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Today's Features

  • Tips for starting early season vegetables indoors

    BY JENEEN WICHE
    Weekend Gardener

    I have my orders placed for onion sets and seed potatoes along with some of my favorite summer crops that will be directly seeded in the garden once the temperatures really warm…I can barely stand the wait! I have just seeded out several trays of early season vegetables that like a cool start to the season. Kale, broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts are just beginning to push through the light potting mix.

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  • Owen County women share same courageous stories of early settlers

    “Stalwart of frame no doubt they were, with muscles hardened under the strain of toil; hale and hearty, vigorous and strong, able to wield the axe against the trunk of a forest monarch or the head of an intruding savage; to aid their husbands and fathers to plow and plant, to reap and mow, to rake and bind and gather.”

    With these words 20th century historian, H.C. McCook, gave insight into the fortitude and enduring stamina of the early pioneer woman.

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  • A week of transition from winter to spring

    This is a week of transition. Winter is ending, jobs that need doing inside are now being done in lieu of better weather to come and calving is about over.

    Daylight Saving is changing this coming weekend. Everybody will spring forward.

    Basketball is into the season ending tournaments and Downton Abbey has left the building. I have no idea what I will do with my Sunday nights in the future, but I guess I’ll think of something.

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  • How do you relate to a raccoon? Small, chubby, eats junk

    BY ROGER ALFORD
    N-H Columnist

    I got such a kick out of a post my niece Becky Ayres shared on Facebook one day last week listing the reasons she can relate to a raccoon. This is her list:

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  • What I really want is more of Jesus and less of other, worldly things

    Once upon a time I had $3 pants.

    Dark, forest green rayon pinstriped dress slacks, with teeny flecks of black in the fabric. Regularly $45 marked down to $14.29 with an additional 30 percent off, then another 70 percent off – $3 pants!

    I was so excited about my purchase that when I got them home I immediately put them in a place of honor in my closet and sat on my bed to admire my precious find.

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  • Local Church News | March 9, 2016

    Monterey Baptist Church

    We were blessed to have Julie Spaulding lead us in praise and worship Sunday. It’s always a pleasure to see the young adults participate in our worship service.

    Rock Stars will meet on at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays. They will not meet on Wednesdays when school is cancelled.

    The youth meet at 5 p.m. on Sundays.

    MBC’s volleyball team plays at the gym at First Baptist Church in Owenton. They play at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 10. Come out and support our team!

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  • Feb. 15 – April 30 is no burn season

    By DAVID LILLY
    Owen County Emergency Management Director

    The Owenton/Owen County Volunteer Fire Department responded to a small grass fire behind the OCHS football field Sunday.

    During this dry season, the fire departments of Owen County would like to urge all residents to take extra precautions concerning fires.

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  • Juniors prepare for the ACT

    By MAKENZIE DAVIS
    N-H School Correspondent

    OCHS juniors hit the books in preparation for the ACT on March 1.

    The ACT is the standardized test most colleges and universities use for admission because it shows a student’s level of knowledge in the areas of math, reading, English and science. Most colleges require students to meet a benchmark score on each subject before admission.

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  • Early spring bloomers: Witch hazel and Cornus mas

    By JENEEN WICHE
    Weekend Gardener

    True to most springs in Kentuckiana one day is sunny and warm, the next cloudy and cold. It’s an anxious time of the year for most gardeners as we watch the sun coax open a little patch of crocus or catch sight of an old landscape filled with waves of blooming white snow drops.

    Must we wait for the forsythia to bloom as we pray for warmth? No, there are plenty of other early bloomers to keep us content until spring truly arrives.

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  • Tales from the steamboat era, as told by Owen residents

    Only a few Owen countians remain who remember those days, and sadly, those who are gone took with them many poignant, and at times hair-raising stories of the Kentucky steamboat era.

    By the 1820s, steamboat fever had struck Kentucky, and for the next 100 years it captured the economy and imagination of Kentuckians.

    In the 1850s, sidewheelers and sternwheelers on the Kentucky were transporting goods valued at more than $10,000,000 annually, giving a substantial boost to the state’s ecomony.

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