Business

 Bank of Buffalo has been named the nation’s top performing community bank in its class by the American Banker’s Association. According to the monthly “ABA Banking Journal,” banks are segregated by asset size and corporate status.

The LaRue County Chamber of Commerce is in the hunt for a new director after current director Jessica Davis resigned this month.
Davis’ husband is finishing his degree at Western Kentucky University, where he has to take six classes during the upcoming semester. Moving to Bowling Green, where WKU is located, was something the couple and their daughter “just needed to do,” and Davis will pursue other career opportunities there.

 Balltown’s MVP Garden Center, just outside New Haven, has plans to expand, and to make it easier for customers to enter and exit the property.

But first, the Joint City-County Planning Commission and Nelson Fiscal Court will have to approve a zone change application for a 0.6-acre property adjacent to MVP.

The property owners, Charles Richard Bryan and Thomas Frederick Newton, appeared alongside MVP owner Michael Mattingly at a planning commission public hearing Tuesday evening to explain their application.

 Kentucky State Police will begin accepting applications for its next traditional, 23-week cadet class on Aug. 1. The class is scheduled for the summer of 2013. Additional information and testing dates will be announced at that time.