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Members of the Owen County School Board hope to build a new middle school, give new life to the old high school gym and bring a vocational school to the county over the next several years.

Runners at the state high school cross country championships ran on a sloppy track in less-than-ideal weather conditions at the Kentucky Horse Park Saturday.

Owenton’s mid-week shutdown

It is not uncommon to see a number of closed signs on some stores and shops each Wednesday in Owen County.

Mission work changes lives on both sides of the globe

Mark Hertweck always supported mission work. He learned about missions; he prayed about missions. He just never really wanted to go on one.
“I didn’t want to step outside my comfort zone,” he said.

Kentucky American, Owenton mayor pleased with Lexington water vote

Water lines could reach 80 percent of county by 2007

Water is no stranger to controversy in the Bluegrass State. Lexington citizens recently considered a much-discussed measure on November ballots to condemn privately owned Kentucky American Water and dissolve the company’s Fayette County holdings into a public utility.

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