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Kelly and Denise Lawless of Hodgenville announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter, Whitley Lawless, to Caleb Phelps, son of Glenn and Terri Phelps of Hodgenville.

The bride to be is a 2009 graduate of LaRue County High School and a 2013 graduate of Western Kentucky University. She earned a bachelor of science degree in elementary education.

The prospective groom is a 2009 graduate of LaRue County High School and a 2012 graduate of Campbellsville University. He is an associate pastor at South Fork Baptist Church.

 A New Haven resident, Josh Geron, is asking the Fiscal Court to change the name of Dean Watts Park to Jason Ellis Park, in honor of the Bardstown Police Officer and youth coach who was murdered May 25.

 Despite the chance for rainy weather, last week’s LaRue County Library’s Teddy Bear Picnic was a success. The library staff and several volunteers coordinated the program at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Park picnic grounds.

In 1779, according to an article in the local newspaper dated 1894, a group of five settlers were led from Boonesboro by Daniel Boone to a spot in LaRue County then known as Cave Spring near Middle Creek, now known as Roanoke. Some sources refer to the location as the Union Church area.

There they built a small fort around the spring and then Boone, accompanied by men named Cartwright and Neal, returned to Boonesboro to bring back the families of the five men. Left to hold the fort and their claim on the land were three men named Walters, Hart and Dunn.