Kentucky's libraries will honor a respected Kentucky writer.

And there's a delay in resettling some refugees in Kentucky.

Our Toby Gibbs tells us more.

And our Tuesday look at headlines around Kentucky.

Plans to resettle dozens of refugees in Warren County are now on hold.

WQ Public Radio reports the Refuge.

B.G., a nonprofit based in Bowling Green, planned to help 30 refugees from Latin America resettle in Glasgow.

WQ said the group worked with federal, state and local officials on the plans, but had to pause after pushback from some citizens in Barron County.

RJ Blaze with Refuge B.G.

tells WQ radio that misinformation about the refugees legal status and background circulated within the community.

They also expressed concern over the use of local resources for the refugees.

They said, quote, Our intent was never to cause division in any of that.

We never wanted to cause an issue.

We never wanted it to be an us versus them type of thing.

And quote, they said the organization would work to build stronger relationships with local leaders in Glasgow and educate the public on the resettlement process.

The State Department has final say on where refugees resettle in the U.S..

The Northern Kentucky Health Department has issued a public health advisory after detecting an outbreak of an intestinal parasite.

Around a dozen cases of cryptosporidium.

Often shortened to crypto, have been reported.

Crypto is a gastrointestinal illness caused by a fecal borne intestine or parasite link, and K-Y, said a representative from the Northern Kentucky Health Department confirmed some cases have been traced to the Silver Lake Water Park in Erlanger.

The health Department stated that the outbreak could have started as far back as June.

The number of detected cases is expected to grow.

Anyone with symptoms should contact their doctor immediately.

The Kentucky lander reports.

Betty Jean Hall, an advocate for women coal miners, has died.

She was 78.

The Maria native was just one year out of law school when she founded and led the Coal Employment Project, which filed a lawsuit charging 153 coal companies with sexual bias in hiring the landmark reports.

By December of 1978, a settlement was reached with Consolidated Coal Company to pay $370,000 to 70 women denied jobs because they were women and to hire one woman for every four men.

By the mid 1980s, coal companies had hired over 4000 women miners.

The work of the Coal Employment Project was featured in the 1982 Apple Shop documentary Coal Mining Women.

More on Betty Jean Hall's life and career can be found at Kentucky Lander.

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Every public library in the state is getting a free copy of Wendell Berry's collected writings.

To celebrate the renowned Kentucky Writer's 90th birthday, the Advocate Messenger reports What I stand on the Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969 to 2017.

We'll go out to each of Kentucky's 202 public libraries this year and his part Williams novels and stories.

Volume one and two will be sent next year.

The newspaper said the donation of books was made possible by a gift from human rights litigator and environmental activist Edwin C Mathew Jr. Denise Lyons, commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, is quoted in the newspaper as saying, quote, This donation ensures that Wendell Berry's inspiring writings will remain available to our patrons for generations to come and quote.

With headlines around Kentucky on Toby Gibbs.