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Today's News

  • Relay for Life starts tonight

     

    Washington County's annual Relay for Life event starts tonight at 7 p.m. at St. Catharine College, and runs until 7 a.m. Saturday. Activities are scheduled throughout the night, including a luminaria lighting ceremony at 10 p.m. Friday. Awards will be presented at 6:45 a.m. Saturday before closing.

     

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  • Cycling event finds a home


    St. Catharine College hosted the 25th annual Bike MS: Bike the Bluegrass event on Saturday and Sunday. More importantly, the organization’s development coordinator said the organization would like to keep the event at the campus.

    Bike MS is a fund raising event for the Kentucky Southeast Indiana Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society.

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  • SCC soccer will see British invasion


    St. Catharine College soccer coach Tim Wolz headed to England on a recruiting trip a few months ago, hoping that the time and expense would pay off by bringing some quality players into the Patriot fold.

    Now the Patriot mentor has seen the fruits of his journey. Already signed for the 2011 season are Anthony Steele, a midfielder from Kent, and Ashley Woods, a midfielder from Manchester. Also expected to ink a scholarship offer soon is Jonathan Read, an outside defender from Kent.

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  • Mid-South Conference wraps up year past, plans for future


    At the annual meeting of Mid-South Conference member schools on June 1 at Georgetown College, the year was reviewed and plans were made for the upcoming 2011-12 athletic seasons.
    The most notable change was in Mid-South Conference membership.

    Because it has petitioned to join the ranks of NCAA D-II schools, West Virginia Tech will not be eligible next season for post-season play in the MSC. All schools will still play the Bears in all sports, but the games will not count as conference contests.

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  • Little League action continues


    9-and-10-year-old baseball
    Orioles 4, Dodgers 1
    Devin Hurst took the win from the mound for the Orioles, while Jake Yates had three hits in the winning effort.
    Justin Mitchell took the loss from the mound, and had two hits for the Dodgers.

    Reds 8, Braves 5
    Tavon Hodgens was the winning pitcher, while John Floyd took the loss. Justice Hood had two hits in the game for the Braves.

    Reds 10, Orioles 3

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  • Walter will lead archery program


    The popularity of archery in the middle and elementary schools has carried over to the high school level.

    Next school year, Washington County High School will have its own archery team.
    Dennis Walter, a man with much archery experience, has volunteered to coach the new team.
    Walter said he had been assisting in another school archery program when he heard through an acquaintance that the high school needed someone to coach, so he volunteered.
    The new coach is no stranger to the sport.

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  • Commanders finish strong season, fall to Campbellsville


    Washington County vs. Campbellsville
    Score:     5-3 Campbellsville
    When: Tuesday, May 31
    Where: Central Hardin High School

    Game highlights: The Commanders (23-11-1) were on a hot-streak entering the game, but Campbellsville (17-20) hurler Brett Kearney cooled their bats.
    “We didn’t get big hits and they did,” baseball head coach Derek Schuler said. “We didn’t play bad, we just didn’t get the big hits.”

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  • Tingle named new athletics director


    A man with local sports ties was named athletics director at Washington County High School on Monday.

    Jeff Tingle, former owner of Jeff Tingle GM Center, was named Washington County High School athletics director by principal Paul Terrell.

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  • Ag community has concerns with GPS

    I thought his article was very interesting and worth sharing because modern day agriculture has come to the point that GPS affects so many producers .  So here we are having to fight with a commercial company and the FCC to maintain that technology.  
    Representatives from major agricultural organizations met last week in Washington to hear about potential interference with GPS systems if a pending waiver is granted.

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  • Do you have distorted tomato leaves?

    I have gotten a lot of calls and leaf samples of tomatoes from people wanting to know what to spray for diseases, etc.  There haven’t been a lot of reports of most tomato diseases hitting just yet, but the leaves that many of you are talking about is actually 2-4D damage.

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