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Epps is AP girls player of the year

Marion County High School point guard Makayla Epps recently was voted as the 2013 Associated Press Kentucky girls basketball player of the year.  
She said that she set team goals as her main focus this past season, and all the individual goals added to it.  
Joining Epps on the first team is teammate Kyvin Goodin-Rogers, both of whom are Kentucky signees.  
Other members of the first team include Rebecca Greenwell, China Dow, and Larryn Brooks.   The girls’ coach of the year honor went to Nicole Levandusky from Notre Dame.

Duckworth and Reed will marry June 8

 

Aquaculture field day is May 16

Kentucky State University and the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service will host an aquaculture field day and workshop from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. EDT May 16 at the KSU Center for Sustainability of Farms and Families. Lunch will be provided.

Golf lessons again offered for SCC fundraiser

If you want to improve your golf game, and help support the St. Catharine College golf program at the same time, you have that opportunity again this spring. Again, St. Catharine College head coach Joan Rizer will be offering lessons at Bardstown Country Club at Maywood. All proceeds go to the Patriots men’s and women’s golf programs.
The lessons are offered each Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Call Coach Rizer at (502) 507-4777 to set up a time for the lessons.

Keeping the coyote population under control

I’m not one to advocate killing something just for the sake of killing. So when I say all coyotes should be shot, trapped or in some way eradicated it’s not just for the killing. It’s a matter of control!
This point was brought to my attention during our turkey season. On two occasions I came across a pile of turkey feathers and some body parts. Don’t know why the feathers and body parts were left since a coyote usually eats everything.

Economic impact of tourism exceeded $21 million in 2012

Tourism’s impact on the local economy keeps growing.
Statewide, tourism contributed more than $12.2 billion to Kentucky’s economy in 2012, and in Marion County, that impact increased by 9.6 percent to $21.45 million last year.
“It was well above the previous year and well above the state average,” said Carla Wagner, the administrative assistant for the Lebanon Tourist and Convention Commission.

Hamilton graduates from Gatton Academy

Celebration of Commencement Weekend at WKU continued May 11 as The Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky celebrated the graduation of its Class of 2013.
Sixty-nine students representing 51 counties from across the Commonwealth were recognized during the ceremony in Van Meter Hall. The ceremony honored the Gatton Academy’s sixth graduating class.  
Gatton Academy students take advanced coursework in mathematics, science and other subjects completing both their high school and Gatton Academy requirements.

Glasscock students pass physical fitness testing
Goodin and Clark will marry June 1

 

Hudgins and Rakes will marry June 1

 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles (Chuck) Hudgins III of Lebanon announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Shannon Nicole Hudgins to George David Rakes of Lebanon.
The wedding will be held Saturday, June 1, 2013 at 5 p.m.
Formal invitations have been sent.