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Is steel coming back to Ashland? Is bourbon coming to Somerset?

A fire at Farmington, former home of the blue-and-white Region 1 Wildcats. An auction of McDowell, former home of the blue-and-gold Region 15 Daredevils.

"Our group is an unfortunately growing group that nobody wants to be a part of, or should have to be a part of. But at the same time, once you're a part of it, you're glad it's there."

The next 10 years might be a pretty good time to move to Scott County.

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; Fredonia, Harrodsburg, Hopkinsville, London, Monticello, Pineville, Richmond and Trenton, Dec. 6; Arlington, Barbourville, Berea, Bloomfield, Bowling Green, Bromley/Ludlow, Brownsville, Cadiz, Calvert City, Clinton, Columbia, Corbin, Cynthiana, Danville, Frankfort, Glasgow, Grayson, Hawesville, Henderson, Lawrenceburg, Lexington, Madisonville, Marion, Middlesboro, Morgantown, Murray, Owingsville, Paducah, Rabbit Hash, Scottsville, Shelbyville, Somerset, Trenton, Versailles, Whitley City and Winchester, Dec. 7; Georgetown, Dec. 8; Cave City, Dec. 10; Burkesville, Burnside, Elkton, Mayfield, Providence, Williamsburg, Dec. 14, and Tollesboro, Dec. 15.

Rest in peace, Gene Clabes, Kentucky print-journalism serial entrepreneur, online-journalism pioneer and his wife's hero. "What we do know is that there will be a party."

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Home sales are up in Kentucky.

Is Lexington's Helix Garage the country's coolest parking lot?

Public libraries are the best. At Glasgow's, you could be learning American Sign Language this summer.

Both the state's governor and its attorney general--opponents in the governor's race--are chasing miners' unpaid wages from a bankrupt Harlan County operator.

Plenty of law-enforcement opportunities in Elkton.

Bridge is out, in northern Crittenden County.

I'm so happy for Brenda Powers with the Big Sandy Area Development District and the other involved federal-, state- and local-agency personnel that the third phase of the more-than-a-decade-old "Pride on the River" sewer project is complete. (And I loved the level of detail on the saga that Mary Meadows delivered in her reporting for the Floyd County Chronicle.)

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— App. News-Express (@AppalachianNews) July 2, 2019

Way to go. You missed Barbara Bailey Day in Lexington. It was yesterday.

As for tomorrow: "Happy Fourth of July from the Carlisle Mercury: Nicholas County’s oldest business, serving Fleming County since 1867. The Mercury has been a cornerstone of Nicholas County culture for 152 years and as a product of ‘a free press’ in a nation where inhabitants enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we are proud of the fact that we have operated as a product of The American Free Press longer than the Statue of Liberty has been standing on Ellis Island."

What do you like about The Trimble Banner? There could be four tickets to the Quaker State 400 in it for you.

Floyd County Chronicle: "Both these agencies are public bodies and the business they conduct is done 100 percent on behalf of taxpayers and ratepayers. It’s vital that those on whose behalf this business is being conducted be involved in and aware of what’s going on."

Chuck Witt in The Winchester Sun: "What is impeachment?"

PRNewswire: "Dippin' Dots Heats Up Summer with Launch of Social Media Dance Challenge."

Per U.S. News and World Report, 15 colleges and universities have more than one grad currently serving as chief executive officer of a Fortune 100 company. The University of Kentucky is one of them.

In Elkton, you've got until 10 Central tonight and then 8 a.m.-10 p.m. tomorrow, Friday and Saturday to shoot off your fireworks--but that's it, buddy. In Louisa, it's until midnight Eastern today and then 10 a.m.-midnight tomorrow, and you're done--well, unless you put in a permit 15 days ago, and it was approved.

Felix E. Martin Jr's 2008 gift to Muhlenberg County keeps giving to economic development, community development, education and youth services there.

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A double rainbow over the West Carter football field this evening during the team's picture day. pic.twitter.com/YFVJ7Mnnqz

— John Flavell (@jxflavell) August 3, 2017

McDowell Elementary students are headed to Hi Hat. "Who wouldn’t be excited about a brand new school? And it’s going to be state-of-the-art. ... It’s going to be an awesome thing going to a school that can’t flood. It’s going to be hard, but change is good."

Kentucky for sale ("NEW YORK—Battling for the National Invitation Tournament Crown, three players are caught in ballet poses as Roger Hicks, left, of West Virginia University, shoots from far out in the court as Buck Sydnor, (77), and Don Ray, (96), both of West Kentucky State, reach vainly for the ball. West Virginia won, 47 to 45 in the closing seconds at Madison Square Garden March 25."):

The Paducah Sun is hiring in La Center and Kevil ("6 nights a week pay up to 1800 monthly"). And Page Trucking is hiring for “Local and Regional work out of Morgantown, KY and Bowling Green, KY (TOP PAYING JOBS $240-300 PER DAY)."

Bad jobs news from Coppers Creek, Debord and Lovely.

"The very day they put the tavern in," indispensible Gina Kinslow reports in the Glasgow Daily Times, the owners of Magaline's Antique Mall decided to sell their Cave City business of 25 years.

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I'm with Ray Wilson ...

GUEST POINT OF VIEW: According to Ray Wilson, pig wrestling has got to stop. https://t.co/eGbbGiJtQI pic.twitter.com/XONbHDcxI9

— WDRB News (@WDRBNews) June 12, 2017

Arena seating, multiple fighting pits, 5,000 members, restaurant and 30 years of cockfighting--in Floyd County.

The old one moved outside the city limits, so Lewisburg has a new mayor, and the first thing on his agenda is sewer problems.

Gov. Bevin is coming out to western Kentucky on Wednesday to ceremonially increase roadway-weight limits on trucking and lift the state's moratorium on construction of nuclear-power plants, so let's all leave him alone today so he can study up on Tour 16 in the WPA guide in advance of his great drive out U.S. 60 ...

The Winchester-Clark County Farmers’ Market is giving out vouchers to senior citizens, and the Benton Partnership is putting on the community's first farm-to-fork dinner.

Prestonsburg's Islamic Center of Eastern Kentucky broke Saturday's Ramadan fasting with an all-invited potluck meal.

Hiring, for nine positions across the Kentucky Press Association.

Carter Caves State Resort Park's restaurant, Tierney's Cavern, is expanding its buffet and salad-bar availability, and everyone's thrilled.

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"He can do it all, and, if you don't believe that, just check around his hometown of Lynn, Ky. ... A start football halfback at McKell High School, a better-than-average guard for the basketball team and some pitcher, too. ..." Hmmm ... who was ... hmmm ...?

I'll have to check and see if this Eddyville bulletin has any bearing on fan-bus routes in the early weeks of the KHSAA football season.

Coach Jack Haskins, incidentally, sometimes served his Heath football Pirates pancakes for pre-game meals on long road trips in the 1980s, so this Cadiz bulletin might well have bearing on Lone Oak Purple Flash dinner plans in the early weeks of this KHSAA football season.

Ah, yeah!

The first KHSAA hoops hall class: Ralph Beard and Darrell Griffith of Louisville Male, Coach Roy Bowling of Laurel County, Coach Ralph Carlisle of Lexington Lafayette, Rex Chapman of Owensboro Apollo, “King” Kelly Coleman of Wayland, Richie Farmer and Coach Bobby Keith of Clay County, Geri Grigsby of McDowell, Cliff Hagan of Owensboro, Clem Haskins of Taylor County, Clemette Haskins of Bowling Green Warren Central, Wallace “Wah Wah” Jones of Harlan, Jim McDaniels of Allen County, Coach S.T. Roach of Lexington Dunbar and Wes Unseld of Louisville Seneca.

I love Murray State University men's basketball coach Steve Prohm.

Olympics-bound Hilltoppers.

Liberty university.

Maybe she feels we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.

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"The first 100 customers in line received one free Big Mac per week for a year."

Harlan remembrance.

Princeton renewal.

Providence relocation.

Good jobs news from Louisville and for central Kentucky.

Obama-2012: What they're saying about Tuesday from inside Kentucky. And from outside.

Habitat for Hodgenville?

The big winner at All-Pro Dad Night in Mayfield was a grade-school girl from Fancy Farm.

On to nationals for the Ballard Memorial Energy Team.

Also, there's NCAA tennis to follow today.

46.1 points per game.

Rest in peace, Dr. Turner, chronicler of Maytown hoops.