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  • Business owners have chance to chart future

    People often evaluate their personal fitness level and chart an exercise plan to improve it. The Lincoln Trail Workforce Investment Board wants to help business owners do the same for their companies and organizations.

    From April 7 through May 5, the LTWIB will offer five weekly Business Fitness Workouts, where Innovative Productivity Inc.’s Bill Thompson will serve as a personal business fitness trainer for participants.

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  • Fire chief asks for restrictions on firework vendors

    Elizabethtown Fire Chief Mike Hulsey urged the Elizabethtown City Council to consider placing restrictions on locations for fireworks vendors.

    The request Monday comes in the wake of Gov. Steve Beshear signing a bill into law allowing the sale of consumer fireworks, such as firecrackers and bottle rockets, in the state.

    Hulsey said the new law allows municipalities to inspect fireworks vendors, although he expects the city will be unable to regulate chain and big box stores.

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  • Farmers' markets join certified program

    A statewide agency will be assisting local farmers markets this season.

    Two local farmers’ markets are included in this year’s group of 98 members of the Kentucky Farm Bureau Certified Roadside Farm Market Program. The markets of Three Springs Farm and Wooden Farm, which are on Dixie Highway and Wooden Lane in Elizabethtown, respectively, are members this year.

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  • Lab techs: Forensics draw no link between Burke and murders

    Lab technicians testified Monday that multiple items they analyzed during the investigation into Tracy Burke and Karen Comer’s deaths did not produce blood or DNA evidence linking former U.S. Army Sgt. Brent Burke to the murders.

    Likewise, broken glass fragments taken from a door of Comer’s Rineyville home did not match glass shards taken from a floor mat in Brent Burke’s Chrysler minivan, said Jack Reid, a forensic specialist with the Kentucky State Police crime lab.

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  • 18th century fun coming to Bardstown

    Hear ye, Hear ye: Colonial Bardstown returns to life in early April as a new event gets under way.

    The first Bardstown Colonial Days is a weekend filled with 18th century fun, including Rifle Frolics, a Market Fair, military drills and displays, visits by Daniel Boone and other historical figures, skill and craft demonstrations and street performers such as jugglers, a magician and a sword swallower.

    “Step back in time and discover life as experienced by the early settlers of Kentucky,” said Dennis Medley, event chairman and Colonial Days founder.

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  • Information fair today focuses on Fort Benning area

    An information fair for Armor troops, civil service workers and their families making the move to Georgia is Thursday at the Fort Knox Leaders Club.

    With the establishment of the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Ga., many operations formerly based at Fort Knox are relocating as part of the Base Realignment and Closure initiative. More than 300 representatives from that area are coming for the event, which will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday.

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  • Goalball a sport to cheer about, but not during play

    You know how you’re supposed to be quiet before a golfer hits the ball, but you can shout all you want as it rolls along the green toward the hole?

    Quiet is essential with goalball too, but more so. The audience has to zip-it until the action is over. That’s because three blindfolded players defending a long, low goal need to listen intently to the muted jingling of bells inside a rubber ball. If an opposing thrower rolls it past them, score one for the other team.

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  • Senior Life: Life after caregiving

    I have had some time to adjust and now am settling into my own routine. There are some days I find myself wishing for the way it used to be. But on other days I am content with the way it has now become, and excited for what the future holds.

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  • Renowned University of Kentucky poet to visit ECTC

    “My job as an artist is to retrieve and reconstitute that which the world has foolishly thrown away and give it new life.” — Nikky Finney

    Reading classic poetry inspired Nikki Finney as a child. Now a nationally known poet herself, the University of Kentucky professor said she appreciated how difficult topics were addressed with grace and lyrical precision without losing an artistic quest for beauty.

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