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Today's Features

  • Looking back | Dec. 16, 2015

    It’s snow problem
    Dec. 15, 2010
    5 years ago

    County road crews stayed busy earlier this week as several inches of snow fell across Owen County temperatures plummeted into the teens. Owen County Road Supervisor and Solid Waste Coordinator Greg Smoot said although one truck wasn’t operating no major problems occurred.

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  • The pros and cons of marketing real Christmas trees

    If you’ve been patient and waited the five to seven years it takes to grow and maintain Christmas trees to get them ready for sale, you’re might be wondering how to best market them to customers.

    Marketing real Christmas trees has some unique pros and cons. You’ll have a guaranteed annual market, and since fresh Christmas trees only have a two to four week life expectancy after cutting, customers must replace them every year. The appeal of having a fresh Christmas tree each year is enticing to many people, usually part of family and cultural traditions.

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  • Holiday greenery has symbolism

    BY JENEEN WICHE
    Weekend Gardner

    Holiday greenery has a history that goes well beyond the Victorian Christmas tree we gather around today.  Most of the holiday greenery we use to decorate dates back to the pagan holidays of the Romans and Northern Europeans when certain plants were chosen for their symbolic powers of restoration and protection.

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  • Livestock Market Report | Dec. 16, 2015

    Dec. 9, 2015

    Cattle receipts: 852
    Last week: 879
    Last year: 851

    Compared to last week: Feeder cattle sold 1.00-4.00 lower, slaughter cows 2.00-3.00 lower, bulls 1.00-3.00 lower.

    Feeders: 765
    Slaughter: 87
    Replacements: 1

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  • One-room schoolhouses and Christmas trees

    BY BONNIE STRASSELL
    Owen County Historical Society

    They were designated Agee, Beech Grove, Buck’s Run, Clark Ridge, Fortner, Hawkins, Little Hope, Mint Springs, Slab Lick, Panther Lick and White Chapel. They dotted the hillsides and backroads of Owen county, and according to the July 4, 1974 Bicentennial issue of the News-Herald, at one time there were more than 70 of them in the area.

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  • Christmas decorating finished on the Branch

    It’s still unusually warm this morning and raining. I am not in the mood to write, but I guess I’ll think of something.

    I took advantage of the mild weather to get the outside of the house decorated. I hadn’t really planned to do much, but with Harley now in residence in New Hampshire I have no fear of the decor being eaten.

    Jess is well past the age of chewing up artificial flowers. With the help of my daughters, the inside is pretty well covered in Christmas too.

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  • Local Church News | Dec. 16, 2015

    Cedar Hill Baptist Church

    Bro. Bill’s message was from Matthew 2:1-12 called “Returning a New Way.”  He shared how the wise men enjoyed their purposeful journey and after seeing Jesus came back home new people.  Ronnie share the song “Lord, Please Come Down to Me.”

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  • A few cupcakes, some Percocet and a lot of grace

    Over the past few years, my friend Mike and I have had some rather unorthodox conversations about faith and stuff.

    Mike’s the one who once prayed that God would fix his toilet and it was fixed miraculously. He’s also the one who assured me that it’s OK to tell God when I’m angry at him since he knows it anyway and he won’t smite me with boils for being angry.

    Mike is also the one who one year ridiculously announced he was giving up pride for Lent, which I still remind him of 10-plus years later.

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  • Have you ever considered thanking God for fleas?

    By ROGER ALFORD
    N-H Columnist

    I’ve always enjoyed the story about the little girl who asked her father where people came from. The father explained that God made Adam and Eve and that they had children, and their children had children, and soon the world was populated with people.

    The little girl then went to her mother asked the same question. The mother told her that people evolved from monkeys through a process known as evolution.

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  • Looking back | Dec. 9, 2015

    Bad weather is good for business
    Dec. 8, 2010
    5 years ago

    As word of the first significant snowfall of the season spread throughout Owen County Friday, local shoppers headed for the stores in preparation for a weekend of wintry weather.

    Local forecasters began predicting light snowfall Friday afternoon, calling for a half-inch in Northern Kentucky, with the biggest amounts falling throughout the day Saturday.

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