Category Archives: West End

Healthy Start gets federal boost

June 22, 2009 – 2:45 pm

The Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness received a federal grant today for $6.3 million for its Healthy Start initiative that will fund the program for the next five years. Congressman John Yarmuth, D-3rd district, presented the health department with its first installment of $1,275,000, which will be allocated annually by the U.S. [...]

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Judge dismisses lawsuit against wet-dry vote

January 22, 2008 – 9:50 pm

Ruling that their cases had no merit, Jefferson Circuit Judge Martin McDonald dismissed two lawsuits that delayed results of a special election banning alcohol sales in four Shawnee neighborhood precincts. Last September, 86-percent of residents in those Shawnee precincts (N104, N105, N107 and N109), an area that includes a sliver of Portland, voted to ban [...]

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Judge dismisses lawsuit against wet-dry vote

January 22, 2008 – 4:50 pm

Ruling that their cases had no merit, Jefferson Circuit Judge Martin McDonald dismissed two lawsuits that delayed results of a special election banning alcohol sales in four Shawnee neighborhood precincts. Last September, 86-percent of residents in those Shawnee precincts (N104, N105, N107 and N109), an area that includes a sliver of Portland, voted to ban [...]

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