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Grant helps LCS upgrade van for...

An $8,600 grant will provide students from LaRue County Schools who rely on wheelchairs easier access to field trips, other school activities and even job opportunities.

A 2011 Dodge Caravan owned by the district was retrofitted in February to make it wheelchair accessible at a cost of $8,680. The money was provided by the WHAS Crusade for Children, which raises funds for agencies, schools and hospitals to better the lives of special needs children.

Radiography club trash for cash

Dear Editor,

On the afternoon of Good Friday Elizabethtown Community and Technical College Radiography Club members spent their afternoon picking up trash in LaRue County. They were participating in the Trash for Cash program. Seventeen members and one advisor spent hours picking up trash along county backroads.

Farmers permitted to kill black...

Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin has signed a resolution, sponsored by Representative Brandon Reed, that urges the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to issue more permits to farmers allowing the killing or capture of black vultures.

The resolution also urges the USFWS to shorten and streamline the application process for receiving a migratory bird depredation permit. Many farmers have found it difficult to protect their livestock from harm, due to unnecessary bureaucracy on the federal level.

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4-H news and calendar

4-H Calendar

4-H Cooking Club

The 4-H Cooking Club will meet from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Monday, April 16 at the LaRue County Extension Office.

4-H Canoe and Kayak Club

The 4-H Canoe & Kayak Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17 at the Extension Office.

Anderson, WKU Forensics finishes...

The WKU Forensics Team placed second at the American Forensic Association National Individual Events Tournament championship, hosted April 6-9 by Colorado College in Colorado Springs.

LaRue Co. EMS add more positions

Because of an increased number of ambulance calls, LaRue County Fiscal Court, meeting at the courthouse in Hodgenville April 10, authorized Emergency Medical Services Director Mike Cottrell to add another full-time crew of two paramedics and two emergency medical technicians to his staff.

The number of runs jumped from 459 for the January 1-March 23, 2017, period to 623 for the same period this year, according to Cottrell.

KY Gives Day provides great...

Kentucky Gives Day - the statewide 24-hour online giving event – returns to our region for a third year on May 22.

Kentucky Gives Day is an online annual fundraising event for nonprofit organizations hosted by the Kentucky Nonprofit Network, bringing nonprofits and Kentuckians together for a powerful day of action. Central Kentucky Community Foundation is the regional sponsor and they invite all nonprofit organizations interested in boosting or launching their online fundraising efforts to participate.

Bell’s office encourages...

Every April, LaRue County Circuit Court Clerk Larry Bell and other circuit clerks in the state celebrate National Donate Life Month, which is a time to focus national and local attention on every individual’s power to make life possible by registering his or her decision to be an organ and tissue donor and learning more about living donation.

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