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If you are in need of assistance with wrapping up your last-minute Christmas gifts, help is available this weekend with Empowered Life. “We are doing a gift wrap fundraiser,” said Empowered Life President Christi Schovel. “We’re asking anyone who needs gifts wrapped to come to 225 College Street. We’re just right down the road from the police station in the Project Learn building, and we will wrap their gifts for them […]

The suspect in an October double homicide has been formally indicted on the charges he faces. Dustin M. Caudill waived his case to the Hardin County Grand Jury during a court appearance November 6. The grand jury this week indicted Caudill on two counts of Murder and one count of First Degree Arson. The Elizabethtown Police Department said Caudill confessed to shooting 41-year-old Blake France of Greenville and 43-year-old Anthony Garrett of Elizabethtown […]

The Hardin County Fiscal Court met for their final meeting of the year Thursday afternoon. Hardin County Sheriff John Ward reported that his office made 193 arrests and issued 176 citations in October and November. When discussing his office’s budget request for calendar year 2025, Ward said the county’s supplement for the budget is the same as last year. “Our revenue will increase through the fees, but the judge asked us to […]

The statewide unemployment average saw a slight increase in November. The Kentucky Center for Statistics says the statewide unemployment average for November was 5.1 percent. That’s a slight increase from the 5.0 percent rate reported in October and from the 4.3 percent rate reported in November of 2023. Kentucky’s unemployment average for November also came in higher than the national unemployment average, which the U.S. Department of Labor reported at 4.2 percent. […]

Support area students and ring in 2025 with the Elizabethtown Lions Club New Year’s Day Dash 5K Run and Walk. The event will be held at the Elizabethtown Sports Park on January 1 beginning at 9 a.m. “It’s $30 for registration, and if you register by December 20 online you’re ensured to get a t-shirt, and of course if you do show up the day of the race we’ll take you, but […]