Fayette County deputies and Lexington Police partner with God's Pantry Food Bank to create food boxes and build relationships with Lexington communities.
Genoa High dedicates newly renovated softball field Published by sports@presspub. on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 1:25pm
By:
J. Patrick Eaken
At Genoa’s softball field dedication are Kathy Witt, Lisa Cruickshank, Chuck Popovich, Nick Paul, Gary Nissen, Kim Lagrange, Marty Sutter, Luke Sutter and Ray St. Marie. Not pictured is Larry Dean. (Press photo by Harold Hamilton/www.HEHphotos.smugmug.com)
Genoa High School dedicated its newly renovated softball field last week. The facility received new dugouts, a new brick backstop and fencing, new concession stand, new scoreboard, new windscreen and the infield was redone. Athletic Director Matt Routson calls it “basically a complete overhaul.”
Brown boxes bring boost to Lexington s East End
By: Claire Kopsky
and last updated 2021-05-03 18:51:20-04
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â Following a year of social distancing, the Fayette County Sheriff s Office, Lexington Police Department and God s Pantry Food Bank teamed up and delivered 160 boxes of food to residents in Lexington s East End neighborhood Monday morning. The box contains fresh produce milk, butter, some yogurt, some potatoes. It came from the federal government. The USDA Department of Ag supplies these boxes for us, said God s Pantry Food Bank Program community Developer Mary Alice Daniels.
Fayette County Sheriff Kathy Witt explained the food drop effort was a collaboration.
Another record-setter; Lexington tops yearly homicide record
and last updated 2020-12-29 18:26:35-05
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â Monday s shooting death on Woodhill Drive in Lexington brought the total number of homicide s the city has investigated in 2020 to 34. The number easily surpasses last year s total of 30.
For Andre Washington, one was too many, as her grandson Mykal Waide was killed by gunfire this August. We miss him. We miss him a lot, she said. Christmas Eve was really hard for me, she said of last week s holiday.
The 34 homicides only represent less than one-quarter of the total shooting the city has reported this year. That number was in the 130s as of December 7.