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Today's News

  • Rebels bust out in home opener

    It had been 341 days since Owen County’s last home football victory. That win came against Atherton and their head coach Chris Collins.

    Friday night, Collins brought his new team – Trimble County – to Patterson Field for a match-up with the Rebels.

    He again left disappointed as the Rebels used a 16-point second quarter to take control of the game and eventually won 30-14. The victory evened the Owen County record at 2-2.

    The Rebels came into the game looking to break a three-game losing streak to the Raiders.

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  • Friday Night preview

    Opponent: Bourbon County Colonels

    Place: Paris

    Kickoff: 7:30 p.m.

    • The Colonels are coached by Johnny Poynter. He should be familiar with the Rebels. Poynter came to Bourbon County from Trimble County.

    • Bourbon County has been on the mountain top. The Colonels defeated Owensboro Catholic 39-28 to capture the 1997 2A State Championship. Bourbon competes in 4A.

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  • Freshman volleyball and JV golf have memorable weekend

    It’s sometimes easy to forget about the freshman and junior varsity teams. They work just hard as the varsity but often don’t get the recognition. Two of those teams turned in very good weekends.

    The Owen County High School freshman volleyball team traveled to Southern High School over the weekend and came home with a new, shiny trophy. The girls defeated Southern, Bullitt Central and Iriquois high schools to win the title.

    Haley DeCandia, Lizzy Anderson and Olivia Karsner were named to the all-tournament team.

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  • Owen County grand jury indictments

    Sept. 15, 2009

    On Sept. 15, 2009, the Owen County grand jury met and returned the following indictments:

    • Adler “Sonny” Derosset Jr., 44, on the charges of operating a motor vehicle while license revoked or suspended, operating a motor vehicle under the influence, failure to use seat belt and first-degree persistent felony offender.

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  • Paying homage to the big guys

    By 10:10 a.m., the place was packed.

    I had come for the 10:30 a.m. worship service, the first one in Cornerstone Baptist Church’s new ministry campus in Inverness, Fla.

    They had set out 800 chairs, but by 10:30, more than 1,000 people had shown up.

    The pastor opened the service by singing, “The Hand of Our God Is on This Place.”

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  • Local health officials to host flu workshop

    The Owen County Health Department in collaboration with Owen County Community Education is hosting an HINI informational meeting Monday at 6 p.m. in the high school auditorium. 

    Denise Bingham, clinical nurse manager from Three Rivers Health Department, will be on hand to answer questions about H1NI, commonly known as swine flu.

    Kathy Resetar, community education director, will be discussing how the schools are being pro-active in keeping the schools sanitized. 

    For more information, contact Resetar at 484-4011.

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  • Owen County Youth Football Results

    The Owen County Parks & Recreation youth competitive football teams recently completed games against Pendleton County and Grant County. The Mighty Pro and Power House teams both came away victorious against both rivals, while the Midget team suffered losses in both of their contests. The following is a recap of the action:

    Midget Division

    Pendleton Co. – 27

    Owen County – 0

    The Panthers jumped on the young Rebels from the opening play and never looked back to capture the victory.

    Grant Blue – 33

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  • Health care: More answers, less rhetoric

    U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell doesn’t say things very often that make me laugh.

    But in a recent op/ed piece, McConnell said that during his August recess from Washington, he didn’t meet “anybody who thought a government takeover of health care was the answer.”

    The statement shocked me and, as the kids say, LOL.

    It was never more clear to me that Sen. McConnell and I run in different circles.

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  • ‘Swine flu’ reported at middle school

    The Owen County School District issued a letter indicating a student at Maurice Bowling Middle School may have contracted H1N1, commonly known as swine flu.

    Owen County School Superintendent Mark Cleveland said the middle-school student has the symptoms of the virus, but no formal test results have been received.

    Cleveland said the Center for Disease Control is backed up with many other possible swine flu tests, and he has been advised to treat the illness as an incident of swine flu.

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  • Officials break ground for Eagle Creek sewer project

    After years of waiting, ground was officially broken Saturday for a multimillion dollar sewer project that will serve the community around the Eagle Creek Resort.

    Owen County Judge-Executive Carolyn Keith said although she came into office as funding for the project was being secured, she praised the efforts of residents along with local and state officials to get the project approved.

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