A look at blocked streets in Owensboro

Owensboro City Manager Bill Parrish said this afternoon that street crews are moving off the city’s main thoroughfares to begin tackling more neighborhood streets. 
Click here for a look at Owensboro’s local streets still blocked following this week’s winter storms as of 1:30 p.m. today. 
According to Parrish, with most of these blockages are caused by limbs tangled [...]

City accepting applications for new public works director position

The city of Owensboro has taking another step forward with its reorganization plan that calls for the consolidation of public works departments.
On Sunday, the city began advertising for the newly created position of director of public works which will oversee the engineering, street and sanitation departments, and will be accepting applications through Aug. 29.
The creation [...]

Attorney General’s office sends out open meetings, records reminder to local governments

Attorney General Jack Conway announced Wednesday that his office will be sending an update on the state’s open meeting and open records laws to more than 1,400 public officials.
The update will include a new provision approved by the General Assembly this spring that will allow public agencies to notify the public and press about special [...]

Concerns about steel prices top talk at riverfront development meeting

About 50 contractors, engineers and others turned out this morning for the pre-bid conference at City Hall for the next stage of the city of Owensboro’s riverfront development project.
This $25 million phase will include the construction of a river wall stretching from at least the RiverPark Center to the foot of Frederica Street that will [...]

Open records, closed meetings – What’s all the fuss?

In his foreword to the “Kentucky Open Meetings and Open Records Laws” handbook that sits on the desks of most reporters around the state, former Legislative Research Commission Director Vic Hellard Jr. explains that the state passed an Open Meetings law 34 years ago “to provide the people with greater access to government.”
The law gives [...]

City of Owensboro, Daviess Fiscal Court make hotel bid

The city of Owensboro and Daviess Fiscal Court have submitted a formal offer to Marshall Investments to purchase the Executive Inn Rivermont.
The offer was made last week by the two government bodies, but details of the offer including the proposed purchase price won’t be released, said Downtown Development Director Fred Reeves.
The announcement came after a [...]