Today's News

For the second-consecutive week, a Runnin’ Rebel has been named NCKC Player of the Week.
Sophomore guard  Zach Ripy scored 27 points in two conference wins over Trimble  County and Carroll County
Ripy shot over 50 percent from the floor while handing out seven assists  with six steals.
 

Three Owen County football players have been named to the second-annual Offense-Defense Youth All-American Bowl.
Sixth-graders David Gray and Jordan Willhoite, along with fourth-grader Jason Gray, joined dozens of other outstanding players in their age group in an east meets west nationwide clash, part of a week-long series of events leading up to the nationally-televised, fifth-annual Offense-Defense All-American Bowl, an all-star football game of similar format showcasing 80 of the top high-school seniors in the country. 

It was the week after Christmas, not the night before, and I was the mother of grown children, not a child. Still, I lay awake in the second floor bedroom of my childhood home listening to the noises an old house will make in the dark. My father had died earlier in the day. Yet I heard his hand on the back-porch door, his footstep on the basement stairs, his movement in the kitchen. Rain gusted against the dormer windows and sleep would not come. Ghosts live only in stories I told myself.

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As the first decade of the new millennium winds down, Owen County finds itself at a crossroads.
With a shifting economy, a changing political scene and a new direction in local education, Owen countians are looking at the future while keeping an eye on preserving the past and the community’s rich heritage.
The News-Herald looks back at 2010:

Jan. 6: Jokes were made, tears were shed and stories were told Dec. 30 at Owenton First Christian Church when pastor Bill Watson and his wife, Brenda, sat before a crowd of friends and well-wishers.