Showing posts with label Goshen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goshen. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Oh, Kentucky



On his last day in office, Gov. Bevin opined on good jobs news from Murray: "Over the past four years, we have made historic strides in improving our business climate, and it’s exciting to see those efforts culminate in transformational job-creating projects. We are grateful that TPG chose Kentucky for its new operation and appreciate the opportunities it will provide to our citizens."





The Who's planned concert at NKU in April is historic for greater Cincinnati.

Brand new in Manchester: The Clay We Were.


Congratulations, Ms. McGaha, retiring operator of June's Beauty Shop in Jamestown since 19 and 62.



Christmas parades: Sharpsburg, Nov. 9; Owensboro, Nov. 23; Central City, Nov. 24; Lebanon and Louisville, Nov. 29;  Greensburg, Guthrie and Pikeville, Nov. 30; Boyce, Dawson Springs, Murray, Salem and Sebree, Dec. 1; Bardstown, Dec. 5; Clay, Fredonia, Harrodsburg, Hopkinsville, Irvine/Ravenna, London, Maysville, Monticello, Pineville, Richmond, Smiths Grove, Stanton and Trenton, Dec. 6; Arlington, Barbourville, Beattyville, Berea, Bloomfield, Bowling Green, Bromley/Ludlow, Brownsville, Cadiz, Calvert City, Carlisle, Clinton, Columbia, Corbin, Cynthiana, Danville, Frankfort, Glasgow, Grayson, Hawesville, Henderson, Horse Cave, Inez, Lawrenceburg, Leitchfield, Lexington, Madisonville, Marion, Middlesboro, Morgantown, Munfordville, Murray, Owingsville, Paducah, Rabbit Hash, Raceland, Russell Springs, Salyersville, Scottsville, Shelbyville, Somerset, Trenton, Versailles, Whitley City and Winchester, Dec. 7; Auburn, Georgetown and New Haven, Dec. 8; Augusta, Burkesville, Burnside, Cave City, Elkton, Franklin, Louisa, Mayfield, Providence, Williamsburg and Woodburn, Dec. 14, and Tollesboro, Dec. 15.



Thursday, January 10, 2019

Oh, Kentucky

It was a beautiful sunrise over "The Best Town on Earth" this morning, and, seriously, just 10 minutes before this picture was taken, the sky was Miami Dolphins aqua and orange, which I am taking as a good sign for Super Bowl VII, coming up Jan. 14, 1973. GO, BIG DOLPHINS!


Eli Keel delivers a rollicking Insider Louisville feature on a local "high-concept convenience store/third wave coffee shop/farm-to-fork eatery/democratic co-operative experiment" opened by a Carlisle County native.

Lots of redevelopment activity in Fort Mitchell--the old Drawbridge Hotel, the old Remke Markets, the old Brown Mackie College Northern Kentucky, etc.--is to be had here in a typically great Michael Monks meeting story in The River City News.

Johnson County's new judge-executive goes to work recruiting businesses and people, reports Aaron K. Nelson in The Paintsville Herald.

Just short of its 100-year birthday, Durham's Barber Shop is no more--but it's still a happy Melinda J. Overstreet story in the Glasgow Daily Times.

"Antsy" times for the furloughed workers at Covington's IRS facility, reports Mark Hansel in the Northern Kentucky Tribune.

Paducah's audacious new mission statement has a detractor on the new city commission, per Thomas Capps and Jason Thomason with WPSD.

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Oh, Kentucky

I had never seen this picture of Jim McDaniels with his Italian pro team, Snaidero Udine, in 1974-75. Once again, rest in peace, "Big Mac:" I worked with Jim at Jim Johnson Pontiac nearly 21 years ago. I was blessed with my first granddaughter while we worked together. He would bring all his customers to my office to see a picture of the new baby. Will always remember him holding her and his hand was bigger than her back. He called her "the baby" and we taught her to call him "Uncle Jim". Sweet memories. ... I was at Diddle area for a Murray game when he did the "illegal" dunk. Watched Big Mac beat UK. And almost watched a national champion. Great memories! ... Talk to Jim a lot when I worked at CDS drug store. He was always very nice he will be missed. ... Last time we talked he told me about nearly drowning on our Sr. Trip in a swimming pool somewhere we were. Said Coach Cline saved his life. I'd never known that story before. ... We grew up together, went to the same 3 room school, and later the same high school. I'll treasure those memories. May God give you peace in your grief. ... I will miss him coming to Wendy's getting he's food when I work there Going to miss you he was so nice when he came in we talk the longest on my break break b over prayers are with the family he was a Great friend ... When we were in school, he always sat behind me. Back then we had to set in abc order. He would have to put one leg on one side of my desk and the other on the other side. His feet was always in front of my desk. Every time I had to get out of my desk, he would have to stand up to let me out. That is if he thought I needed to get out. if not I had to set there. I left Scottsville after graduation but still kept up with his career. I was living in Florida and believe it was then that our 25th reunion came around. I was battling cancer and could not come. Somehow he found out and sent me a very nice letter and a picture of him and Jabar. Said I hear he is your favorite. After I moved back home I ran into him at Dumplings. Was surprised he knew me ( I don't look the same as high school). He gave me his number and told me to keep him informed when the group was getting together for one of our breakfast. I did and he and his lovely wife came. Was really happy to see how happy they were. ...

I really would like to know who donated a book to the Livingston County Historical Society and what the local education board's solar-panel plans are.

Guthrie Strong.

The Kentucky Emergency Management Association hails the Lewis County judge-executive for his work in getting that county "Storm Ready."

Graves County has mobilized its future workforce in the campaign to bring Mazda and Toyota manufacturing there.

Covington is incentivizing small businesses like crazy. I am particularly interested in the new restaurant named after Walt "Smoke" Justis of the 1913 Federal League Covington Blue Sox.

Larry Rowell in The Casey County News details the local food-insecurity situation.

Here's a pretty Maira Ansari feature for WAVE 3 on an Elizabethtown boy being made able to hear for the first time.

I enjoyed this Melinda J. Overstreet/Glasgow Daily Times piece on the local Kiwanians' 50 years of service, but I was hoping it would also have the date of the Glasgow Christmas parade.


Yes, we did have a 64-percent decline in the percentage of Kentucky's population without health insurance since 2013. (Gov. Bevin: Hold my beer.)

Alexandria is getting a new library!

Oldham County made The New York Times!

Paducah made Snopes!


Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Oh, Kentucky



Coca-Cola consolidation is coming to Middlesboro.


The CEO of a company that makes a wearable video system has moved operations back to his native Kentucky.


Hiring in Paducah: planning director, pool manager, sports officials, etc.



At Barren County Family Court, per The Courier-Journal: "I stand behind the law I have cited, the matter of conscience I addressed and the decision I have made."

More than $26,000 in federal money is available to expand food and shelter programs in Bell County, reports the Middlesboro Daily News; such funds previously have gone to Cooperative Christian Ministries and the Salvation Army in Middlesboro, Henderson Settlement in Frakes and Lighthouse Ministries Safehaven Shelter in Pineville.


What's next for the Boy Scouts' Wildcat Hollow camp in Logan County?


Hoptown is opening a new visitors center in anticipation of the eclipse.


Top 10 Kentucky high schools, according to U.S. News & World Report:


1. Louisville duPont Manual

2. Goshen North Oldham
3. Fort Thomas Highlands
4. Crestwood South Oldham
5. Fort Mitchell Beechwood
6. Glasgow
7. Louisville Brown
8. Lexington Henry Clay
9. Lexington Lafayette
10. Murray

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Kentucky High-school Football, #allthewaytostate

Organizing in Louisville ...


Gathering in Belfry ...


Feeling it in Fort Mitchell ...


Roadtripping from Bowling Green ...


Setting in Pikeville ...


Warming up in Raceland ...


It's a packed house in Brandenburg, where Meade County is hosting Trinity ...


There are plenty of seats available at Louisville Southern, which was hosting the DeSales "home" game ...


SRO in Belfry ...


And, from the visitors' side, a spellcheck ...


Coin flip in Elizabethtown ...


Kickoff in Goshen ...


This one turned out to be the game of the night ...


It was tied at halftime ...


Early in the third quarter, however, the visiting Red Devils surged ahead ...


Meanwhile, in Fort Mitchell, ...


And Brandenburg ...


And Fort Thomas ...


Back in Goshen, ...


And with six seconds to go, the home team appears to wrap it up ...




Owensboro will get one last chance ...


The quarterback rolls out ...


... pass is tipped ... and ... HE'S GOT IT! ...


... HE! ... COULD! ... GO! ... ALL! ... THE! ... WAY! ...


OMG!










OMG.


Final in Goshen: OMGensboro 27, North Oldham 24.


The Red Devils play the Highlands Bluebirds (47-26 semifinal winners over Lexington Catholic) at 2:30 p.m. Saturday for the Class 4A state championship.


Final in Belfry: Pirates 33, Flatwoods Russell 0. The defending champs play the Louisville Central Yellowjackets (16-14 semifinal winners over Bowling Green South Warren) at 11 a.m. Friday for the Class 3A championship.


Final in Edgewood: Dixie Heights 48, Louisville Ballard 21. The Colonels play the Louisville Trinity Shamrocks (48-0 semifinal winners at Meade County) at 6 p.m. Saturday for the Class 6A championship.


Final at Southern: DeSales 14, Murray 7. The defending-champion Colts play the Newport Central Catholic Thoroughbreds (43-14 semifinal winners at Pikeville Shelby Valley) at 2:30 p.m. Friday for the Class 2A championship.


Final in Elizabethtown: Graves County 28, John Hardin 23. The Eagles play the Pulaski County Maroons (33-7 semifinal winners over Union Randall K. Cooper) at 6 p.m. Friday for the Class 5A championship.


Final in Raceland: Williamsburg 34, Raceland-Worthington 8. The Yellow Jackets play the defending-champion Mayfield Cardinals (35-24 semifinal winners at Fort Mitchell Beechwood) at 11 a.m. Saturday for the Class A championship.


One last look in Fort Mitchell ...


Friday, November 28, 2014

Kentucky High-school Football, State Semifinals

Next weekend, all roads lead to Bowling Green, but tonight we have 13 routes of team and fan buses, cars too-packed with students and minivans of parents, neighbors and extended family in for Thanksgiving weekend, streaming (roughly eastward) across the state to see semifinals in the state playoffs. For all of them and everyone else on the roads and not on the roads, in Kentucky and not in Kentucky, we pray that "the Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time on and forevermore."

-- Round of 32 preview and wrap
-- Round of eight preview and wrap

Class 2A:

-- Murray vs. Louisville DeSales at Louisville Southern




Previous reports:

-- Round of 32 preview and wrap
-- Round of eight preview and wrap


-- Bowling Green South Warren at Louisville Central


Previous reports:

-- Round of 32 preview and wrap
-- Round of eight preview and wrap

Class 4A:

-- Owensboro at Goshen North Oldham


Previous reports:

Previous reports:

-- Round of 32 preview and wrap
-- Round of eight preview and wrap




Previous reports:

-- Round of 32 preview and wrap
-- Round of eight preview and wrap

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Kentucky High-school Football, Class 4A Round of Eight


Here are the regular-season rematches in Class 4A:


-- Owensboro won at Madisonville-North Hopkins, 29-22, on Sept. 26, and Friday's game is at Owensboro.

-- Lexington Catholic won at home, 26-17, against Boyle County on Oct. 3, and Friday's game is back at Lexington Catholic.

-- Fort Thomas Highlands won at home, 42-7, against Covington Catholic on Sept. 26, and Friday's game is back at Highlands.



Previous reports:

-- Round of 32 preview and wrap

Friday, November 14, 2014

Kentucky High-school Football, Class 4A Round of 16


Madisonville-North Hopkins has made this beautiful trip before, but it has not made for a happy ride back home. 



The Maroons went to Franklin-Simpson in the second round of the 2011 playoffs and lost, 20-17. They returned last fall and lost, 20-16. And now Madisonville-North Hopkins (9-2) is headed back to Franklin-Simpson (9-1) in in the Region 1, Class 4A semifinals today.

Down in Region 4, Covington Catholic is even more accustomed to the longer road out to Johnson Central in Paintsville.



Five times in the last six seasons, the CovCath Colonels and Johnson Central Golden Eagles have collided in the playoffs--all five times in Paintsville. The results:

-- Johnson Central 49, CovCath 14 in 2008
-- Johnson Central 51, CovCath 32 in 2009
-- Johnson Central 41, CovCath 28 in 2010
-- CovCath 45, Johnson Central 15 in 2012
-- CovCath 42, Johnson Central 14 in 2013

The Colonels come in to tonight's game at 7-4. The Golden Eagles are 11-0.


Previous reports:

-- Round of 32 preview and wrap

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Kentucky High-school Football, Class 4A First-round Wrap

A couple of close Region 2 decisions knocked out two teams that I thought might advance to the semifinals (Shelbyville Martha Layne Collins, the defending state champ, and Spencer County); otherwise, the first round of the Class 4A playoffs was filled with blowout wins by favorites. So let's get on to the fact that I actually attended a game! Part of one, anyway.

My daughter's elementary school had its fall festival last night, so I didn't get to Madisonville-North Hopkins until the Marching Maroons were finishing their halftime show. It was the band's first performance since earning its 10th consecutive Class 4A state championship, and they sounded terrific!



Allen County-Scottsville opened the second half by recovering an onside kick. Then the Patriots turned the ball over, but, then, so did the Maroons.



Down the field, AC-S drove.



Eventually, on third down from the 1, a Patriot runner barreled into the end zone to pull AC-S to within 33-14 (after a conversion pass for two points).



That's as exciting as this story gets, however. Madisonville-North Hopkins went on to win, 46-14. And I left at the start of the fourth quarter, because I was cold. I wish I would've taken a picture of the $6 ribeye sandwich that I purchased from the concession stand; it was really good. I did, at least, get this picture showing off how AC-S's jerseys read "PATRIOTS" across the back, over the numbers. I really like that.



Here were all of the 4A first-round results:

-- Owensboro 49, Breckinridge County 0
-- Bowling Green Warren East 38, Calloway County 0
-- Madisonville-North Hopkins 46, Allen County-Scottsville 14
-- Franklin-Simpson 62, Hopkins County Central 6
-- Goshen North Oldham 48, Nelson County 0
-- Louisville Western 49, Collins 43
-- Louisville Doss 35, Spencer County 32
-- Louisville Fairdale 44, Louisville Waggener 6
-- Lexington Catholic 48, Clay County 6
-- Rockcastle County 28, Marion County 7
-- Boyle County 45, Russell County 22
-- Barbourville Knox Central 21, Taylor County 21
-- Fort Thomas Highland 44, Boyd County 7
-- Ashland Blazer 49, Covington Holmes 14
-- Covington Catholic 39, Greenup County 8
-- Paintsville Johnson Central 67, Harrison County 14