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Today's Features

  • Even with a terrible memory, there are some things to remember

    Editor’s note: Nancy Kennedy is taking a break for the holidays. This column first ran in 2011.

    I have been blessed with a terrible memory.

    It’s a blessing because I don’t remember things that haunt other people with better memories. I can’t remember most of the fights I’ve had with my husband or kids, or hurtful things people have said or done.

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  • Local Church News | Dec. 30. 2015

    Elk Lick Baptist Church

    The sermon for the fourth Sunday of Advent was titled “For God So Loved Us.” Bonnie Glass and Hannah Adams lit the candle of hope and expectation. Ashley and Sarah Young lit the candle of joy. The Perkins family lit the candle of love. Jesus gives us hope and expectation.

    Bonnie Woodyard sang “Mary, Did You Know?” while Louise Johnson sang the “Twelve Days of Christmas.”

    Happy birthday to William Paul Elliston and William Gage Elliston.

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  • Looking back | Dec. 23, 2015

    Mayor hopes pipeline will bring business
    Dec. 22, 2010
    5 years ago

    With natural gas now in the city of Owenton, Mayor David “Milkweed” Wotier hopes to see action in the industrial park. Wotier said Owenton’s lack of a natural gas line has hindered use of the spec building in the industrial park.

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  • Cast your ballot for this year’s Ky. Bluegrass Award

    BY JULIE DONAHUE
    Special to the News-Herald

    Owen County students and adults may participate in this year’s annual Kentucky Bluegrass Award student choice program.  

    A state committee chooses 10 of the best new, current children and young adult books available covering a variety of quality literature.  Public and private schools as well as public libraries across the state participate in this program.  

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  • A gardener's favorite Christmas poem

    JENEEN WICHE
    Weekend Gardener

     Every couple of years I like to revisit my father’s favorite Christmas poem inspired by Clement Moore’s famous work ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas.’  The writer of the poem is unknown but he or she certainly was a gardener; and you may even get some last minute gift ideas from its verse.

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  • Make a new year's resolution to plant trees

    George Orwell once said: “The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.” 

    Now is the perfect time to consider adding value to your woodlot, making your land more attractive to wildlife or adding beauty to your home landscaping by planting some trees in the spring.

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  • Tough holidays and winters create lifelong memories

    BY BONNIE STRASSELL
    Owen County Historical Society

    Someone once said the Christmas season waves a magic wand over the world, and when the grand finale arrives, the child in everyone comes to life.

    Perhaps one of the most poignant Christmas memories of the early 1900s revolved around the kitchen, where  delectable scents, wafting from the oven of a wood cook-stove, offered promises of good things yet to come.

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  • Stage is set for Christmas on Kay's Branch

    BY BEE SPICER

    Christmas week! The house is decorated, the shopping done, the tree in place and the gifts wrapped and under the tree. The menu is set for the Christmas afternoon brunch. This is the shortest day of the year. 

    I guess you all know I write on Monday so Molly can get it into the paper and ready to be distributed on Wednesday, so this is the shortest day of the year. 

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  • Lusby's Mill man learns to respect wife's right hook

    BY ROGER ALFORD
    N-H Columnist

    Three Kentucky men were sitting around the general store talking about issues they have with their wives and how they had resolved them.

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  • Christmas is God’s answer to our pleas for fixing pain and sorrow

    BY NANCY KENNEDY
    Grace Notes

    Years ago I read about a college student in the middle of final exams, distracted and distraught because her mother was ill and she wanted to be home with her.

    The mom assured her daughter that she was fine, that she would be OK. 

    After her last exam, the college student raced home, and as she walked in to see her mom, her mom opened her eyes, smiled -- and died.

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