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  • Summer of sweat and how students deal with it

    School’s not even in session, but fall sports and other activities already are heating up, quite literally.

    Most athletic teams and bands have had to cancel, alter or reschedule practices because of frequent heat advisories this summer. According to Mark Adams of the National Weather Service, July had only two days when the high was below 85.

    Although he doesn’t record heat indexes regularly, he has noted several days with heat indexes above 100 degrees and has seen it as high as 115 degrees.

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  • Radon: Lack of knowledge could kill

    As the adage goes, “What we don’t know can’t hurt us.” According to local, state and national authorities on radon, lack of knowledge on the subject could, in fact, be killing us.

    “It’s astonishing, frankly,” said Professional Learning Institute Dean Steve Keeney, “but there’s nobody out there explaining the risk to the public.”

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  • Photo: Car hit by train in Radcliff
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  • Second crash on northbound Interstate 65 reported

    At 7:15 p.m., a multi-vehicle crash was reported at the 86-mile marker on northbound and southbound Interstate 65.

    At 6:40 p.m., emergency responders responded to the 88 mile marker where a vehicle had rolled several times. One person was reported injured.

    Be prepared for traffic delays.

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  • Senior Life: Memory function changes with age

    I should keep notebooks titled “Memories I Want to Remember.” In these notebooks, I would write my special memories, from early childhood, school days, first loves, work life, adulthood and parenthood.

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  • LaRue records second-lowest jobless rate in state for June

    Ninety six Kentucky counties saw a drop in unemployment rates from June 2010 to June 2011 with LaRue County holding the second-lowest unemployment rate in the state, according to a report issued by the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training, an agency of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.

    Woodford County had the lowest jobless rate in the state for June at 7.4 percent but was trailed closely by LaRue County at 7.5 percent.

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  • Christ Episcopal’s rector moving on to new church

    “Where do you intervene? Where do you start?” asks Alice Nichols, outgoing rector at Elizabethtown’s Christ Episcopal Church. “I think the answer is everybody.”
    With a reputation for being ecumenical, Nichols has spent much of her life reaching out to “everybody” through her career as a social worker in the mental health field and most recently as a rector.
    After four years at Christ Episcopal Church, Nichols is relocating to Hopkinsville to serve at a church where she interned five years ago, she said.

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  • Katlyn Wolford has a new best friend, service dog Apollo

    When school starts this week, Central Hardin High School will have a new student: the furry kind.

    Katlyn Wolford, 16, and her black Labrador, Apollo, 2, will go to school together this term. Apollo is the first Canine Assistants-trained dog to ride a school bus in Hardin County.

    Canine Assistants is a nonprofit organization in Alpharetta, Ga. The organization trains and provides service dogs to enhance and improve the lives of people with physical disabilities, seizure conditions or other special needs.

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  • Cruisin' returns with more muscle

    Six-shooters and speed demons sat arm-in-arm Saturday in Elizabethtown without a single shootout or showdown to speak of. 

    The nicknames emblazoned on the sides of cars conjured images of Wild West saloons and white-knuckled demolition derbies, but more accurately, it was a classic car showcase known as Cruisin’ the Heartland.

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  • Groundbreaking held for 9/11 Memorial

    Another step has been taken in the process of creating a local Sept. 11 memorial.

    A ceremonial groundbreaking was held Friday for the memorial, a testament to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to be erected at Kentucky Veterans Cemetery-Central in Radcliff.

    Members of organizations working to build the memorial lined up with shovels to show their commitment to bringing the memorial to the cemetery. The memorial will be centered around a piece of steel from the World Trade Center wreckage.

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