What should The Courier Journal cover in Jeffersontown?

What stories are we missing in your neighborhood?

The Courier Journal wants to know. And we’re coming to you to find out.

The Courier’s mobile newsroom made its return in June, with reporters and editors working from different communities each month.

In September, we’re taking the newsroom to Jeffersontown.

Our goals are to better cover areas that don’t always get media attention and to improve our staff ’s connection with community members. We’ll listen to anything you have to say, and hopefully we’ll produce stories that shine a better light on issues and opportunities in your neighborhood.

The Courier Journal partnered with Louisville Free Public Libraries to launch the mobile newsroom in 2022, and we’ve already visited several neighborhoods, including Butchertown, Shawnee, Okolona, Newburg and Iroquois.

With community members’ help, we’ve covered an apartment complex that’s failed to live up to its promises, the growth of Hispanic-owned businesses on one commercial corridor and how environmental concerns fit in plans for a new hospital in the West End. We also shared Elvis Presley’s connection to Shively, the history of a South End mall on the decline and what it means to be Louisville’s most diverse neighborhood.

Our fourth stop this year is at the Jeffersontown Branch of the Louisville Free Public Library from Sept. 11 through 22. Journalists will work from the library from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each weekday, and we invite anyone who’d like to speak with us to stop by.

We want to talk to and learn from as many people as we can. So please let us know in advance about any meetings we should attend, civic groups we should know or even any restaurants that serve as community gathering places.

After Jeffersontown, we’ll head to Fairdale. Here’s our schedule:

Jeffersontown, Sept. 11-22

Jeffersontown Branch of the Louisville Free Public Library, 10635 Watterson Trail

Fairdale, Oct. 2-13

Fairdale Branch of the Louisville Free Public Library, 10620 W. Manslick Road