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Today's News

  • Fundraiser calendar

    Fundraiser for childhood cancer

    Alex’s Lemonade Stand, a project to raise funds for childhood cancer, will be set up at Hodgenville Elementary School 3-5 p.m. Jan. 31. The event is hosted by Elyssa Hawkins on her eighth birthday. Birthday gifts will take the form of donations to ALS. Dinky Gowen is also expected to perform a magic show at 4 p.m. For more information, contact Bill Hawkins at billandbecky@windstream.net.

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  • Hosparus offers free volunteer training

    Hosparus-Hospice of Central Kentucky needs volunteers in LaRue County and will provide free on-site training. 

    “Patient care volunteers provide respite care and are an integral part of the patient’s care plan,” said Lisa Sanford, director of development and community relations at Hosparus. “We want to make it as easy as possible for people to volunteer. On-site training is one way that we can reach out to the community and make it more convenient for individuals  and groups interested in volunteering.”

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  • Slow start, late 'dry spell' trips Hawks

    Falling behind 9-0 at the outset, LaRue County's boys' varsity basketball team lost by nine Friday, Jan. 23, at Central Hardin.

    “I think we were too keyed up,” Coach Paul Childress said after the 53-44 loss. “We got in a hurry a lot early.”

    LaRue was scoreless until the 2:35 mark in the first quarter but managed to pull within three at 11-8 by the quarter’s end. The same margin existed at halftime at Central led 25-22 and Central held a 39-35 edge entering the final period.

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  • Cecil, Nunn named to Lincoln Presidential cabinet

    The faculty and staff at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School named two employees to the Lincoln Presidential Cabinet. Larry Nunn, head custodian, and Karlotta Cecil, fifth-grade teacher, are the recipients for December.

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  • School board members honored for service, progress

    This month, more than 800 local school board members are being honored for their service to school districts in Kentucky.

    “LaRue County Schools have been very fortunate to have a board committed to making decisions based on our students and community’s best interest,” said Sam Sanders, LaRue County Schools’ superintendent. “Because of this, the school system has made tremendous progress in every area.”

    He said that news articles from across the state reveal, unfortunately, this is not the case in many other districts.

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  • LaRue unable to convert during fourth-quarter surge

    LaRue County missed an opportunity for a fourth-quarter rally as poor shooting plagued the Lady Hawks throughout the girls' varsity game Friday at Central Hardin. LaRue scored the game's first goal but never led again in the 49-31 defeat.

    Entering the fourth quarter down by 16, LaRue's defense forced some turnovers but the Lady Hawks were unable to convert. In a post-game interview, Coach Travis Wootton said the team missed five straight layups in one stretch that could have cut the lead to five.

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  • Drake earns national board certification

    For Lisa Drake, LaRue County Middle School physical education teacher, the road to becoming LaRue County School District’s third teacher to gain national board certification was self-enlightening.

    “The things they required in order to become certified allowed me to step back from myself and observe how I taught as though I was someone else watching,” said Drake, in her 19th year of teaching. “It gives the teacher a good look at what she’s doing in the classroom and how she can improve.”

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  • School Board votes 3-2 to extend superintendent’s contract

    Newly elected school board member Norbert Skees stepped into his role at his first meeting as a board member Jan. 20 by voicing several concerns and voting against extension of the superintendent’s contract.

    The board considered extending Superintendent Sam Sanders’ contract by one year, through June 30, 2013.

    Skees said he would not support the extension and the contract should expire when originally negotiated, in 2012, and that it might be to Sanders’ advantage to renegotiate the contract earlier.

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  • Let’s make the most of new beginnings

    Early 2009 seems especially rich in new beginnings opportunities:

    •A new calendar year

    •A new/renewed set of resolutions to do better about whatever - be kinder, healthier, lighter, wiser.

    •A new U.S. Congress and so a clean legislative slate (though some unpassed items from the 110th Congress will likely be re-titled and resubmitted). Some shift in legislative priorities.

    •A new U.S. representative for the 2nd Congressional District - a new relationship to begin and build.

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  • Campaign complaints are taken seriously

    About a month ago, we received a “Just Ask” question by e-mail: “Is it true that (some of the local candidates) broke campaign laws with their signs and newspaper advertisements?”

    The person asking the question did not provide their name or contact number.

    Without more information, we were unable to file a complaint with the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance. The person we spoke to at KREF said the agency takes complaints about campaign violations under KRS 121 very seriously and provided a link to a pair of brochures on their Web site.

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