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Kentucky State Police arrested an Owen County emergency medical technician Monday and charged him with first-degree sexual abuse.

Owen County Fiscal Court members met Wednesday afternoon at the county courthouse in an initial session to begin discussing a budget for the 2008 fiscal year.
During the meeting, which Judge-Executive Billy O’Banion dubbed an informal “budget workshop,” court members learned of revenues and expenditures for the county. No action was taken during the meeting, and O’Banion plans to have several additional sessions throughout April before magistrates approve a budget, likely by early June.

Dancing, storytelling, music, drama. When one thinks of the word ‘art,’ these aren’t always the things that come to mind.
This week, five artists are showing Owen County Elementary School students that art is more than just something you look at.
The artists were brought to the school by the School-Community-Arts-Parents-Partnership (SCAPP) grant. They are John Harrod, Bonnie Strassel, Alfredo Escobar, Dick Albin and Phillip Cherry. This is the first year of the three-year program.

Owenton desegregation

case one of many in federal agency's puzzle

By JOSHUA COFFMAN
Landmark News Service

A little more than 48 years ago a federal District Judge ruled that the Owen County school system could not use the threat of overcrowding as an excuse to delay racially desegregating its classrooms.

Now, nearly a half century later, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, a federal agency, is going back in time to examine thousands of school systems across the country, including the Owen County case, to determine which schools desegregated under court order — and which ones might still be under a court’s control.

County clerk's office

gets new computers

From Press Release

The Owen County Clerk’s office is one of five offices in the state selected in a pilot program to upgrade technology over the next three years.
The office received new computers in late January as part of the program, administered by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.
The technology upgrade affects the statewide automated vehicle information system (AVIS).

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