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  April

  Teaching Little Ones about the Importance of Pollinators!

  Its amazing how few people are of the fact that nearly 40 percent of everything we eat depends on insect pollination for its production. Its also estimated that half of middle school students cannot g...

  
  

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  April

  The Hartig Park and Wildlife Reserve is now "Official"!

  Funding for Hartig Park as always been an issue. It takes quite a bit of money to maintain and improve a park as large as Hartig; more money, in fact, than the Gallatin County Fiscal Court could possi...

  
  

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  October

  The Old Pioneer Farmers' Market

  As a result of the fact that the farmers market in Sparta, KY was not going to reopen, the Gallatin County Extension Service and the Gallatin County Free Public Library started meeting during the fall...

  
  

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  April

  Breathing New Life into an Old Graveyard

  Small counties and communities have a distinct disadvantage when trying to increase tourism and economic development. Many try to “piggyback” on big attractions in larger communities with limited succ...

  
  

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