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Wendell Moore Park Recreational Trails Groundbreaking Took Place July 20
Above: Families walk the staked trail layout, which should be in place by Labor Day

TARC to expand Oldham Express Service

Beginning Monday, the Transit Authority of River City will add a morning and afternoon express to its Bullitt and Oldham county express lines to alleviate overcrowding on the buses.

For Route No. 67 in Oldham County, the new morning express will leave Oldham Plaza at 6:13 a.m., the Buckner Park-and-TARC at 6:20 a.m. and the Crestwood Park-and-TARC at 6:26 a.m. It will arrive at Fourth and Broadway at 6:55 a.m. and Fourth and Main at 7:02 a.m.

The afternoon express will leave Third and Chestnut streets at 4:16 p.m., Fifth and Market streets at 4:25 p.m. and arrive at the Crestwood Park-and-TARC at 4:53 p.m., the Buckner Park-and-TARC at 5 p.m. and Oldham Plaza at 5:07 p.m.

Oldham County a State Leader in Land in Agricultural Districts with 11,651 Acres

We have updated key Oldham County demographic, economic, housing, and agricultural data in a new presentation.

Oldham County Judge-Executive Duane Murner and Greenways for Oldham County President Dr. Ashli Collins Break Ground for New Trail System

Federal Tax Incentives for Land Conservation

Great news! On May 22, 2008, Congress approved a two-year extension of the expanded federal tax incentive for conservation easement donations! By allowing landowners to deduct a larger portion of their income over a longer period of time, the easement incentive has increased the pace of conservation by perhaps a million acres a year nationwide.

The incentive had expired January 1st, but thanks to the hard work of land trusts across the country, it is now retroactive to the beginning of the year and will last through 2009.

Below is an extract from a June 11, 2008 Forbes article that addresses the federal tax incentives

"The newly extended incentive allows a non-farmer donor to use a conservation donation deduction to wipe out 50% of his gross income in any year, up from the normal 30%. The temporary break also allows a donor to carry forward any unused write-off for a full 15 years, instead of the normal five.

Farmers and ranchers get an even more generous break: They can offset up to 100% of their adjusted gross income with conservation donations, potentially zeroing out their tax liability for the next 15 years.

In fact, the conservation break is so generous that it produces a bizarre and seemingly backwards incentive: Donors who keep a piece of land while giving the development rights to a conservation group can sometimes get a bigger tax benefit than if they'd given the land outright to the same group. That's because, if a landowner gives his property away, the normal tax rules apply, meaning he can use the charitable deduction to wipe out only 30% of his adjusted gross and can carry any unused deduction forward for only five years."

Download the Forbes.com article