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Jim Weise is trying to help a friend in need: the Hardin County Public Library.

“If we’re not friends of the library, our libraries are going to suffer,” he said.

Weise, a retired lawyer and member of the Elizabethtown Lions Club, is among a group contacted by library director Rene Hutcheson to look for input on ways to improve the library system.

Weise remembered being part of a friends of the library group years ago.

Two downtown Elizabethtown properties that cost $85,000 to purchase will require more money to rehab.

Heath Seymour, executive director of the Elizabethtown-Hardin County Heritage Council, said he believes the investment would prove worthwhile because it will produce a product the city could lease, rent or sell at a competitive price.

Over the last four weeks, at least seven Hardin County women have been indicted for fraudulently obtaining thousands of dollars in public benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

In April, Elizabethtown woman Joyce McCarthy, 48, was indicted for misrepresentation or failure to report a change to obtain public assistance benefits. Three weeks later, five more women — Angela Marie Varner, Amanda McQuillen, Deidre McCray, Chariti May and Stephanie L. Skirvin — were indicted on the same charge.