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Hancock County High School’s Successful Partnership with Owensboro Innovation Academy

  Hancock County High School’s partnership with Owensboro Innovation Academy (OIA), for almost a decade, gives students who’ve chosen the Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Mathematics (STEAM/STEM) field as their focus, an opportunity to really hone-in on those subjects. There are currently 4 HCHS students enrolled in OIA this school year, one freshman, 2 sophomores…

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Elma June Mingus

Elma June Mingus, 68, of Cloverport, passed into the loving arms of her Heavenly Father on March 13, 2023 at Owensboro Health Regional Hospital. The Hancock County native was born February 2, 1955, to the late J.W. and Nancy Storm Powers. June graduated from Hancock County High School, Class of 1973. She then went to…

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HCHS Sophomore Katie Kruger to attend Congress of Future Medical Leaders

Kruger, Sophomore at Hancock County High School, was nominated for academic recognition as a Delegate representing Hancock County High School and the Commonwealth of Kentucky at the Congress of Future Medical Leaders, held on June 21st through June 23rd, 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts. Katie was nominated by Nobel Prize winner in Medicine and Science Director…

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Getting To Know You: Ashley Walls, CEO Labor Management Federal Credit Union

Ashley Walls, the new CEO for Labor Management Federal Credit Union, is a lifelong resident of Lewisport. “It’s a strong community,” she said. “The way that everyone pulls together when someone’s in need; you don’t find that in big cities. When there’s tragedy or triumph, the community rallies together for people and that is what…

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From triplets to “The Wilson Twelve”

You may remember the front page story in The Clarion written by the late Sam Roberts about the birth of Hancock County native, Shannon Vandgrift’s, triplets in 1995. He wrote their birth at Owensboro-Daviess County Hospital on Sunday, July 23rd, 1995, “may well have contributed to local history.” We reached out to Shannon, 46 now,…

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Getting to know you; Justin Obenchain

  Justin Obenchain is a local farmer in Hawesville. He, his wife Chrystal, and his younger brother, Dylan, all work together raising alfalfa and sweet corn. He purchased his family’s farm in 2015 from his grandfather, the late Jim Obenchain, and they produced their first crop of corn in 2016. Justin is President of the…

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Getting To Know You; Veronica Taylor

Veronica Taylor was born and raised in Lewisport. “I consider myself fortunate to have grown up on Muddy Gut Road,” she said. “Without electronics and having to figure out how to entertain myself because that’s been real helpful through life. I had a lot of fun. My mom and dad were fun people. I played…

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