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It’s called “doctor-shopping” and it’s something that has become a problem not only in Owen County, but across the country.
Prescription drug abuse has taken the place of “street” drugs as one of the biggest issues police officers deal with. For the past three months, the Owen County Police Department has worked to end prescription drug abuse in the county, resulting in six arrests on Friday night.

Austin Carrier is just one year old. In the first year of his life he’s had to go through something most will never experience – two open heart surgeries.

County has helped much in decade since Satterwhite's transplant

A decade ago former Circuit Judge Charlie Satterwhite, an Owen County native, received a dual lung transplant. In the years since, Owen County has regularly ranked near the top of Kentucky counties in which residents make one-dollar donations during license renewal; and an annual golf event held in the county has raised thousands of dollars for a fund bearing Satterwhite’s name that benefits recipients of donated organs.

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Community gives students many ideas during visit

Spending a couple of nights in Owen County showed Jared Cunningham a side of life a little bit different from the one in which he grew up.
Originally from Madisonville, which he called “more suburban,” Cunningham arrived in the county on Thursday and stayed through Saturday, along with 16 other fifth-year students in his University of Kentucky landscape architecture class.

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– Photo by BRIAN BLAIR
Ice covers a tree in Northern Kentucky last week. Snow and ice have been a fixture around the county for the past couple of weeks, though some areas have seen more than others.

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