The city is asking for input from the community’s youth for ideas to help reduce violence within the city. The Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods is holding a contest where children between the ages of 8 and 18 can submit their ideas on what peace should look like.

Proposals can be in a variety of forms, including poems, videos, art, and essays. Submissions can be submitted online .  The deadline for submissions in next Wednesday, April 6th.

Ideas will be presented at the One Love Louisville Youth Edition Campaign on April 8th 4:00 PM at the California Community Center.

The Doss Dragons were the basketball state runner-ups this year.

Doss has not won a regional title since 1987 and they have not been to final state title game since 1980.  This is their second trip to the states in the past two seasons.

The Mid-American Trucking Show, the largest annual heavy-duty trucking industry event in the world, is scheduled to start March 31 and run through April 2 at the KY Exposition center. The show is expected to attract 70,000 attendees and will feature over 1,000 exhibitors.

Show  hours are 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM Thursday, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM Friday, and 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM on Saturday. The event is for industry members only at the cost is $10 at the door.

State Senator Denise Harper Angel from Louisville sponsored a bill to address the backlog of untested rape kits in the state. Last year, lawmakers asked for an inventory of untested DNA samples from sexual assaults. The count showed that there 3,090 rape kits that are still untested.

Harper Angel sponsored the bill that ordered the count and her new bill will these kits to get tested. The bill will also require law enforcement to report the number of kits collected and test as well as to develop policies to prevent such a backlog in the future.

The bill has already passed a vote in the State Senate and now it moves to the House for a vote.

The proposal to combine Frost Middle, Valley Prep and Stuart has been approved. Frost Middle will be closed and these students will be moved to Stuart.  JCPS plans to sell the Frost Middle School building and they estimate they will see approximately $425,000 in savings per year.

Changes will go into effective for the 2016-2017 school year. Stuart will now house sixth, seventh and eighth grade academies. Students who will be eighth graders at Valley in the fall, will stay at Valley.

Superintendent Donna Hargens believes this change will improve the chances for students achievement. Some board members were concerned that the decision was made too quickly, but proponents for the merge said the decision needed to be made now to ensure there was enough time to hire a principal and to hire more staff.

The annual Beatles’ Festival, Abbey Road on the River, has been held in Louisville since 2005, when it moved from Cleveland, OH. The event brings roughly 20,000 attendees into the downtown area every year for the five day festival. Last year, festival organizers said they were considering moving the event due to issues with the Galt House and that 2016 would be the last year for the festival in Louisville.

Starting next year, the event will be on the other side of the river in Jeffersonville, IN for the next three years. The festival will take place at RiverStage, Marina, and Big Four Station Park. The Clarion Inn and Sheraton Riverside Hotel will serve as the headquarters for the event.

The event will be held here in Louisville this year at it’s normal time, Memorial Day Weekend. Instead of the Galt House, the sponsoring hotel is the Louisville Marriott. Headliners this year will include Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals and the Zombies. Tickets are available for purchase on the website.

Jefferson County Public Schools has proposed closing Frost Middle and Valley Prep and moving all of those students to Stuart. Some School Board members are concerned with the proposal and fear the students will be left even further behind.

The proposal comes just a couple of years after many of the students from Frost Middle were moved to Valley High School. If the proposal is approved, the Frost Middle School building will be sold and JCPS estimates over $400,000 a year would be saved with the merger.

Concerned Board members are worried about the impact that the merge could have on impoverished students. Poverty rates for Stuart, Frost and Valley Prep are 83%, 87% and 90% respectively.

The School Board will vote early this week on the proposal.