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Today's News

  • Owen County sees rise in percentage of college grads

    By Bill Bishop and Roberto Gallardo
    For the News-Herald

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  • Grand jury indicts second suspect in connection with burglary

    An Owenton man was recently indicted after being caught on video entering and exiting property on Hawk View Lane after he allegedly stole money and guns.
    According to police reports, Isaac L. Goemaat, 18, was indicted Aug. 7 on the charges of first-degree burglary and theft by unlawful taking or disposition of property, firearm.
    Goemaat allegedly climbed into the residence through a ceiling and busted a hole into it.

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  • Owen County school bus routes for 2012-13

    Owen County students will go back to the books Aug. 15. Below are all Owen County bus routes, as well as some bus safety tips.

    Bus #1, Robert Miller: Hwy. 227 from Scott County to school, Harmony Road and Teresita Road.
    Bus #2, Lillian Peace: Sparta, end of 2 mile Manley, right on 36 to Sanders, backtrack out of Sanders, left on 227 through all of New Liberty to 127 South to school.

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  • Leadership lessons Meet Mark Stallons, CEO of Owen Electric

    As part of Leadership Owen County, we were all required to interview a local leader. I chose Mark Stallons, CEO of Owen Electric Cooperative as my interviewee.
    As with every aspect of this class, my interview with Stallons proved to be an enlightening and inspirational experience.
    Stallons’ grandfather was a tobacco farmer in Kentucky and his father was a journeyman-lineman who climbed poles for an investor-owned utility.
    Stallons’ recalls his father working as a lineman going through night school to earn his business degree.

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  • Leadership Lessons: Innovative agriculture

    The July Leadership Owen County program was agriculture and, as the program dictates, we spent the day “down on the farm.”
    The day began sampling breakfast fare made by the employees of the Owen County Coop. Extension office with locally-grown produce. This was followed by the review of present and past agricultural statistics. Several of the most notable were that in 1909, there were 2,700 farms in the county with an average acreage of 75 whereas today there are 850 farms but with an average acreage of 190.

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  • Fighting for salvation

    Hesler Assembly of God welcomed new pastor Jerry and Cherie Peters July 15.
    Pastor Jerry and his wife of 32 years Cherie spent the majority of their lives in Kansas City, Miss.
     For the past eight years, they have lived in Manteo, N. C. They are very excited about serving the family at Hesler Assembly and the people of Owen County.
    Peters has also been asked to serve as one of the chaplains for the Owen County Volunteer Fire Department and has already begun to provide crisis intervention services to other Owen County residents.

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  • Division champions

    Owen County third grade girls teamed with Walton-Verona in an AAU basketball  
    league over the summer. On Saturday, the girls won the division championship  defeating a fourth-grade team. Pictured are (left to right, back row) Sarah Hicks (WV); Cheyenne Coppola (OC);  Coach Roy Neeley (OC); Abby Colligan (OC); Paige Heuser (OC); Josie Isom   (WV). Front row: Caitlin Sizemore (OC); Natalie Smith (OC); Haylee Neeley  (OC); Madison Brown (OC). Not shown: Meg Gamm (OC); Kylie Lay (WV).

    Photo by Michelle Heuser

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  • Owen fall sports season begins

    The 2012 fall sports season is getting underway this week for the Owen County High School.
    The Lady Rebels will begin the volleyball season on Monday at Trimble County. Owen County is hoping for better results against the Lady Raiders than they had in 2011. The two teams met three times last season with Trimble County winning all three matches.
    At the Eighth Region All ‘A’ Classic, it was Trimble County who ended the longest winning streak in Owen County’s short volleyball history at seven matches in a row.

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  • Owen Co. boys squad hits the links

    The Owen County High School boy’s golf team began the 2012 campaign last week.
    The team was on the course July 30 at Sugar Bay where they took on Walton-Verona High School. The match was a good early season test against the team that captured the NCKC and All ‘A” championships a year ago.
    The Bearcats would get the better of the Rebels on this day as they won the match by 10 strokes.
    Zach Ripy led Owen County with a nine-hole total of 40 while Cole Hamilton fired a 42.

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  • Owen girls golf team taking on top competitors

    The Owen County High School girl’s golf team has begun the 2012 season by taking on all challengers.
    In three of their first four matches, the team has competed against six of the teams that finished in the top 10 in the 2011 State Golf Tournament.
    In the Lady Rebels’ opening match of the year on July 28 at the Green County Invitational, the team competed against Henry Clay High School which finished eighth; Glasgow High School which finished tied for sixth; and Green County High School which  was the runner-up.

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