Winter Lake Life
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Local News Spotlight
Check Out our 2025 Fishing Tournaments
With the return of the 2025 season - we are excited about some of the best fishing tournaments in Central Kentucky! Including the comeback of a favorite - The TRIFECTA Series!
L.B. Herrington: A Beginning
In 1784, in John Filson's book Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucky (originally spelled Kentucke), we find the first telling of explorations by Colonel Daniel Boone, who wrote about the Dick's (later to become Dix) River, "the river affords many excellent mill seats and will have plenty of water in the driest seasons." Sugar cane in our region was plentiful, and there were many water-driven grist mills built along the river over the years. But, it was not until 140 years later that a water-driven mill of another kind, one that would generate electricity, was built. The Dix Dam Hydro-Electric Station was an industrial plant that the great pioneers of early Kentucky could not have even dream ...
Would you like to join our Volunteer Search & rescue?
This year we are organizing local residents and weekend warriors to train for the statistically "inevitable" job of helping local law enforcement in an emergency.
Events on & Around the Area: Coming Up in 2025!
Get a look at what's happening in the night sky this month .
Herrington Nights in March
Here are the exact dates and times for the key lunar phases in March 2025:
First Quarter Moon: March 6, 16:32 GMT (11:32 a.m. EST)
Full Moon: March 14, 06:55 GMT (2:55 a.m. EDT)
Last Quarter Moon: March 22, 11:30 GMT (7:30 a.m. EDT)
New Moon: March 29, 10:58 GMT (6:58 a.m. EDT)
- Mar 1: Lunar occultation of Mercury; Moon near Neptune
- Mar 2: Moon near Venus; Neptune near Mercury
- Mar 5: Lunar occultation of the Pleiades 🌟; Moon near Uranus
- Mar 6: First Quarter Moon; Moon near Jupiter, Aldebaran
- Mar 8: Mercury at greatest eastern elongation 🌟
- Mar 9: Moon near Mars, Pollux 🌟
- Mar 10: Moon near the Beehive Cluster
- Mar 11: Mercury near Venus
- Mar 12: Moon near Regulus; Saturn at solar conjunction
- Mar 14: Total lunar eclipse 🌟; Full Moon 🌟; Gamma Normids’ peak (ZHR = 6); Mercury goes retrograde 🌟
- Mar 16: Moon near Spica
- Mar 18: Dual visibility of Venus begins 🌟
- Mar 19: Neptune at solar conjunction
- Mar 20: March equinox 🌟; lunar occultation of Antares
- Mar 22: Last Quarter Moon
- Mar 23: Saturn ring-plane crossing 🌟; Venus at inferior solar conjunction
- Mar 24: Mercury at inferior solar conjunction
- Mar 27: Venus near Neptune
- Mar 29: Partial solar eclipse 🌟; New Moon; Mars near Pollux
- Mar 30: Neptune near Mercury
*The highlighted events are the most important events of the month.
About magnitude: the faintest magnitude visible to the naked eye in cities with moderate light pollution (e.g., New York City) is about 4. The limiting magnitude of an optical device depends on its specification but rarely exceeds 11.
*The highlighted events are the most spectacular events of the month.
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