a seven member board of trustees.

With the holidays quickly approaching, a local business is hoping give residents in nursing homes a Merry Christmas.

The Middletown branch that issues driver's licenses for the Jefferson County Circuit Court clerk's office will be closed Thursday, Nov.

Fire crews are on the scene of a fire at a strip mall in Middletown. The blaze broke out at the Cox's Smokers Outlet in the 12-thousand block of Shelbyville Road around 5:30 Sunday morning.

Kids aren't the only ones in need of Christmas gifts this year. Home Instead Senior Care is launching its annual Be a Santa to a Senior campaign.

When bad weather is predicted in Bullitt County this winter, road department personnel will have another weapon on their side.

Thousands of tons of concrete and other material being torn up in the Watterson Expressway and Interstate 65 projects are being deposited in local quarries.

Apple Patch recently hosted the Oldham County Hymn Sing. There were 33 folks there and 19 churches were represented.

Curators say the Historic Middletown Museum would draw more visitors if it was nestled in the heart of downtown amid the restaurants, shops and civic activity.

"Good" street furniture A bipartisan group of four Metro Councilmen have introduced a resolution calling upon Kentucky's Transportation Cabinet to allow Metro Government to regulate the placement of "street furniture" on state-owned highways within the city.

Dear Lemme - On July 31, I entrusted to The UPS Store a small antique sewing table for packing and shipping to a nephew in Burke, Va.

When the Highland Fish Market decamped from its Bardstown Road location back in 1997, neighborhood fish lovers must have felt like Brooklyn residents when the Dodgers left Ebbets Field for Los Angeles.

A bipartisan group of Metro Council members say a Cincinnati company is putting street benches containing advertising along state routes in Louisville, and they are asking that the city be given the authority to remove them.

Brooks Elementary Principal Cheri Lineweaver paused in mid-sentence - a student was yelling in the hall.

The American Red Cross and Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana will hold a Miley Cyrus-inspired blood drive Saturday.

The American Red Cross has scheduled dates and sites where blood can be donated during the next few days: - Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Southern Standard Carton, 2415 Plantside Drive.

Bill Carpenter said he hasn't been able to find a tenant in 15 months for a small retail building he co-owns on Shelbyville Road near Hurstbourne Parkway.

Mexico native Tony Mora knows authentic Mexican food when he tastes it, and he thinks there's little of it in Louisville.