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  • Our precious loss: May 14, 1988: From park fun to roadway tragedy

    It wasn’t until a few days before the trip to King’s Island north of Cincinnati that Jerry and Jeff Wheeler knew for certain they would be allowed to attend.

    “I remember begging mom to let us go,” said Jerry Wheeler. “I wanted to go to maybe meet some new people. It was a really fun day leading up to what happened on the way home.”

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  • Our precious loss: For Cummins, like many, life changed 25 years ago

    Everyone on the crash scene the night of May 14, 1988, believed anyone who was still alive was off the bus. And then Carey Aurentz emerged from the wreckage.

    Carey Aurentz Cummins’ thoughts often return to that May night, to a church bus returning home to Radcliff after a day at King’s Island in Ohio. She remembers sitting in the front row aisle seat, door side, talking with Phillip Morgan, Billy Nichols and Emillie Thompson, who invited her on the trip.

    Seconds later, her familiar life came to an end as a new one began.

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  • Our precious loss: Carrollton crash ignited local efforts in SADD, MADD

    It was clear to Maria Batistoni what the agenda of the first meeting of the newly-formed Students Against Driving Drunk at North Hardin High School needed to be in the fall of 1988.

    “They needed to heal, they were raw,” she said of the students.

    More than 200 students had joined the club, formed months after the bus crash near Carrollton that killed 27 people, including 24 children. Some were students at North.

    “What do the kids need?” Batistoni said she asked herself. “What do I need? We need a hug.”

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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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  • Police: Man accelerated through KSP roadblock

    A Radcliff man was arrested Monday morning after state troopers say he sped through a traffic safety checkpoint on Ky. 313 without stopping and nearly struck several officers with his vehicle.

    Drew M. McCormick, 23, faces three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment, second-degree criminal mischief, driving under the influence, license to be in possession, reckless driving, resisting arrest, no insurance and menacing.

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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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  • Our precious loss: Congregation bonded by grief

    Martha Tennison had preached many times at Radcliff First Assembly of God. but no previous sermon prepared her to deliver the message of God’s faithfulness to the weeping congregation May 15, 1988, in a voice choked with tears.

    Martha called her husband at 11 the night before to see whether their 15-year-old son had made it back from a trip to King’s Island on a bus with other church youth, chaperones and guests.

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  • Our precious loss: A home destroyed, a life renewed

    On May 14, 1988, Lee Williams’ life ceased to make sense. Family was replaced with emptiness, routine swallowed up by chaos.

    He lost everything in a bus crash on Interstate 71 that killed 27 people, leaving him alone to contemplate the senseless violence of one destructive decision by a drunken driver.

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