The Latest Breaking News from Lexington

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The matchups for the first SEC football season with Texas and Oklahoma as league members are set.

ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia football fans will have to wait a while longer to check out College Station, Texas, but Austin, Texas, is on the docket for 2024. So is Oxford, Miss.; Lexington, Ky.; and — get this — Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Lexington city officials continue their efforts to recruit and retain public safety workers. A council committee got a briefing earlier this week.

An Opioid Abatement Commission is now in place in Lexington. The panel will make recommendations on how best to use funds received from the National Opioid Litigation settlement.

A highly publicized public park project in downtown Lexington is getting a financial lift.

The first Imagine New Circle meeting was held Thursday and the Lexington city councilmember whose district includes much of the area in question called it a “finally kind of moment.”

One of the traditional activities during Lexington’s Fourth of July Festival is a parade down Main Street. It’s also tradition to have a number of political campaign units in the procession. Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton said she’s not aware of any serious discussion about limiting political entries.

The city of Lexington has a close relationship with R.J. Corman Railroad Group when it comes to Fourth of July activities. That connection is a reminder of a half century of rail transportation.

Several Lexington City Council Members made a trip north this week to gather some ideas for addressing pressing issues in the state’s second-largest city.

Starting Saturday, the City of Lexington will employ a team of experts to remove invasive plants on the city’s west side: about 15 goats from Henry County.

The three winners of the third annual Grassroots Black Leadership Awards in Lexington have been announced. One of them is Latarika Young, whose volunteer work for the Fayette Education Foundation, the Black Male Working Academy and Sneakers With Everything Project was praised by the Lexington Black Prosperity Initiative, the group…