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Freeze Watch issued October 22 at 11:53AM EDT until October 24 at 9:00AM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)

* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 31 possible.
* WHERE...Portions of northeast Kentucky and central, south central, southwest, and west central Ohio.
* WHEN...From late Thursday night through Friday morning.
* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Photo by Janie Southard/The Daily Standard

Not only did the early Precious Blood sisters work the fields and gardens at the Maria Stein convent but through the years they created artwork that lives on. A wax angel, about two feet tall, which likely topped a creche manger.

Related online story:

Sisters' art endures

MARIA STEIN - Many of the statues and crucifixes at the Maria Stein Center are the artwork of the early sisters who lived and worked in the late 1800's in the motherhouse of the Sisters of the Precious Blood. [More]

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