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The 2024 Hancock County Fair is Wednesday, July 31st-Saturday, August 3rd at the Hancock County Fairgrounds in Hawesville. This award winning fair offers rides, delicious foods, competitive events, exhibits, pageants, motor sports, livestock & animal shows, and more. Don’t miss…
Kim Harper is now serving as Market President for Hancock County at Independence Bank. Previous President Wade Gaynor has accepted a President elect position with Independence Bank in Henderson County. Retired President Rick Embry played a monumental role in bringing…
One of many modalities in massage therapy is craniosacral, which works with the rhythms of the various body systems to find where the roots of stressors are, with an aim at restoring balance to the flow of cranial sacral fluid.…
Parade of Homes The 66th annual Parade of Homes begins July 20 featuring 15 newly built homes by 11 homebuilders. The event will start this weekend on July 20-21 and continue the following weekend, July 27-28. Houses will be open…
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Last Week’s Riddle was: Around a center my dance begins, I’m tightly bound yet forever I spin. What am I? Larry Adkins guessed it! ANSWER: electrons orbiting an atom. This Week’s Riddle is: (A summer riddle/joke for children & the young at heart!) I…
They have a place in the animal world. They get rid of dead and decaying animals they have found, keeping humans from having to deal with them. But, we now have a new kind of vulture. This one is much…
We are now watching the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. In interviews those who knew the shooter, some who went to school with him said he was terribly bullied. What makes a bully? Most often he has a low opinion…
I only knew Donn because of Nancy’s Notes. Each week, I would take my “notes” to his office. Usually, we would talk for a little while, then he’d say, “I’ve got to quit talking. I have a newspaper to get…
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Area Obituaries
Judith Boswell
Judith “Judy” Nell Boswell, 77, tossed her wheelchair to the side and sprinted into the arms of Jesus on Tuesday July 16, 2024. Judy was born in Owensboro, Kentucky on March 7, 1947 to the late Ralph and Edna Boswell. She was their first-born blessing which provided her with an incredible amount of strength and…
Patricia Gail Russelburg
Patricia Gail Russelburg, 71, 0f Hawesville, passed away on Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at her home under the care of Hospice of Western Kentucky. She was born in Breckinridge County on October 8, 1952 to the late Jasper and Bernice Brown Dewitt. Gail was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and was a retired…
Allen Gentry
Allen R. Gentry aka “Big Al”, 59, of Tell City, passed away at home with family and friends by his side on Sunday, July 14, 2024. Al was born on January 6, 1965, in Louisville, KY to the late Charles “PeeWee” and Anna (Anders) Gentry. He was a 1983 graduate of Tell City High School…
Betty Morris
Betty Ford Morris, 85, of Hawesville, beloved wife, mother, Ganny and sister passed away peacefully into the arms of her Father on July 12, 2024 after having a wonderful Life. She was born on June 14, 1939 to the late Henry and Thelma Lanman Ford in Tell City, IN. A strong lover of her family,…
Barbara Hagman
Barbara Frey Hagman, 89, of Hawesville passed on to her Heavenly Home on Tuesday July 9, 2024 under the care of Hospice of Western Kentucky. Barbara was born in Owensboro, KY on June 26, 1935 to the late William Charles and Mary Agnes Bryan Frey. Barbara was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, which…
Kevin Swihart
Kevin S. Swihart, 48, finished his earthly race on Saturday, July 6, 2024. He was born on August 31, 1975, to Charles and Sandy (Nugent) Swihart in Owensboro, Kentucky. He was a lifelong Hancock County resident who grew up farming, exploring, and raising (just enough) hell in the countryside of the Blackford bottoms with his…
Doanna Hodskins
Doanna E. Hodskins, 78, of Lewisport passed on to her Heavenly Home on July 3, 2024 at her home. Doanna was born in Daviess County, KY on March 12, 1946 to the late John William (Dot) and Mary Jo Adkins Estes. She was a member of the Lewisport Baptist Church, worked at Commonwealth Aluminum in…
Lois Davis
Lois Johnson Davis, 91, of Owensboro passed peacefully on Saturday, June 29, 2024, at Owensboro Health Regional Hospital. Her sister, brother-in-law and nieces were at her side. She was born on April 27, 1933, in Hancock County to the late Harvey and Marie Johnson. Lois worked for nineteen years at the former General Electric plant…