Today's News

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.

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.

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.

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.