1978

Happy Thanksgiving. It's time to get serious about NFL78. We start today (Thursday, Nov. 23, 1978) with Broncos at Lions at 11:30 on Channel 6, and then we have Washington at Dallas at 2:30 on Channel 12. I'm excited.

We're through three quarters of the league's first-ever 16-game season, and it's time to figure out what needs to happen for the Dolphins to go back to the playoffs and get back to winning all of the Super Bowls. Three division winners and two wild-card teams from each conference will advance to the playoffs, and here's how the AFC stacks up going into Week 13 action:

Steelers 10-2

Patriots 9-3

Raiders 8-4

Broncos 8-4

Oilers 8-4

Dolphins 8-4

Jets 6-6

Browns 6-6

Seahawks 6-6

Chargers 6-6

Colts 5-7

You're going to have to win at least eight games to make the playoffs from the AFC, so that means the Bills (3-9), Chiefs (2-10) and Bengals (1-11) are eliminated from postseason contention.

Now here's where the NFC stands in sussing out which team loses to the Dolphins in the Super Bowl:

Rams 10-2

Cowboys 8-4

Washington 8-4

Vikings 7-5

Packers 7-5

Eagles 7-5

Falcons 7-5

Giants 5-7

Buccaneers 5-7

Saints 5-7

Bears 4-8

Lions 4-8

Cardinals 4-8

The number is probably already even higher than this the way the rest of the schedule is set up, but, even on first blush, it's clear that at least seven wins will be necessary to make the playoffs from the NFC. So, sorry, 49ers (1-11). Also, it should be noted that the Saints cannot win the NFC West because the Rams already have more wins than New Orleans could get to.

As I settle in for Channel 12's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade coverage, I plan to get out the Street and Smith's and look at the scenarios with the schedule over these last four weeks. 

Don't let the YouTube thumbnail there fool you; the real stars of this broadcast are CBS's New York hosts, Linda Lavin and Ron Leibman. Alice and Kaz air back-to-back on Channel 12 on Sunday nights in 1978, and the shows' titular stars are married in real life! What a powerhouse TV moment this broadcast was!

I really am excited about most everything.

1978: Period of MLB

I liked Toni Tennille from the "Love Will Keep Us Together" start, and I have absolutely loved her once we saw her in "The Rainmaker" at Westport Playhouse in St. Louis, and now I am thrilled to discover again that she was on the mic for the national anthem on last night 1978's Game 1 of the World Series from beautiful Los Angeles ...

1978: What's on TV Friday Nights?

I was disappointed to learn that Donny & Marie have ditched the ice dancers for Season 4.  

But the truth is that 1978 me was probably moving away from that perky show for my TV79 Friday nights, anyway. NBC has my 7/7:30 Central eye wandering with new sitcoms showcasing Broadway Joe and Chachi!

As GoHeath noted, TV79 is not going down as a proud-as-an-anything moment in NBC history.

But there's a pretty good chance I'll give Channel 6 the benefit of the doubt with its new entries bookending old-standby Rockford Files Season 5.

And if I lose the Channel 6 steam by Eddie Capra at 9, I will happily flip to Flying High on Channel 12. I caught the preview pilot the other night, and that thing feels like it is poised to deliver the absolute best kind of made-for-TV movie (no guns/killing, more laughs than drama, familiar faces, lots of love) every freaking Friday night.

But, just to be clear, none of us is watching any of that stuff on this particular Friday night in 1978.

Well, I guess 27 percent of us were watching something else at 7 Central Sept. 15, 1978. Per the Associated Press, "The biggest audience ever for a televised sporting event watched ABC’s broadcast of the heavyweight championship rematch between Muhammad Ali and Leon Spinks live from New Orleans. ABC estimated the audience for the 15-round fight at 90 million and said that meant 73 percent of the sets in use at the time were tuned to the fight."

1978: What's on TV Thursday Nights?

Mom pitched camp in the kitchen Thursday nights in 1978. Her portable was absolutely locked in all prime time to Channel 12.  

But, for me, it's more 7-9 p.m. Central sitcom domination by ABC.

The new show (a last-second shift from Monday nights) is the stud of the Channel 3 Thursday bunch. I found both Mindy and Mork to be adorable in their own ways.

And I'm satisfied to roll the next 90 minutes with What's Happening!! Season 3, Barney Miller Season 5 and Soap Season 2. Mom's Waltons/Hawaii Five-O/Barnaby Jones bender is helpful in this regard, as it is likely to keep her distracted from helicoptering the Channel 3 storylines on the portable in my bedroom.

As for 9 p.m., the new NBC show about broadcasting doesn't sound like nearly as much fun as the new CBS show about broadcasting. 

I might opt for a Season 4 Quincy, M.E. on SelectaVision. Or, every other Thursday night, I might expand my horizons with some public broadcasting, as PBS is bringing to its national audience an appealing creation germinating from its Chicago affiliate.

1978: What's on TV Wednesday Nights?

It honestly had never occurred to me until my year-by-year nostalgia slog at the HP just how hard I fell in love with newsrooms and newspeople through TV shows like Eight Is Enough and Lou Grant in the wake of Watergate and All the President's Men. In fact, I think Eight Is Enough might've been the most formative for me of all of the newspaper art of the 1970s. 

I really, really dug Dick Van Patten's Tom Bradford, an editor with a secretary and lots of professional respect--but a guy who ultimately seems to spend most of his time and emotional energy hanging out with with his wife, children and friends. Also, he's forever playing football or tennis or some sport. I see now that this dude was a total hero for me. I watched Eight Is Enough regularly when it was on; I skipped a lot of class in my first year or two at Western watching daytime reruns of the show on one of the two channels I could tune in on my dorm-room portable TV, and my wife and I even now and then put on an episode on Tubi (she liked/likes it, too).

So, Eight Is Enough Season 3 is my solid Wednesday-nights TV79 opener.

I don't know that I ever actually loved The Jeffersons, but I did come to love George, Louise and all of their family and friends, as I can't imagine that there's an episode that I haven't seen at least some of. So Jeffersons Season 5 is a likely SelectaVision situation for me at some point later in the evening.

The new shows? Meh.

I think it makes total sense that NBC in 1978 would take a flier on Dick Clark as ringmaster of an SNL for squares, but, in hindsight, it sure seems clear that the Ed Sullivan era was just solidly passed.

I watched a lot of the Vega$ pilot movie, and I found it surprisingly compelling. Still, I never watched that show when I was a kid; it's just not the kind of fun I'm usually looking for from TV. I'm not holding space for it.

Of course, 1978 me will give the new Channel 12 sitcom, In the Beginning, a go. It's clear CBS had high hopes for this Norman Lear sendup of Going My Way. Here is a very entertaining reel of promos that the network put together, apparently, for affiliates or advertisers or some B2B audience, and In the Beginning ("a different kind of comedy with impact for on both children and adults") is introduced as a big-tent Social Gospel meditation:

That back end of TV79 Wednesdays ultimately looks like movie territory for me, however. Here's what most grabbed me from the borrowed-from-box-office summary that TV Guide compiled for the new season:

• Airport '77
• Bad News Bears
• Black Sunday (just for the football parts)
• Blume in Love
• Fun with Dick and Jane
• Gone with the Wind
• Harry and Tonto
• Lady Sings the Blues
• Mother, Jugs and Speed
• Network
• Norman, Is That You?
• Orca
• Prisoner of Second Avenue
• Rocky
• Two-Minute Warning (again, football parts)

1978: What's on TV Tuesday Nights?

Channel 12 did a special preview of The Paper Chase the other night in 1978, and I thought it was excellent! 

However, there's just zero hope of any other network's breaking ABC's hold on me 7-9 Central Tuesday evenings. 

Jumped-the-shark Happy Days is starting Season 6 with an hour-long visit to a Colorado dude ranch. I am embarrassed to admit that I failed to note that Laverne & Shirley Season 4 actually kicked off last week in 1978, so we will have to hope to catch the hour-long "Festival" extravaganza in rerun. As previously noted, Three's Company (Apartamento para Tres) Season 3 gets going with "Double Date." And, then, at 8:30, one of my favorite shows of all time debuts.

For my money, there is no better sitcom pilot than Taxi's first episode, which includes the following phenomenal scene in which the coworkers learn that the pay phone in the garage is broken in such a way that they can place calls anywhere and get their coins back. So Bobby calls the National Theatre of Great Britain; Tony tries to call a Bangkok masseuse whom he met on R&R during the Vietnam War, and Alex initially declines to call his estranged daughter. It's such a clever, clever way to introduce these characters' back stories and shared station in life, and the actors are so immediately lovable and believable.

Well, anyway, I'm back open to offers at 9 Tuesday nights, which means Grandpa Goes to Washington might get some SelectaVision love during that hour.

But, more likely (sorry, Jack Albertson), I'm going to use that hour to catch up on Paper Chase or the last hour of the NBC special or CBS movie. Speaking of which, in the "Wednesday Nights" edition of this HP series, we'll take a look at some of the exciting-to-me movies that the networks have licensed for my pleasure in this dawning, glorious TV79.

1978: What's on TV Monday Nights?

Once NFL78 finishes its regular season, Monday nights portend as a Channel 12 situation from prime-time wire to prime-time wire ...

However, football season is only now getting started and extends to 16 games for the first time, and so here's a coin (apparently created by or for a Lexington TV station, now offered by an eBay seller in Bagdad) embossed with the 1978 lineup of ABC's NFL Monday Night Football games in 1978 for us all to coordinate calendars accordingly ...

As for that 7-8 p.m. Central hour before kickoff, I was never that much of a Kotter guy, anyway, so I'm not going to be any too conflicted about giving WKRP ("a hilarious, new comedy with exceptionally strong youth appeal") a try. And I imagine I will stick right with Phyllis George, whom I love (and with whom I once rode on a helicopter from Barkley Regional to a field somewhere down in Graves, Fulton or Hickman counties), until time for Frank, Howard and Dandy Don on Monday nights this fall or M*A*S*H Season 7 and One Day at a Time Season 4 in the new year.

Finally, I want to send a special 1978 Desk shoutout to Lou Grant (and YouTube compiler "mtmepisodes2"). The show's 1977-78 Season 1 (TV78) was fantastic, and Season 2 episodes don't start until Sept. 25. So that leaves us all time to acquaint or re-acquaint ourselves with "Animal," Mrs. Pynchon, Billie, Joe and all of Lou's new friends around the Los Angeles Tribune newsroom.

1978: What's on TV Sunday Nights?

The 6 p.m. Central Sunday block was almost always a disappointment to me. Occasionally, there was a Disney show or 60 Minutes segment that interested me, but, for the most part, I was always rooting for the late-afternoon NFL games to run late or wished this hour would've been given to the local affiliates to plug in old sitcom reruns and game shows.

But, at 7, now we're talking ...

It felt like every other 10-year-old boy in the United States was more into science fiction than I was in 1978, but, still, I was kind of into it. That's how huge science fiction was. I liked Star Wars. I really liked Close Encounters of the Third Kind. And I loved the toys. So while I almost certainly won't stick with it, I'll give Lorne Greene in space a go.

And I'm totally, totally down for Mary Tyler Moore getting a big Sunday-night variety showcase ...

I would've preferred that she just kept on making her sitcom, but this is good. CBS did a giant, self-congratulatory anniversary special over the course of a week this summer in 1978, and I really enjoyed that. Mary Tyler Moore ushered us through that whole deal, and she was just absolutely in command of the role.

So, I have high hopes for Mary, and, indeed, I don't envision myself tuning away from Channel 12 from 7 straight on through 9 on Sunday nights. I'm only OK with All in the Family, but I'll give it a fresh chance at 8 with the cast and story evolutions in light of the Stivics' move. I adore Alice, so I'm locked in there at 8:30.

Neither of the new shows at 9 p.m. grabs me ...

So that's probably when I'll fire up the ol' SelectaVision and a tape of that night's Battlestar Galactica or some NBC Big Event special. Speaking of which, here are the specials scheduled for the 1978-79 TV season that TV Guide has me especially juiced for:

• One in a Million made-for-TV movie, CBS, with LeVar Burton as Detroit Tigers outfielder Ron LeFlore, scheduled for Sept. 26
• A Salute to the American Imagination special, CBS, marking Ford Motor Co.'s 75th year, Oct. 5
• 10th Anniversary Hee Haw special, NBC, Oct. 22
• Bud & Lou made-for-TV movie, NBC, about Abbott & Costello, Nov. 15
• Benji's Very Own Christmas Story, NBC, Dec. 7
• A Woman Called Moses miniseries, NBC, with Cicely Tyson as Harriet Tubman, starting Dec. 11
• Perry Como's Early American Christmas special, ABC, Dec. 13
• Bob Hope All-Star Christmas Show, NBC, Dec. 22
• Dolly & Carol in Nashville special, CBS, starring Parton and Burnett, Feb. 14, 1979
• Roots: The Next Generations miniseries, ABC, starting Feb. 18
• Friendly Fire made-for-TV movie, CBS, with Carol Burnett as the mother of a soldier killed in Vietnam, April 22
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings made-for-TV special, CBS, with Esther Rolle, Ruby Dee and Diahann Carroll starring in the dramatization of Maya Angelou's book, April 29
• Ike: The War Years miniseries, ABC, with Robert Duvall as Gen. Eisenhower, starting May 3

I love television.

1978: What's on TV Saturday Nights?

TV Guide's 1978 fall-preview is out, and I'm thankful to have the distraction from both the 1978 and 2025 Dolphins.

I'm also thankful that VCRs are out so that I can record one of those 7/7:30 p.m. Central Saturday blocks of sitcoms. In fact, maybe I'll get a RCA SelectaVision and a Magnavox so that I can tape both the ABC and CBS shows while watching CHiPs. I like everything at 7 and 7:30, and, other than the occasional Love Boat, nothing much excites me from 8 on ...

CHiPs is one of the very, very few cultural artifacts of the day on which my father and I agreed and actually shared in proximity to one another. 

Unlike so many homes of the day, my family did not gather around a single TV set. We had a big console color television in the living room, but it was out of commission (but still present) almost all of my childhood. Instead, we typically spread out among three black-and-white portable jobs. There was one in Mom and Dad's bedroom, one in the kitchen and--after my last older sibling moved out--one in my bedroom. Even if we were all watching the same game, news event or (very rarely) weekly program, Dad, Mom and I would often fan out among the three sets and just yell back and forth to each other across the house at commercial breaks or whatever.

But CHiPs was different. For some reason, Dad and I got into watching CHiPs together. It wasn't the favorite show for either of us. But we both liked it enough to watch it together, and we both found it non-engrossing enough to play Othello together as we watched. After supper, Dad and I would set up the Othello game on his and Mom's bed and play to the show on Channel 6, while Mom did whatever Mom did out in the kitchen and watched whatever she watched on some other channel.

I loved Carter Country and Rhoda, and I liked Good Times. And I also actually remember giving Apple Pie a chance (it didn't take) because of Jack Gilford, with whom Mom and I once rode an elevator at a Hilton in Arlington Heights, Illinois!

10 May 1978, Wed The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) Newspapers.com

20 Apr 1978, Thu The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) Newspapers.com

1978

1978 is really weird.

A big part of The Heath Post Era for me has been revisiting the years of my childhood. Versions of these posts started in May 2011. I think this was the first one, about 1975 and '74, from May 2011. By August 2011, I was starting to get pretty serious about thinking about 1974. Then a couple of months after that, I knew this whole deal was not just going to be a summer lark and figured out I was going to follow 1975 all through 2012. And then in 2013 I reset the whole clock to my birth year, 1968, and that's pretty much how things have been going ever since. There was a short period when I decided to try to flip my fake year where I'd live the old football and Christmas seasons in the first half of the real year, but that didn't take. And there was one fake year that I did twice in a row because I was disappointed in my experience the first time through--1976, I think. But, by and large, since 2011, I've been pretty consistently and increasingly systematically exploring the first years of my life again in the background of my current year.

And let me tell you that, man, I have loved it! I don't post about it nearly as much as I used to because at different points my hobby has veered on becoming a little too consuming. I'm one of those big-appetites people who have to put governors around a lot of my passions because I have a real tendency toward all sorts of giant benders that are no good for anyone. So in the same way that I watch sports mostly on mute and mostly stop myself at one pop, I also have limited my HPing about the fake year I also live in. But I'm still in the fake year almost every day. And when I do miss a day because of real-year life, I almost always go back and check out the fake day I missed. 

Anyway, what I want to say is 1978 is really weird. I know of what I speak, and what I'm saying is 1978 is really weird.

25 May 1978, Thu Desert Dispatch (Barstow, California) Newspapers.com

You don't have to read all of that. The upshot is that the A's--in the season they were supposed to now be playing in Denver, in a season a lot of people expected them to finish last in the American League West (behind even the Mariners)--are in first place, and the manager ups and quits. Weird. 

I do think you'll want to at least take the time to check out these two paragraphs, though ...

See what I'm saying? Really weird.

1978

Here's the American Top 40 from today in 1978: Saturday, March 11. Maybe we can squeeze this in before sitting down for some intriguing first-round NCAA-tournament action on Channel 6 this afternoon.

10 Mar 1978, Fri The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) Newspapers.com

Hello again, and welcome to American Top 40. I'm Casey Kasem, and this is our weekly countdown of the 40 most popular songs in the country. Well, falling out of the survey this week are Randy Newman, Player, Foreigner, Odyssey and Rod Stewart, and moving into the Top 40 are debut hits by Rod Stewart, Enchantment, England Dan and John Ford Coley, Van Halen (a new group) and ELO. Let's get it started right here ...

1978

Happy new year!

Comments flow ...

45 Years Ago in Music

 I decided to have some fun here at the beginning of the year looking back in time at music.  Waiting for new releases this time of year and so it's always fun to listen to older stuff.  I thought I would do something to countdown the last 45 years by fives.

So 45 years ago it was 1978.  I didn't go back to 50 years because I really don't know what I was doing that much at 5 in terms of listening to music, but by 1978 I had bought my first album and was buying singles and was starting to build an album collection.  

According to Best Albums of 1978 : Best Ever Albums the top 10 albums of 1978 were:

1. Darkness on the Edge of Town by Bruce Springsteen
2. Parallel Lines by Blondie
3. The Cars by The Cars
4. This Year's Model by Elvis Costello
5. Van Halen by Van Halen
6. Die Mensch-Maschine by Kraftwerk
7. Some Girls by The Rolling Stones
8. The Kick Inside by Kate Bush
9. More Songs About Buildings and Food by Talking Heads
10. Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich

It's hard to find a list of the top selling albums of 1978, at least I haven't had much luck.  I keep finding information on the best selling album all time that came out in 1978.  but I do know the top seller that years was the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.  Here are the albums that spent at least two weeksat Billboard number 1 in 1978

1. Saturday Night Fever (23 weeks)
2. Grease (12 weeks)
3. 52nd Street (7 weeks)
4. Rumours by Fleetwood Mac (2 weeks)
5. Some Girls by The Rolling Stones (2 weeks)
6. Don't Look Back by Boston (2 weeks)

The top Bilboard singles of 1978 were:

1. Shadow Dancing by Andy Gibb
2. Night Fever by Bee Gees
3. You Light Up My Life by Debby Boone
4. Stayin Alive by Bee Gees
5. Kiss You All Over by Exile
6. How Deep Is Your Love by Bee Gees
7. Baby Come Back by Player
8. Thicker Than Water by Andy Gibb
9. Boogie Oogie Oogie by A Tast of Honey
10. Three Times a Lady by Commodores

I'll finish this off with playlist for you all from 1978.  Some of the music I still listen to today.  

Win Or Else

 ESPN has released a new documentary on the 1978 Kentucky Wildcats, called "Win Or Else."  I'm watching it now.  Comments, as Eric says, will flow.

Snow in Paducah

According to WPSD-TV, these are the five biggest single-day totals for snowfall in Paducah (records go back to December 1937).  I remember number 2 very well:

1.  14.0 inches on December 22, 2004

2.  11.0 inches on January 16, 1978

3.  10.8 inches on February 16, 2015

4.  9.0 inches on March 2, 1960

5.  8.1 inches on January 15, 2018

NFL78 Update: Week 10 (Thanks for the Tip, GoHeath)

Comments flow ...

Previous and future NFL78 reports:

-- NFL67 wrap (as posted Jan. 13, 2013)
-- NFL68 wrap (as posted Jan. 11, 2014)
-- NFL69 wrap (as posted Jan. 11, 2016)
-- NFL70 wrap (as posted Jan. 17, 2017)
-- NFL71 wrap (as posted Jan. 16, 2018)

-- NFL72 so far (as posted Jan. 17, 2019)

-- Week 1 (Dateline Atlanta) (as posted Jan. 31, 2019)
-- Week 10 (Thanks for the Tip, GoHeath) (as posted Aug. 5, 2019)

-- Super Bowl XIII revisited (as posted March 22, 2014)
-- Earl Campbell's Restaurant in the Austin, Texas Airport (as posted June 25, 2016)

-- NFL14 so far (as posted Jan. 28, 2019)

-- NFL15 so far (as posted Sept 13, 2015)
-- NFL16 so far (as posted Jan. 8, 2017)

NFL78 Update: Week 1 (Dateline Atlanta)

Everybody's 0-0. Well, everybody but the Giants and Buccaneers, who opened the whole NFL78 season in Tampa, Florida, on Saturday night (but finished too late for me to read about in the morning papers of Sunday, Sept. 4, 1978).

The defending-champion Cowboys host the Colts (with rookie Mike Kirkland starting in place of injured Bert Jones) on the NFL Monday Night Football game. The AFC-champ Broncos host the (O-VER-RA-TED! clap! clap! clapclapclap!) Raiders in a late-afternoon Sunday showcase. Among the noon Central kickoffs is the Dolphins at the Jets (with Don Strock starting in place of Bob Griese, who was hurt in an exhibition game), and we can only hope Channel 6 chooses to air that one.

I, however, am at Atlanta:

And so are rookie Earl Campbell and the Oilers ...

Week 1, 1978
Earl Campbell makes his debut in Atlanta.
Earl had a great preseason and the 3rd time he touches the ball he goes 73 yards for the TD.
Little known June Jones gets the start for the #Falcons
Despite Campbell’s 137 yards on the ground, #Falcons win 20-14 pic.twitter.com/NKXacZMRRm

— Old Time Football (@Ol_TimeFootball) January 31, 2019

Previous and future NFL78 reports:

-- NFL67 wrap (as posted Jan. 13, 2013)
-- NFL68 wrap (as posted Jan. 11, 2014)
-- NFL69 wrap (as posted Jan. 11, 2016)
-- NFL70 wrap (as posted Jan. 17, 2017)
-- NFL71 wrap (as posted Jan. 16, 2018)

-- NFL72 so far (as posted Jan. 17, 2019)

-- Week 1 (Dateline Atlanta) (as posted Jan. 31, 2019)

-- Week 10 (Thanks for the Tip, GoHeath) (as posted Aug. 5, 2019)

-- Super Bowl XIII revisited (as posted March 22, 2014)
-- Earl Campbell's Restaurant in the Austin, Texas Airport (as posted June 25, 2016)

-- NFL14 so far (as posted Jan. 28, 2019)

-- NFL15 so far (as posted Sept 13, 2015)
-- NFL16 so far (as posted Jan. 8, 2017)

Oh, Kentucky

American Theater Hall of Famer George C. Wolfe (Frankfort High Class of '72) got robbed.

Star Country Market & Pizza on U.S. 60 in Rush did not--thanks, apparently, to Roxy.

Welcome to Lexington (here now).

Welcome back to Olive Hill (June 30, "NO DIRTBIKES!")

The problem of four-wheelers on "The Fork" draws about 100 to a community meeting, and Ben Kleppinger with Danville's Advocate-Messenger is there to deliver a great report.

"​PlayThink is a revolution. PlayThink is a community. PlayThink is an adventure. PlayThink is for EVERYONE!" Starts today in Berea.

Hiring at Nolin Lake State Park (for seasonal campground help).

Congrats to the Barren County Detention Center's General Equivalency Diploma (GED) graduate and 22 National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC) recipients.

The new Metcalfe County Government Center appears to be coming along nicely.

Fulton County's UK grads got together at The Keg to award some scholarships last month, and Jack "Goose" Givens was the guest speaker!

Rest in peace, Thomas H. Porter Sr., Madisonville High Maroons basketball and football captain, Iwo Jima Purple Heart recipient, innovator of no-till farming in Kentucky, bringer of affordable municipal water and grade-school basketball to Nebo and husband of Kathleen for 66 years.

Oh, Kentucky

I don't believe I knew that Exile is from Kentucky! Thank you for the knowledge, Angela Turner of Corbin's Times-Tribune.

The Imagination Movers show might be worth the drive out to Prestonsburg.

The USS Nightmare is hiring in Newport ("for the creepiest, most intense, and scariest monsters in the tri-state").

Paducah Bank is shutting down for a couple of hours for the eclipse but serving Moon Pies the rest of the day.

"Overbooking" ... #smh.

Meanwhile, in Madisonville, ...

No homework and no spelling tests at Lewisburg Elementary this year.

An online auction for Marion's old Shopko property attracted 36 bids and a final price of $301,400, reports The Crittenden Press.

Unity in Frankfort.

No rest for the road-weary at Rowan County, indefinitely.