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  • Event boosts pet adoptions, despite economic trouble

    The answering machine at the Animal Refuge Center on Saturday morning announced that the no-kill shelter had no more room to take in animals.

    It has been a slow adoption year for the shelter, and manager Penny Edwards thinks the economy is to blame.

    To promote adoptions, the shelter hosted an Adopt-a-Pet event on Saturday.

    The shelter also reduced July adoption rates from $60 to $22 for cats and from $70 to $35 for dogs to celebrate the shelter’s 22nd anniversary.

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  • Scam for the ages and Abe's wrestling mama

    Three things this week.

    First: Elizabethtown native Philip Arnold believed in the business axiom: You’ve got to spend money to make money.

    So, 140 years ago this month he and cousin John Slack traveled to England to buy $20,000 worth of uncut diamonds and rubies.

    During the trip, Arnold went by the name Aundel, and Slack by Burcham. They were, needless to say, up to no good.

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  • Seniors should take summertime precautions

    It’s not uncommon for Margie to spend long hours working in her garden. She’s worked outside all of her life; first on the family farm helping with the crops, and then in her own garden working to grow food for her family. Margie has often said the heat and humidity typical to Kentucky doesn’t bother her.

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  • Local novelist publishes third book in series

    Trevis Powell of Cecilia never wants people to know who he’s going to kill.

    It’s hard to tell by looking at the animated covers and page counts at less than 150 pages that the books in Powell’s “Were-War” series for adolescents and older deal with as much loss as they do.

    “I kill a lot of people,” he said. “If you’re writing about adventure and you write that people are looking for trouble, basically, it’s going to find them.”

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  • Wading bird

    Gone fishin'

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  • Officials: Ky. 313 extension is 'well under way'

    Construction to extend Ky. 313 into Meade County is well under way and slated to be complete early next year when two more projects in northern Hardin County are expected to begin.
    The Ky. 313 extension, Elizabethtown-to-Radcliff connector and Bullion Boulevard connector are part of a series of road construction projects intended to facilitate commuter access to Fort Knox, said John Moore, project development branch manager at the Kentucky Department of Transportation District 4 Office in Elizabethtown.

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  • Armor's last blast

    The clock stopped Friday morning for the Armor School at Fort Knox as the final graduating class took the stage at Olive Theater for a final rite in their baptism into the world of tankers.

    It took 15 weeks of rigorous exercises and back-breaking ordeals, but 143 soldiers became a part of history as members of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 81st Armor Regiment.

    “It will be the (very) last class after 71 years to sweat and bleed on Kentucky soil,” noted Capt. Thane Keller, company commander.

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  • Father charged with murder after crash

    A Louisville man faces charges including murder following a fatal traffic wreck Friday that killed his 2-year-old daughter.

    Arturo Rodriguez, 22, lost control of the 2000 Cadillac Escalade he was driving southbound on Interstate 65 and entered the median, Kentucky State Police said.

    The vehicle crossed into the northbound lanes where it overturned, police said.

    Officers responded at 5:33 p.m. to the wreck near the 86 mile marker.

    Sidolena Martinez, 2, was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

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  • Bridge to somewhere

    The floor of one room of Radcliff United Methodist Church was littered with the remains of 4,200 cloth bags full of school supplies on Saturday.
    A steady flow of residents flocked to Bridging the Gap: Back to School Explosion to enjoy themselves and pick up supplies.
    The event, which was hosted by the Radcliff-North Hardin Ministerial Association, was organized this year after area faith leaders learned tight budgets would prevent some student resource centers from offering free school supplies to students in need.

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  • Cadet Command welcomes deputy commander

    By Caitlin VanOverberghe
    U.S. Army Cadet Command
    Col. Peggy Combs does not credit her success to luck. She knows it was her mother who set her career as a U.S. Army officer in motion.
    Then a staff sergeant in the Army Reserves, her mother, Pat, brought home an ROTC flyer for Combs when she was a junior in high school. She received an ROTC scholarship and attended Syracuse University, later commissioning as a second lieutenant.

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