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Today's Features

  • Father, son take to the fields

    In the agriculture field, fathers and sons often work together on the farm. While retaining individual farming interest, Larry Jaggers Sr. and Larry Jaggers Jr. plow common ground in row crop production.

    For the elder Jaggers, 69, farming began when he was a child then grew into a career in the spring of 1962. He had a dairy farming business for almost 50 years but now he raises beef cattle and farms crops with his son.

    Jaggers Sr. remembers farming with his dad near the end of the horse-drawn era, before tractors became the farming standard.

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  • HCP travels to 'South Pacific' in latest production

    The theater of war in the South Pacific is the backdrop for “South Pacific” in a theater in Elizabethtown as Hardin County Playhouse presents their production of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical.

    The play opens tonight at Plum Alley Theater in the Historic State Theater Complex.

    Co-director and actor Bo Cecil said the “cultural memory” of the era adds to the romantic atmosphere of the musical, which is set on a South Pacific island during World War II.

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  • Smiths use 'After Earth' as bonding project

    In “After Earth,” the Earth has been abandoned and humans have settled on a new planet. But father and son Cypher and Kitai — played by real life father and son Will (“Men in Black 3”) and Jaden Smith (“The Karate Kid”) — have crashed on Earth, now inhabited by ravaging wildlife and environmental dangers.

    Kitai has to venture into the dangerous wilderness to find a distress beacon to signal for a rescue. Along the way, he must face his fears to defeat a deadly enemy.

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  • Playing outside is a good thing

    Remember when you were a kid and the sweet freedom that came when school was out for summer? A time filled with adventure soon followed.

    Those were the days when you played outside until dark or until you accidentally buried your Yoda action figure in the flower garden and were too sad to play because he was lost. Maybe that was just me.

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  • Giving fitness to firefighters

    Members of the Radcliff Fire Department have a name for personal trainer Mishell Nibert.

    “We call her the ‘devil woman,’” Lt. Jared Boddy of the Radcliff Fire Department joked.

    Boddy said the firefighters tease her a lot about the intense workout she puts them through.

    “But really she’s absolutely amazing,” he said.

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  • Dash of Class: New Finest Cook calls upon family heritage

    The latest “One of Hardin County Finest Cooks” and I go back to high school when she and I played softball. Becky Yates played for Flaherty and I, of course, played for White Mills. What a flashback recently when I attended a funeral for one of her relatives at St. Martin’s Church in Flaherty. I hadn’t seen her since high school and didn’t realize she was the mother of one of my former students, Sharon Pike.

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  • Kitchen Adventures: When it's 'one of those days,' quick and easy does the trick

    Sometimes a cook likes to experiment with complicated things in the kitchen. Other times you have worked a long day and come home tired and hungry, looking to make something simple yet great tasting.

    This week’s adventure offers just that type of recipe, Easy Mexican Casserole.

    A friend found this recipe on Facebook and asked me to give it a try. The prep was simple and the taste was great.

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  • Strength starts here: Fort Knox garrison commander credits team with success

    As Fort Knox garrison commander, Col. Bruce Jenkins heads seven directorates and he attributes post improvements made during his two-year tenure to a team effort.

    “I’m just the guy who’s been blessed to be a coach of the garrison team,” Jenkins said.

    Garrison partner units and community groups “outside the gates” also contributed to the accomplishment of goals and senior commander priorities, Jenkins said.

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  • Area teens recognized in 2013 Congressional Art Competition

    Three area teens received recognition for Kentucky’s Second District in the 2013 Congressional Art Competition.

    Upton teen Jacob Walters was chosen as the first place overall winner, earning his work a place at the U.S. Capitol Building for display for a year. Walters also won, among other prizes, two tickets to Washington, D.C., a certificate and a ribbon.

    Winners of the contest were announced earlier this month.

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  • Elizabethtown photographer part of Frankfort exhibit

    Beginning Saturday visitors to the Frankfort office of Kentucky’s first lady will have the opportunity to view work by an Elizabethtown photographer.

    The Kentucky Arts Council selected David Toczko’s piece titled “Thoroughbred Sunset” for inclusion in the “Kentucky Treasures” exhibit.

    Toczko’s work was chosen from a pool of more than 200 juried artists. He is a juried/ fellowship artist with the Kentucky Arts Council.

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