Today's News

Children’s library program

LaRue County Public Library Children’s program registration is being held at the upstairs desk. For more information, call Michelle Perkins at 358-3851.

Art Guild to meet

The Central Kentucky Art Guild will meet 6:30 p.m. Aug. 17 at the Nolin RECC building in Elizabethtown. For more information, call Debbye at 307-7590.

Chamber luncheon

A total of 2,346 students showed up for classes at LaRue County Schools for the first day Aug. 6. That’s 12 fewer than last year’s first day enrollment. In 2007, first day enrollment was 2,475.

First Day Enrollment

                     2009        2008           

District        2,346        2,358       

A former Magnolia man has been ordered to return $78,482.36 to the Kentucky State Treasury after being found guilty of welfare fraud in LaRue Circuit Court.

Robert Caughron, 37, who now lives in Salesville, Ohio, was sentenced to two years, suspended and probated for five years. He also was ordered to begin making payments of $100 per month to the treasury department beginning in September.

At that rate of reimbursement, he will be paying the government back for the next 65 years.

Sunny skies and a ton of food greeted those attending the groundbreaking ceremony Friday for Fort Knox Federal Credit Union’s Hodgenville location.

Several credit union employees and board members introduced themselves to LaRue County residents at the short program and reception.

J. Marvin Hawk, chairman of the board of directors, called the event a “new and wonderful chapter” for the credit union.