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  • Chowing down for a cause tonight in Sonora

    Carol Rogers can eat about half of a double buck burger, a staple of Sonora’s Bucksnort Café.

    The burger includes two oversized beef patties totaling nearly a pound of meat, multiple types of cheese, bacon and other additions, she said.

    “You name it, it’s on there,” she said. “It’s about six inches tall. It’s a big one.”

    Participants in a burger eating competition Friday at the Sonora Veterans Memorial Park can tackle the monster burgers while promoting the park.

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  • Tea to encourage strong mother-daughter relationships

    A Radcliff church is encouraging good relationships between mothers and daughters this weekend with a new event.

    The All Nations Worship Ministries Daughters of Destiny is hosting its first mother-daughter tea from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday at Colvin Community Center on Freedom Way in Radcliff.

    The cost is $15 for each set of mothers and daughters and $2.50 for each additional person, which covers a luncheon.

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  • Celebration planned to provide information to senior citizens

    An event Thursday is aimed at helping seniors care for themselves and find services they might need now or in the future.

    The 27th annual Senior Celebration is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Pritchard Community Center on South Mulberry Street in Elizabethtown.

    The event kicks off with comments from state Rep. Jimmie Lee, Elizabethtown Mayor Tim Walker and Humana consultant Ken Shultz.

    Awards are planned to be distributed to seniors.

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  • Stamp Out Hunger helps relieve need

    Postal workers delivered more than mail last week.

    They brought area families in need the chance to eat and a local charity a way to save money while providing services.

    Stamp Out Hunger brought in 7,223 pounds of food in Elizabethtown and about 8,700 pounds from Radcliff. The Vine Grove and Fort Knox post offices also collected food.

    That amount was about the same as last year’s collection for Radcliff and 183 pounds less than last year for Elizabethtown.

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  • Truck overturns, blocking WK Parkway

    Eastbound traffic on the Western Kentucky Parkway is blocked today because of an overturned tractor trailer.

    The female driver was injured and needed assistance to get out of the vehicle, which is owned by Summitt Trucking. She was taken to Hardin Memorial Hospital by Hardin County EMS.

    The single-vehicle crash occurred just before 1 p.m. on an overpass above Valley Creek on the west side of Elizabethtown near mile marker 134.

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  • E'town reviews mutual aid agreement

    Elizabethtown officials reviewed a mutual aid agreement with local police departments in Radcliff, Vine Grove and West Point; Hardin County Sheriff’s Office; and Kentucky State Police earlier this week.

    Police Chief Tracy Schiller said the agreement formalizes a process the departments have adhered to in a more informal manner for years, ensuring the agencies are available to one another when and if an emergency strikes or a situation arises endangering the public's welfare and safety.

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  • Effort could form friends of library group

    Jim Weise is trying to help a friend in need: the Hardin County Public Library.

    “If we’re not friends of the library, our libraries are going to suffer,” he said.

    Weise, a retired lawyer and member of the Elizabethtown Lions Club, is among a group contacted by library director Rene Hutcheson to look for input on ways to improve the library system.

    Weise remembered being part of a friends of the library group years ago.

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  • Woodford Reserve finds a spot on post

    The Saber & Quill is introducing its Woodford Reserve Room with a grand opening celebration Wednesday.

    Post residents and the community at large are invited to the ribbon-cutting ceremony, which begins at 4 p.m. Formerly the Tanker's Lounge, the room will be branded in honor of a superior Kentucky bourbon.

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  • Rehabbing Newberry's

    Two downtown Elizabethtown properties that cost $85,000 to purchase will require more money to rehab.

    Heath Seymour, executive director of the Elizabethtown-Hardin County Heritage Council, said he believes the investment would prove worthwhile because it will produce a product the city could lease, rent or sell at a competitive price.

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