Today's News

By Jimmie Earls

Sun Sports Writer

A capacity crowd came out Monday night to watch a basketball tournament at the Mackville Community Center. But this was no ordinary night of hoops action for those in attendance. This was a night of “celebrity” donkey basketball.

Several politicians, business owners and members of the community did their best to ride their donkeys while trying to outscore the competition. But most of the players didn’t have much time to make shots because they were trying to control their mounts.

As a famous fictional frog once said, “It’s not easy being green.” That is also the case when there is a possibility to expand curbside recycling in Springfield to include paper products. But while Washington County Solid Waste Coordinator George Ann Palmer would like to include the city in the program, concerns about the lack of available inmate labor and other associated costs have city officials asking more questions.

The annual 4-H Youth Fair was held on April 23 and 24 at the extension office.  The overall class champions in each class are now qualified for the Kentucky State Fair in August.  Other projects such as horticulture, food preservation, crops and all natural sciences will qualify in late summer for the Kentucky State Fair.  Summer classes dealing with science, technology and agriculture will be announced soon and will be open to all youth of 4-H age in Washington County.

This is an interesting article we received this week, and I would like to share with you.

Despite oft-repeated claims by sources ranging from the United Nations to music star Paul McCartney, it is simply not true that consuming less meat and dairy products will help stop climate change.  

UC Davis associate professor and air quality specialist Frank Mitolehner says that McCartney and the chair of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental   Panel on Climate Change ignored science when they launched a European campaign called “Less Meat = Less Heat.”