Month: February 2021

There could be at least three days of in-person early-voting in Kentucky as soon as the 2022 elections and local legislators support the legislation to that effect that passed the House last week. The three days of no-excuse early voting would include a Saturday, as required in House Bill 574 and state Senator Whitney Westerfield says he warmed up to supporting early voting after seeing increased turnout last year. https://media.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/1411/files/2021/02/whitney-early-vote.mp3 […]

Kentucky has made it seven consecutive weeks with declining cases of COVID-19. On Sunday, Governor Andy Beshear reported 675 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus. https://media.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/1411/files/2021/02/gov-sunday-0228.mp3 Kentucky has already set a record for vaccinations in a seven-day period and Beshear hopes to see that record broken again soon. https://media.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/1411/files/2021/02/gov-vaccines-0228.mp3 The governor also announced 12 more deaths, bringing Kentucky’s pandemic death toll to 4,625. The Tennessee Department of Health noted 1,117 […]

Heavy rain brought major flash flooding to Christian and Todd counties Sunday morning and both school systems are closed Monday. Christian County School System Superintendent Chris Bentzel issued a statement, saying the county and city have several roads that are impassable due to high water and the district will be utilizing non-traditional instruction. There will also be no school feeding sites today. A rising Little River approached the duplexes along […]

A Flood Watch remains in effect until midnight for all of Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee and severe weather is now not out of the question. Forecasters say most areas can expect to see an inch and a half to two and a half inches of rain by late Sunday night, though three inches or more will be possible—especially in locations that see thunderstorms. Flooding will be most likely in […]

Governor Andy Beshear announced 1,025 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 Saturday. The positivity rate remained about steady at 5.56 percent, there were 765 Kentuckians hospitalized with the virus, 209 are in the ICU and 87 on a ventilator. Another 25 Kentuckians have died, bringing the pandemic death toll to 4,625. Christian and Todd County remain orange on the COVID incidence rate map, while Trigg is yellow. Caldwell and Lyon are […]