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Today's News

  • Educator cuts looming in district

    Declining student enrollments could translate to fewer educators when Washington County Schools begins its academic year in August.  

    Staffing formulas approved by the board of education last week indicate possible cuts to as many as four educator positions at the high school and one position at Washington County Elementary.

    North Washington Elementary could also cut an educator’s position, under newly released district staffing formulas. 

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  • Quest for the crown

     Washington County’s own Sarah Cocanougher will compete in this summer’s Miss Kentucky Pageant in Lexington. 

    In her debut pageant appearance Feb. 24,  Cocanougher, 18, was crowned Miss Cardinal Country in Louisville, as part of the Miss University of Louisville
    pageant. 

    Eleven contestants competed, but only two advanced from the group with a title, conferring upon them a chance of capturing the Commonwealth’s most prestigious crown this June — Miss Kentucky. 

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  • Holy shards of glass

    FREDERICKTOWN—Holy Trinity Catholic Church sustained significant damages Thursday when vandals allegedly broke in and partly shattered a window above the main sanctuary.

    It’s the seventh time in as many months the church has been vandalized. 

    According to reports filed with the Washington County Sheriff’s Department, someone entered the building between noon and 2 p.m. on Feb. 28 and threw a brass object through a 4x8-feet plate glass window of an upstairs nursery.

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  • The Caring Place youth basketball tournament

    The Caring Place, a domestic violence shelter for women and children, is sponsoring a "Spring Into Action Against Domestic Violence" co-ed basketball tournament for all interested fourth and fifth-graders on April 6 and 7.

    Games will be played at Lebanon Middle School and Marion County High School.
    The last day to sign up is March 15 to ensure t-shirts will be received by game day. Permission slips will be provided at local schools. Concessions will be available.

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  • Managing Roundup-ready alfalfa: weed control

    Weed Control: An initial application of glyphosate between emergence and the fourth trifoliolate growth stage is important to establish a thick and productive alfalfa stand.

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  • It’s time to do fruit maintenance
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  • Sign up today for 4-H camp

    We appreciate everyone who attended and supported the first 4-H chili supper at the Washington County Extension Office last Thursday night. The Washington County Homemakers, along with several 4-H families, provided the homemade cookies and brownies. Several local businesses supported the event with supplies and discounts. The proceeds will go toward camp scholarships this summer.

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  • PHOTO: SCC women's bowling wins title
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  • Patriot duo named to all-conference academic team

     

    The St. Catharine women’s basketball team landed two players on the Mid-South Conference Academic All Conference team. Senior forward Reilly Poirier and junior guard Machera Calhoun received that recognition Wednesday in Frankfort at the women’s conference basketball banquet that preceded the opening of the tournament on Thursday.

    Calhoun, a pre-nursing major from Ft. Myers, Fla., has a 3.32 cumulative grade point average while Poirier, a Biology major from Dennis, Mass., has a 3-32 GPA.

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  • PHOTO: SCC men bounced from MSC tournament
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