Community News

The Amish Country tour to Montgomery, Ind. has been rescheduled for April 19. The cost is $60 and includes a home-cooked sit-down meal with an Amish or Mennonite family.

The bus departs from First Baptist Church of Hodgenville at 7 a.m. Tour includes farms where they are making furniture the traditional way, fabric and quilting, jams and jellies, and traditional farming methods. Return about 6 p.m.

For more information, contact the LaRue County Chamber of Commerce at 358-3411 or Brown at 270-307-0150.

A new regional program aimed at closing the gap between companies in need of fresh talent and interns looking to gain career experience was launched last week by Greater Louisville Inc. and the HIRE Education Forum. Intern To Earn aims to develop the talent pool necessary to meet future regional workforce needs, and connect the next generation of talent to the 13-county, bi-state Greater Louisville region. 

Congratulations to local author Steven L. Wright, who has added a fifth volume to his reference books on Kentucky and the Civil War. This is quite an achievement and represents an unimaginable amount of work, but Wright is a dedicated, focused researcher.

The following is from the Kentucky Historical Society’s Kentucky Ancestors, Vol. 45, No. 2, “Book Notes.”

Many Campbellsville University students will continue the annual tradition and will spend their spring break helping others. They will be participating in mission trips in various locations across the United States, as well as in Costa Rica.

Drew Simpson of Hodgenville, a LaRue County High School graduate, will travel with a small group to Atlanta, Ga.; Charleston, S.C.; and Gainesville, Fla.

The students will do inner city work.

The groups are being sponsored by CU’s Baptist Campus Ministry.

Spring break at CU is March 15-19.