Judge-Executive reduces speeds on roads near Robards solar farm construction
Henderson County Judge-Executive Brad Schneider has lowered speeds from 55 to 35 miles per hour on several roads surrounding solar farm construction in the Robards area.
According to an executive order Schneider signed on Friday, the roads include:
- Pedler McDonald Road
- Knoblick Road from Watkins School Road (the Webster County line) to Coal Mine Road
- Spencer-Thornsberry Road
- Handley Road
- W N Royster Road from KY 283 to Spencer Thornsberry Road
- Coal Mine Road
Reduced speed limit signs will be placed 500 feet before the beginning of the zone change and 500 feet after, said the order.
The new speed limit will be in place until the judge-executive rescinds the order, it said.
Officials with National Grid Renewables, the company that is constructing the solar farm, said at Tuesday’s special called Fiscal Court meeting that speeding drivers were endangering workers in the area.
Several Henderson County students win scholarships from Independence Bank
Henderson County students Lilith Buckman, Brooklyn Burris, Lorelei Duncan, Carter Lawrence and Chloe Sheffer were recently announced as Independence Bank scholarship winners.
Buckman won the John Thacker Scholarship worth $10,000. She also was awarded a $1,000 Henderson County Community Board scholarship.
Lawrence won a $2,000 Henderson County Community Board scholarship; Burris and Sheffer each were awarded $1,000 Henderson County Community Board scholarships. Duncan won a $500 JL Beasley AG Memorial Scholarship.
The winners were announced Tuesday in Owensboro. According to the Independence Bank website, 70 high school seniors across Kentucky were awarded scholarships from the bank. The website said 430 scholarship applications were received from students residing in the bank’s 15-county footprint and $130,550 was awarded.
Election workers get a bump in pay
Election workers in Henderson County will get an increase for their service after the Fiscal Court Friday approved a request from Henderson County Clerk Renesa Abner.
Poll workers on election day will now get a total of $220–$190 for working election day and $30 for attending election school before. The total had been $160.
That total number puts Henderson County in about the same range as other nearby counties’ election day pay, Abner said.
Early voting poll workers pay will go up from $100 to $120 per three days of early voting; counting committee will increase from $12.50 per hour to $14 per hour; and election board members’ pay will go from $1,680 per election to $2,400, according to figures approved by the court.
The total yearly cost increases $10,896 to a total of $42,356.
