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Saturday January 24, 2026
Local Connection
Fall is in the air, but we are looking at a warm-up this weekend with almost no chance of rain. If you are looking for an excuse to hop on your motorcycle and get your “knees in the breeze,” this weekend’s Thunder Into Louisville Patriot Ride is the perfect opportunity.
The Patriot Ride and Poker Run – to be held this Saturday, September 20 with a rain date of Sunday the 21st – draws hundreds of riders from around the region with proceeds going to support local scouts. As if getting in some miles and helping to support local youth scouting activities weren’t enough incentive to participate, riders have the chance to win big money: $1000 for the top hand, $250 for second place and $100 for third.
If you are not familiar with poker runs, the basic idea is to ride between checkpoints along a route and collect a playing card with the goal of building the best poker hand by the end of the route. The Patriot Ride begins at Harley-Davidson Louisville, located at 1700 Arthur Street and winds its way around the area.
Registration for the Thunder Into Louisville Patriot Ride is from 9AM to 9:45 with the ride starting around 10AM. Rider fees are $20 for a single rider or $30 for tandem riders with two hands. Additional hands are available for $10 each and event t-shirts are available as well. You can register for the event HERE or by picking up materials at Harley-Davidson Louisville or the WDRB-TV offices.
Are you ready to start paying to cross the Ohio River between Louisville and Southern Indiana?
The $2.3B Ohio River Bridges Project will result in tolls for drivers crossing the Kennedy Bridge – which will be turned into a southbound-only route, the new downtown bridge next to the Kennedy, and a new upriver Prospect bridge that connects with Utica, Indiana. Drivers won’t start paying tolls until 2016, but transportation officials are ready to choose a toll operator this week to begin implementing the new system.
Rather than manned tollbooths, the automated system will use in-car transponders to pay tolls from a pre-paid toll account. Cameras with license plate recognition will be used to mail toll bills to drivers without an account.
The six finalists managing the toll operations include the 3M Company, Portuguese-based Brisa Inovacao e Tecnologia, S.A., Austrian Kapsch TrafficCom IVHS Inc. – which was selected earlier this year to provide transponders for the toll system, French Sanef Operations America Inc., TransCore LP of Nashville, and Xerox State & Local Solutions, Inc.
The result of this selection process would be a move toward final selection of the operator, who would oversee camera installation, violation processing and managing the toll-operations center. The recommended operator would then need to be approved by the Indiana Finance Authority.
Louisville receives top marks from Honest Tea’s national social experiment.
Honest tea recently conducted an experiment in which they traveled to 60 different cities throughout the 50 states, setting up an unmanned kiosk offering $1 bottles of their beverages, asking customers to operate on the honor system. The results were compiled into the “National Honesty Index“.
At each kiosk, they gathered information about the number of people who paid (or not) in addition to observable characteristics of kiosk visitors. The experiment also included an online component meant to test the honesty of people on the Internet through a Facebook application, where people were offered a coupon in exchange for sharing an inspirational quote on their timeline. In total, the experiment involved over 28,000 participants.
Honolulu, Hawaii, received top marks for the second year in a row with 100% honesty. Four cities tied for second place with 99% honesty while four others tied for third with 98% honesty. Louisville tied with six other cities for fourth place with 97% honesty at the kiosks.
Overall, Americans were 95% honest, up from 92% last year. Additional results indicate that:
- Females were more honest than males (95% vs 93%)
- Blonds were more honest (95%) vs brunettes or bald visitors (each 94%), the gray haired (93%), red heads (92%) or those with black hair (91%).
- Web participants were more honest than kiosk visitors in NY (98% vs 91%) and less honest (91% vs 95%) in Chicago.
- Puppy lovers were more honest (98%) than cat people (95%)
- Viewers of COPS were far more honest (100%) than viewers of Homeland (90%).
- Honesty varied greatly among people with different relationship statuses:
- Separated: 100%
- Divorced: 98%
- In a relationship/”it’s complicated”: 96%
- Married or single: 95%
- Engaged: 94%
For full results, visit www.thenationalhonestyindex.com or see the infographic below. Continue reading
The last of the 22 silos remain standing, ready for demolition.
The last of the 22 silos overlooking I-65 from Floyd Street, where they have stood for nearly a century, are coming down.
The silos were owned by DuPont subsidiary Solae until their $3.3 million purchase by the University of Louisville Foundation in December 2013. Although long-term plans are not certain, the 15-acre property will temporarily be used for additional parking for U of L football games and other events at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium.
In addition to the land use benefits, Kathleen Smith, chief of staff to U of L President James Ramsey, said that the project “will give the university options to expand while clearing the view for I-65 travelers to see our spectacularly beautiful Belknap campus.”
Demolition of the silos began in late July and is expected to be completed in the coming weeks, with cleanup and new construction taking longer. The tear down is being done in stages to allow for debris to be hauled away before proceeding with further demolition. The work comes with a $687,800 price tag with the Foundation receiving half of the proceeds from the sale of salvageable equipment and materials from the site – the other half of which will go to the demolition company, NorthStar Group Holdings, LLC.
Click the silo demolition photos below to see them fullsize. Continue reading
The 2014 Kentucky State Fair is wrapping up this weekend. Don’t miss your last opportunity to spend a beautiful Kentucky summer day (and night) enjoying everything that the fair has to offer today and tomorrow.
Of course, the midway, inside exhibits and daily attractions are going all day, including live music, ventriloquists, the cirque-style Gantry Show, freestyle motocross demonstrations, rides, games and, of course, fair food. Tonight at 7PM are the Coca-Cola Talent Classic finals. At 8, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts will perform at Cardinal Stadium with special guests Devour the Day. Tomorrow includes all of the daily attractions with special musical guests Mercy Me performing at Cardinal Stadium at 4PM.
Visit the Kentucky State Fair website for all of the details and full schedule.
View our 2014 Kentucky State Fair photo gallery on Facebook, get live updates on our Twitter feed, and keep coming back to LouisvilleDispatch.com for more pictures. Continue reading
The 2014 Louisville Irish Fest is coming to the Bellarmine University campus Saturday September 27 and Sunday September 28.
The event, which runs from 11AM-10PM on Saturday and 11:30AM-6PM on Sunday, features traditional Irish food and drinks, gifts, music, and activities. Admission is $8 for adults and $5 for seniors age 65+ and children age 6-12, with $1 discount coupons available from several area locations. Active military personnel, Louisville Zoo members, university students and staff as well as visitors who bring a donatable food item will also receive a $1 discount while Bellarmine students and Irish Arts Foundation members will get in for free.
Entertainment during the event includes acts such as Dulahan, Cloigheann, Lachlan, The Louisville Irish Dancers. Other events include Irish history discussions, a children’s area, Sunday Mass, and exhibitions by the Society for Creative Anachronism.
People interested in volunteering with the event can contact either Gayle Perry, Volunteer Coordinator (Gayle.Perry@fntg.com, 502-889-7389) or Sylvia Allen (Sallen327@twc.com, 502-974-5159) or sign up at the Molly Malone’s Celtic Center on Baxter Ave.
Several wrecks in and around the metro area combine with Kentucky State Fair traffic to slow down Tuesday evening’s commute for Louisvillians. At least two of these crashes occurred on eastbound Gene Snyder between I-65 and New Cut Road.
One accident involved a pickup truck which collided with a tractor trailer near New Cut. Despite occupying both lanes of Gene Snyder, traffic was still moving eastbound as Louisville Dispatch staff was in the area. Crews working the overturned vehicle near I-65 had traffic blocked and backed up with westbound traffic also slowing to a crawl.
Drive safely and expect delays if you are headed out to see Kenny Rogers at the State Fair or any of this evening’s events around Louisville.
Get live traffic information and drive times for the Louisville area any time on the Louisville Dispatch Traffic Information Page.
