Princeton News

Princeton, Ky. - The Princeton Police Department has reported the following arrests: 07/01/09 12:16 P.M. Karen J. Dunning 130 Levi Dunning Road reported a theft to police.

Another in the most popular series on this blog. Newsom's Old Mill Store Hickory Smoked Country Bacon Pan fried both crispy and not, served with French toast and in a BLT I guess as a Northerner I'm not ready for the saltiness of the cured meats made in the Southern United States, if the southern bacon I've gotten this year is any indication.

Princeton, KY - The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is activating a new traffic signal in Caldwell County today.

I Surf News has confirmed the former Madisonville North principal Chad Burgett is leaving the Hopkins County School system.

To showcase field-fresh foods raised by local farmers, the Mayan Cafe, 813 E. Market St., is hosting Mayan Market Mondays through September.

HorseSmarts: Essential Advice for Today's Horse Owner , a 60 minute educational DVD created by the Kentucky Horse Council and produced by Marvo Entertainment Group of Princeton, Ky., was recently awarded a 2009 Silver Communicator Award of Distinction by the International Academy of Visual Arts and the Communicator Awards.

The city of Providence has a new police chief. Rick McDowell was named as the city's new chief just this last Monday at the city council meeting.

Jennie Barnett, Executive Director of the Mid - West Kentucky Chapter of the America Red Cross, was the special guest speaker at the Madisonville Noon Kiwanis Club on Friday.

Wet weather since late March has delayed corn planting. According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, only 20 percent of intended corn acreage was planted in Kentucky as of April 26 compared to the five-year average of 57 percent.

According to Kentucky State Police, for unknown reasons an eastbound car driven by Trisha Apte, 22, of Alpharetta, Ga., ran off into the sunken grass median and entered westbound traffic around 6:30 p.m., striking the driver's side of a vehicle driven by Andrew F. Young, 24, of Princeton, Ky.

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The House this week honored six Kentucky soldiers who were killed while serving in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in the past year.

Clean Up Madison Day is at 8 a.m. Saturday, March 21, cosponsored by the Madison-Rivergate Area Chamber of Commerce and the Metro Beautification and Environment Commission.

Desire on the part of the state transportation cabinet to repave the entirety of Hopkinsville Street in the Prince ton city limits may lead to improved water and sewer service in the same section of town, ...

KY Main Street unveils a new logo New symbol marks 30th anniversary of program From Commonwealth News Center FRANKFORT, Ky.

The unsung tragedy of Winter Storm '09 may prove to be the loss of our most cherished possessions.

Hermitage Hills Baptist Church has sent three teams from its Disaster Relief ministry to Princeton, Ky., to do chainsaw work to assist in cleanup efforts from the ice storm.

Quietly, often, without any noise at all, there are people, good people, silently making the heartbeat of Princeton pump positive lifelines into the youth of our little town.

PRINCETON, Ky. - Nancy Cotton doesn't think she'll ever forget the unnerving sounds piercing the darkness at the height of the deadly winter storm that delivered a heavy coating of ice across Kentucky.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer Gov. Steve Beshear has asked President Barack Obama for a declaration of a major disaster in Kentucky in the wake of an ice storm more than a week old.

Ron Tucker, Jeff Bumpus, R.L. Bumpus, James Tucker, Jason Watson and Jacky Ray Wilson pass the time at the Red Cross shelter, set up in Wolf's Convention Center, reading newspapers and watching the UK ...