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Today's News

  • Census population estimates: E’town breaks into Ky.’s top 10

    Once perched on the periphery of Kentucky’s most populous cities, Elizabethtown’s size has reached a new level.

    The city has outgrown Henderson to become the state’s 10th largest, according to U.S. Census Bureau population estimates released Thursday for the year ending July 1, 2012.

    Elizabethtown’s population has increased by 804 residents since the 2010 census, rounding out a population of 29,335 compared to Henderson’s 28,911, according to the estimates.

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  • Company's coming

    ISSUE: Tourism in Hardin County on the rise
    OUR VIEW:     Growth in critical part of economy

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  • Berlin Wall exhibit provides palette for Fort Knox artist

    Tressa Croce Breton will leave some important graffiti behind when she and her husband leave Fort Knox.

    A professional artist by trade, Breton created the artwork for a display of the Berlin Wall for the General George Patton Museum of Leadership.

    The display consists of a representation of the wall that includes graffiti and artwork ranging from accomplished artists to everyday people, she said.

    “I wanted to show the variety of the population and represent everyone,” Breton said.

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  • One-woman band comes to Vine Grove

    Laura Thurston brings her unique one-woman band to The Depot Tavern in Vine Grove at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

    Thurston is a Charleston, S.C., musician who plays a suitcase for a kick drum, a tambourine with her foot as well as a guitar and harmonica all while singing in a folk-grass sound.

    Thurston has played music since she was young and began a solo career in 2011 performing along the East Coast, according to a news release.

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  • FOOTBALL: Coaches, friends, colleagues remember McCurry (05/24)

    Two days since the sudden death of his coaching colleague and friend, LaRue County football coach Josh Jaggers stared at the coaching locker of the late Nathan James McCurry and vowed to leave the belongings as they were.

    Just a few days earlier, the buddies had finished up spring football practice with the middle school Hawks, who McCurry proudly served as head coach.

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  • OPINION: Central shows its still the best in 17th District (5/24)

    Being favored entering the postseason isn’t always the easiest the position to be in. There’s a certain amount of pressure, not to mention expectations with being the favorite. It doesn’t earn a team an automatic victory. When you think about it, being favored doesn’t guarantee anything.

    The Central Hardin baseball and softball teams were heavily favored entering this week’s 17th District tournaments and both emerged with championships. Both left no doubt who the best team in baseball and softball were once again.

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  • PREP SOFTBALL: Lady Hawks stun Green County (05/24)

    HORSE CAVE— Emillee Cundiff could have gotten down on herself and allowed things to snowball in Thursday’s 18th District Softball Tournament final at Caverna.

    After giving up a three-run home run to Green County senior Madison Sidebottom with two outs in the bottom of the first, things could have gotten worse for the LaRue County sophomore.

    But they didn’t.

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  • PREP BASEBALL: North's Mathews makes the switch to catcher (5/24)

    North Hardin junior Graham Mathews always considered himself an infielder. When he started in the program, he was a middle infielder before mainly playing first and third last season.

    North Hardin coach Ace Adcock had players who could play the infield. What he didn’t have was a catcher. The coaching staff didn’t want to use sophomore Javier Echevarria behind the plate because they planned on using him on the mound.

    So Adcock approached Mathews about making the move to catcher. Mathews wasn’t too keen on the idea initially.

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  • UPDATE: Nashville couple found dead after I-65 crash

    After clearing the scene of a single-vehicle crash Thursday that killed an elderly Tennessee woman on Interstate 65, firefighters found the body of her husband more than 970 feet south of the crash.

    The man had left the vehicle and walked the edge of a creek bed where the Toyota sedan had fallen.

    The couple later was identified as Claire R. Kahane, 75 and Charles S. Kahane, 78, of Nashville, said Norman Chaffins, spokesman for Kentucky State Police Post 4 in Elizabethtown.

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  • Man struck, killed by train

    A fatal collision Wednesday night left papers bearing the names of Harold Haire’s friends and family scattered across railroad tracks near Cox Lane in Elizabethtown.

    It was through those papers that Hardin County Coroner Dr. Bill Lee said he was able to identify the Elizabethtown man’s next of kin.

    Haire, 53, was struck by a CSX train after 11 p.m. Wednesday, according to officials. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

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