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Tuesday morning, Eminence Independent Schools revealed a project they said was two years in the making.

Eminence High School juniors and seniors will soon have the opportunity to take college courses at Bellarmine University for free.

Juniors and seniors with qualifying ACT scores in math, English, reading and science can earn a dual high school and college credit while attending classes at Bellarmine’s campus.

With a few relatively minor changes, the Henry County Fiscal Court has approved the first reading of the 2012-2013 county budget.

One key change for the county will be a continuing decline in revenue for EMS.

Henry County Judge Executive John Logan Brent told the court that EMS revenue is down about $250,000 from where it was in the past. Three years ago, he said, revenue was over $600,000 just for EMS, thanks primarily to non-emergency transports.

As the economy worsened, the number of those transports dropped.

Defoe, once known as ‘Sweet Home,’ had four grocery stores, a post office and two blacksmith shops.
The idyllic town was formed on part of the Low Dutch Tract originally purchased by Dutch settlers looking to preserve their language, culture and religion without English influence.
The town’s legacy has been recorded much like family history:  with personal recollections and affection. Three sources, two from the past and one from the present gave insight into a town left behind in the path of modern progress.

Tobacco is a way of life for many in Kentucky.  We grow it, sell it, and smoke it.  When I was younger part of our family farm operation was raising tobacco.  Although my dad was a tobacco farmer, I never saw him smoke a single cigarette or use smokeless tobacco.  My grandfather was a heavy smoker and died of a massive heart attack at the young age of 37.  This life-changing event convinced my dad not to smoke and he reminded us of his dad’s fate as he told us not to smoke.