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One dead, one injured in car-train crash
Found: 1 Month 5 Days 6 Hours 16 Minutes ago
Evansville Courier & Press - FAIRFIELD, Ill. ? One man was killed and a second injured in a car-train crash this afternoon in Fairfield, Ill.The accident happened at 12:10 p.m. at the railroad crossing on SW Sixth Street.Police said a northbound car pulled into the path of a westbound Norfolk Southern freight train and was hit broadside.The driver of the car was pronounced dead at the scene by Wayne County Coroner Jimmy Taylor. A passenger was ejected from the wreckage and taken initially to Fairfield Memorial Hospital, then airlifted to Deaconess Hospital in Evansville. Police said his injuries appeared severe, but no further details of his condition were available Friday afternoon....
Hotel business steady, but caution urged
Found: 1 Month 5 Days 9 Hours 9 Minutes ago
Bowling Green Daily News - With less than $900,000 in unrestricted reserves, auditor Jerry Shelton urged the Bowling Green Area Convention and Visitors Bureau to be cautious in its spending.
Shelton told board members Thursday that the number was less than a year’s expenses, which typically are about $1.1 million in reviewing the audit.
As for what is a good number to hold in reserve, Shelton said: “There’s not a magic number.”
But in today’s economy, a year’s expenses in reserve would not be too much, he said.
Board Chairman Dan Riley said there is fine line in the public’s mind between cautious spending and hoarding money.
Shelton, who noted a clean audit overall, said it’s apparent that right now tax revenues on motel rooms will continue to go down.
Vicki Fitch, executive director of the CVB, showed how those revenues are declining with figures from Smith Travel Research.
August room occupancy was at 56.3 percent, down 12.4 percent from the previous August. The average room rate was $73.37, down 1.6 percent, and the average revenue available per room was $41.29, down 13.8 percent.
“Year to date, we are still hanging in there,” Fitch said.
Revenue for year to date is up 4 percent, but that is just since the fiscal year began in July.
“We need to be very much aware that we are going to reach a point where the revenue begins to decline,” said board member Jeremy Bratcher, who also is general manager for the Hilton Garden Inn.
Bratcher said there has been a significant drop off in corporate travel, which is the bread and butter for Bowling Green hoteliers.
“Companies are scrambling about what to do,” he said of both the corporate and hotel world. “It may take awhile to recover, so the numbers may be tight for a while. As a whole, we are all feeling it.”
Fitch said her office is “being very cautious with our spending.”
If the expense won’t directly impact the number of motel rooms being filled or tourism dollars, it isn’t been spent, she said.
“We are even trying to carpool to cut down on mileage reimbursement,” Fitch said.
Board member Leon Volkert, who owns Fairfield Inn, said August numbers were down from last year but “in reality August was one of our good months this year.
“It is a sinking tide nationwide,” Volkert said. “I don’t really think it has anything to do with Bowling Green.”
Volkert said when gas prices soared above $4 a gallon, hoteliers thought that was the issue for travel cutbacks. But now that gas has dropped - today it’s at $2.79 a gallon - he feels the worry has switched to the overall economy.
In other matters, board members heard about CVB’s continued efforts to bring visitors to Bowling Green, including: the Kentucky Association of School Superintendents will meet here in July with 150 participants, the Buick GS Nationals will return in May, the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen will have a spring show here, and the board should learn later this month if the KHSAA Football Tournament will come to Bowling Green for 2009 and 2010.
Fitch informed board members that Paducah’s Executive Inn closed last month, putting in jeopardy the large quilt show held there each year.
“I have talked to the city’s CVB and they are expecting to find out this week if it’s something they will still host,” Fitch said.
Staff members have been unable to make personal contact with the quilt show organizers, she said.
“I think it’s something that is definitely worth pursuing,” board member Larry Bailey said.
Fitch also told the board that a lawsuit filed against online hotel discounters, which Bowling Green had joined, has been dismissed.
“I’m still waiting to hear from (city attorney) Gene Harmon about what the next step might be,” she said.
Volkert noted that similar lawsuits filed elsewhere had not been dismissed.
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Weight?s off as neighbors tangle
Found: 1 Month 2 Weeks 5 Days 20 Hours 54 Minutes ago
The Daily Independent - The monkey?s off the back.In a sense, that could be fitting for both Greenup County and Raceland heading into Friday night?s matchup....
5 named to Equine Drug Research Council
Found: 1 Month 4 Weeks 2 Days 2 Hours 21 Minutes ago
Lexington Hearld-Leader - Gov. Steve Beshear appointed five new members to the Equine Drug Research Council on Monday, replacing almost two-thirds of the panel that advises the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on medication.Medication and racing safety issues have been in the spotlight following this year's controversial Kentucky Derby, won by Big Brown, who apparently raced while legally on steroids. The second-place finisher, the filly Eight Belles, had to be destroyed after she snapped both front ankles moments after finishing the race. Since then, racing regulators and industry groups have been implementing a series of reforms, including a ban on steroids passed last month in Kentucky.Beshear reappointed the chairman, Lexington gastroenterologist Dr. Jerry Yon, who was appointed in July.New members are:...
Judge determines two Fairfield, Ill., men to be "sexually dangerous"
Found: 2 Months 5 Days 13 Hours 31 Minutes ago
Evansville Courier & Press - FAIRFIELD, Ill. ? In unrelated cases on Monday, Wayne County Circuit Judge Joe Harrison declared two Fairfield men were sexually dangerous and ordered they be held in the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections until they can prove they are no longer a threat to children.
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List of local restaurants, hotels and attractions that are open
Found: 2 Months 6 Days 16 Hours 25 Minutes ago
The Courier-Journal - The following is a list from the Louisville Convention and Visitors Bureau of open restaurants, hotels and attractions in the area....
Fairfield, Ill., man gets seven years in prison for setting fire to ...
Found: 2 Months 2 Weeks 3 Days 21 Hours 30 Minutes ago
Evansville Courier & Press - FAIRFIELD, Ill. ? A Fairfield, Ill., man has been sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to charges he poured gasoline on a police officer?s home and set it on fire.
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Restaurant and food service inspection reports for September 3, 2008
Found: 2 Months 2 Weeks 5 Days 6 Hours 12 Minutes ago
Evansville Courier & Press - These summaries of the Vanderburgh County Health Department's inspection reports are made public after restaurants and food stores have had 10 days to respond. Reinspections are at the inspector's discretion.
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Vanderburgh County restaurant inspections for Aug. 11-15
Found: 2 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days 21 Hours 33 Minutes ago
Evansville Courier & Press - Inspection Reports These summaries of the Vanderburgh County Health Department?s inspection reports are made public after restaurants and food stores have had 10 days to respond. Reinspections are at the inspector?s discretion. FOOD SERVICE (Aug. 11-15): Aztar Pavillion, 450 NW Riverside Drive, Starbucks: No violations; Hoosiers Bar: No violations; Temptation Grill: one critical violation: Container of gravy measured 116 degrees in warmer and not holding at minimal 135 degrees (corrected); two noncritical violations: Walk-in product unit in hall measuring at 48 degrees and not maintaining 41 degrees or lower, standing refrigerator at end of front line measured 48-50degrees; inside ...
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UE is chance for Iraqi student
Found: 2 Months 3 Weeks 5 Days 11 Hours 41 Minutes ago
Evansville Courier & Press - Iraqi student Zaid Abdulmajeed will be attending the University of Evansville this fall.
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