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Update from Madisonville: Ferrell's Snappy Service is on track to be back by Flag Day!

Update from Paducah: SRO at the city commission, and 4-1 in favor of an amended fairness ordinance.

Update from Betsy Layne:

Closing of Boyle County's largest child-care provider has spurred a long, hard look at the problem, its ramifications and possible solutions among community members in and around Danville. Solid meeting coverage from Robin Hart in The-Advocate Messenger.

Thanks, Feds, for the dough to train aviation maintenance technicians at and around EKU.

The first signee to John Prine's Oh Boy Records in 15 years is from Monkey's Eyebrow.

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Good jobs news from Campbellsville and Chavies.

Hiring in Clinton (for a full-time secretary for the Hickman County schools guidance counselor).

The Price Is Right and, this October, live from Rupp.

Greetings from Paducah (maybe Stanley Kubrick visited the Paducah City Hall, designed by Edward Durell Stone and completed in 1964, before figuring out 2001: A Space Odyssey):

Happy 80th to "a Covington hot spot."

Fifty years of hospitality in Liberty.

The African American Coalition of Hopkins County is, at last.

About 16 percent of all Kentuckians are said to be deaf or hard of hearing.

Christmas parades: Murray, Dec. 1, and Henderson and Scottsville, Dec. 7.

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Congratulations, Coy Bacon! And hooray for football!

The "Joey Fosko Memorial Press Box" movement for McCracken County High School is picking up steam.

Fun times ahead in Beaver Dam and Paducah.

Very open mike in Owensboro.

"Not exactly the kind of ‘welcome to Owen County’ we wanted to give them."

Ohio mystery solved in (on?) Science Hill.

Will a Vermont marriage count with regard to spousal privilege in Louisville?

Seriously, I am so glad that the directors of the Perry County Sanitation District 1 got to see this day. Serving on boards like that is hard.

Friends of Hardin County's library and foes of Anderson's organize.

Dixon must consider both OPEX and CAPEX when evaluating the value proposition offered by B & T Pet Supply.

Another No. 1 for Louisville.

One of the joys of working the Twitter desk is seeing all of the pictures of sunrises, sunsets and sometimes just pretty clouds that folks post.

Beautiful morning sky over western Boone and Hamilton Counties. @ky_enquirer pic.twitter.com/1dQ4hyW9HR
— patrick reddy (@patrickreddynky) June 20, 2013

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U.S. Major Andrew Graff Hamilton of Company A of the 12th Kentucky Calvary was the co-leader of a massive, Feb. 9, 1864, escape of Union officers from a Richmond, Va., prison. Years later, after things had settled down, he was among the guests of honor at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Then, two years after that, he was murdered in Morgantown and buried in Reedyville. The Kentucky Historical Society plans on Saturday to dedicate a marker about him., and Peggy Bush had a pretty riveting story about the whole Hamilton affair back in 1988 in The Park City Daily News of Bowling Green ("the motive was apparently revenge," et al).

Dark and bloody Bobby Mackey's, of Wilder.

Okolana's fire chief of 39 years is saying when.

A big step forward in Chavies's water saga.

Bad jobs news from Hazard.

A terrific honor for Logan and Magoffin County high schools.

A Madisonville R&B trio, Driven, is on tour in support of Wiz Khalifa and a number of other acts.

Here's the director's cut of Channel 6's interview with Huey Lewis.

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Rest in peace, Dr. Dave, who "did not let the boundaries of nations define him."

Great jobs news from Florence. Good from Campbellsville, Lexington, Louisville, Louisville again and Somerset. Bad from Hebbardsville. Disappointing from London and Monticello. Promising from commonwealth manufacturers.

HeathPo: The president rocked the vote among Kentucky's students--but not quite hard enough. Meanwhile, Perry County rocked the president.

Hope for Brownies Creek.

Christmas parades: Madisonville, Dec. 1; Nortonville, Dec. 2, and Bremen, Dec. 8.

Not a Christmas parade, not in Florence.

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“It’s one thing for me, a politician, to roll into Hazard and say all this stuff and then leave. I want to show people that I believe in Eastern Kentucky and the ag capacity here.” 

Speaking of James Comer, the Kentucky desk predicts (for "all-along" purposes--please note new label!) that the KDLA will one day be archiving Gov. Comer's journals.

No more Corydon?

Forty years of Lions Club pancake breakfasts in Madisonville--none more successful than this month's. 

Good jobs news from Inez.

New pharmacy for historic location in Covington? Historic pharmacy finds new location in Benton.

Christmas parades: Hopkinsville, Dec. 1, and Lexington, Dec. 6.

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Rest in peace, Mrs. Lloyd, Cundiff postmistress of 37 years.

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The KHSAA girls' golf tournament is today and Wednesday in Bowling Green. The boys' tournament is Thursday and Friday. Meet Miss Gumm.

The gov, meanwhile, will be hitting the gas on over to Hoptown.

Christmas parades: Elkton Dec. 2,

"Tentative plans are underway for a Christmas parade in Nortonville this year, so everyone needs to be thinking about this."

Louisville needs programmers.

Union and Crescent Springs have tutors.

Madisonville has Happy Feet, and it's getting (fantastic!) new trash cans downtown.

Political and economic questions will figure prominently in the next decades of development and implementation of the globally intensifying smart-grid movement!

Pass, in Chavies.

Mad props to Freddie and Mrs. Cowan!

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Anthony Davis in Etown.

President Clinton at Rupp Arena.

No Nugent for Fort Knox.

Meanwhile, Paducah Tilghman's Nobel Prize winner is coming off a busy week: speeches at Vanderbilt on Wednesday and in New York on Thursday.

Best Town on Earth?

Bow-tying in Bowling Green.

Intergenerational prom in Hazard.

Thirty years of Dial-a-Prayer in Morehead. 

Leave it to Washington.

Turning to the routes desk, ...

What an intricate and evocative piece of writing from Tom Eblen about John Jacob Niles, a woman from Russell with whom he collaborated, Thomas Merton, the guy who designed the state's memorial to Vietnam War veterans, etc.

"'Russ was the man, he was the guy,' Perry said."

The running clock comes to hoops, too.

Rest in peace, Coach Wright, coach of Larry Conley and the 1961 KHSAA boys' basketball champs and of Jerry Conley and the 1969 OVC co-champs.