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Today's News

  • PREP COACHING ROUNDUP: Garrison named North Hardin girls' soccer coach (05/14)

    One Hardin County Schools high school recently filled a varsity coaching position for this coming fall season, while another finds itself in a hurry to fill another open position.

    North Hardin announced Tony Garrison as its girls’ soccer coach, while Brian Walters is no longer John Hardin’s volleyball coach.

    Garrison follows Hayley Yourous, who stepped down after a 55-85-15 mark in eight seasons. North Hardin was 9-8-1 this past season, losing 8-0 to Elizabethtown in the 17th District Tournament semifinals.

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  • PREP BASEBALL: Meade County locks up region tournament berth (05/14)

    The Meade County Green Wave earned a chance to defend their 3rd Region Tournament title Monday night with a doubleheader sweep at 11th District rival Hancock County.

    The Green Wave won Game 1, 11-2, and Game 2, 6-1, to earn the No. 1 seed in the district tournament. Since Meade County is in a three-team district, the top seed means a bye into the district final – and 1-of-2 berths in the region tournament.

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  • PREP SOFTBALL ROUNDUP: Central Hardin, LaRue County win via walkoff (05/14)

    A walkoff squeeze play by a prolific power hitter kept the ninth-ranked Central Hardin Lady Bruins from being upset Monday night by Marion County.

    Senior Baylee Sullivan doubled to leadoff of the bottom of the seventh and took third on a fielder’s choice on a ball hit by senior Jackie Holbert before scoring on a bunt by Jordan Lasley as Central Hardin earned a 2-1 win over reigning 5th Region Tournament runner-up Lady Knights (19-9).

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  • Bluegrass Middle School cheerleaders finish year ranked No. 1 (5/14)

    Bluegrass Middle School cheerleading coach Stephanie Phillips kept telling her squad it would compete in more competition. But she had no idea that it would all end with the Colts being ranked No. 1.

    After competitions in Louisville and Bowling Green, Phillips told the squad it would do one more event before calling it a season. But the Colts finished first and were named grand champions at the Cheer Elite Bluegrass Classic National Championship in early March at Lexington Christian Academy, where they earned a bid to the U.S. Finals.

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  • Photos: Ollie's opening in Radcliff
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  • John Hardin principal to lead NKY district

    In 1995, Alvin L. Garrison began his professional teaching career at North Hardin High School and later took over as principal at John Hardin High School. In June, he steps into a new role as superintendent of Covington Independent Schools.

    Garrison, 42, said he was offered the job a week ago and reached an agreement with the school district Thursday. On Friday, he announced the news to the John Hardin faculty.

    During a special meeting Saturday morning, the Covington Board of Education voted 5-0 to hire Garrison, according to a district news release.

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  • Our precious loss: Congregation bonded by grief

    Martha Tennison had preached many times at Radcliff First Assembly of God. but no previous sermon prepared her to deliver the message of God’s faithfulness to the weeping congregation May 15, 1988, in a voice choked with tears.

    Martha called her husband at 11 the night before to see whether their 15-year-old son had made it back from a trip to King’s Island on a bus with other church youth, chaperones and guests.

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  • Our precious loss: A home destroyed, a life renewed

    On May 14, 1988, Lee Williams’ life ceased to make sense. Family was replaced with emptiness, routine swallowed up by chaos.

    He lost everything in a bus crash on Interstate 71 that killed 27 people, leaving him alone to contemplate the senseless violence of one destructive decision by a drunken driver.

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  • Our precious loss: Old glove still catches memories

    Before Larry Mahoney chose to consume alcohol, climb behind the wheel of a pickup truck and drive the wrong way on Interstate 71, a young girl returned to the U.S. from Germany and told her parents she wanted to play softball.

    Before a group of children and chaperones from Radcliff First Assembly of God cheerfully prepared for a trip to King’s Island, their hopes and dreams intact, there was a worn ball glove belonging to the girl’s father, its dimensions never quite conforming to her small hand.

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  • Our precious loss: Bus safety improved after crash

    Twenty-five years ago, 15-year-old Quinton Higgins spent about a month in Kosair Children’s Hospital after suffering lung damage and second- and third-degree burns  in the fiery bus crash.

    Today, Higgins drives a Hardin County Schools bus.

    The differences between the bus he drives every school day and the repurposed 1977 Ford B-700 school bus he was in that night in 1988 are like “night and day,” Higgins said.

    “It’s just a totally different bus today,” he said.

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