Oh, Kentucky

"Eclipseville, U.S.A.," as of today.

Eclipsevillest.

Five pair of goats, 28 bags of school supplies and 32 backpacks.

Howard's Overhead Doors has moved to downtown Winchester after 30 years, and the owners even moved overhead themselves.

Nighttime donuts are returning to Latonia.

Bad jobs news from Louisville.

Welders wanted.

And a bookkeeper, at the Lexington office of Kentucky Refugee Ministries.

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"In Paducah, we will be proactive and do the uncomfortable work of having honest dialogue about our own history, biases, and challenges."

One petition for, two against.

Acclaimed, Madisonville-based cartoonist and writer Chris Schweizer recalls Robert E. Lee of Virginia ...

Maligned, Louisville-educated U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell decries the white-supremacist terrorists' plans to converge on Lexington.

CNN visits Paris.

The "a time of reflection and prayer to show our unity, love and respect for all people regardless of race, faith, gender, nationality, language, economic status, etc." is noon Eastern today in Campbellsville.

This sounds to me like a totally great way to limit our freedoms.

Bad jobs news from West Paducah.

Jackson Energy tells Jim Wilson of The Manchester Enterprise that the eclipse will illustrate why having a diversity of energy sources is so important.

He "hated it at the time," but all of that antique shopping on camping trips to London has paid off for the operator of a new antique shop in Latonia. Good, little staff biz feature Covington's River City News.

Big Rivers Electric is demo-ing solar in Draffenville.

Hopkinsville lights its new Alhambra Theater marquee.

"Jenkins 'pushes' new fire truck into service."

Album Review: Forever and Then Some by Lillie Mae

Part of the fun of listening to new music is hearing artists you know nothing about. Lillie Mae Rische has been playing professionally for a long time, but has put out her first solo album at age 25. I've enjoyed listening to this album. It's a very solid collection of songs and she has real talent as a singer/songwriter. The only thing this album is missing for me is that one song that really grabs me. As much as I enjoyed listening to the album I wasn't going out of my way to put it on or to hear that one song.

It's a fun album to throw on while cleaning the house or have a dance party with your 2 year old. Following the Rhapsody rating method I give it 2 out of 5 stars for Not Bad.

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The governor, on the radio in northeastern Kentucky: "Where do you draw the line? ... What I do think is appropriate is to call down any racism, any bigotry, to call it out for the heinous stance that it is, regardless of what corner it comes from. It doesn’t matter if it comes from a white supremacist; it doesn’t matter if it comes from an anarchist; it doesn’t matter if it comes from Black Lives Matter person; wherever hatred and bigotry comes from, it should be called out. It should be scorned and shut down. There should be no tolerance of it in society."

Unanimous in Lexington.

An online petition is calling for the removal of a Confederate statue in Paducah and the renaming of a school. https://t.co/Rl5hX1obdP

— WKMS (@wkms) August 15, 2017

Meanwhile, in Hoptown, ...

McCracken County commissioner Bill Bartleman brokers a compromise on the flea-market fireworks show around the eclipse in Paducah.

Meanwhile, at Ferrell's, ...

Broadband for all in Graves County--even Symsonia and Water Valley.

Good jobs news from Campbellsville.

Hiring in Horse Cave (pressman trainee/$9.50 per hour).

Kentucky (probably) for sale (from New Mexico) ...

Seventeenth Podcast

The seventeenth podcast is up. Thanks to freemidi.org for the audio files. Eric and Matthew try to lighten the mood during a not so light week of news.

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