Business

Fort Knox Federal Credit Union has been awarded the Department of the Army’s 2011 Distinguished Service Award for Credit Unions.

The award was announced during the Defense Credit Union Council Annual Conference last month in Denver.

The credit union was selected from all on-post credit unions in the nation to receive the honor because of its activities that support soldiers, civilian employees of the military, veterans, military retirees and their families who serve or are affiliated with Fort Knox.

Nearly a year after Elizabethtown, Radcliff and Vine Grove residents voted to expand alcohol sales, the majority of liquor store owners licensed to sell have opened their businesses.

But local Alcoholic Beverage Control administrators said some licensees are still working on their establishments while one licensee turned his license back into the state.

Shopko Hometown revised its announcement regarding plans for close outs at three regional Pamida locations.

The liquidation sale which begin the final phase of renovation plans will begin Sept. 9. A previous company announcement issued Tuesday listed an earlier date.

Shopko and Pamida merged earlier this year. Stores in Hodgenville, Munfordville and Brandenburg will be renovated and reopen as Shopko Hometown, a smaller version of the retailers’ discount stores.

A popular restaurant franchise using female sex appeal as one of its primary draws could be attracting patrons in Elizabethtown by next summer.

Neal Harding, an Indiana businessman who holds around 40 Hooters franchises in the U.S. and internationally, has purchased the former Fergie’s Classic Grill property on Ring Road and said it will likely be renovated into a Hooters restaurant.

Harding has not fully confirmed the future use of the property but he said the location would be a good fit.

“It probably would be a Hooters,” he said.