Central Kentucky News Journal

If you were counting the foggy morning in August or inspecting a trustworthy Japanese Elm tree, you may have come to the same conclusion as the 2023-24 Frymire Forecast: A snowy winter is ahead. The folklore forecast calls for flurries and a dusting in mid-December and the first of 11 measurable snowfalls coming in time to ensure a White Christmas. The annual predictions issued Monday call for four significant snowfalls in January and four more in February.

Of course, they’ve got an injury,” I complained to my son-in-law, John. “We’re driving the ball, and they need to slow us down.” We were at a college football game, the University of Oklahoma vs. the University of Cincinnati, on their home field, Nipper Stadium. It was a beautiful day for college football. My sister-in-law, Lisa, and our friend Erica had flown from Oklahoma, and we were embracing Cincinnati’s football atmosphere. Our team, Oklahoma, was performing well.

Members of the CHS Class of 1961 are, front from left, Carole Sibler Whitley, Gae Jones Nolley, Linda Dixon Stahl, Brenda Gilbert Skaggs, Priscilla Clark Thomas, Corrine Borich Slinker, Linda Allen McMahan, Sylvia Dunham Pike, Mary Martha Merritt, Janice Waters Swinney, Jeannie Speed Seaborne, Marion Swinney; back row from left, Scotty Ferguson, Viola Tedder Ferguson, Ouida Wethington Rivers, Pat Short Rogers, Jim Miller, Maurice Pickett, Eddie Rogers, Gary Seaborne, Steve Horner, Harold...

Hippocrates taught medicine far different from today’s practices Hippocrates, who was born approximately 450 B.C. and lived 70 years, is considered the father of medicine back in those days. That’s how long cancer has been around. He did not believe in taking man-made medicines. He believed in fasting and believed that fasting can take away your diseases including cancer. He mentions diseases back then were in the water, air and environmental.

LOUISVILLE — Researchers at the University of Louisville have developed a fabrication technique to efficiently and accurately imitate the nanostructure of cicada wings for potential use as an antimicrobial. Discoveries in nature often inspire scientists to create things that benefit people. For example, the wings of the North American annual cicada — whose distinctive sound heralds the end of summer — are inhospitable to bacteria, antireflective, hydrophobic and provide camouflage.

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources offers annual quota hunts for deer, waterfowl and pheasants at state wildlife management areas and other public lands and for sandhill cranes on a statewide basis. Randomized drawings are conducted to determine recipients of the hunt opportunities that are each limited to a specific quota number. Hunters who applied will find results posted online as soon as Friday through MyProfile.

Taylor County shut out Marion County 3-0 in a 20th District volleyball match Tuesday, Sept. 26. Claiming its fourth straight win, Taylor County prevailed 25-18, 25-14, 25-19.

For 52 years, the LaRue County community has welcomed visitors to Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace with a fall festival. Lincoln Days returns this weekend in the heart of historic downtown Hodgenville and offers something for everyone. The festival falls on the first weekend of October with many of the annual traditions, events, food booths and a new course for the 5k and 10K runs.

The Federal emergency Management Agency in coordination the Federal Communications Commission will hold a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System for broadcasters and Wireless Emergency Alerts for cellphones this week. It will test WEA and EAS capabilities, with both tests scheduled to begin around 2:20 p.m. EDT Wednesday. The WEA portion of the test will be directed to all consumer cell phones. It will be the third nationwide test, but the second test of all cellular devices.

Brooks Houck, who was arrested last week and charged with murder and tampering with evidence in the disappearance of his former girlfriend, Crystal Rogers, will come before a judge Thursday. Houck is scheduled to be arraigned at 1 p.m. Thursday in Nelson Circuit Court, where Judge Charles Simms will read the charges facing Houck and advise him of his rights, and he will be asked to enter a plea.