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Today's Features

  • Kroger hosts contest

    Kroger Relay for life is currently holding their annual Cutie Pie contest. Bring in your birth to 3- year-old cutie’s favorite photo with name, age and parents’ phone number.

    Shoppers can vote on their favorite cutie by depositing money in cups corresponding with the number of the cutie. Winners will be announced Feb. 15. Trophies will be awarded to the first place girl and the first place boy who receives the most money.

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  • Retired Teachers discuss state legislation

    The Carroll County Retired Teachers Association met on Jan. 16, at Two Rivers Restaurant with 11 members in attendance. The minutes of the last meeting were read by secretary Velma Hunt and approved as read. The treasurer’s report showed the breakdown of the monies available in the scholarship fund and the expenditures from the remaining amount. A total of 34 members have paid their dues, and the treasurer hopes that those who usually pay and have not will do so soon. Every dollar that is collected helps the Association.

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  • Couscous, vegetables provide a healthy meal

    Hello once again, my friends. We made it through the holiday season, and now, we are looking forward to spring. The thoughts of warm weather and green grass are dancing in our heads.

    Ok, I’ll admit that’s not what’s on a lot of people’s minds. It is after the holidays so a good number of people are thinking about one thing: those pants that seem to have shrunk over the last month or so.

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  • Deadline nears for producers to join farm programs

    The deadlines are quickly approaching for producers with base acres to make decisions regarding new coverage programs under the current Farm Bill.

    The two new programs that have been created through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the 2014 Farm Bill are Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC).

    ARC and PLC are commodity farm safety net programs that offer farmers protection when market forces cause substantial drops in crop prices and/or revenues.

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  • Healthy choices can help with new year weight loss

    Hello, since this is my first article for the paper I wanted to thank everyone I’ve met in the community and at the Carroll County Extension Office for the warm welcomes and offers of support in my new position as Family and Consumer Science Agent. There are many folks to meet and opportunities yet to come, and I look forward to them all!

    At the beginning of January many of us made resolutions and set goals around health, such as eating healthier, becoming more fit or losing weight.

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  • KU hosts coat drive
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  • Carroll County Community Calendar | Jan. 22, 2015

    Thursday, Jan. 22

    CCHS girls basketball vs. Eminence at 7:30 p.m.

    Lions Club meets at noon at Butler Park lodge.

    Carroll County Board of Education meets 5 p.m. at Carroll County High School.

    Carroll County High School football boosters meet at 6 p.m. at the high school media center.

    Narcotics Anonymous meets at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday at Carrollton Christian Church, 310 Fifth St.

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  • Humans are God’s special creation, set apart and above all other beings

    The so-called smart people will tell you that life on this planet originated several billion years ago. They will tell you that electrical disturbances caused reactions to occur in the chemicals of the primeval ocean, and these reactions produced amino acids that organized themselves into living cells They will tell you that man is the highest product of this development, he is an immediate descendent from the same ancestors as the apes, and he is, himself, still developing.

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  • Church news | Jan. 22, 2015

    Sanders Baptist Church will host its monthly hymn sing 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 25.

    The hymn sing will feature the Sanders Gospel Band.  In case of inclement weather, the hymn sing could be cancelled.  Additional information is available by calling Pastor Hardin Lowe at 859-643-5167.

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  • Ernest Doll prepares to celebrate 101st birthday

    Farming has always been a part of Ernest Doll’s life – from a child growing up during the Great Depression until he retired from farming in the early 1990’s. Doll and his family have grown tobacco, hay, corn and raised cattle over the years.

    Ernest will be celebrating his 101st birthday Feb. 11. He was born on the farm where his family lived in Henry County near Port Royal.

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