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  • Hosparus earns award based on family feedback

    According to families of its patients, you can’t beat Hosparus of Central Kentucky.

    The organization, which celebrates the opening of its memorial gardens later today, recently was recognized as a top 100 hospice based on an independent research firm’s analysis of surveys filled out by patients’ loved ones.

    Deyta’s Hospice Honors Award is given to 100 of the more than 1,200 partnering hospice agencies using the Family Evaluation of Hospice Care survey, according to a news release.

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  • Local legislators decry political excesses of redistricting

    During impromptu remarks at a breakfast gathering Thursday, two local legislators pledged to ensure northern Hardin County gets a fair shake when the General Assembly redraws its boundaries.

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  • Crash film 'artfully done'

    Thomas Hertz didn’t sleep Tuesday night.

    Along with many survivors from the church bus crash near Carrollton, Hertz observed the 25th anniversary of the crash Tuesday by attending a private viewing of the documentary “IMPACT: After the Crash” at the Historic State Theater in Elizabethtown.

    The 82-minute documentary took survivors back to that fateful night in 1988. To the parents and families of those who died in the crash, it provided further insight into what their loved ones endured on Interstate 71.

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  • Preserving the past for future display

    Curator Nathan Jones stops and ponders the oldest item in storage at the General George Patton Museum of Leadership, which is less than a month from its public reopening.

    The museum’s namesake, Gen. George S. Patton, toured European palaces during his time in the military, often stopping to admire and praise artifacts on display. Jones said Patton’s kind words led to loads of souvenirs, including knight’s armor and a sword dating back to the 1600s, which is set for display at Fort Knox in June.

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  • Patton Museum staff brings different experiences, resources to collections

    Every staff member of the Gen. George Patton Museum of Leadership is working to revamp the space where tanks and armor used to reside. Curator Nathan Jones said the team is diverse, representing different functions of the museum world.

    Jones often is mistaken for the museum’s director, the administrative leader of the staff who supervises daily operations. He defers those questions because his job title is more academic in nature.

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  • Injured puppy ready for adoption

    Hardin County Animal Control is ready to adopt out a 6-month-old dog that broke its leg earlier this month when police say the canine’s owner caused it to fall 5 feet.

    Athena, a brown Chihuahua mix, wears a thick, red cast on her front left leg, but animal control officials said you wouldn’t know it by her energy level.

    “If you set her down, she’s nothing but a blur,” kennel technician Kathy Alberts said Wednesday.

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  • Crews finish repairs to Valley Creek overpass

    Eastbound traffic at mile-marker 132 of Western Kentucky Parkway near Elizabethtown was reduced to one lane Wednesday while crews continued to repair railings sheared off a bridge during a semi wreck Tuesday.

    Orange barrels lined the bridge over Valley Creek as crews with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet replaced guard and side rails on the overpass, according to the cabinet’s District 4 office in Elizabethtown. The repairs were expected to be finished Wednesday.

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  • Local tourism up 9.1 percent in 2012

    Hardin County’s tourism industry is flourishing

    A report from the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet indicated the county’s direct economic impact from tourism climbed 9.1 percent in 2012, infusing the local economy with more than $15 million of additional spending above the prior year.

    The county recorded $182 million in direct tourism spending during 2012, according to a joint news release issued by the Elizabethtown Tourism and Convention Bureau and the Radcliff-Fort Knox Tourism and Convention Commission.

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  • Former teacher pleads not guilty in sexting case

    A former J.T. Alton Middle School teacher facing 30 felony charges remains behind bars in lieu of a $100,000 cash after a Hardin Circuit Court judge denied a motion to reduce bond.

    Anthony D. Durrant, 46, of Rineyville, pleaded not guilty Tuesday afternoon to allegations he exchanged sexually explicit text messages and photographs with a female student who is younger than 16 years old.

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  • Overturned truck blocks highway, injures driver, spills milk

    An overturned semi truck shut down eastbound lanes for several hours Tuesday afternoon on Western Kentucky Parkway near Elizabethtown and dumped half-and-half cream into a creek.

    The semi was traveling east on the parkway near mile-marker 134 and approaching a bridge over Valley Creek when it struck a guard rail in the left lane, said Chris Jessie, spokesman for Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District 4 in Elizabethtown.

    The truck then swung into the right lane and struck the opposite guard rail before coming to a rest on its side across the bridge, he said.

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