By Linda Blackford | Editor
Happy Wednesday! If you’re at all online, you have probably seen Shaker Village calling out the troops to prevent a data center from being built one mile away. It worked apparently; on Monday night, the Mercer County fiscal court voted down the next step in planning and zoning regulations on data center construction. Liam Niemeyer was there and filed this story.
Some other local business: Kentucky’s voter registration deadline is next Monday and it’s easy to sign up online. No excuse not to vote.
Sports fans – especially at the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville – will be interested to see the latest fix Congress has come up with to grapple with all the issues that have come up with trying to pay athletes.
And I’m re-upping this very informative and slightly creepy story about ticks.
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Many of the attendees at the Mercer County Fiscal Court meeting brought signs expressing opposition to data centers. (Kentucky Lantern photo by Liam Niemeyer)
By Liam Niemeyer
HARRODSBURG — The Mercer County Fiscal Court rejected zoning regulations on Monday that would have allowed the siting of large data centers on land adjacent to a Kentucky Utilities coal-fired power plant.
The deadline for voter registration before the November election is Monday, Oct. 5, 2026.(Kentucky Lantern photo by Austin Anthony)
By McKenna Horsley
This coming Monday — Oct. 5 — is the last day for Kentuckians to register to vote ahead of the November general election.
Clouds pass over Tiger Stadium on March 20, 2023, on Louisiana State University’s campus in Baton Rouge (Matthew Perschall/Louisiana Illuminator)
By Shauneen Miranda
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan measure to overhaul the college sports landscape got a step closer to becoming law Monday after passing the U.S. Senate.
Eliza Petzinger puts together pieces of clay soap dishes at her studio in Owen County, Kentucky. She and numerous members of her family have been diagnosed with alpha-gal.(Kentucky Lantern photo by Liam Niemeyer)
By Liam Niemeyer
OWEN COUNTY, Ky. — She usually had a “stomach of steel.” Most food wouldn’t really bother her. But when Eliza Petzinger had a helping of country ham during her family’s Christmas dinner last year, the strong reaction — stomach discomfort and nausea — came just hours later.
“I was so sick, and so I knew. I just knew,” Petzinger told the Lantern earlier this month.
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