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Today's News

  • Phoenix Club sponsors local events

    The Phoenix Club is a student-based organization of Elizabethtown Community and Technical College.

    This spring the club is sponsoring two community events. At 11 a.m. April 11, the club will sponsor and participate in a Walk for Awareness at Freeman Lake in Elizabethtown. All community members are invited to participate. For each mile walked, one dollar will be contributed by the Take the Walk organization to a charity of choice. More information is available at www.takethewalk.net.

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  • Lady Hawks drop three games in Florida

    The LaRue County Lady Hawks softball team enjoyed its spring break in Florida while playing three very tough Florida teams. 

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  • New Haven child waits for multi-organ transplant

    Max Dickerson pulled a fast one on the assistant principal at New Haven School when Lent began this year.

    New to the area, Mario Riley didn’t know Max very well. So when the second-grader told him with a solemn look that he was giving up chocolate for Lent, Riley, impressed with Max’s dedication, said he’d join him by giving up Mountain Dew. Riley followed through on his pledge – only to learn that Max never ate chocolate anyway.

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  • Talent showcase to benefit senior’s Project Graduation

    A talent showcase will be 7 p.m. Thursday, April 9, at the LaRue County High School auditorium. All proceeds will benefit Project Graduation, the all-night chaperoned party thrown for local graduates.

    Performers include Ricky Whitlock, Mallory Skaggs and several high school students. The small school state champion speech team will also give a presentation.

    Admission is $8 adults; $5 students.

    For tickets or more information, call Ricky Whitlock at 268-3344 or Deborah Whitlock at 358-9924.

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  • Weather watch issues

    For the second time today, LaRue County residents have been alerted to the possibility of dangerous weather conditions.

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  • Bariatric seminars held at Hardin Memorial Hospital

    Hardin Memorial Hospital will hold free bariatric surgery informational seminars throughout the year.

    All sessions are in 5A, 6-8 p.m. Dates are April 7, May 27, June 9, July 15, Aug. 11, Sept. 8, Oct. 13 and Nov. 3. Call 270-982-1200 for more information or to register.

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  • God’s favor can change everything for you

    “Now the king was attracted to Esther more than any of the other women, and she won his favor” Esther 2:17.

    One moment of God’s favor can change everything. If you want God’s favor in your life, study the life of Esther.

    1. She prepared herself. “Before a girl’s turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete 12 months of beauty treatments” Esther 2:12. Study. Preparation. Discipline. Those who pay the price to succeed aren’t lucky, they’re rewarded.

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  • Solid waste coordinator needs help finding culprit

    Have you had a roofing project done in the last few weeks?

    If so the LaRue County solid waste coordinator needs your help.

    Someone who recently did a roofing project on an older home dumped a load of old and leftover roofing shingles and waste materials on a LaRue County road about March 16-18.

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  • LaRue’s unemployment rate jumps to 12.4 percent in January

    Unemployment rates rose in 119 of Kentucky’s 120 counties between January 2008 and January 2009 and stayed the same in Martin County, according to the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training, an agency of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.

    LaRue County’s rate jumped to 12.4 percent, up from 8.5 percent in December 2008.

    The rate was 4.9 percent in December 2007. Of a 7,314 workforce, 908 people are without jobs.

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  • Attitude is everything

    One way to having a right attitude toward God begins with honoring him on the Lord’s day. “On the first day of the week we came together to break bread...” (Acts 20:7). The writer of Hebrews says, “Let us not give up meeting together as some are in the habit of doing ...” (Hebrews 10:25).

    Some Christians today give up meeting together, but not for the same reason as the early Christians. No one persecutes us today for getting together. Most of the time our reason is that we have too many irons in the fire.

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