Today's Features

Note: On May 3, my husband and I will be married 41 years. I’ve adapted this column from 2009.

While out for our semi-regular Sunday drive, as I flipped through the radio stations I asked my husband what kind of music he liked.

That’s the kind of questions you ask on a first date, not after 41 years of marriage!

I’m not sure what that says about the state of our marriage. You don’t even know what kind of music your husband likes?

SPARTA – The Kentucky Manufactured Housing Institute (KMHI) is pleased to announce that Arielle M. Columbia, Sparta, has been named as a 2016 KMHI Scholarship Award recipient. Arielle received one of five $1,000 scholarship awarded in April to graduating high school seniors who currently reside in manufactured homes in Kentucky.

By MAKENZIE DAVIS
N-H School Correspondent

Another group of Owen County High School students are finishing up their first semester in college … during high school.

OCHS offers the unique opportunity of an Early College Program through Jefferson Community and Technical College to students who wish to earn college credit at a fraction of the cost.

Those enrolled ride a bus to the JCTC Carrollton campus a few days each week for morning classes, then return to OCHS for the rest of their high school classes.

By JENEEN WICHE
Weekend Gardener

I don’t worry about my lawn so much; I see all the weeds, yellow dandelions and purple violets as food for our growing lambs. As the grass grows, I think, “Where will I move them next?”