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  • North Hardin High School girls track and field team clinch 3-A state title
  • Beauty school promotes environment, student skills

    A local beauty school is promoting the environment and its students’ skills with a special event Saturday night.

    Empire Beauty School on Westport Road in Elizabethtown is hosting a student-organized hair show called “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” at 7 p.m.

    Fashions are expected to feature newspapers, trash bags, aluminum cans and other materials that can be reduced, reused or recycled to help the environment, said Elizabethtown student Jaclyn Gartner, who is helping with the show.

  • Hooray for Heroes is Saturday

    With much of Hardin County turning out to honor soldiers, organizers of Hooray for Heroes have added shuttle service to accommodate crowds in Radcliff.

    The eighth annual Hooray for Heroes celebration is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday next to Stithton Baptist Church in Radcliff. An evening segment with a USO theme will honor World War II veterans. It is scheduled from 7 to 8:45 p.m. in the church auditorium.

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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.