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Cancer comes in a variety of ways and affects each person differently. One Springfield family of three, Karen Purdom and her parents, Earl and Wilma Grigsby, has had not one, but three separate cases of cancer, and all are surviving to this day.

“We have a lot of cancer in our family,” Karen Purdom said.

Each year, the number of new cases of cancer is around 455 per 100,000 men and women each year, according to the National Cancer Institute, and the number of cancer deaths is approximately 171 per year. 

The Dollar General store on KY 555 was robbed at gunpoint on June 20 and the person who’s responsible is still at large. 

According to Springfield Police Chief Jim Smith, a man wearing a hoodie, sunglasses and gloves entered the store at approximately 9:22 a.m. Tuesday morning and pointed what appeared to be a handgun at the store’s cashier. Smith said the employee gave the suspect approximately $100 out of the register. 

Every now and then someone dies in a community and it’s never quite the same.

Johnnie Hardin was one of those people. 

He was more than a man who spent a lifetime in the grocery business.

Mr. Hardin was a much beloved part of this small town community.

He was in my dad’s highest words of praise, “a good man.“

Here’s a little story that to me sort of sums up the type of life that Mr. Hardin lived.

It was about 50 years ago.  

Nick Schrager

Editor

Toyotomi is nearing the end of a three-year project, but it isn’t quite through just yet.

The Springfield manufacturer, which was incorporated in 1998 and began production in 2000, recently completed another part of its expansion project and will add more jobs in the community.

According to Craig Miller, the vice president of administration at Toyotomi, the project was started because of new business the plant received and will begin supplying this month.