Local News

The seventh annual Shop With A Cop Trail Ride is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 1. The event is a fundraiser for Shop With A Cop, which helps provide Christmas presents for needy children in Carroll County.

The trail ride features a 10 to 15 mile ride through Carroll County. The ride begins at the horse park on Highway 55 near English at 10 a.m. The fee is $12 per person and $5 for children under 12.

Being a county cooperative Extension agent is in Christin Herbst’s blood. Her grandfather, Bob Herbst, was an agent and worked in Extension administration. Her father, David Herbst, also was an agent and is the current Cooperative Extension Service Director for District 6, which covers the Green River/Mammoth Cave area.

Now it is Christin’s turn to take the reins as she was recently named the Carroll County Agent for Agricultural and Natural Resources/4-H Youth Development.

Groups using General Butler State Resort Park facilities will notice new policies in place on bringing their own alcohol to the convention center and golf course.

These changes come as the park begins selling alcohol under a license granted in August.

Patrons heading to the park’s Two Rivers Restaurant also will now find they have the choice of ordering beer, liquor and wine with their meals.

As politicians fight amongst themselves and debate how to fix the economy and create jobs, Larry Green of Madison, Ind., continues to pound the pavement searching for work. Formerly a machinist with Arvin Meritor, he has been unemployed since 2008, and at 61 years old, said he has had trouble finding a job for a man his age. “They don’t want someone that’s got a lot of years,” he said.