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Mayor Tim Walker kept his promise Tuesday night.
Facing a gridlock over authorization of a new grease trap/interceptor policy, Walker broke a 3-3 tie to make the proposal law. Councilmen Larry Ashlock, Marty Fulkerson and Kenny Lewis opposed the measure.
The policy places guidelines on installation and upgrade of grease traps for new and existing establishments that cook and prepare food to curb grease clogging city sewer lines. But opponents said the proposal may kill small businesses if they are forced to spend thousands of dollars to install grease traps.

Grading policies for the new end-of-course exams have been altered in Elizabethtown Independent Schools.
The EIS board voted to make new high school end-of-course exams count for 10 percent of a student’s grade, as opposed to the 20 percent originally planned. As of now, the decision only impacts exams that will be taken in the 2011-2012 school year.

Parker Duvall of Rineyville has learned to ignore negativity during the three years he has helped look for evidence of sasquatches in Kentucky.

“I get people who laugh at me because I was there, too,” he said. “I know it’s a hard pill to swallow.”

The former skeptic decided to be open-minded about the idea of sasquatches existing when a friend of his father told the family he remembered playing with young sasquatches when he was a child growing up in Tibet.

Package liquor soon will be a fixture in Hardin County.

The Kentucky Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control approved most of the package liquor and liquor drink licenses this week in Elizabethtown, Radcliff and Vine Grove, splitting them between small, independent establishments and larger corporate chains.

In Elizabethtown, all 12 of the package licenses available have been approved but only four had been issued as of Tuesday, Elizabethtown Finance Director Steve Park said.