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The Kentucky Division of Forestry has issued its fall No Burning Order. State law restricts open burning within 150 feet of any woodland or brushland between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. during the fall wildfire hazard season, which run from Oct. 1 to Dec. 15. By restricting burning until after 6 p.m., winds are typically lower and humidity higher, making outdoor fires more manageable and less likely to become wildfires. Anyone considering doing outdoor burning should read the Kentucky Division for Air Quality’s web page on open burning here, or call the Division for Air Quality at (502) 782-6592 to learn about other specific regulations before burning

Crittenden County Senior Center and affiliated programs will be hit hard by state belt tightening at the end of this year. It will be the second big funding cut the programs have faced this year. Seniors gather at the center for food, fellowship and many other activities such as billiards. Read more about it in the Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 issue of The Crittenden Press. Subscribe today to never miss important news like this. Get the printed edition or read the entire paper online with a subscription to The Press, starting at just $2.95.

The new funding agreement is now official between Kentucky, Illinois and the  Ohio River Authority to restore the Cave In Rock Ferry to a 16-hour service and avoid a possible shutdown.  The Kentucky  Transportation  Cabinet made  the  official announcement this afternoon. The Crittenden Press Online  reported Wednesday that a verbal agreement had been reached. The pact has now been signed by all parties.  On Monday, the ferry will be back to a 16-hour operating  schedule,  from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week.  A $2.15 million funding commitment between the Kentucky and Illinois will assure that  the  ferry operates on this schedule through June 30, 2020. “This collaborative effort between the states and the Crittenden Fiscal Court fully restores a vital transportation link to travelers in the area and follows through on our commitment to present a solution based on funding assessments,” said KYTC Secretary...

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Copyright 2018 -  The Crittenden Press The Cave In Rock Ferry could be back to full service starting Monday. That means running from 6am to 10pm daily. A Wednesday afternoon conference call between Kentucky Transportation Cabinet officials, ferry operators and local officials netted positive results for those holding their breath with regard to a temporary ferry contract that was set to expire on Sunday. The ferry is expected to be back to operating 16 hours a day, 365 days a year starting next week, according to Crittenden County Judge-Executive Perry Newcom. Although a final contract has not been signed, language has been agreed upon by the principal parties. In this week's printed edition of The Crittenden Press, there are more details about negotiations that led up to Wednesday's tentative agreement. At press time for the printed newspaper on Tuesday evening, it was still unclear whether the ferry would continue operating after Sunday when a 90-day pact signed in July was t...

There's lots going on in Marion and Crittenden County this week and your one-stop spot for all of the local news is The Crittenden Press newspaper. This week we have the latest on the Cave In Rock Ferry and whether or not it will shut down on Sunday when a temporary contract with Kentucky and Illinois expires. Senior services in the community will see major changes because of budget issues. See what's in store for the Crittenden County Senior Center and Meals on Wheels Program in this week's printed edition. Hospital officials are cautioning local government about delaying a decision on an offer by an outside firm to buy Crittenden Health Systems . See what's brewing on the local hospital front. It's our lead story this week. Also on the front page of The Press is an announcement about the grand opening of a New Bank in Marion.   Get the scoop on these stories plus much more, including sports, weddings, farm news and church notes in this week's printed edition ...

A large crowd gathered for the See You at the Pole prayer session at Crittenden County high and middle schools this morning. There was a similar opportunity for students at the elementary school. Students led prayer at each location. 

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Growth of CO₂ in the atmosphere is accelerating. The image shows the growth rate in parts per million (ppm), based on annual Mauna Loa data (1959-2017), with a 4th-order polynomial trend added. While no data are yet available for the year 2018, the trend on above image points at 2.65 ppm. The image below shows the level for the most recent week, which is 2.53 ppm above the corresponding week a year ago. Carl Rasmussen calculates that the de-seasonalised growth rate has now (at the middle of 2018) reached ±2.3 ppm/y. Carl adds: "the rate of growth is itself growing, [it is] the highest growth rate ever seen in modern times .  This is not just a 'business as usual' scenario, it is worse than that, we're actually moving backward, becoming more and more unsustainable with every year. This shows unequivocally that the efforts undertaken so-far to limit green house gases such as carbon dioxide are woefully inadequate." Even more alarming is the growth in methane. Peak ...

Jackie G. Williams, 80, of Marion died Sunday. Gilbert Funeral Home in Marion is in charge of arraignments.

First United Bank executives have been attending to final details at the new Marion branch which will open in a few days on Main Street. First United is headquartered in Madisonville. It also has branches in Erlington and Beaver Dam. Pictured is bank President and CEO Jason Hawkins, who was overseeing office equipment delivery late last week. See this week's printed edition of The Crittenden Press for details about the bank's grand opening and who will be working at the branch.

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Ferry owner Lonnie Lewis heads to his backhoe which he has been using, trying to fend off a swollen Ohio River at the Cave In Rock Ferry. Copyright 2018 The Crittenden Press Just moments before he was to meet Tuesday with Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KyTC) Deputy Secretary Paul Looney, Cave In Rock Ferry owner Lonnie Lewis was on the Kentucky shore operating a backhoe, trying to fend off the high waters of the Ohio River. “People don’t see all of this part of it,” he said, referring to his work to keep the ferry going despite high water. Lewis continues to negotiate with KyTC leaders with hopes of keeping the ferry open beyond the end of this month. The ferry was about to cease its service in July, but state officials reached a temporary agreement to keep it running for 90 days, yet at shorter hours. For many years, the ferry had operated 16 hours a day, 365 days a year. But since July 1, it has operated on an abbreviated schedule, just 12 hours a day, 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. Lewis say...

Crittenden County Chamber of Commerce held its annual Farm to Table Dinner last night on the lawn at Marion First Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Local fruit and vegetable producer David Perryman was the keynote speaker. Perryman and his daughter, Mary, operate a vegetable and fruit stand on Ky. 1668 (Crittenden Springs Road). Click the above image to hear Perryman tell about how his family got into large-scale gardening and how they make it work. Listen to our Podcast from last night's event .

“With the festival located around the courthouse we are asking store owners, to decorate their storefront with cornstalks, pumpkins and fall foliage,” said Chamber President Randa Berry. “There will be a contest. First-, second- and third-place plaques will be awarded to the Best Dressed.” Berry is asking merchants to put on their creative hats and make their storefronts beautiful. “This will help unify our pumpkin theme,” she said. “If the Chamber can be of any assistance to you or your business please let us know.”

As you will see from this week's Player Segment on the Rocket PreGame and Coach's Show on You Tube, a couple of Rocket football boys may have a post-athletic career in broadcasting. Ethan Dossett and Jake Gibson caught up with new CCHS Principal Amanda Irvan and they got the low-down for the upstart Rocket News Network about what she eats, for whom she cheers and what position she thinks she could play on the football field.  The weekly coach's show – produced by The Crittenden Press – features Rocket Football Coach Sean Thompson and much more. Check it out on You Tube and subscribe to The Crittenden Press You Tube Channel to get all of our broadcasts. Don't forget, there is a new show posted every Thursday, and you can win a round of golf just by watching and answering a trivia question. 

Paul Walker, the Democratic challenger for the 1st Congressional District seat in this November's general election, will be in Marion Saturday for a town hall meeting. Walker will be at Crittenden County Public Library from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the library meeting room.

The next distribution for Crittenden County Food Bank will be Friday, Sept. 28. Food will be handed out from 8 a.m. to noon at Crittenden County Assistance Center on North Walker Street, Marion. An ad in this week's Early Bird showed the incorrect date.

Get everything you need to know from this week's printed edition of The Crittenden Press, which is on newsstands now. You can also subscribe to the online version or printed mailed edition so you never miss out on our complete coverage of community news and events. In this week's newspaper we will catch you up on all that's going on around the county and in town. We have more details from that frightening accident at Marion-Crittenden County Park's soccer field last weekend. There's other big news brewing for the park. In this week's newspaper you can see what major development is coming soon. We have an update on the Cave in Rock Ferry that you will want to read and a recap of last week's important public forum about the future of Crittenden Hospital. And, there's a little local politics, too. See our complete homecoming coverage plus get all the scores, statistics and highlights from local sports. The volleyball team is still rolling and has a big sho...

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Lavine Marguerite Campbell, 94, of Marion died Sunday. Myers Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Peggy Jean Binkley, 77, of Burna died Sunday. Boyd Funeral Directors and Cremation Services is in charge of arrangements.

Crittenden Fiscal Court will have an emergency-called meeting at 8 a.m. Tuesday to consider authorization for bidding on a single-axle truck for the road department, replacing one that was wrecked over the winter. The auction is later Tuesday, and the court needs to authorize spending up to a set amount for the truck.

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Hurricane Moderation By Stephen Salter The formation of a hurricane depends on many factors, including atmospheric water vapour, distance from the equator and the recent history of wind patterns. But an essential requirement is a high sea surface temperature. To get from a tropical storm to the lowest category of hurricane requires a temperature of 26.5°C. We can moderate hurricanes, or even prevent them, by reducing water temperature. A useful start to any engineering project is the estimation of all the energy flows. One cubic metre of air at a temperature of 30°C can hold about 30 grams of water vapour. The energy to evaporate this is about the same as in 13 grams of TNT, enough for a nasty anti-personnel mine. A cubic kilometre of such air contains the same energy as the Hiroshima bomb. Hurricanes can be hundreds of kilometres in diameter and so contain tens of thousands of Hiroshimas. If you have read this far you will know about the billions of lost dollars and thousands of...

Blue Ocean Event as part of four Arctic tipping points What will be the consequences of a Blue Ocean Event, i.e. the disappearance of virtually all sea ice from the Arctic Ocean, as a result of the warming caused by people? Paul Beckwith discusses some of the consequences in the video below. As long as the Arctic Ocean has sea ice, most sunlight gets reflected back into space and the 'Center-of-Coldness' remains near the North Pole, says Paul. With the decline of the sea ice, however, the 'Center-of-Coldness' will shift to the middle of Greenland. Accordingly, we can expect the jet streams to shift their center of rotation 17° southward, i.e. away from the North Pole towards Greenland, with profound consequences for our global weather patterns and climate system, for plants and animals, and for human civilization, e.g. our ability to grow food. Also see Paul's video below, The Arctic Blue-Ocean-Event (BOE). When? Then What? Changing Winds As global warming contin...