Today's News

The ground in some areas in LaRue County was white from the amount of hail that fell Sunday afternoon, said Troy Williams with the LaRue County Sheriff’s Department.

At times, the hail reached golf-ball size, Williams said. The county hadn’t sustained any damage as of early Sunday evening, he said.

Lora Carson still has the last letter Lt. John Douglas Hale wrote her before he was lost in Vietnam.

The Brandenburg man’s letters were usually brief and down-to-earth.

Carson, of Brandenburg, dated the man before he was deployed, and she still has the journal entries she wrote when he left and when word came that the helicopter he was on was shot down March 8, 1971.

When Vine Grove Elementary School interim assistant principal Kerry Reeves walked the halls of Clarkson Elementary School in Grayson County in the late ’60s and early ’70s, it was as a student.

When he walked them in 1979, it was as a custodian.

When he walks them this fall, it will be as principal.

“I truly am going back home,” Reeves, 51, said.

He will work with teachers who were students at the elementary school when he was custodian.

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.