Today's Opinions

Whenever the “Henry County Local” reports on the proposal Thorntons made to invest more than $8 million here by building a travel center at Pendleton’s Interstate 71 exit, people always wonder why put in another gas station when four already operate there.

By John Inscore Essick

Port Royal Baptist Church

Readers of this newspaper know by now that Henry County is in the midst of an addiction crisis.  Like so many communities in Kentucky and beyond, the people of Henry County are working to comprehend addiction and respond wisely, effectively and sustainably.  

By Kristen Lowry

I’m not from around here.

In fact, before I moved here, the entirety of what I knew about Henry County came from Wendell Berry novels. Before I had ever heard of Port Royal, I had spent many hours with my nose in a book, exploring Port William.

Then, in 2015, true love, via eHarmony, brought me to New Castle to marry the pastor of the Baptist church.