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Today's Features

  • New corn plantings threatened by insects and disease

    Excessive winter annual weed growth can affect insect management in corn. One insect group problem that may be encountered is the cutworms. Cutworms do not prefer to lay eggs on corn, they more commonly lay their eggs on winter annual weeds. Black cutworm cannot overwinter here; in early spring the moths migrate to Kentucky with weather fronts out of the south. As the moths tend to lay their eggs and feed on winter annuals, cutworm damage usually occurs when winter annuals have been burnt down with herbicides forcing the intermediate-stage larvae to feed on the emerging corn.

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  • Precautions could prevent 350 deaths caused by rollovers annually

    Farm tractors and farm equipment can be dangerous. Each year there are accidents with farm equipment that causes injuries and death.

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  • The Street takes home 24 awards

    The Street, Elizabethtown Community and Technical College’s student newspaper, won 24 awards at the Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association annual conference at Western Kentucky University Feb. 28. Seven were first place in their categories.

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  • LaRue County Genealogy Society finds a home in police station

    After a three-year wait, the LaRue County Genealogy Society has found a home.

    The historical research group will move to the Hodgenville City Police station on North Greensburg Street after the first of the year – just as soon as the police have relocated to another building. The new police station will be in the educational building formerly owned by First Baptist Church on West High Street.

    Last week, members of the historical society met with Hodgenville Mayor Terry Cruse to hear his plans for accommodations for the group.

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  • Update on cabin photo report

    Last week, the Herald News ran a story about a South Carolina couples’ quest for information about a photo found in an attic trunk.

    David and Diane Sanders have had some luck in identifying the photo of a log cabin.

    David Sanders wrote in an e-mail: “Jim LaRue put us on to a great article on the cabin history " Ancestral Trails, published in Vine Grove. It absolutely proves that our picture is of the Lincoln birthplace cabin. The story is quite lengthy, and goes into great detail.”

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  • How is your gut feeling?

    With the winter’s crazy weather and food safety issues hitting the public, how is your gut feeling lately? Since all the power outages, has your stomach been giving you problems? The answer to that may be related to consuming foods or beverages that had been refrigerated or frozen and should have been thrown out if they were allowed to get to room temperature and stayed that way for many hours or possibly days.

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  • Juried art show open

    The Central Kentucky Art Guild All Member Juried Art Show will be 9 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays through May 18 in the Morrison Gallery at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College. The Morrison Gallery is in the ECTC main administration building and public parking is available.

    The guild art show represents about 40 artists. Many of the artists are award winning.

    Fine art such as landscapes, portraits, florals, still life, woodcarvings, and sculptures are examples of art that will be shown. Your selection may be purchased from the artist upon request.

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  • Quarry celebrates grand opening

    Jacobs Energy, a natural resource development company specializing in oil and gas exploration and servicing, is opening Sand Castle Quarry on Attilla Road off Campbellsville Road. The quarry is at the location of the former Tri-County Sand & Aggregate LLC.

    Sand Castle Quarry is a supplier of sand and pea gravel to both commercial clients and individuals at the retail site. Delivery service is available. The products can be used for construction and recreational projects.

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  • ECTC presents children’s play

    Elizabethtown Community and Technical College’s Toy Box Theatre will present a children’s play, In One Basket, 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Science Auditorium on the Elizabethtown campus. Admission is $2. The performance is open to the public.

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  • Shipp selected to Georgia Leadership Institute

    Dr. John Todd Shipp, son of Johnny L. and Joan Doty Shipp of Hodgenville, has been selected to attend the Georgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement. The Institute was designed to help school administrators incubate and support sharing of systematic solutions to improve education leadership. The GLISI curriculum is rigorous both mentally and physically. In June, each school system cohort team will send a group of administrators to climb to the top of Stone Mountain, Ga.

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