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  • Vine Grove residents’ land slip-sliding away

    A state agency has taken an interest in an issue that has concerned some Vine Grove residents for more than a decade.

    Larry Stutler remembers when he moved into his house on Rosecreek Drive in 1998 when his back yard and those of neighbors on his side of the street had a foot-deep indention through it.

    Since then, he has watched construction of Radcliff Middle School, North Hardin High School and new homes and businesses divert more water to storm drains that filter into his back yard.

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  • At last, an outdoor celebration of spring

    Two events came together this weekend to make one joint festival, one of the first of the spring and summer seasons.

    Vine Grove Spring Fling and the Knights of Columbus annual Car and Bike Show enjoyed a hard-earned day of sunshine Saturday for the first-time mingling of the events. Craft and food booths easily shared Optimist Park with rows of shiny cars and motorcycles lined on both sides of the festival.

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  • Focus on finance: Identity theft – what to know

    Question: What exactly is “identity theft”?
    Answer: Identity theft is stealing people’s personal information to defraud them. Using their personal information, criminals then make charges to a person’s credit cards or cellphone, or perhaps impersonate them for access to bank accounts and more. Identity thieves like to prey on elderly who often lack the clarity and technical sophistication of younger adults.
    You can take steps to reduce your exposure to identity theft. Three major strategies to take are:

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  • Hardin Countians 'March for Babies'

    Hardin Countians put on their walking shoes this weekend to raise money for the smallest among them.

    Walkers filled the parking lot of Elizabethtown High School on Saturday to begin the March for Babies event, sponsored by the March of Dimes. The three-mile walk began in the parking lot after participants fueled up with food and pumped up with Zumba demonstrations.

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  • Mixing fun with fitness

    While New Highland Elementary staff and students spend their days during the week reading and ’riting, when Saturday rolled around, they tried a different “r” — running.

    New Highland Elementary School hosted a Family Fun Run on Saturday. About 60 students arrived at the school in the early morning hours to take part in a 2K run. Students started the run from the parking lot of the school and ran a route near Bluegrass Middle School and John Hardin High School.

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  • Photo: Welcome home for R&R
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  • Ceremony marks renaming of street

    A ceremony Tuesday afternoon will celebrate the naming of a city street for a former publisher of The News-Enterprise.

    Elizabethtown City Council granted the newspaper’s request in March to redesignate the northern two blocks of Strawberry Lane as Floe Bowles Way. The portion of the street being renamed runs from West Dixie Avenue to Maple Street and surrounds the newspaper's office complex.

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  • April in a word: Waterlogged

    May flowers had better be blooming in the coming weeks if the adage has any truth behind it.

    There have been plenty of April showers to bring out those blossoms, with total rainfall for the month coming to almost 17 inches — so far — in the Elizabethtown and Hardin County area, according to Kentucky Mesonet. Today’s forecast includes a 70 percent chance of showers or storms.

    Only seven days in April were rain-free at the Mesonet recording site in Cecilia.

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  • Sunday concert canceled

    A forecast of heavy rain for Sunday will cancel the free concert by the 113th Army Band at Fort Knox's Eastman Amphitheater at 7 p.m.

    The next concert in the free summer series is at 7 p.m. June 5 at at the amphitheater. off Wilson Road.

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  • College tuition ceiling raised

    A step that likely will lead to tuition increases for new community college students was taken at a local meeting of the state higher education board.

    The tuition ceiling for Kentucky Community and Technical College System was set at a 4 percent increase from current rates by the Council on Postsecondary Education on Thursday at its meeting at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College.

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