Today's News

Hagen New, an Owen County fifth grader, was among the 12 students selected from across the state to display their agriculture science projects at this week’s Kentucky Farm Bureau annual meeting in Louisville.
New is a student at Owen County Elementary and displayed his project, “Livestock is Mooving into QR Codes,” and demonstrated how farmers can use quick response code technology on ear tags to quickly scan and gather information on an animal.

A reward is being offered for to anyone with information on a break-in that recently took place at Elk Lick Baptist Church.
Owen County Sheriff Zemer Hammond said the break-in took place Dec. 2 at the church located at 6095 Claxon Ridge Rd.
Hammond said a window was broken out of the basement where the suspect or suspects entered.
“They ransacked through everything in the church,” Hammond said.
A member of the church who lived nearby noticed motion lights on in the church and went to turn them off.

An Owen County man has been honored as the Kentucky Army National Guard’s Noncommissioned Officer of the Year.
Staff Sgt. Nicholas Anglin, a resident of Owenton, serves as a multichannel transmission system operator in the guard and was recently recognized at a ceremony in Louisville.
The award is earned by the person who best portrays the embodiment of what the Kentucky National Guard stands for.
Anglin has served in the military for nine years, five years in active duty at Fort Campbell and the past four years in the National Guard.

“It’s as cheap as dirt, as plentiful as dirt and as dirty as dirt.”

This quote reflected the opinion of someone who obviously had occasion to live in an era when bituminous coal was king in Kentucky.
Though there may be truth in this statement the fact remains that coal played a integral part in the history of the commonwealth, and most Owen countians remember the days when area homes, businesses and schools depended on this smooth sooty sometimes smelly resource for heat.