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  • Legendary stone returning to Meade County

    While visiting a dogtrot cabin in western Meade County, Jon Whitfield was taken to a shed and shown a stone with strange markings.
    Craig Crecelius, now deceased, had dug up the limestone slab in 1912 while plowing a field at the base of a rocky cliff near Battletown. After carting it around to fairs and other events for years, he became discouraged by the lack of interest in it.

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  • Emergency responders train for mass casualty situation


    Injured victims are scattered throughout Elizabethtown High School. Some lay silently on the floor. Others are shouting for help. One screams, “Help! I’m too young to die!”
    Elizabethtown Police Department’s special response team is in full gear — helmets, vests and all. They’ve lined up outside a classroom door and appear to be closing in on their suspects.

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  • U.S. Army charges Burke with premeditated murder

    Just more than two weeks after Judge Kelly Mark Easton ruled to dismiss Brent Burke without prejudice, the U.S. Army charged the former Fort Campbell soldier with two counts of premeditated murder.

    Burke is accused of killing his estranged wife, Tracy Burke, and her former mother-in-law, Karen Comer, in Comer’s Rineyville residence on Sept. 11, 2007, while Tracy’s three young children were present.

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  • County fair brings back favorites and introduces lawn mower derby

    MONDAY'S EVENTS

    Entry Day for Exhibits - 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

    4-H Entry Day - 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

    FFA Entry Day - 1:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.

    Culinary Department - 4:30 p.m.

    Flower Department Judging - 4:30 p.m.

    Garden and Fruit Judging - 4:30 p.m.

    Mark Comley Magic Show - 7 and 9 p.m.

    Parent/Child Look-A-Like Contest - 7 p.m.

    Heartland Songwriter Association JAM - 7:30 p.m.

    KOTTPA Truck Pull - 7:30 p.m.

    Miss Hardin County Fair Pageant - 8 p.m.

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  • E’town man charged in Iowa court

    An Elizabethtown man has been charged in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for failing to register as a sex offender.

    Bruce Anthony Myers, 43, appeared Thursday in U.S. District Court in Iowa on the charge that he knowingly failed to register as a sex offender between April 28 and May 17.

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  • Vine Grove considers city hall repairs

    Vine Grove City Hall is feeling its age.

    The former Vine Grove elementary and high school building was built during the Franklin Roosevelt era by the Works Progress Administration, former mayor Donovan Smith said.

    The building might have been built in the late 1930s, but was more likely constructed in the early 1940s, he said.

    That time has subjected the building to structural and cosmetic concerns.

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  • Senior Life: Ways to ease the caregiving conscience

    I suffer from “guilt-itis”, a condition I’m sure if diagnosed would consist of an overly active guilty conscience. I mull events and situations over and over again. My “condition” makes me stop and think about my actions every day. In almost every situation, I am left wondering if I said the right thing, did the right thing, or if I should have done something differently.

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  • Berlin to Baghdad: Music career led Clark to the desert

    Paul Clark’s love for music has followed him throughout his professional career, and it was the primary weapon in his arsenal when he entered the Persian Gulf.

    The young music student, who now resides in Elizabethtown, was following his own template for life at Northern Arizona University when his trajectory drastically changed with one slip of paper.

    “After several years of study and still not getting a degree, Uncle Sam sent me a little letter and said ‘You’re drafted,’” he said.

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  • Berlin to Baghdad: Harrington had love of military in her veins

    Allean Harrington was enamored with the military at an early age.

    Her infatuation began with a deep appreciation for the attractiveness of the uniforms.

    A random drive one day led her near the U.S. National Guard and Army Reserves recruiting offices. She drove past the National Guard but hit the brakes when she reached the Reserves office. She walked inside.

    Her life would never be the same.

    She joined the U.S. Army Reserves in 1977, serving more than 26-and-a-half years between active and inactive duty, retiring as a chief warrant officer.

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