Today's News

As Oldham County charged to a second straight Region 8 title last year, one of its best players was stuck in the dugout.

Kailey Rigdon, a junior first baseman garnering Division-I interest, dove back into third base during a game over the 2013 spring break. The momentum of her dive carried her body forward, but her arm stayed put, grabbing the base.

A season-ending torn labrum in her shoulder was the result. The injury was especially frustrating, Rigdon said, because it affected her college plans.

After spending the winter lifting weights, county football players get to step outside and do some work on the field this week.

North Oldham, Oldham County and South Oldham have all either started or are starting spring football practice this week. The teams have three weeks to conduct 10 practices, per KHSAA rules.

Coming a little after halfway between the end of one football season and beginning of the next, North coach Billy Martin said spring practice is one of his favorite times of the year.

Accolades have continued to pour in for South Oldham grad and Transylvania baseball pitcher Braden Johnson.

Johnson was named the National College Baseball Writer’s Association’s NCAA D-III National Player of the Week last week.

Johnson, a freshman right-hander from Crestwood, earned the award by hurling a no-hitter March 30 in a 12-0 win against Defiance College.

The no-hitter was the first in the modern era of Transy baseball, per the school’s athletic department.

Candidates for county positions ranging from property value administrator to county judge will take part in a candidate forum as the 2014 primary inches closer.

The forum, hosted by the Oldham Chamber and The Oldham Era, will feature candidates vying for county attorney, sheriff, PVA, coroner, magistrate and county judge-executive.

Deana Epperly Karem, executive director of the chamber, said the candidate forum is important for an informed voter base.