Inside this week's edition of The Press

Crittenden County's yield of corn and soybeans is about
average for the autumn harvest according to Corey Payne,
University of Kentucky Extension Agent for Agriculture and
Natural Resources. Weather, Payne said,  has been fairly
 cooperative for both the 2011 growing and harvesting season.

 

A novelist has chosen Crittenden County as the setting for her latest three-part Amish romance series. Meantime, a day after a verdict was reached in the Pat Tinsley circuit court case, the county's courthouse  goes on trial by a team of Kentucky justices and locals for its gross deficiencies.

Crittenden County's school district meets nine of 10 No Child Left Behind goals for 2011, with the elementary and high schools scoring a perfect 100 percent in reaching benchmarks. The middle school, however, struggled, achieving only half of its 10 goals for the year.

Additionally, the Union County portion of former Alcoa land straddling Union and Crittenden County gets the green light for purchase, the first step in turning the former private property in both counties along the Ohio River into a recreational dream for hunters and outdoorsmen.