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  • Memories are precious, even of overgrown homes

    At 512 Hilltop Road, the home is nearly covered with bushes, trees tower over the roof and there are few clear paths to step up on the porch.
    Today this property appears to be a nuisance. It certainly looks deserted. Surely no one could live there or have valuables inside. The City of Leitchfield claims to have taken many cats from the property in the past and I doubt those animals cleaned up after themselves.
    But that’s not the way it started.
    Having grown up across the street, I have great memories of that property.

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  • Time to plan for Christmas

    Planning for events is one of the hobbies I learned at my mother’s knee. I watched Mom plan many parties, family gatherings and reunions. It’s a joy to her and it has given her a “place” among her family.

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  • Shouldn’t we all be Americans first?

    By  Lee H. Hamilton
     
    I was first elected to Congress in 1964. That was the year Lyndon Johnson won a full term as president in a landslide. If ever a president had a popular mandate to pursue his goals, it was LBJ in the few years that followed that election.

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  • Rumor has it

    By David B. Whitlock

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  • Thinking of a bridge

    A new library. A new college campus. New jobs, new blacktop, new park restrooms . . . It’s been a busy summer and a busy 2012 so far.
    Still, our little town needs a little something more.
    We need a bridge to span the valley, connecting downtown Leitchfield to Wallace Avenue. A bridge would benefit the community with a  convenience never before known in this city.

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  • Discovery rights denied

    In the Instant Racing case now in the Kentucky courts, the Beshear administration and the Horse Racing Commission have argued that videos of old horse races shown on machines are the legal equivalent of actual horse races. The machines show videos involving many horses that have long since died.
    Live racing with dead horses. Go figure.

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  • This campaign should be about informing voters

     By Lee Hamilton
    Voters want a forthright, give-it-to-me-straight campaign that doesn’t sugarcoat hard truths but that also generates new thinking about how to solve our problems.
    Presidential candidates and their aides know a lot these days about how to run a campaign. They just seem to have forgotten what campaigns are for.

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  • Leave nothing to waste

    Gardens are at various stages at this time of the summer and this is a time that we are trying to use all the vegetables that are left and not let anything go to waste. I don’t remember where I got this recipe but I have added to my collection as a “keeper.”
    Bread and Butter Peppers
    7 banana peppers, seeded and sliced
    1 medium green pepper, julienne
    And/or 1 medium green tomato, halved and sliced
    1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and sliced (optional)
    1 small onion, sliced
    ? cup canning salt

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  • Americans take pride in athletes

    Landmark News Service

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  • Challenge ends with loss (and that’s a good thing!)

    The eight-week community summer health and fitness challenge is over. The last two months started out as a strong health challenge for me and then spiraled out of control in the last four weeks with few of my new good habits continuing.
    However, I learned that the more I walked, the more I wanted to walk. The stairs were easier to climb but still left me out of breath at the top.

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