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Today's News

  • Pearman pushes for events coordinator in Radcliff

    With Radcliff promoting Summer Blast in late June, Councilman Jacob Pearman pushed City Council to seriously consider the creation of an events coordinator position.

    Pearman said he believes the city's development of new festivals and events has brought its residents closer together and an employee dedicated to the cultivation of local entertainment could push Radcliff to a higher echelon.

    "I think we could just do more," he said.

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  • Listen to Dad's stories before he loses his hearing

    I still call my dad most every morning. While I’m driving to work, he’s slowly but surely making his way to breakfast in the retirement facility where my parents now live.

    I sometimes have difficulty communicating on the phone with Dad since his hearing is not what it used to be. (Dad just turned 89.) So, I was encouraged when Dad told me he was getting new hearing aids. I thought that would make our conversations easier.

    “I just got my new hearing aids,” he proudly announced one morning not long ago.

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  • Helping out around the county and beyond

    ISSUE: Serving special causes
    OUR VIEW: No shortage of heroes

    Firefighters long ago became  champions of the WHAS Crusade for Children, which raises money for children with special needs throughout Kentucky and southern Indiana.

    Although money is raised throughout the year, the firefighter at a road block, bucket in hand, is the image that signals the campaign’s peak each spring.

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  • John Hardin selects new principal

    The John Hardin High School site-based decision-making council has selected one of the school’s assistant principals, Lynne Gibson, to be the new JHHS principal.

    “The John Hardin leadership wants to move from being a good school to a great school. Lynne is up to the challenge,” Superintendent Nannette Johnston said in a statement. “We are excited for her and the John Hardin High School family.”

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  • Montgomery set for Bardstown appearance

    Life is truly a dance for John Michael Montgomery.

    The Kentucky native will kick off the 2013 Live at the Park Concert Series Monday with a concert at the J. Dan Talbott Amphitheatre. Tickets are $25 in advance or $28 the day of the show.

    “I’ve always wanted to play at that theater,” Montgomery said of the J. Dan Talbott Amphitheatre during a phone interview.

    Montgomery, who was born in Danville, said his show would feature some of his classic hits, as well as some new ones.

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  • Father, son take to the fields

    In the agriculture field, fathers and sons often work together on the farm. While retaining individual farming interest, Larry Jaggers Sr. and Larry Jaggers Jr. plow common ground in row crop production.

    For the elder Jaggers, 69, farming began when he was a child then grew into a career in the spring of 1962. He had a dairy farming business for almost 50 years but now he raises beef cattle and farms crops with his son.

    Jaggers Sr. remembers farming with his dad near the end of the horse-drawn era, before tractors became the farming standard.

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  • The Art of Performance: Baseball great lives in the present

    By: KEITH WILSON

    This professional baseball season has a special component built in. This is the year the Mariano Rivera, 43, has announced he will retire from baseball.

    Rivera is no ordinary baseball player. Many people consider him to be the best closing pitcher in the history of baseball. A closer is a pitcher who comes into a tight baseball game usually in the ninth inning to close out the game. That is, finish the game and preserve the lead that his team has established.

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  • 1,500 college students set for Leader’s Training Course

    The first wave of college students looking to serve their country as U.S. Army officers arrive Thursday for the start of the annual Leader’s Training Course, which marks its 48th anniversary this year.

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  • Fitness pilot program to begin at local school

    Through a new collaboration with Project Fit America, Hardin Memorial Hospital Foundation is launching an enhanced health and physical fitness pilot program this fall at Lakewood Elementary School.

    Project Fit is a nonprofit organization that donates to schools, grades K to 12, to assist in the development of cardiovascular health and physical fitness programs, according to its website.

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