Today's News

USDA Farm Service Agency State Executive Director John W. McCauley urged livestock producers affected by natural disasters such as  Hurricane Isaac and the continuing drought to keep thorough records of their livestock and feed losses, including additional expenses for such things as feed purchases because of lost supplies.

Motorists will have to find an alternate route for a few weeks as a decades old bridge in rural northern Owen County is being replaced.
Owen County Road Supervisor Greg Smoot said the bridge on the Sparta/New Liberty Road over Two Mile Creek is being replaced because of safety concerns.
Smoot said the existing bridge was built from remnants of a bridge upstream that washed down during some flooding in the early 1960s.
“The existing bridge had washed out so it was rebuilt from materials from another bridge from upstream,” Smoot said.

The overall percent of Owen County students meeting college readiness benchmarks in some subjects of the ACT college entrance exam is at an all time high, local officials said.
According to a press release from Director of Instruction, Federal Programs and Professional Development Danny Osborne, Owen County juniors who took the ACT college entrance exam in 2011-2012 scored an average composite score of 18.3.

History is an account of events in either a written or narrative form. But what makes history exciting is the character of the people involved who enhance those events with their own personality, adding a dimension of life, color and movement.
Owen countians have always been intrinsically intertwined with the past, and many have recorded their hopes, dreams and sorrows in diaries and books or have passed them down in family stories.