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A team of students from a local high school won an innovation competition. Here’s Jessica McKinney with more: A team of Larue County High School students brought home the top prize of ten thousand dollars from the Altec innovation challenge. The competition was held Thursday afternoon, at the Hardin County Cooperative Extension Office in Elizabethtown. Representative of Altec for the challenge, Trevor Diebel stated, “They were challenged with identifying a problem in the community and developing a project plan. They then had to develop a final presentation and present all this stuff to a panel of five community leaders, as well as a room of a hundred people. That is not an easy thing for anybody to do. They did such a good job and we are so proud of them.” The winning presentation was a solution to help solve top water pollution in Kentucky lakes and ponds presented by Sage Garris, Carter Peace, Conlee Crossno and William Wooton. They competed against nine other teams from four schools in the Hardin County and Elizabethtown Independent School Systems. I’m Jessica McKinney, from the new center.
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A local teacher was recognized because of a program she implemented at a local school. Samantha Daniels, along with Richard Rowland implemented the Peer Buddies Partnership at James T. Alton Middle School. The partnership takes students from traditional education settings and places them in Daniels special needs classroom, with the purpose of helping to make students feel valued and creating bonds between students who, ordinarily, would not cross paths. Daniels was appointed a Kentucky Colonel by Governor Andy Bashear and a Commonwealth Ambassador by the Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams.
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The Hodgenville Police Department is implementing around the clock checkpoints. Through the holiday season the police department will be setting up these checkpoints at various locations on both state and federal roadways in Larue County. The effort will be focused on speeding, impaired drivers, and seatbelt violations. The hours of the checkpoint will be 8 pm to 4 am, through the new year.
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