
Latest reporting from the Community desk.
Community
Big Bone Lick State Historic Site in Boone County hosts its 42nd annual Salt Festival from Friday, Oct. 16, through Sunday, Oct. 18, featuring frontier demonstrations, live music, a petting zoo and the park's resident bison herd.

Community
Area Chick-fil-A restaurants are collecting nonperishable food through Friday, Oct. 16, for GO Pantry's weekend meal program that serves about 1,300 Northern Kentucky students weekly. Donors who return filled bags receive a Chick-fil-A meal card while supplies last.


Community
Ryle High School's Lady Raiders soccer program is running a competitive inter-team fundraiser called Soccerama through Saturday, August 8, challenging 18 participating teams and their fans to donate to GO Pantry to fight student food insecurity before Boone County Schools resume August 19.

Community
Lifepath Apostolic AGAPE House of Prayer has secured up to $100,000 in federal AmeriCorps funding to launch a year-round volunteer corps across Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, and is actively recruiting churches, schools, and nonprofits in Florence, Union, Burlington, and Hebron to join as partners.
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