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Lexington’s first Walmart, under construction in this 1993 aerial photo of the Mist Lake Plaza shopping center at the intersection of Richmond Rd. and Man o' War. On Aug. 10 the store is closing. https://t.co/U7GEk3XKfr pic.twitter.com/ITU40TWkrO

— KY Photo Archive (@KYPhotoArchive) July 11, 2018

Bad Walmart-jobs news from Louisville, too.

Papa John's is presumably hiring, however.

Friend of Coal®, sure. But friend of coal miners?

"This is not just a problem for Murray and Owensboro. There are not many city pools left anymore. You used to see them in almost every town ..." (I woke up in not a confident-enough mood to accept this John Wright Q&A in the Murray Ledger & Times with the local parks director.)

"A gold mine" of photos from 50 years of Paducah has been preserved. (Thank you, WPSD's Pauline Fitzgerald--I needed that one.)

"'Truly phenomenal' are the words Corbin Middle School Principal Christi Lefevers used to described the new facility that sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students will be learning in this fall." (YEAH! Good for you, Angela Turner, in the Times-Tribune.)

Fourteenth year (and biggest ever) for Jets Over Kentucky, at Lebanon/Springfield Airport.

Crime is reportedly (way) down in Bullitt County.

An incarcerated congregation in Louisville, digging in the dirt--"you can't help but feel good."

Harvesting Hope, among opioid addicts in Berea.

Thank God that the boys and their coach were rescued in Thailand, and now here are some helpful words about cave safety from the Kentucky State Parks.

Rest in peace, Rev. McNeil, the Landers and others buried in Hopkinsville's Union Benevolent Cemetery No. 5.

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Good jobs news from Bent Mountain (and elsewhere in Pike and Letcher counties), Florence and Hickman.

Owensboro and most of Daviess County have been without running water, but the local municipal utility says process is being made.

The Versailles First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) mission team is reportedly stranded in Haiti. "Everyone is safe," says the pastor.

Per Venita Fritz in the Marshall County Tribune-Courier, it's more school resource officers, metal detectors and clear backpacks in the short term and, hopefully, more mental-health counseling in the long term for the local schools.

Mike Farmer in Shepherdsville's Pioneer News hails the Babe Ruth/Cal Ripken baseball leagues for their innovation in tournament formats and suggests they now ought to take a fresh look at their policies and lack thereof around heat index.

A former Highlands High Bluebird and Centre College Colonel has a new focus: "Can I better enable Marines to be better Marines?" Neat Chuck Keller feature in Fort Thomas Matters.

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Rest in peace, Frank Ramsey, Corydon native, all-KHSAA 1949 Sweet Sixteen despite his Maroons' famously heartbreaking loss to Paris in the second round, UK's second-leading rebounder (despite being only 6-feet-3), "a seven-time NBA Champion and the original 'Sixth Man,'" as-told-to-Frank DeFord author of an infamous Sports Illustrated article on flopping, Dixon Bank president whom Bob Cousy reportedly surmised has "more money than Trump," survivor of a 2005 tornado in Madisonville (pictured above is what remained of his home) and one Hopkins resident's vote for "our most famous resident in the history of the county."

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If the board of directors won't go for the HP's conversion to an AFFL betting site, maybe it would consider becoming a journal of I-69 expansion across southwestern Kentucky.

Sixty Kentucky Air National Guard members arrived home to Louisville from the Persian Gulf on Independence Day.

Good jobs news from Jamestown.

What's next for Russell's old Y?

What's new with Hoptown's Alhambra?

"If they don't do what we want, we need to vote them out."

Rest in peace, Alan Onkst, "a true ambassador for the City of Corbin."

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Madisonville had a fireworks show at about 4 a.m. July 4 ...

Fort Thomas got out and celebrated in the heat of the Independence Day ...

Meanwhile, last night in Morgantown ...

A former casino barge is being reinvented in Covington.

It's all about the analytics with the Hopkinsville Beautification Commission.

"We pretend it just happens, but it was deliberately engineered."

It's a boy, for Kentucky's state treasurer and her husband.

Rest in peace, Curtis Dixon McCoy Jr., who emphasized transparency in city government as mayor and helped pave the way for Madisonville's first woman mayor.