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  • North Dixie Boulevard Streetscape work up for vote today

    Radcliff City Council will vote today to accept a contractor for the North Dixie Boulevard Streetscape Project, which the city rebid last year after multiple bidders were disqualified for failing to meet bid qualifications.

    The city’s engineering department is recommending the city accept C&A Concrete’s bid of $779,268, the lowest of six bids. The highest bid was from Bluegrass Contracting at $1,182,388.75, according to a report released by the department.

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  • Library technology increasing with patron savvy

    E-readers, audio books, online reading and other technology-based literature hasn’t caught on with everyone. But the number of readers using such methods is increasing, and Hardin County Public Library is responding.
    The branch in Elizabethtown hosted a free presentation Saturday to show patrons how to download e-Books, audio books and other forms of media onto e-readers and iPods.
    Lisa Huffer, bookmobile librarian and unofficial library system techie, said digital items offer alternative reading options to technology-savvy patrons.

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  • Al Rider receives Distinguished Citizen honor tonight

    Al Rider prizes helping people achieve their dreams through education as president and CEO of North Central Education Foundation, but he never dreamed that he might receive an award for what he considers just doing his job.

    Rider, 63, a Hardin County native, has been chosen as this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Citizen award from the Lincoln Heritage Council Boy Scouts of America.

    The award is presented annually to leaders who strive to improve Hardin County, are devoted to family and place duty to God, country and others before themselves.

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  • East Hardin student named state Beta VP

    An East Hardin Middle School student has taken on a statewide leadership role.
    Rebekah Mobley, a seventh-grader at East Hardin Middle School, was elected as vice president for the statewide Beta Club at its state convention last weekend. Mobley is the first East student in several years to hold a state office in the club.
    Mobley has been in Beta since the fifth grade, and is vice president of East’s club. Mobley previously had seen a fellow student run for an office and decided it was something she should also try.

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  • Looking into adult care centers

    It goes without saying — activity and independence are the keys to maintaining good quality of life. While this seems easy to understand, there are still many questions to be answered. Where can older people or individuals with disabilities remain active, independent, make new friends, and still maintain their dignity?  How does a working spouse or family member make sure a loved one is cared for through the day? Where can caregivers get a much-deserved break from the strain of caregiving for their family members?

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  • E-mails, search party put runaway dog back on the road

    Dog rescue transport volunteers from as far away as Georgia had a happy ending Sunday morning when they recovered a German Shepherd named Annabelle in the corner of a yard on Wren Drive in Elizabethtown.
    Annabelle was being transferred from Roswell, Ga., to Beaver Dam, Wis., when she got away from her volunteer handler Saturday night in the parking lot of the Best Western hotel in Elizabethtown and ran out of sight.

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  • Check out these baby bloomers

    Signs of life are popping up.
    The economy appears to be gaining momentum. And, on a less grand scale, in my yard last week stood a single yellow crocus – the first outdoor bloom I saw this year.
    In fact, the term crocus has an economic meaning: “The financial community sometimes refers to companies or economic sectors that rise early after an economic downturn as ‘crocuses’ in reference to the flower's ability to thrive in the late winter and early spring,” according to the Weather Channel’s Signs of Spring slide show.

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  • Alcohol businesses cautious about competition

    As the group Yes for Economic Success — Y.E.S. — gathers the number of signatures required to put expanded alcohol sales on ballots in three Hardin County cities, backers stress the need to recover money being funneled to alcohol sales in establishments outside the county.
    But some business owners  outside Hardin County say package liquor sales are unlikely to create an economic oasis and would hurt neighboring counties.

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  • 72-unit apartment complex could impact downtown E'town

    A new apartment complex proposed for Elizabethtown could add an additional weapon to the city’s arsenal as it takes larger strides to revitalize downtown, said State Farm insurance agent T.J. Rhoades, one of the developers of the property.
    Rhoades unveiled a plan Friday to develop a 72-unit apartment complex near Glendale Hill subdivision off Skyline Drive and Vaughn Lane.

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