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Elizabethtown on Monday approved a policy to expedite lien foreclosures while extending an olive branch in the form of an amnesty program for smaller liens.

City Council approved a policy allowing the Code Enforcement Board to foreclose on a lien if it exceeds $10,000 or 50 percent of the assessed value; a standing order has been issued and the city has completed more than 10 maintenance actions in a single year or more than 20 actions over multiple years; or the lien is more than five years old.

Three young adults were killed in two separate wrecks that occurred within hours of each other Saturday morning in Nelson County.

Morehead State University student Molly McBride, 21, was killed in a wreck at 6 a.m. Saturday on Blue Grass Parkway near Bardstown, according to a news release from the university.

McBride was a junior biomedical sciences major and daughter of the university’s dean of the Caudill College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, according to the release. A funeral is scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday in Morehead.

The widening of North Miles Street is slated to be finished by late September, but the road will be inaccessible for two weeks in June.

Chris Jessie, public information officer for the Transportation Cabinet District 4 office, said North Miles between Pear Orchard Road and Colonial Drive will close for 14 days starting June 3 as crews start phase two of construction.

Lora Carson still has the last letter Lt. John Douglas Hale wrote her before he was lost in Vietnam.

The Brandenburg man’s letters were usually brief and down-to-earth.

Carson, of Brandenburg, dated the man before he was deployed, and she still has the journal entries she wrote when he left and when word came that the helicopter he was on was shot down March 8, 1971.