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Election Day has arrived and LaRue County  showed up.

Four precincts gathered in the first floor of the LaRue County Courthouse report steady business with occasional lines in the morning and around the lunch hour. Meanwhile, voters have been lined outside of Hodgenville City Hall all day where the Hodgenville West precinct votes.

Polls are open until 6 p.m. People in line at 6 will be allowed to vote.

While much of the attention focuses on the presidential race, several local positions also will be decided today.

The Lincoln Trail District Health Department issued a public health advisory Oct. 22 after children in three Elizabethtown-area schools and two daycare facilities were diagnosed with pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough. Letters were sent to parents of children who may have been exposed to the bacteria.

No cases have been reported in LaRue County, according to school oficials.

By Robert Villamueva

Landmark News Service

While area residents are preparing to elect a president, area health representatives are telling them: “Elect to Take Care of Your Diabetes!”

That sentiment is the theme for the Diabetes Expo being held from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at Pritchard Community Center in Elizabethtown.. The event is sponsored by Lincoln Trail District Health Department, the Hardin and LaRue County Diabetes Coalition and Hardin Memorial Hospital and is free and open to the public.

A busload of visitors from St. Louis looking for homes in the area were entertained Friday in Hodgenville.

The gathering at the Lincoln Museum community room was one stop on a four-day, get-acquainted tour for employees of the Army’s Human Resources Command, which will relocate to Fort Knox as part of the military restructuring known as BRAC, which stands for Base Realignment and Closure. The guests are in various stages of deciding whether to follow their jobs to Kentucky in 2010 and where to live if they move.