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Elizabethtown City Council accepts land donation, reviews ordinances

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The Elizabethtown City Council met for their second meeting of the month Monday.

The council approved a municipal order for the city to accept a donation of 10.56 acres of land from Shamrock Properties XXII LLC. located in the Ski Subdivision (Section One) that Shamrock Properties is developing at 200 Wise Lane.

“Shamrock properties desires to donate the open space area to the city to allow for the preservation of open space, access to recreational areas, and the provision of utility,” said City Attorney Ken Howard, reading from the municipal order.

Three ordinances had their first readings during the meeting. One concerns the annexation of about 150 acres of land the city owns at 2501 Gaither Station Road. That land will be zoned General Industrial. The second ordinance establishes no-street parking policies for several streets in the Glendale Hill neighborhood: Adams Road, Grissom Lane, Miller Street, Old Glendale Road, Skyline Drive, and South Crestwood Street. The third ordinance would rename a portion of Adams Road to Green Lane, while also forbidding street parking. The no street parking policies were requested by a resident in the neighborhood.

The Elizabethtown City Council will next meet for a work session on March 25.

ECTC named a Best Place to Work in Kentucky

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Elizabethtown Community and Technical College has been recognized as one of the best places to work in Kentucky.

ECTC says the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and the Kentucky Society for Human Resource Management selects the Best Places to Work in Kentucky based on an assessment of employee policies and procedures along with the results of an employee survey. ECTC has received the biennial honor three times in a row beginning in 2020.

“I think it’s just a testament to our employees’ commitment and engagement in the culture at ECTC, and our passion for our students,” said ECTC Chief Human Resources Officer Whitney Taylor. 

She said taking care of employees means taking care of the campus community.

“When your employees are engaged, then you are able to accomplish your goals, and at the end of the day, we’re here to help students and add value to their lives and return that to our community, and you can’t do that if your employees aren’t engaged,” Taylor said.

ECTC President and CEO Dr. Juston Pate said he is proud of Taylor and the college’s faculty and staff for the positive environment they have helped create.

“I think we’ve created a culture that embraces the challenges that are before us and enjoys overcoming them, because for us the great thing is every time we overcome challenges, we take people with us, we take our students with us to a better place,” Pate said. “So being a Best Place to Work means that we’ve got a great environment to do the things we do to add value to the lives of our students.”

Another area employer named a Best Place to Work in Kentucky is Abound Credit Union. Find the full list of recipients online through the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.

Special elections Tuesday for Kentucky House Districts 24 and 26

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Eligible voters will head to the polls Tuesday for special elections to fill vacancies in the Kentucky House of Representatives for District 24, which includes parts of LaRue and Hart counties, and District 26, which includes three precincts in Hardin County.

The House District 24 special election will be contested by Democrat Johnny Pennington, Republican Courtney Gilbert, and independent write-in Craig Astor. Republican Peyton Griffee is unopposed in the House District 26 race.

Polls are open today until 6 p.m. Voters in Hart County can cast ballots at the Hart County Clerk’s Office and the Horse Cave Fire Department. LaRue County Clerk Rhonda Metcalf said in addition to their clerk’s office, LaRue County voters have several options.

“On Election Day, we have our vote center which is at First Baptist Church on Tonieville Road, and then we have at Rolling Fork Christian Church in Lyons Station, and we have Uptown Graphics in Upton, and then we have the Old School Market down in Magnolia,” said Metcalf.

Hardin County voters can cast ballots at the clerk’s office’s Radcliff branch, located at 101 West Lincoln Trail Boulevard, or the West Point School building.

Check your registration status and find more election information at govote.ky.gov.

Attorneys for Brooks Houck object to consolidating cases

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Lawyers for Crystal Rogers investigation suspect Brooks Houck are objecting to the special prosecutor’s motion to consolidate the cases against Houck and suspects Steven Lawson and Joseph Lawson into one trial, and allege that prosecutors targeted the Lawsons in order to target Houck.

The motion filed with the Nelson Circuit Court Friday states that Houck needs to be tried separately from the Lawsons due to the “exposure of a myopic and biased investigation”, Houck’s entitlement to impeach Joseph Lawson and/or Steven Lawson with all of their statements, and the fact that redactions to records would not protect Houck’s Sixth Amendment rights. The filing’s conclusion states that: “there is no way for the Commonwealth to introduce evidence against all three defendants at a joint trial without violating the Kentucky Rules of Evidence, violating Brook’s Sixth Amendment rights, or both”.

The filing alleges that prosecutors lack proof that Crystal Rogers is deceased and “there is no crime scene, murder weapon, or realistic motive for the alleged crime.”, and the prosecution has relied on pressure put on the Lawsons in order to get information needed to indict and detain Houck.

March 21 will be a busy day in the Nelson Circuit Court as the court will consider the prosecution’s motion to consolidate, motions by Houck and the Lawsons for a change of venue, a motion by Steven Lawson’s attorney to dismiss the charges against him, and a motion by Joseph Lawson’s attorney asking for the identity of expert witnesses in the case to be disclosed.

Hardin County Teen Job Fair this Wednesday

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Area teens ages 14 to 19 are invited to attend the second annual Hardin County Teen Job Fair, to be held this Wednesday from 4 to 6 p.m. at the North Hardin High School gym.

Family Fun Ice Cream Parlor owner and Radcliff City Council Member Michelle Mitchell organized the job fair after seeing a need from area teens applying for jobs at the ice cream parlor and from area businesses saying they need manpower.

“We’ve got young people who want to work, maybe do some job shadowing, community service, internship, different things like that in our community, especially for the summertime to keep them busy, as well as businesses needing good workers,” Mitchell said.

The event is free to attend, and teens that pre-register via a link available on the Facebook event page for the job fair will be registered to win door prizes provided by participating businesses and organizations. Teens should come ready to make connections.

“If they have a resume, they can bring that,” Mitchell said. “If not, that’s fine too. We’ll also have different organizations there such as the Kentucky Career Center that offer how to prepare a resume, even if they’ve only volunteered, such as babysitting or dog sitting, those type of things.”

There’s still time for businesses to sign up to participate at the job fair or support it in another way.

“Of course, there’s no fee to set up a table or a booth, but we are asking that a business brings one giveaway item,” Mitchell said. “If there’s a business out there that wants to sponsor this with some pizzas, because it is going to be after school for a lot of the kids, I would love to feed them as well.”

Contact information for Mitchell and the Facebook event page can be found on the Michelle Mitchell Radcliff Councilwoman Facebook page.