Pleasure Ridge Park, Kentucky

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• TV Repairman Looks Forward To Digital Transition
  

  The way we view television is about to change, and many people are still unsure about what the transition to digital TV will mean for them.

• New Middletown fire chief Jeff Riddle restructures department
  

  Three months after taking over the Middletown Fire District, Chief Jeff Riddle is looking to make his mark on the department.

• PRP students spread Christmas cheer
  

  Sixteen Pleasure Ridge Park families got a holiday boost yesterday afternoon. One by one, parents came to Pleasure Ridge Park High School to pick up free boxes full of food and wrapped Christmas gifts as part ...

• Man sought after roommate dies
  

  Louisville Metro Police are looking for a man who shared an address with another man who was found dead Friday after an apparent arson on M Street.

• Mother Facing Drug Charges
  

  A mother is facing charges in connection with prescription drugs being dealt at a local high school.

• Argument leads brother to stab brother
  

  A late night argument between two brothers near Pleasure Ridge Park caused one to stab the other.

• Man fatally stabbed in PRP area
  

  A man died after being stabbed late Friday in the Pleasure Ridge Park area, Louisville Metro Police said.

• Word of students' deaths is another hard hit for school
  

  Students and faculty were taking in the news Friday about the deaths Thursday night of four Pleasure Ridge Park students killed in a car crash.

• PRP students remember those who died
  

  Pleasure Ridge Park students learned about the crash throughout the day. The principal held a 30-second moment of silence and read all four boys names Friday afternoon.

• Iroquois gets 3 double-doubles
  

  Visiting Iroquois -- No. 1 in The Courier-Journal's preseason poll of coaches -- got three double-doubles to beat No.

• MSD plans to expand cause stink
  

  'Smell anything?' Bud Schardein, MSD's executive director, asked, walking next to treatment tanks at the Metropolitan Sewer District's plant in southwest Jefferson County.

• Toys for Tots motorcycle ride set for 2 p.m. today
  

  The 26th annual Toys for Tots motorcycle cavalcade will begin at 2 p.m. today. The run starts on Logistics Drive in the Pleasure Ridge Park area and will end at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium.

• Crowds turn out to shop, but some cut back
  

  People lined up at stores throughout the Louisville area before dawn yesterday for Black Friday, the traditional kickoff of the holiday shopping season.

• PRP '55 Chevy a calendar cover
  

  With a 1955 orange and cream Chevy Bel Air, Mike Woosley of Pleasure Ridge Park was the 'Pick Award-Grand Prize Winner' at the fifth annual Mike Linnig's Hot Rod Cruise Night on Oct.

• Putting denim to work
  

  If Shawnise Miller has one staple in her wardrobe, it's jeans. To her, great denim is almost like a modern version of the little black dress: She can wear them to work, 'then go out on the town and switch up ...

• Bakery in PRP has incredible cakes
  

  Wishing to make her grandson Shawn Baker's seventh birthday memorable, Kim Baker of Shively turned to Jennifer Brown.

• Max Gilpin case now in hands of prosecutors
  

  The case of a fallen Pleasure Ridge Park football player is now in the hands of the Commonwealth Attorney's office.

• Parkland music school plays on
  

  At this time of year, students at Parkland's West Louisville Talent Education Center usually are well into rehearsal for the nonprofit music school's annual holiday fundraising concert.

• Blackwell retains 12th District council seat
  

  Democrat Rick Blackwell retained the 12th District Louisville Metro Council seat today, beating Republican Dwight Witten.

• Monarch Valley Leather Couch & Loveseat - Immaculate Condition!
  This Monarch Valley genuine leather couch & loveseat set was purchased at Ashley Furniture in October 2006 for $2300. They are a dark brown/mahoghany color with mahoghany wood and riveted detail on the arms. These are SUPER comfortable - you will LOVE them! They are in absolute immaculate condition....

City Description

Pleasure Ridge Park is a former census-designated place in southwest Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 25,776 at the 2000 census. In 2003, the area was annexed to the city of Louisville due to a merger between the city and Jefferson County's unincorporated communities. Pleasure Ridge Park is now a neighborhood within the city limits of Louisville. It was first sparsely settled by French and German Catholics in the mid-19th century, and the first church, St. Andrew's Church, was built in 1851, and although it no longer exists, a major local road still bears its name. What is now the Paducah and Louisville Railway built a station in the area in 1874, and a summer resort and hotel called Paine Hotel developed around a shaded ridge on Muldraugh Hill, what came to be called Pleasure Ridge. The name Pleasure Ridge Park was chosen for the first post office in the area in 1876. The area continued to be popular for tourism until World War I. By the 1950s, the area began expanding rapidly as subdivisions were built. People moving to the area liked its cheap land and location reasonably close to both Downtown Louisville and Fort Knox. Residents blocked a 1984

City Contained By:

• Kentucky
• Jefferson County
• Louisville
• Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area

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