Today's Opinions

No one knows the year when it entered Earth’s atmosphere but it was found one April day in 1892, on a Grant County, Kentucky farm. Since that day, slices of it are located in the Vatican collection, Vatican City, Italy, the British National Museum, and nearly every major center of study from Harvard to Japan and elsewhere around the globe.

Here is a portion of the mostly forgotten story of Grant County’s world-renowned 68-pound iron meteorite.

The following can be found at nkyviews.com/grant/grant358.htm and on numerous sites devoted to meteorites.

Hot weather and I usually do not mix.

As a teenager, my parents took us on a family vacation to Florida to visit some relatives.

It was blistering hot all day at the beach. Not being an ocean person, the sun simply glared on me the entire afternoon.

When it was time for lunch, I started feeling ill at Denny’s.

The group was sitting at a half-circle booth table with lucky me in the middle, which meant either half of the people had to get up to let me out or I had to crawl underneath the table.

It’s almost time for those grinning politicians to peek around poles and pop up on grassy, although somewhat brown, patches of yards.

That means the election is just a couple of months away.

Go ahead and call me a geek but I’m one of those people who believe it’s my privilege, honor and even duty to go to the polls on election day.

While the Grant County News does not endorse candidates, we will be bringing you an election section at the end of October.

This will feature all the candidates who have opposition for the Nov. 2 election.