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Today's News

  • Kitchen Adventures: Quick, easy snacks great for guests

    If you are the friend or family member in the group who is considered the chef or hostess, the pressure is on when people stop by for a visit. You want to offer a snack but if you haven’t planned for it, supplies might be limited.

    Or maybe you’re this person. You sit down to your favorite television show and suddenly have the desire to snack on something but there’s nothing in the cupboard.

    Sometimes you need a quick appetizer for unexpected guests or a sudden case of the munchies.

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  • Drunken driving scars run deep

    TOPIC: Alcohol dangers
    OUR VIEW: Scars don't heal from drinking and driving
     

    The scars on Harold Dennis and Ciaran Madden never will heal.

    The part of the leg Carey Cummins lost never will return.

    The smell that finds a way in and out of Darrin Jaquess, the nightmares that have led to many restless nights and the heartbreak of loved ones lost in a cruel way remain.

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  • Our precious loss: May 14, 1988: From park fun to roadway tragedy

    It wasn’t until a few days before the trip to King’s Island north of Cincinnati that Jerry and Jeff Wheeler knew for certain they would be allowed to attend.

    “I remember begging mom to let us go,” said Jerry Wheeler. “I wanted to go to maybe meet some new people. It was a really fun day leading up to what happened on the way home.”

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  • Our precious loss: For Cummins, like many, life changed 25 years ago

    Everyone on the crash scene the night of May 14, 1988, believed anyone who was still alive was off the bus. And then Carey Aurentz emerged from the wreckage.

    Carey Aurentz Cummins’ thoughts often return to that May night, to a church bus returning home to Radcliff after a day at King’s Island in Ohio. She remembers sitting in the front row aisle seat, door side, talking with Phillip Morgan, Billy Nichols and Emillie Thompson, who invited her on the trip.

    Seconds later, her familiar life came to an end as a new one began.

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  • Our precious loss: Carrollton crash ignited local efforts in SADD, MADD

    It was clear to Maria Batistoni what the agenda of the first meeting of the newly-formed Students Against Driving Drunk at North Hardin High School needed to be in the fall of 1988.

    “They needed to heal, they were raw,” she said of the students.

    More than 200 students had joined the club, formed months after the bus crash near Carrollton that killed 27 people, including 24 children. Some were students at North.

    “What do the kids need?” Batistoni said she asked herself. “What do I need? We need a hug.”

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  • Students graduate, celebrate at ECTC commencement

    Almost 200 graduates walked the line into a new phase of their lives Monday as the school year ended at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College.

    The commencement ceremony for ECTC took place at Central Hardin High School. There were 186 graduates who participated in the ceremony, of 898 students graduating from the college this year.

    David Wallace, retired chairman of Nabors Completion & Production Services Company, gave the commencement address. He is a 1974 ECTC graduate and was named a distinguished alumnus in 2010.

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  • Effort could form friends of library group

    Jim Weise is trying to help a friend in need: the Hardin County Public Library.

    “If we’re not friends of the library, our libraries are going to suffer,” he said.

    Weise, a retired lawyer and member of the Elizabethtown Lions Club, is among a group contacted by library director Rene Hutcheson to look for input on ways to improve the library system.

    Weise remembered being part of a friends of the library group years ago.

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  • Police: Man accelerated through KSP roadblock

    A Radcliff man was arrested Monday morning after state troopers say he sped through a traffic safety checkpoint on Ky. 313 without stopping and nearly struck several officers with his vehicle.

    Drew M. McCormick, 23, faces three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment, second-degree criminal mischief, driving under the influence, license to be in possession, reckless driving, resisting arrest, no insurance and menacing.

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  • Woodford Reserve finds a spot on post

    The Saber & Quill is introducing its Woodford Reserve Room with a grand opening celebration Wednesday.

    Post residents and the community at large are invited to the ribbon-cutting ceremony, which begins at 4 p.m. Formerly the Tanker's Lounge, the room will be branded in honor of a superior Kentucky bourbon.

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  • Neighborly ways don't include bulldozer traffic

    Will there be fences in heaven?

    That’s another way of asking, will your bothersome neighbor’s heavenly mansion be next to yours?

    Before you petition heaven’s city council for a privacy fence or request that your bad neighbor be confined to the eternal promised land’s back forty, make sure you yourself aren’t unwittingly the neighbor from hell who somehow slipped under the pearly gates unnoticed while St. Peter was distracted by a game of heavenly baseball.

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