The Pennyrile District Health Department reported 44 new COVID-19 cases across their five-county region Thursday night, including 18 from Trigg County.
Trigg County Schools Superintendent Bill Thorpe says the second middle school student has tested positive for COVID-19.
Thorpe notified parents and staff Thursday afternoon about the positive student. That was the second positive middle school student in the past two days.
Thorpe the Pennyrile District Health Department will conduct tracing. He adds the building was cleaned and sanitized after the positive case was confirmed Thursday.
The Pennyrile District Health Department confirmed one death and 15 new COVID-19 cases in Trigg County Tuesday. Officials said the death was an 88-year-old male
Trigg County Judge-Executive Hollis Alexander shared a list of expenditures during the recent Trigg County Fiscal Court meeting that included $10,000 in ambulance grant funding for Trigg County Hospital, $18,825 to Christian County for boarding inmates, $9,250 to Pennyrile Allied Community Services for the Trigg County Senior Citizens Center and a payment of $59,461.25 to the Pennyrile District Health Department.
The meeting on Jan. 19 took place a day after the Martin Luther King Jr., holiday, with magistrates meeting at their regular meeting location in the fiscal courtroom at the Trigg County Courthouse.
Alexander noted that the expenditures, totaling $227,858.75, were up quite a bit, but he pointed out that the total included a lot of quarterly payments, like that to the health department, for example.