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— Photo by MAGGIE WILLIAMS
The Owen County High School Homecoming Court and senior candidates met last Friday for the first of many pictures. They are (front, left to right): Laura Williams, Megan Harrod, Shadoe Perry, Echo Cummins and Kaitlin Johnson; (back, left to right): Sheila Wilson, Shea Green, Lorrie Mason, Kristen FitzGerald, Melina Bress and Jensen Wainscott. The coronation will take place at 7 p.m. Friday. Other Homecoming festivities include the flag football tournament today at 4:30 p.m.; the Homecoming parade and pep rally at 4 p.m.; a reception for the 1980 Rebel football team at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Cochran Fieldhouse; and a halftime introduction of the 1980 Rebel football team. The Rebels will face Jackson County at 7:30 p.m. Friday night.

After another sparsely attended community meeting last week, the county’s growth-management committee is getting concerned.

As celebrations of Owen County heritage go, there’s nothing like Sweet Owen Days, a two-day festival where countians — past and current — can gather to enjoy all that makes Owen special.

Court considers ordinance
limiting sex-based businesses

The Owen County Fiscal Court held the first reading last month of an ordinance (number 152) regulating sexually oriented businesses “to promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens of the county, and to establish reasonable and uniform regulations relating to sexually oriented businesses.”

Hagan joins N-H staff
as reporter

New staff writer offers a look
into her life

Having just graduated from Western Kentucky University in May, I was not anticipating having a job in my chosen field for quite some time. Every one of my friends had taken months, sometimes more than a year to find what they wanted.

Where were you that September morning?
as reporter

Residents remember finding out about terrorist attacks on United States, Sept. 11, 2001

On Monday Brianna Clark’s shirt was painted red, white and blue. Fitting for a day on which every year, everyone’s patriotism gets a little stronger. Clark’s shirt said nothing about what happened that day five years ago. Instead, the painted words told everyone it was her birthday.

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