Today's News

The Collins boys’ and girls’ tennis teams both saw their season-opening matches at Oldham County on Wednesday called because of darkness.

The girls’ match was tied at 1-1, and the Colonels led the Titans, 2-0, when boys' play was stopped.

On the girls’ side, Collins sophomore Paige Kregor defeated Oldham’s Nicole Muller, 6-2, 6-0, at No. 1 singles. At No. 2 singles, Oldham’s Bailey Hill defeated seventh-grader Blair Nethery, 6-3, 6-1.

Something Conor Doyle’s father had told him for a long time certainly rang true Monday afternoon.

That’s when Doyle, a Collins senior, signed in the high school’s library to play golf at Cincinnati Christian University. 

“My dad [Todd] has been telling me all my life I was going to be a preacher and a golfer,” Doyle said, “and Cincinnati Christian University makes that possible. I always thought he was crazy, but now it’s possible.”

The merger of Jewish Hospital and St. Mary Healthcare with Catholic Health Initiatives has many in Shelby County still scratching their heads about what it means for their medical care.

In fact, the potential for changes in the medical care to which they had become accustomed have left many across the commonwealth confused.

There has been much talk of the Catholic Ethical and Religious Directives (ERDs), but what those rules mean remains a mystery to many outside the religion and the medical field.

It appears there is no normal season for farmers anymore.

After suffering through an extremely wet and cold winter last year, which pushed the planting season back because fields were too muddy, this year farmers are facing a new problem: warm, spring-like temperatures in January and February.

At least Jim Ellis, who has spent his entire life on the farm, said that was something new.