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Today's News

  • City pool closed indefinitely

     

    Campbellsville's city swimming pool will not be open for the Fourth of July, and no date is known for the pool's re-opening.

    Officials released the following statement. The CKNJ will update this situation as more informatino becomes available.

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  • L.L. Stars begin play Saturday in Glasgow

    Little League District 5 schedule
    10-12-year-olds
    Beaver Creek Park; 115 Beaver Trail; Glasgow, Ky.; all times are Eastern)
    (Fields in parentheses)
    Saturday, July 1
    1:00 (1)    Adair County vs. Campbellsville
    1:00 (2)    Boyle County vs. Glasgow
    1:00 (3)    Marion County vs. Washington County
    Sunday, July 2
    3:00 (3)    Adair County vs. Boyle County
    3:00 (2)    Marion County vs. Campbellsville

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  • Davis inducted into NHSACA Hall of Fame

     

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  • Early Days June 29, 2017

    TEN YEARS AGO

    June 28, 2007

    Meredith Moore and Mike Stein won Tuesday night’s Dancing With the Fair Stars competition against 10 other celebrity couples at the Taylor County Fair.

    With the awarding of a $107,090 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant and a $245,000 preapproved loan, funding is now in place to begin construction of the Green River Ministries’ Jubilee Center.

    Rudolph Cox, 81, of Campbellsville died at 1:20 a.m. on Friday, June 22, 2007, in Campbellsville.

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  • Early Days June 22, 2017

    TEN YEARS AGO

    June 21, 2007

    Tony and Mary Stubbs of Campbellsville will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on June 30. The couple will be honored with a reception on Sunday, July 1, from 2-4 p.m. at Lowell Avenue Baptist Church.

    Savannah Bryant of Campbellsville has been awarded two scholarships for the 2007-2008 school year at Murray State University.

    Stephanie Franklin of Campbellsville was awarded a $1,500 performance grant in a recent competition art scholarship competition at Campbellsville University.

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  • Early Days June 15, 2017

    TEN YEARS AGO

    June 14, 2007

    Brian and Marsha Black returned home May 24 with their baby, Grace, who they adopted from Guatemala.

    Doris Jane Sloan, 63, of Campbellsville, died at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 3, 2007, at Taylor Regional Hospital.

    William “Terry” Mills, the assistant district manager of the Social Security office in Campbellsville, announced his retirement effective June 1.

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  • New state laws go into effect today

     

    Most new laws approved during the Kentucky General Assembly’s 2017 regular session will go into effect today.

    The Kentucky Constitution specifies that new laws take effect 90 days after the adjournment of the legislature unless they have a special effective date, are general appropriations measures, or include an emergency clause that makes them effective immediately upon becoming law. Final adjournment of the 2017 Regular Session was on March 30, making June 29 the normal effective date for most bills.

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  • Campbell Mill ghost structure could be complete for Fourth of July

     

    City officials held a press conference at the construction site of the gristmill ghost structure Monday afternoon.

    Mayor Tony Young said work is continuing on the structure, located on the recently named Campbell Mill Lane that connects Broadway with Main Street.

    A ghost structure of the original gristmill, built and operated by Campbellsville’s founder, Andrew Campbell, is expected to be finished in time for the city’s Fourth of July festivities.

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  • No new trial in Calhoun murder case

     

    A Lebanon man convicted earlier this month in a murder case from last year will not be retried.
    At a sentencing hearing on Tuesday, Taylor County Circuit Judge Todd Spalding denied a motion to retry William Calhoun, 25, after he was convicted in a jury trial earlier this month.

    Calhoun was sentenced to 20 years for wanton murder, 10 years for first-degree assault and one year each for two of the three wanton endangerment charges, all to run concurrently.

    “This is tragic for all of us,” Spalding said.

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  • Kevin Rafferty shares weight-loss journey

    Up until five months ago, Kevin Rafferty had never taken working out seriously.

    “I had never worked out one day in my life,” Rafferty said. “I drove to the mailbox on my way home. I would walk around the neighborhood a little bit to walk the dogs but that was about it.”

    But after multiple doctors told Rafferty, a math teacher at Campbellsville High School, that he needed to lose weight, he faced his fears and reached out to one of his former students.

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