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Mayor Greg Fischer today joined members of the Juneteenth Jubilee Celebration Commission and representatives from Louisville Visual Arts (LVA), Waterfront Park, Kentucky Center for African American History and Norton Healthcare to kick off a variety of city-wide events that will highlight the historical significance of Juneteenth. This year’s...

Bardstown Road is ready to roll out the welcome mat and let the community know it is open for business with a new series of events called Neighborhood Nights. Neighborhood Nights is a free community event along the Bardstown Road corridor to be held the third Wednesday of every month through November. The first Neighborhood Night will be Wednesday...

Mayor Greg Fischer today outlined his proposal for spending $38.9 million of the $388 million the city is receiving from the federal American Rescue Plan (ARP), with the initial spending focused on the immediate and urgent challenges of 1) COVID-19 related health needs, 2) the housing, food, and utility instability experienced by vulnerable...

The Louisville Sports Commission (LSC) has teamed with Gill Holland, the Sociable Weaver Foundation and the Humana Foundation, as well as local and national sports organizations, to create SportsFun(d), a grant program that will provide “more sports for more kids in more places.” The initiative’s launch was unveiled today at a press conference in...

On Tuesday, Mayor Greg Fischer joined by Dr. Sarah Moyer, Louisville’s Chief Health Strategist, provided an update on COVID-19 and reflected on the past year as the city’s COVID cases continue their downward trend. With Governor Andy Beshear set to fully lift capacity restrictions and the mask mandate, the Mayor said he was excited about what...

Ribbon Cutting Planned for Completed Panera Bread Part of the SouthPointe Commons Shopping Center Louisville, KY – Metro Councilmember Robin Engel (District 22) will participate in a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of Panera Bread. The restaurant is part of the SouthPointe Commons development led by the Barrister Commercial Group...

All spots for the Robbie Valentine summer basketball camp later this month at the KFC Yum Center! are now full and we are no longer accepting registrations. We apologize for the inconvenience. - With the support of sponsors, local basketball legend Robbie Valentine will host a free 4-day youth basketball camp at the KFC YUM! Center. During this...

Louisville, KY – The Friday Fest Concert Series is returning to Highview Park this Summer. Metro Councilmembers James Peden (District 23), Madonna Flood (District 24) and Mark Fox (District 13) are sponsoring the free summer concert series at Highview Park for its 9th year. A different concert will be held on select Fridays between June 11 and...

The Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control District (District) proposes to revise a FEDOOP operating permit to Altuglas International (acrylic sheet and pellet manufacturer), 1227 South 12th Street, in accordance with Regulation 2.17. This permit is being revised to incorporate facility testing results on control devices. The 30-day public comment...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (June 2, 2021) – The Center for Health Equity (CHE) at the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness, and its Community Advisory Board have awarded $10,000 grants to two Louisville artists to help shape the 2021 Health Equity Report. Dr. Jabani Bennett and Toya Northington will work with CHE over the next six months...

As a way to bring the community together, Councilwoman Donna Purvis (D-5) and The Russ Smith Foundation will unveil a new mural on the renovated basketball court in Lannan Park on Friday, June 4th dedicated to the memory of Breonna Taylor.

Mayor Greg Fischer and Louisville Metro Police Chief Erika Shields today provided an update on progress on recommendations outlined earlier this year from Hillard Heintze’s independent review of the police department – and shared a new dashboard where the public can track further work. Mayor Fischer described the 150-page Hillard Heintze report...

For the hundreds of lives lost; For the decades of successes they built; For the thousands left behind who carried the pain; And for a century of opportunity erased. The Louisville Metro Human Relations Commission honors the hundreds of Black Americans who were murdered in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 31 and June 1, 1921. We...

June 28, 1970 marked the first Pride March on the first anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. The news of the march spread quickly through hand-typed press releases and community fliers. The inaugural event that sparked a movement, originally named “Christopher Street Liberation Day”, brought an...

On Tuesday, Mayor Greg Fischer and Dr. Sarah Moyer, Louisville’s Chief Health Strategist, announced Louisville’s COVID-19 status has been downgraded to yellow for the first time since July 2020. Dr. Moyer said the change is encouraging considering the state of the city being at a high-level red in the winter. She cautioned that an alert level...