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By MARTY FINLEY mfinley@thenewsenterprise.com

HARDIN COUNTY —Families continue to tighten belts as gas prices fluctuate and the economy teeters, and counties and cities throughout Kentucky find they also have to take inventory of the resources needed to maintain their communities.

Road supplies, such as asphalt, have been affected by rising prices this year, and road salt also is taking a hit, particularly in Elizabethtown and Radcliff.

On Sept. 27, Woodland Terrace Health Care Facility participated in the Alzheimer’s Association memory Walk and raised more than $1,200 for the organization.  

Seven reasons

Responding to Mr. Black’s letter of Oct. 2, the clear purpose of the Sept. 26 column by city council candidates Steve Atcher, Bill Bennett and Matt Wyatt was to detail testimony they gave to a Joint Commission of the General Assembly on city classification.

Mr. Black “hoped” to see in that column some advantages of Elizabethtown being classified correctly; here are seven:

First, our population is that of a second-class city.  Truth is the best policy.

By NORA SWEAT Today would have been my mom’s birthday. She would have been 89, which doesn’t seem possible because she was 76 when she died, and I still think of her as that age.

Mom was a wonderful cook. She loved to have people over for dinner and loved to bake birthday cakes and wedding cakes for others. She was a very strong woman and always thought of other people before herself.