Oh, Kentucky

Ringing in the new, for the first time in London.

Happy last year, says the governor.

Hiring in Madisonville.

List price for a Latonia golf course and club built in 1927 is just short of $4 million, reports Covington's River City News.

Newport's Mitchell's Fish Market is no more, reports WLWT from across the river.

A tense Paintsville Tourism Commission meeting ends with a long executive session and layoff of the manager of Staffordsville's Mountain HomePlace. Aaron K. Nelson delivers strong play-by-play in The Paintsville Herald.

Julianna Leach looks back in The Morehead News of a local father-son framing business's eight-year rise. "Great things came come from Morehead."

A Hopkinsville native who contributed to Lexington's rise says Somerset is "primed and ready to be a major tourist destination," and maybe 39 signs of that optimism just fell out of the sky and into his yard. Here's the neat, twisty/turny feature from Christopher Harris in the Commonwealth Journal.

How to start a business, at Murray State in Paducah.

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"Eclipseville, U.S.A.," as of today.

Eclipsevillest.

Five pair of goats, 28 bags of school supplies and 32 backpacks.

Howard's Overhead Doors has moved to downtown Winchester after 30 years, and the owners even moved overhead themselves.

Nighttime donuts are returning to Latonia.

Bad jobs news from Louisville.

Welders wanted.

And a bookkeeper, at the Lexington office of Kentucky Refugee Ministries.

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"In Paducah, we will be proactive and do the uncomfortable work of having honest dialogue about our own history, biases, and challenges."

One petition for, two against.

Acclaimed, Madisonville-based cartoonist and writer Chris Schweizer recalls Robert E. Lee of Virginia ...

Maligned, Louisville-educated U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell decries the white-supremacist terrorists' plans to converge on Lexington.

CNN visits Paris.

The "a time of reflection and prayer to show our unity, love and respect for all people regardless of race, faith, gender, nationality, language, economic status, etc." is noon Eastern today in Campbellsville.

This sounds to me like a totally great way to limit our freedoms.

Bad jobs news from West Paducah.

Jackson Energy tells Jim Wilson of The Manchester Enterprise that the eclipse will illustrate why having a diversity of energy sources is so important.

He "hated it at the time," but all of that antique shopping on camping trips to London has paid off for the operator of a new antique shop in Latonia. Good, little staff biz feature Covington's River City News.

Big Rivers Electric is demo-ing solar in Draffenville.

Hopkinsville lights its new Alhambra Theater marquee.

"Jenkins 'pushes' new fire truck into service."

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Live in the @WFPLNews newsroom: Comey and kittens. pic.twitter.com/3qywIjkQuL

— Erica Peterson (@ericampeterson) June 8, 2017

Here are the proper nouns in Sen. McConnell's love letter to his state on its 225th birthday: Commonwealth of Kentucky, Union, Virginia, Kentucky County, Native American Wyandot, Kentuckian, Daniel Boone, Cumberland Gap, Ephraim McDowell, Tori Murden McClure, Atlantic Ocean, American, Colonel Harland Sanders, Diane Sawyer, Glasgow, Louisville, Muhammad Ali, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, Alben Barkley, Georgia Powers, African American, Kentucky Senate, Jesse Stuart, Pulitzer Prize, Robert Penn Warren, National Quilt Museum, Paducah, Grammy Award, Loretta Lynn, Chris Stapleton, Jennifer Lawrence, George Clooney, Johnny Depp, University of Louisville, University of Kentucky, Kentucky Derby, United States Senate and Bluegrass State. It would be fascinating to see to see the Microsoft Word document with tracked changes turned on.

5 Stars, Highly Recommended ...

NKU ranks No. 31 for LGBTQ inclusion.

Nice feature by Don Sergeant in the Glasgow Daily Times on an 89-year-old instructor in the free golf-instruction program for kids at the local country club. And his picture of the guy is great, too!

Good jobs news in Madisonville.

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The donuts are back in Latonia! Congratulations Emerson's Bakery on your newest location! @theRCnews https://t.co/dcTfUp4Vq0 pic.twitter.com/hbKTanzNUF

— OMEGA Processing (@OMEGAProcessing) March 22, 2017

Great jobs and humanity news in Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan and Rowan counties!

Hiring in Berea: "The VISTA member will build the capacity of the KentuckyAssociation of Food Banks (KAFB) by assisting with the development andimplementation of hunger-relief programs for low-income children, adults and seniorsin all 120 counties of Kentucky."

A WKU senior from Frankfort has opened a meal-replacement-shake restaurant in Bowling Green.

One doesn't normally find sharks in Beaver Dam, and that's precisely the point.

Latest in the Gabe's saga in Owensboro ...

About WDRB's exclusive interview with President Trump ...

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Yes, you have been seeing tundra swans north of Geneva.

It's Christmastime, but Eagle Weekend in Gilbertsville also is on its way.

Christmas parades: Owensboro, Nov. 19; Ashland (the giant KFC bucket was terrific), Nov. 22; Lebanon, Nov. 25; Brownsville and Sebree, Nov. 26; Bardstown, Dec. 1; Maysville, Monticello and Richmond, Dec. 2; Arlington, Beaver Dam, Berea, Bowling Green, Cadiz (I hate deadlines), Clinton, Columbia, Frankfort, Glasgow, Harlan, Henderson, Horse Cave, Madisonville, Manchester, Munfordville, Murray, Paducah (themed, "Pictures of Paducah at Christmastime"), Paintsville, Paris, Somerset and Winchester, Dec. 3; Boyce, Owenton and Schochoh, Dec. 4; Hickman and Lexington, Dec. 6; Augusta, Burnside, Cave City, Elkton, Hopkinsville, La Center, Livermore ("remember, all units in the parade must be 'lighted' and Christmas themed"), Nicholasville and Pikeville, Dec. 10, and Auburn, Dec. 11.

Rest in peace, Florence Henderson, grand marshal of the 2015 Owensboro Christmas parade.

What's next for northern Kentucky's "Voice," WCVG?

Remember Mid-Continent University?

If you can't keep it under 35 mph, keep it out of Edmonson County.

Full House "Stephanie" is scheduled to speak tonight at NKU about substance abuse.

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Good jobs news from Murray. Bad from Bowling Green and Hebron.

Still dry in Estill County.

The state's education commissioner has completed his tour of all 174 Kentucky school districts.

Corbin is getting a Marshalls.

Covington appears to be getting rid of adult softball.

What would've ranked as Wednesday's second- or third-craziest development in college football was quickly defused.

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UK-Duke. 

Somerset goes all John Denver on us. Madisonville goes all Atlanta Rhythm Section on us. 

Boo to church thieves. 

Is it the Oak Grove or Christian County Outlaws football team? The baseball team is reportedly the Madisonville Tradewater Pirates. 

Good jobs news from Dixon, Paducah and the state as a whole.

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Medal of Honor for a Columbia man!

One for a Martin woman, too!

Paducah-based CSI is on the grow.

Good jobs news from Hopkinsville and Owensboro.

Cumberland Falls State Park needs your support.

Congratulations, Elmo Guy, et al.

Ah-most.

More from the mural desk!

Graffiti, yes. Gangs, no.

Vampire Virgins in Horse Cave.

"Listen to the Music" free; "Bird" grounded; Kansas to "Carry On."

I didn't know that the nation's last public execution was in Owensboro.

RIP, Mr. Broadbent, part of Kentucky's country-ham dynasty.