Business

Citizens First Bank was the winning bidder for four Horse Cave Theatre buildings that once served as business offices, the scene shop, the education facility and the theatre itself at a recent Master Commissioner’s sale, according to the News-Herald. Twenty people attended the sale.

The bank paid $197,000. The property was appraised at $295,000.

Horse Cave Theatre was unable to make payments on a note to Citizens First and was forced to shut its doors last February, leaving a debt of $366,621.

Citizens Union Bancorp of Shelbyville, Inc. the parent company for Citizen Union Bank, Shelbyville, and First Farmers Bank, Owenton, KY announced the following executive management appointments effective Dec. 1:

Shopko Hometown Foundation has launched a program called, “Help Us Give Back.” For every signature Shopko Hometown in Hodgenville receives by Dec. 24, the Shopko Hometown Foundation will make a $1 donation to LaRue County Public Schools (up to $2,000) as part of its Help Us Give Back initiative, a program that is being run in all 181 store locations. Customers can sign their name once a day to show their support; no donation or purchase is required. 

Linda Bruckheimer said she decided to open her new business, The Old Sugar Valley Country Store, on a whim.