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Today's Features

  • Soggy March means early crops will have to wait

    This has been another busy week for me. It seems like I have been in the van going somewhere all week.

    I was completely out of Jesse food and had to make a run to Frankfort on Tuesday to the library and Walmart. I was also running out of books to read. Wednesday I took my taxes to Long Ridge to have the nice lady there do something efficient with them and dropped in on Teri.

    I made a mistake about the birthday coming up last Saturday. I thought it was Allie’s but it was Catlen, who is the now 5 year old.

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  • Lost man looks to cat to find his way back home

    BY ROGER ALFORD
    N-H Columnist

    My friend Ricky Jacobs told me a funny tale about the fellow who absolutely despised his wife’s cat and decided to get rid of it by driving down the road a couple miles and dropping it off.

    As that man pulled back into his driveway, he saw the cat sitting on the porch waiting for him.

    The next day, he drove the cat farther away, put it out, and headed home. Again, to his surprise, the cat was sitting on the porch waiting for him.

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  • Maybe our pride is what keeps people from visiting our churches

    Years ago, I attended a seminar at my church where the speaker, a pastor from a church in San Francisco, quite possibly the coolest city on earth, talked about the “counterintuitive way of doing church.”

    He challenged us to make church a place where those outside the faith could feel welcome as they worked out their process.

    Church, he said, should be a place that encourages questions, gives space for doubt and doesn’t demand that people make on-the-spot faith decisions. Church should be a safe place where people can try faith on, test it out.

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  • Local Church News | March 16, 2016

    Lighthouse Church

    We will be having our Easter celebration service at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 27. There will be an Easter egg hunt following the service.

    Monterey Baptist Church

    Our celebration song was led by the Rock Stars (our children’s choir) on Sunday. It’s a blessing to hear those sweet voices sing for the Lord.

    Rock Stars will meet at 7 p.m. on Wednesday. Bible study will also be at 7 p.m. in fellowship hall.

    The youth meet at 5 p.m. each Sunday.

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  • Make a difference for Owen County's youth

    BY JESSI WILLIAMS
    Owen County Extension Agent for 4-H Youth Development

    Kentucky 4-H is one of the most important and influential youth programs in our state and our county. Across Kentucky over 255,000 youth ages 9 to 19 learn about leadership, citizenship and life skills in “learn-by-doing” experiences such as communications and public speaking, through agriculture projects like livestock judging, science projects with robotics, 4-H camp, Teen Conference, and many other 4-H programs and activities.

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  • Five participate in Rotary speech contest

    The five Owen County High School students who participated in the annual Rotary speech contest held Feb. 29 during the Owenton Rotary meeting at the Smith House Restaurant, left to right: Junior Audrey Hager, Freshman Kaitlyn Parker, Sophomores Emily Cammack, Breanna Schadler and Ashley Howard.
    The students had to prepare and memorize a 5-8 minute speech. This year’s theme was, “Gift To the World.” Cammack received third place, Hager second place and Parker first place. Parker will advance on to the next level to represent Owen County.

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  • Community News | March 9, 2016

    Chamber breakfast meeting to be held March 10

    The next Owen County Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting will be held at 7:15 a.m., Thursday, March 10, at the Smith House Restaraunt.

    Manager of Energy Efficient Programs at Kentucky Utilities, Rhonda Truman, will be the guest speaker.

    Please RSVP to jonesdave2001@yahoo.com, or call or text (502) 750-2400, by Tuesday, March 8.

    Upcoming blood drive to be held Friday

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  • Become an artist this summer at the library

    The Owen County Public Library is delighted to announce a series of hands-on art experiences for the whole family.

    Beginning in April patrons will be able to create art work once a month with Jennifer Zingg of Full Circle Gallery in Frankfort.

    Zingg is nationally known for her stunning figurative and zoological sculpture using gourds and she makes learning about art processes fun and rewarding.

    Her series is titled “Meet Kentucky Masters” and she has selected a well-known Kentucky artist as her focus for each class session.

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  • OCHS hosts special Chamber of Commerce guests

    BY MAKENZIE DAVIS
    N-H School Correspondent

    The Principals Advisory Council and GRIT Team at OCHS hosted Chamber of Commerce members on Wednesday, March 2, as part of the Leadership Owen program.

    The PAC and GRIT team held a meeting Friday, Feb. 26, to plan what would be a day to showcase all that OCHS has to offer students.

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  • Ky. Divsion of Water outlines inspection process

    BY STEVEN MUSEN
    Owen County Extension Agent for Agriculture & Natural Resources

    The Kentucky Division of Water may contact you for a variety of reasons. The division’s mission is “to manage, protect and enhance the quality and quantity of the commonwealth’s water resources for present and future generations through voluntary, regulatory and educational programs.”

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