Alyssa Trombetti Contributing Writer atrombetti@murraystate.edu The Murray-Calloway County pool will be closed to the public this summer due to insufficient funds for indispensable modifications and updates. Parks Director Ryan Yates said the pool reached the point of where simple fixes were not going to cut it for the 2021 summer season. “For years, Mike Sykes, Read More
Dionte Berry Staff Writer dberry11@murraystate.edu Spreading over both Tennessee and Kentucky, Land Between the Lakes is home to many plants, animals and fungi, and a new BioBlitz program is providing people the opportunity to explore LBL’s biodiversity. Murray State’s Watershed Studies Institute is partnering with the Friends of LBL to host a fall BioBlitz. This Read More
Story by Daniella Tebib, News Editor Since Dec. 22, 2018, the government has been partially shut down, impacting many people of the Murray-Calloway County community as well as local parks. The partial shutdown has been caused by the lack of negotiations between President Donald Trump and the Democrats. Trump wants over $5 billion to build Read More
A contract to replace the current Henry Lawrence Memorial Bridge that crosses Lake Barkley was awarded Feb. 11 to PCL Civil Construction. The Denver-based company won the bid for the $128.3 million project from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet along with an October 2017 deadline. The new four-lane bridge will bring U.S. 68/KY 80 over Lake Read More
