Oh, Kentucky

Cumberland County Retired Teachers donated 35 bags of supplies for students and teachers of Burkesville, KY. pic.twitter.com/37SoZZRVVU

— Sherry Radford (@sherryberry54) August 9, 2018

The allegedly promised Adair County oil boom that wasn't.

The Mayfield boom reportedly is a real thing, however.

Alexandria's County Market is getting out before its narrowing window shuts.

Bus-driver shortage in Warren County.

Veterans Telehealth comes to the Evarts Public Library.

The TV grid and some comics leave the Middlesboro Daily News.

Assessing Year 1 for Etown's Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame.

"An unpleasant ... necessary story" of Logan County's lynching history, well told by Wes Swietek in Bowling Green's Daily News.

Baseball Reporters Have Been Complaining for a Long Time

The following was written by Sam Crane, who covered baseball for the New York Evening Journal, on October 7, 1908, and was republished in The Unforgettable Season, a great book by G.H. Fleming:

"In earlier days of baseball there was a sentiment attached to the national game that made games take on the appearance of a real battle between cities and sections, but sentiment no longer figures in the sport.  It is now only a battle of dollars.  The business end of baseball has so superseded the real sport that used to cause legitimate and honest rivalry for sport's sake alone I personally wouldn't care if the whole foundation of the national game went to the dogs."

Most experts, of course, regard the 1908 season -- which featured a titanic battle for the National League pennant among the Giants, Cubs, and Pirates -- as one of the greatest seasons in baseball history.  But as this quote shows, no matter how far back in time you go, you can almost always find people who pine for a lost golden age.