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Today's News

  • HCS approves tentative budget

    Hardin County Schools’ officials expect a smaller general fund for the upcoming fiscal year.

    The HCS board approved the tentative budget for fiscal year 2014 on Thursday night at its regular meeting. The district expects a reduction in state funding but an increase in local tax revenue. The tentative budget is the second step of a three-step cycle; the draft version of the budget was approved in January.

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  • Motorcycle wreck on U.S. 62
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  • Possible failed child abduction investigated

    Hodgenville police are investigating what may have been an attempted child abduction.

    Chief Steven Johnson said he received a call Monday from a woman who said her son was walking after school on  South Lincoln Boulevard near Citizens Union Bank in Hodgenville when a tan GMC truck stopped near him.

    The 12-year-old boy told his mother the man driving pulled the truck up to the curb but didn’t roll down the window. Then, he started signaling for the boy to approach, Johnson said.

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  • Photos: Lincoln Trail Master Gardener Plant Fair
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  • Local graduations on HCEC-TV live

     

    Local graduations are set to air live on Hardin County Educational and Community Television, a division of Hardin County Schools.

    “Now families from across the world can see students receive their diplomas,” said HCEC-TV director Gina Ryan in a news release.

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  • Three generations join local DAR chapter

    The Captain Jacob VanMeter Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution welcomed five new members into its fold Friday morning at the Brown Pusey House in Elizabethtown, four of which represent three generations of the same family.

    Elizabethtown resident Charline Akins; her two daughters, Christy Bennett and Cathy Reas; and her granddaughter, Kelly McManus, were sworn into the DAR during a ceremony Friday, where they were bestowed with pins and flowers.

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  • KSP Post 4 honors its fallen troopers

    Kentucky State Police Post 4 honored its four fallen troopers who have been killed in the eight-county post area.

    Lt. Willis Martin, 44, Trooper Lee Huffman, 27, and Trooper Eddie Harris, 29, were killed in Hardin County. Trooper William Pickard, 26, was killed in LaRue County.

    Each year in May, Post 4 troopers place flowers on the officers' graves before offering a prayer and salute.

    Pictured in the photos are Sgt. Kevin Burton and troopers Brad Riley, Brandon Brooks and Peter Binkley.

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  • Japanese student exchange program still looking for local host families

    CCI Greenheart is still looking for local host families to welcome Japanese students to Elizabethtown this summer.

    The Tomodachi Coca-Cola Homestay program returns to the city from July 26 to Aug. 6 and supports Japan’s recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake by building cultural and economic ties between the two countries.

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  • Faces & Places: Through the lens
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  • Meade first responders honored by Fort Knox, Army

    Two men who helped one U.S. Army family were honored this week.

    Todd Matti, an officer with the Brandenburg Police Department, and Larry Naser, chief of the Meade County Fire Protection District, received the Civilian Award for Humanitarian Service. Matti and Naser were honored for saving the life of Wyatt Bean, the son of retired Fort Knox soldier Justin Bean.

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