Oh, Kentucky

Happy 29th tomorrow, Kevin Olusola, Owensboro-born "celloboxing" pioneer:

It's ham season in Trigg County.

Sue Grafton's Y Is For Yesterday and other new titles at the Nelson County Public Library.

Elkton is seeking a curbside leaf collector; the Daniel Boone Community Action Agency in Manchester, a transit driver.

Good jobs news from Barren County.

A lot of reasons! Love of history, love of Kentucky, love of records. #TheAnswerIsLove #AskAnArchivist https://t.co/4RnYlfERZg

— KY State Archives (@KYStateArchives) October 4, 2017

Gov. Bevin told WKYX that he thinks NCAA student-athletes should be paid.

"When we eat a meal together, good things happen in your family and those around you."

Oh, Kentucky

Save the Children says childhood "ends" latest in New Hampshire (No. 1) and earliest in Louisiana (No. 50) among the 50 states. Kentucky comes in No. 33 on the list.

Williamsburg has its first liquor store.

The state's community lakes are stocked and loaded for this weekend's children's derbies and other free fishing.

Labor Cabinet secretary Derrick Ramsey--quarterback of the 1976 SEC- and Peach Bowl-champion UK Wildcat football team, walk-on with the '76 basketball 'Cats and my all-time-favorite Oakland Raider and New England Patriot--and Gov. Bevin visited Heaven Hill to celebrate the distillery's workplace-safety performance.

Improvements at Fleming County, Robertson County and Caverna schools might be bringing an end to state oversight of the districts.

NKU is offering a workshop on teaching about climate and environment in middle and high schools.

The Franklin County Humane Society rescued about 200 animals from an apparently abandoned Frankfort pet store.

Good jobs news from Louisville.

NASA reportedly says all of us out here in western Kentucky are greatly underestimating the coming eclipse crowd.

Oh, Kentucky

Original copy of the 1792 Kentucky Constitution at the Kentucky Historical Society. So cool! #KentuckyProud pic.twitter.com/aAoVvcEhMT

— LG Jenean Hampton (@LtGovHampton) June 22, 2016

1857 opens in Paducah.

"Be assured, MSU is not in crisis; however, ..."

Turning to sports, the Fifth Region #khsgbk and #khsbbk landscapes are shifting, and allegedly Mike Casey's jersey (from Shelbyville Jiffy softball, not UK) has turned up on (sublime) ebay.

Rest in peace, Elder DeMoss of Mortons Gap, two-time coon-hunting world champion, avid 'Cats fan, retired coal miner, Primitive Baptist minister of 42 years and husband to Mrs. Covington DeMoss for 71.