City leaders said despite finding outside resources to make sure people can get to an emergency room if necessary the safety of residents still comes first.
Members of the Homewood Firefighters Association have raised concerns about the lack of cost-of-living adjustments given by the city amid rising inflation over the past few years.
‘He was a hero’: Slain Kimberly Police Officer Nick O’Rear honored on first anniversary of his death
Updated Feb 05, 2021;
It was one year ago today that Kimberly Police Officer Nick O’Rear died after he was shot in the line of duty on Interstate 65.
Family, friends and coworkers gathered Friday in his memory to mark the solemn anniversary, and to see, for the first time, interstate signs that will be placed in his honor on the stretch of roadway where he was killed.
The Officer Nick O’Rear Memorial Highway is on I-65 between mile markers 280 and 281. The signs, which will be placed northbound and southbound, were unveiled by State Rep. Allen Treadaway, State Sen. Shay Shelnutt and Kimberly Mayor Bob Ellerbrook at a ceremony held at the Kimberly Fire Station.