COLUMN: A prayer to remember independenttribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from independenttribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A new Page: Pardon gives business owner a fresh start bgdailynews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bgdailynews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Bowling Green City Commission met via teleconference Tuesday and approved the issuance of $46.5 million in bonds for the Kentucky Transpark in the final meeting for Mayor Bruce Wilkerson and Commissioners Joe Denning and Brian âSlimâ Nash.
Wilkerson dropped his reelection bid in September, citing health concerns. Nash and Denning lost in their reelection campaigns.
The commission unanimously approved on a final reading issuing two bonds for a combined $46.5 million to be used for building infrastructure for an expansion of the transpark. The Inter-Modal Transportation Authority recently purchased nearly 300 acres for an expansion of the industrial park, which opened in 1998 and is near capacity.
Standing at 1320 Park St., the stately Federal-style columns of the Grider House, hidden mostly from view by thick foliage, are home to a largely forgotten history.
The home, named for Union Army Col. John Hobson Grider â no known relation to the Hobson House â is said to have been where the provisional government of the Confederacy met when it briefly occupied and named Bowling Green as its state capital during the Civil War.
According to its current residents and homeowners, Dr. Gordon Newell and Regina Newell, the effective Confederate state Capitol building hosted notable names like John C. Breckinridge â the native Kentuckian and Confederate general who was once the 14th vice president, serving under the embattled one-term President James Buchanan and the predecessor of President Abraham Lincoln.