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Today's News

  • Colson followed father’s footsteps

    Paula Colson looked up to her dad, Paul Watts as he was a teacher and basketball coach at Williamstown High School, but took a different road in the line to becoming a teacher.

    “I always knew I wanted to be a teacher,” she said. “But, I married first and had children, then went to school.”

    Colson started her trek to becoming a teacher at Kentucky State College, making a stop at the University of Kentucky, before getting her bachelor’s degree in education at Northern Kentucky University in 1985.

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  • Wilt caused by more than heat

     

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  • Turning Back the Clock 6-23-11

     

    15 Years Ago

    June 20, 1996
    Three Grant County teens were chosen for the Governor’s Scholars Program. Gail Kollhoff of Corinth, Lori Brown and Tracy Wright, both of Williamstown, will take part in the five week program that joins 700 high school juniors from 116 of Kentucky’s 120 counties.

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  • Pillow found teaching through her parents

    Catherine Pillow said she always knew she would be working with children.

    For the past 31 years she has been teaching in the Grant County Schools District, including Corinth Elementary and Mason-Corinth Elementary.

    Now, she is retiring after 33 total years in education.

    “I think I gave it everything I had everyday,” she said. “I will take away from that the children worked hard and they learned from me.”
    Pillow said she found her calling through her parents, Ruth and Edwin Hall.

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  • Two GCHS teachers dust off their erasers and say goodbye

    Pat Conrad
    Pat Conrad,  Family and Consumer Science teacher, started at Grant County High School shortly after she graduated from Eastern Kentucky University and has taught 29 years in Grant County.

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  • Church Notes: June 23, 2011

    Christ Community
    • Last Sunday, Tom Thoburn spoke for the morning service using The Lord’s Prayer for his text. When Bro. Tom finished speaking, Rhonda sang “The Lord’s Prayer.”
    • Mondays - The “Stepping into Freedom” small group is growing. It is held at 6:30 p.m. at the church, 139 N. Main Street. If you have any kind of problem or you feel you are struggling with any type of bondage, this class is for you. For more information, call 959-824-1824.

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  • POTTER’S HOUSE CALLS PASTOR

    The Potter’s House has called Charles Courtney as its new pastor effective June 26.

    The church is located at 115 S. Main Street in Crittenden (the lower level of the Family Dollar Store).

    Morning worship will begin at 10:30 a.m. and everyone is invited to attend the worship and fellowship service. Evening service begins at 6 p.m.

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  • Forever His Choir to perform July 1

    The Forever His Senior High Choir from First Baptist Church on the Square in LaGrange, GA, will perform at Crittenden Baptist Church (CBC) at 7 p.m. Friday, July 1.

    With an emphasis on God and country, their program selections include contemporary Christian and patriotic music, including a salute to the armed forces.

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  • Life is about relationships

    One Sunday during announcements, I mentioned my sermon next week would be entitled “What Is Hell?” I followed that by saying

    “Come early and listen to our choir practice.” At least the congregation knew what I meant—and laughed along with me at my unintended error.

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  • Lizards and other things ...

    When I was a kid, one of my brothers caught a little lizard in the tobacco field.  Being about 5, I did not have to work in the hot sun.

    Instead, I stayed under a wagon, playing with that little lizard in his mayonnaise jar with holes in the lid and grass for a bed and hidey hole.  I played with him all day, pestering it ad infinitum.  When my brother first caught him, he had a long tail.  By the end of the day—he barely had a stub left.  He had eaten his own tail.

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