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WorkNow Kentucky, an employment program launched last summer, helped job seekers in the Lincoln Trail area find permanent positions. WorkNow Kentucky was a collaborative effort of the state’s workforce and human services agencies that helped nearly one in five Kentuckians find a permanent position. The program was administered through local Workforce Investment Boards, including the Lincoln Trail WIB.

Sherremy Meadows has been selected as the April Employee of the Month for Nationwide Uniform.

She has been employed with Nationwide since September 2008 and is under the supervision of Claire Greyling in the trouser department.

She will receive an award for her dedication and service.

Representatives of SpringHaven Inc., the state-funded domestic violence shelter for the Lincoln Trail Area Development District, are upset that United Way of Nelson County chose not to fund it this year and said the reasons given for its decision are invalid.

The Southern Graphics Council International at their annual conference, sponsored by Washington University in Saint Louis, presented Don Taylor with the 2011 Mentorship in Printmaking Award, on Saturday March 19. Twelve students have transferred to Washington University, from Brookhaven Community College in Dallas, Texas. Taylor is a native of Hodgenville and a 1967 graduate of LaRue County High School, where he was a student of art instructor Betty Mitchell. He has been a subscriber to The LaRue County Herald News for the past 44 years.