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 Before the beginning of the school year, Zoneton Middle staff spent an afternoon to build community relations in the form of a scavenger hunt.

Stops included Pioneer Village City Hall and Hillview City Hall.

 If you are having trouble repaying your Federal Stafford Loans, you may be able to take advantage of a deferment, according to the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA).

A deferment lets you postpone paying your loans if you meet certain criteria. You can get a deferment if you are:

*Still in college at least half time.

*In a rehabilitation training program.

*Unemployed.

*Having economic hardship.

* In the military.

    MOUNT WASHINGTON— Injured squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, opossums and bats have a new home in Mount Washington.
    Started in 2009, Second Chances Wildlife Center is a 501c3 clinic whose mission is to conserve wildlife through rehabilitation and education.
    “More and more, as animals are losing their habitats, they’re forced to come in closer and closer to humans,” founder Brigette Williams said, adding that 90 percent of what the organization gets in is due to human encroachment.

    SHEPHERDSVILLE -- It had truly been a labor of love or the members of the Daughters of American Revolution Salt River chapter in Bullitt County.
    The research and the resources to make a lasting recogniton to Henry Crist was not done overnight.
    But, recently, a large crowd gathered at the Bullitt County Courthouse on a hot Saturday afternoon.
    They came to learn a little about the man who had a big presence in Bullitt County.

 SHEPHERDSVILLE -- At some time during his year of service in Vietnam, Lance Cpl. Raymond Spalding lost his dog tags.

After serving six years in the U.S. Marine Corp, the qualified sharpshooter would return home to Louisville.

Without his dog tags.

Life would go on for Spalding as he would marry his longtime sweetheart, Teresa. He would work at Ford Motor Company for over 30 years and would be a member of the United Auto Workers 862.

 SHEPHERDSVILLE - The Bullitt County History Museum made history by making history.

The museum, located in the older format portion of the Bullitt County Courthouse, hosted a grand reopening of one of its display rooms following damage to the room over a year ago.

The rooms on the south side received heavy water damages, leading to substantial work to reopen each room.

    SHEPHERDSVILLE—While sewing and baking might have been engrained at an early age for some, the younger generation relies on programs like the Super Star Chef and Sewing Camps, held by the Cedar Grove, Lebanon Junction, Mount Washington and Roby Elementary Family Resource Centers, to learn.
    “They don’t know this stuff,” Lebanon Junction teacher Rita Taulbee said. “If it isn’t attached to a monitor or an iPad, they don’t know it.”

 LOUISVILLE -- Two Bullitt County Allstate insurance agents are teaming up with the Center for Women and Families to help children served by the agency get ready to go back to school. 

Agents Chris Lee of Mount Washington and Chris Roberson of Shepherdsville are collecting school supplies until July 29 and delivering them to the Center on Aug. 3.

  HILLVIEW -- Police officers continuously put their lives on the line to protect their community.

During the memorial service of the five slain Dallas police officers, President Obama detailed the difficulties of such a selfless career.

“Like most Americans each day, you get up…and you head to work,” Obama said. “But your work, and the work of police officers across the country, is like no other.”