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Credit cards now accepted at County Clerk's Office

Doing business at the Owen County Clerk’s Office got a bit easier on Thursday.
The office is now accepting credit and debit cards. Owen County Clerk Joan Kincaid said a lot of customers were asking to use credit.
“People just don’t carry checkbooks anymore,” she said.

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Library starts

monthly book club

One of the joys of reading is sharing the experience.
The Owen County Public Library is starting a book club that will allow people to gather and share their opinions of the selected novel. The charter meeting will be held at noon on Friday at the library. Library Director Jennifer Nippert will lead the discussion. She said she ran a club when she was a bookstore manager.

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Optimist Club

needs more members

There are currently eight people signed up to join the Optimist Club in Owen County. For a club to be formed, 25 members are needed.
Meetings began in the area a few months ago, allowing anyone interested in re-forming a club to attend and get information. The last time there was an Optimist Club in Owen County was the late 1990s.
Current President of the Optimist Club Judy Ziegler and past International President Ronnie Dunn quit having meetings in mid-December, since the holidays brought so many more conflicts with scheduling.

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