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The Hardin County Schools Calendar Committee is seeking public input on the 2027-2028 district calendar.

HCS families and community stakeholders are asked to complete a survey on the calendar, which can be found under the News section at www.hardin.kyschools.us.

“We do ask that participants keep the following in mind as they take the survey,” said HCS Community Relations Specialist John Wright. “We are required to place 174 instructional days onto the calendar with three professional learning days for staff. We would like to have an equal number of days before and after winter break. We are required to build in a certain number of predetermined makeup days. Each decision made on one day in the calendar will affect others in the calendar, so there’s a domino effect, and then certain days are mandated within the calendar by state and federal law.”

The HCS Calendar Committee will consider survey input as it decides on its recommendation to the Hardin County Board of Education, which makes the final decision on the calendar. The board’s decision is typically made in December of each year.

The survey is available through Friday, September 25.

Area law enforcement responded to two fatal traffic collisions over the weekend.

The Elizabethtown Police Department responded to a collision near the intersection of Patriot Parkway/KY 361 and Rineyville Road/KY 1600 at shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday, September 19.

“The preliminary investigation indicates an adult male operating a 2022 Harley Davidson motorcycle was traveling southbound on Patriot Parkway when the motorcycle collided with the right rear of a 1989 Chevrolet truck, also being operated by an adult male, as it was turning right from Rineyville Road onto southbound Patriot Parkway,” said EPD Public Information Officer Chris Denham. “The motorcycle went down as a result of the collision. The rider was transported to Baptist Health Hardin with critical injuries, where sadly he was pronounced deceased. The driver of the truck, who was its lone occupant, was uninjured.”

The EPD’s Collision Reconstruction Team is investigating the cause of the collision. No criminal charges are expected.

Meanwhile, at 12:54 a.m. on Sunday, September 20, the Meade County Sheriff’s Office requested Kentucky State Police Post Four investigate a two-vehicle collision on Old Mill Road/KY 1638 near LG&E Road. The preliminary investigation indicates a passenger vehicle operated by Isaac Jenkins of Brandenburg was traveling east on Old Mill Road when for unknown reasons the vehicle crossed the center line, colliding head-on with a westbound passenger vehicle.

The operator of the westbound vehicle, 26-year-old Trenton Thomas of Brandenburg, and a passenger, 29-year-old Karlie Haycraft of Brandenburg, were pronounced dead at the scene by the Meade County Coroner. Jenkins was airlifted to the University of Louisville Hospital with life-threatening injuries.

KSP Post Four’s investigation of the collision is ongoing.

The City of Radcliff will celebrate the international community during the Radcliff Cultural Festival, taking place Saturday from 4 to 9 p.m. outside Radcliff City Hall.

Radcliff Resident Pete Countryman said during Tuesday’s city council meeting that the event is a celebration of the different backgrounds that make up the Radcliff and Hardin County community.

“This year we have a great variety of vendors,” Countryman said. “The focus is mainly on local residents and quality products, handcrafted, and our food trucks that we’ll feature in the Taste of the World International Food Court are Germany, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Mediterranean, and an All-American food truck.”

The event coincides with the Radcliff Days Parade, which will roll down West Lincoln Trail Boulevard beginning at 5 p.m., and will feature a special presentation at 6 p.m.

“The City of Radcliff will be making a presentation, appropriately in this year of the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence and 70th anniversary of our incorporation as a city, to honor our military heroes,” Countryman said.

Find more information on the City of Radcliff Government Facebook page.