The Latest Breaking News from Woodford County

Volunteers ‘sweep’ up in Woodford County

Nearly 20 central Kentucky communities got a little cleaner over the past few weeks, thanks to hundreds of volunteers for a program called Main Street Clean Sweep.

WEKU · Apr 24, 2024

Woodford County hosts two Main Street Clean Sweeps on Earth Day

Dozens of volunteers spent part of their Saturday picking up garbage in the Woodford County cities of Versailles and Midway.

WEKU · Apr 22, 2024

Woodford County marketing itself as ‘The Birthplace of Bourbon’

Woodford County’s Tourism Commission has a new marketing campaign declaring the county just east of Lexington “The Birthplace of Bourbon.”

WEKU · Apr 11, 2024

Woodford County voters praise voting center model

Kentucky voters who didn’t vote early or absentee headed to the polls Tuesday, with the state’s constitutional offices at the top of the ballot. Woodford County has four voting centers, including Falling Springs Arts and Recreation Center. 21-year-old Peyton Wilhoit and two friends got there around 10 a.m. and didn’t…

WEKU · Nov 7, 2023

Woodford County third in state to be certified as ‘Recovery Ready Community’

Woodford County is the third in the commonwealth to be certified as a “Recovery Ready Community.” The program started two years ago after the General Assembly passed House Bill 7 and Governor Beshear signed it.

WEKU · Oct 25, 2023

Brereton Jones remembered as a politician, horseman, and friend

Before Brereton Jones was elected Kentucky governor as a Democrat in 1991, he was lieutenant governor, and before that, a Republican delegate in the West Virginia state legislature.Before those years in politics – and afterwards – he was a horseman, the owner and operator of Airdrie Stud, near Midway in…

WEKU · Sep 20, 2023

Woodford County landmark The Kentucky Castle sold for $19 million

The Kentucky Castle has a new owner. According to published reports, the Woodford County landmark was sold for 19 million dollars last week to TKC Hospitality Group.

WEKU · Sep 4, 2023

Officials in flood-prone counties use several strategies to reduce damage to people, property

Flooding is something Kentuckians have become very familiar with the last few years. With about 40 miles of land along the Kentucky River, Woodford County has a lot to deal with when the river rises.

WEKU · Apr 9, 2023

Today's Interview: Decorated Vietnam War veteran from Kentucky remembers his battle-filled year

In 2017, Congress declared March 29th to be National Vietnam War Veterans Day. Woodford County native Danny Yeary was an Army infantryman who served, and fought, from December 1968 to December 1969.

WEKU · Mar 29, 2023

Today's Interview: The price of eggs and a conversation with a local producer

A conversation with Woodford County egg producer Curtis Congleton

WEKU · Feb 6, 2023