Human Interest

The Annual Elizabeth Mundy Center Dinner is set for Thursday August 23 at 6:30 P.M. Tickets are available now at the center located at 1650 W. 2nd St. You can also order your tickets by phone at 270-687-4640. Executive Director Tom Vittitow was a guest on the Joe Lowe Morning Show Thursday Aug...

Fifth-grade students at Highland Elementary School will “go for the gold” this week with a creative Olympic game activity.  In honor of the Olympic games taking place in London, and to represent Highland’s back-to-school theme, “All Things Patriotic,” each group of fifth-graders will receive a bag of mystery items with which to “create” an Olympic event. Students will use the “Productive Thinking

West Louisville and Whitesville elementary schools were recently awarded Community Benefit grants sponsored by Owensboro Medical Health System. OMHS distributed nearly $641,400 to 53 regional organizations for 57 projects last week.

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has announced the beginning of the 2012 Adopt-a-Highway Poster Contest. Students from across the Commonwealth are invited to submit creative works for use in the Adopt-a-Highway calendar for 2013. The contest is open to all Kentucky students of elementary, middle and high school age...

United States Senator Rand Paul was a guest Tuesday morning on the Joe Lowe Morning Show. During his time on the air Senator Paul again called for America to cut spending to improve the economy.

U.S. Senator Rand Paul is scheduled to be on the Joe Lowe Morning Show Tuesday August 7 during the 8 A.M. hour. The Senator is traveling thru the State of Kentucky the next few days gathering information from voters.

Here is an awsome and easy contest that could reap big benefits for you and a family member or friend. It is just one more exciting event to mark the Grand Opening of the Owensboro Riverfront August 23, 24 and 25. The City of Owensboro invites 1490 WOMI listeners to the Owensboro Air Show Saturday, August 25...

The Owensboro Symphony Orchestra’s annual Concert on the Lawn will take place on Saturday, Aug. 18, on Kentucky Wesleyan College’s front lawn.

U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell met with Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske thursday in his office in the United States Capitol. The two discussed Kentucky’s widespread drug abuse challenges, and Director Kerlikowske briefed the Senator on law enforcement efforts to reduce the production, trafficking and abuse of illicit drugs in the Commonwealth...

Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice John Minton was the featured guest at the Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce Rooster Booster Breakfast Thursday August 2.