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Elizabethtown Mayor Tim Walker said the public will get a detailed look at the 2013-14 fiscal year budget early next month.

Walker plans to present the budget and deliver a message during Elizabethtown City Council’s June 3 meeting.

He declined to release specifics on the budget Monday afternoon because details of the spending plan are being finalized. Council members met multiple times last week at City Hall to review and fine tune the budget and planned to wrap up discussions Monday night.

Shuffling through family photos, Berna Hester says one can be found of her in the yard of her home in Harlan. Cardboard boxes are scattered around the grass and children are sitting at them as if they were desks while she stands in the front of what is a makeshift classroom.

“When I was 3 years old, my favorite thing to play was school,” she said.

Decades later, school still is one of her favorite things.

What began as a gesture of appreciation for employees in the Hardin Circuit Court Clerk’s Office has turned into what Hardin County Sheriff Charlie Williams suspects is a scam.

Williams on Monday said he received several complaints last week concerning someone attempting to solicit money for advertisements in a calendar for the Hardin County Clerk’s Office and the circuit court clerk’s office.