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LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Urban Growth Management Master Plan Advisory Committee, which is responsible for identifying areas for possible inclusion in the Urban Service Area, convened Tuesday to discuss expansion plans. The discussions included considerations around preserving Fayette County’s 24 historic rural Black hamlets. The meeting featured a presentation by LFUCG planning director Jim…
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — The recent Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council discussions on their proposed new seating chart have sparked a public debate among councilmembers. The issue came to the forefront during a Council Rules and Procedures subcommittee report-out during Tuesday’s General Government & Planning Committee meeting. A source with knowledge of council operations reported that…
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Lexington Police Department announced the arrest of a local man on charges of Terroristic Threatening 2nd degree, following threats made to a local Rabbi and the Chabad Jewish Student Center. This development comes amid a recent rise in Klan activity in Kentucky and a white supremacist flyering effort in Lexington’s…
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FRANKFORT, Ky. – In an ambitious move to address childhood hunger, a problem impacting one in seven Kentucky youths, state Senator Cassie Chambers Armstrong and state Representative Chad Aull, D-Lexington, announced a bill to expand access to free meals at schools through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) program. The announcement was made at Franklin…
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By Melissa Patrick, Kentucky Health News A federal appeals court panel voted 2-1 last Monday to allow Kentucky to enforce a recently enacted ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while the law that imposed the ban works its way through the courts. The ruling will have a health impact on transgender youth undergoing…
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by Sarah Ladd, Kentucky Lantern The 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Monday rejected a request from the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky to let transgender minors access certain medical care once more. The ACLU asked for emergency relief on July 18. The request came days after a federal judge stayed a…
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by Jacalyn Carfagno, Kentucky Lantern LEXINGTON — On Friday, May 17, 1907, the Lexington Leader ran an ad promoting a new subdivision. “Mentelle Park is the only perfectly appointed and finished residence park ever attempted in Lexington,” it proclaimed. The joys of the park were extolled: “model macadam roads … streets curbed with Bedford…
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Lexington Police are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying individuals who distributed flyers promoting a white supremacy group in a local neighborhood. Residents of the Kenwick area reported discovering baggies filled with rice and containing propaganda flyers for the Aryan Freedom Network on their sidewalks early in the morning Sunday. The…
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RICHMOND, Ky. — Governor Andy Beshear broke ground Monday of a new law enforcement training facility in Richmond, Kentucky. The facility, named in honor of the late Jody Cash, an officer who lost his life in the line of duty, is part of a broader trend of Gov. Beshear’s investments in law enforcement. The…
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — In a surprising outcome, the Democratic Party’s nominating committee has selected Adrielle Camuel as their nominee for House District 93 in South Lexington, Kentucky. Camuel, who was viewed as an underdog in the race to replace the late representative Lamin Swann, surpassed the widely considered front-runner, Emma Curtis, in the nomination…