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Marion County slowed LaRue County's ground game and captured a 33-7 district football victory Friday night in Hodgenville.

In their first seven games of the season, the Hawks averaged 30 points per game but were limited to a single touchdown by the Knights.

LaRue still has a shot to host a first-round playoff game. The Hawks can finish second in the Class 4-A Region 1, District 4 race with a win Friday, Oct. 23, at Bullitt East. Both teams are now 1-1 in district play after the Chargers defeated North Bullitt.

The 2009 Lincoln Days Parade was easily the largest since I have been working on the parade and perhaps the largest in Lincoln Days’ history, with an almost 50 percent increase in participation. With such growth, I was anxious that the volunteers might be overwhelmed. Instead, this parade was the best I have experienced as a worker anywhere.

When President Obama recently mentioned that one big insurer controlled 96 percent of the market in just one state, a collective (and very loud) gulp went down the throats of insurance industry executives. You see, this domination of the small group market, where small businesses are forced to buy insurance, drives costs up at an unsustainable rate.

Juan Maria Gea, a dairy farmer from Esquipulas, Nicaragua, and four other Nicaraguan residents visited Plowshares Farm Center for Education and Spirituality in LaRue County Sept. 28. The visitors from Esquipulas were in Louisville as part of a sister parish relationship with St. William Church in Louisville. St. William has been in relationship with this parish in Esquipulas for over 20 years. 

According to Bob Ernst, founder of Plowshares, the group visited the farm “to explore our small farming effort and to share ideas about feeding the hungry.”