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Magnolia Cumberland revival

Magnolia Cumberland Presbyterian Church is holding a revival each evening at 7 through Sept. 2.

Gospel concert

Magnolia Cumberland revival

Magnolia Cumberland Presbyterian Church is holding a revival each evening at 7 through Sept. 2.

Gospel concert

Niki Carter, the new director of the LaRue County Public Library, sees the place as a community center where “people are encouraged to benefit themselves and the community.”

“Our popular collections will always be here for the people, but we’re a source that focuses on the people’s needs; that’s where libraries have their staying power,” said Carter, who finished her master’s in library science from the University of Kentucky this semester. 

The annual LaRue County Extension Grain Field Day will be 5 p.m. Sept. 1 at the Duell Creekside Farm, 5960 Sonora Road between Hodgenville and Sonora.

The grower cooperator again this year is Carlos Tucker. The farm is owned by Reba Duell and is about five miles from the intersection of  the Lincoln Parkway and KY 84/357 near Hodgenville, and about 3.5 miles from the KY 84 and U.S. 31W intersection near the Interstate 65 Sonora exit. This is the same farm as last year’s grain field day.

Diplodia ear rot may show up in some cornfields as they approach maturity. The abundance of wet weather around the silking period provided opportunities for infections to occur.

This ear rot appears as white cottony fungal growth between kernels, usually progressing from the ear shank upward and from the cob outward.

The type of tomato you use often affects the quality of salsas. Paste tomatoes, such as Roma, have firmer flesh and produce thicker salsas than large slicing tomatoes, although both types make good salsas. Salsa can be thickened by adding tomato paste.

Use only high quality tomatoes for canning salsa or any other tomato product. Poor quality or overripe tomatoes will yield a very poor salsa and may spoil.

Greater Works has moved to new location

Greater Works Church has moved to 102 N. Walters Ave. beside Arrowhead Pawn in Hodgenville. Sunday service at 11 a.m.; Wednesday at 7 p.m. For more information, call 358-8399 or e-mail greaterworkschurch@windstream.net.

Magnolia Cumberland revival

Magnolia Cumberland Presbyterian Church will hold revival Aug. 30 at 10:45 a.m. and each evening at 7 through Sept. 2.

Gospel concert

This summer’s wet, mild weather made the perfect conditions for late blight in tomato plants.

Late blight on tomatoes was found in LaRue and Laurel counties and could be more widespread, according to University of Kentucky College of Agriculture. The disease causes leaves to wither quickly and die. It can affect the whole plant or begin at the top or bottom and spread.

LaRue County Extension Agent David Harrison said the infected plants were found on Old Sonora Road.

If Tickle Ragland doesn’t hold a record for length of corresponding with a pen pal, she surely must be close.

Ragland, 72, has exchanged letters with Sharon Meisenheimer of Walnut, Ill., for 62 years.

In those six decades, they have seen the price of stamps increase from 3 to 44 cents, but much more importantly, the two women have developed a closeness that rivals that of siblings.