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- Boil water advisory for West Point, KY water customers
The City of West Point, Kentucky has issued a boil water advisory for all of its water customers until further notice.
- West Point Issues Boil Water Advisory
West Point has issued a boil water advisory. The advisory affects all customers of West Point Water.
- 4 meth labs found in Bullitt mobile home, police say
Several families were evacuated and three Bullitt County residents were arrested early this morning after police say they found four meth labs in a mobile home.
- Kentuckiana kids sweep Midwest Junior Dragster Super Series
Junior dragsters are race cars that are half scale versions of Top Fuel dragsters.
- Abuse of flag
I am writing about Dan Fitzgerald's cartoon of Kentucky voters marking their vote for Sen.
- Three men arrested in seperate burglary incidents
Arrests on charges of burglary have been frequent for the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department, as three men have been arrested in the last week for separate incidents.
- Louisville man killed in West Point car crash
A Louisville man was killed in a car accident Friday night in West Point. Jeffrey Bernard Fey, 43, died after the wreck on Ky.
- West Point ex-mayor Rube Yelvington dies
Rube Yelvington, a former West Point mayor who helped the town win recognition as a National Historic District, died yesterday at Saints Mary and Elizabeth Hospital in Louisville after a long battle with ...
- 3 charged in fatal southwest shooting
Two juveniles and a West Point woman have been charged in the fatal shooting of a man at his apartment in southwest Jefferson County early yesterday, according to Louisville Metro Police.
- Semi Truck Overturns on Natcher Parkway/I-65N Off-Ramp
An accident on the Natcher Parkway involving a semi-truck sent one man to the hospital.
- Body of a Fort Knox soldier recovered from the Salt River near Jefferson County
The body of a Fort Knox soldier has been recovered from the Salt River in West Point, Kentucky.
- FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Fort Knox, Kentucky ~ 17 JUN 2008
Located just 35 miles from Louisville, Fort Knox encompasses 109,000 acres in three Kentucky counties.
- Former teacher gets prison time in child sodomy case
A former teacher was sent to prison for four years yesterday for sodomizing an eighth-grade student in a class he taught three decades ago in Hardin County.
- Southwestern ministries moves its HQ to Faith Presbyterian
Southwestern Community Ministries has relocated its headquarters to a church on Stonestreet Road and is planning a capital campaign to build there.
- In Your View -
Erbe's column elicits a response I wish I was allowed more than 300 words to comment on Bonnie Erbe's column in from the Sunday Independent.
- Soldier writes of sailing to Nashville
Amos Mount's parents died when he was young, and he became the ward of his Uncle James and Aunt Amanda Mount.
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City DescriptionWest Point is a city in Hardin County, Kentucky, United States, near the edge of Fort Knox military reservation on Dixie Highway. It is located in a former meander bend of the Ohio River. The population was 1,100 at the 2000 census.
West Point is part of the Elizabethtown, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area
West Point was founded by pioneer James Young, who built a cabin at the site in 1789 and, in 1797, built a brick house and inn that is still standing today. In 1803, Lewis and Clark passed nearby and recruited West Point citizen John Shields to join their Corps of Discovery.
West Point sits at the confluence of the Ohio and Salt Rivers, a strategic position that led Union forces to construct a fort here during the Civil War to protect their supply routes. Fort Duffield is the State's largest and best-preserved earthen fortification from the period.
West Point also retains many of its other historic resources, and a large portion of the community is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district.
One of the newest preservation projects in West Point is the rehabilitation of the West Point Independent Colored School (1926), one of the "Rosenwald ... Read MoreCity Contained By:Timezones:- North American Eastern Time Zone
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