Oh, Kentucky

I was in Munfordville and got to pick up the July 11 Hart County News-Herald. My favorite item was the "Buzz Around Bonnieville" column by Linda Watts: "No matter where you call home, we all have the same basic issues facing our communities today; the lack of affordable housing, small businesses struggling to make it, trying to keep prices competitive while making enough to pay the bills and the older population facing loneliness with family members living miles away to pursue their careers." She used that as a springboard to talk about her thankfulness "that we live in a community that offers so many actives and opportunities for fellowship." She mentioned the recent county fair and an upcoming ribbon cutting and grand opening at Barbour's Fresh Produce in Munfordville.

Ryan Van Velzer of Louisville's WFPL lays out how Owenton avoided water contamination downstream from the Jim Beam spill.

A murder in Hazard has a local homeless shelter and the city reviewing its processes and policies. "Somehow we have to be a compassionate city, but we also have to protect our city," a city councilperson says in Katie Kelley's story in The Hazard Herald.

(Refugee) farm to (Hickory & Oak) table, in Bowling Green. Neat Madison Martin report for WBKO.

Ray Hagerman, president of the Madisonville-Hopkins County Economic Development Corporation, in the local Messenger: "Madisonville is at a 15-year record for open jobs, and our employers are struggling mightily to find the talent they need in those positions. Economic development has organized two job fairs in the first half of this year, and both had hundreds more available jobs than they attracted job seekers. Studies show that people with military experience tend to have a high rate of civilian work success, and so we see Fort Campbell as a crucial pipeline of talent for our community's prosperity. And we saw Madisonville Military Day as a great start to tapping into that talent."

The National Association of Agricultural Educators nabbed itself a couple of recruits from Caldwell County High.

Mural reveal! Today at 2 Central in the old Clinton Bank lot.

Turning to sports, forget about live racing at Ellis Park today.

Oh, Kentucky

Out of Freida Smith's experience, grief and compassion grew a statewide effort to help Nebraska's flooded farmers. Just a beautiful story out of Owen County by Carol Lee Spence with the University of Kentucky, via the Northern Kentucky Tribune.

Lashana Harney of The Winchester Sun peeks in on what's happening at Robert D. Campbell Junior High. "Be prepared for greatness."

"I believe this kid has been called to play music." Will Perkins of the Glasgow Daily Times has the good word from Kindergarten Career Day at Highland Elementary.

University Magazine (of Canada) says Louisville-based Sullivan University is the 10th-best culinary school (in the United States).

Check out some of our senior photographers' favorite shots from this year: https://t.co/nbno7gM55L

— WKU Herald (@wkuherald) April 30, 2019

The bad news is you missed QuiltWeek. The good news is QuiltWeek is coming.

"Suit Up & Get Hired!" In Lexington next month. Or "ID The Missing & Unidentified" in Campbellsville on the same date.

Oh, Kentucky

Good jobs news from Dekoven and Owenton.

Dining options in Russell Springs narrow.

Business-travel options between Louisville and Los Angeles get a big boost.

Christmas parades: Owensboro, Nov. 17; Berea, Bowling Green and Paducah, Dec. 1; Richmond, Dec. 7, and Hopkinsville, Dec. 8.

Oh, Kentucky

Here are the stories that made our front page pic.twitter.com/i1HxVUdG2z

— Kentucky New Era (@KentuckyNewEra) June 11, 2018

 

Great lede in Etown's News-Enterprise by Mary Alford: "It wasn’t until his senior year of high school that Marty Fulkerson first attended the Hardin County Fair & Horse Show. He had his tie eaten by a goat."

"People get addicted to the improvement." Nice Q&A from Hannah Brown in The State Journal with Kirk Schooley, who is the pro at Frankfort's Juniper Hill Golf Course, won the 1993 PGA Kentucky Section championship and "grew up in a pro shop."

The state FFA's 2018 Ag. Teachers Change Lives Award goes to Mr. Green, retiring after 33 years at Todd Central High.

Ms. Zaino, English teacher, leaves Covington Holmes with a bang.

Good jobs news from Paducah?

Hiring in Carrollton ("TO PERFORM SPECIALIZED INTAKE WORK IN CASES OF YOUTH DEEMED HIGH NEEDS OR UNSUCCESSFUL IN THE DIVERSION PROCESS; TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND FEEDBACK FOR CDWS AND THE JUDICIARY ON PUBLIC AND STATUS CASES ... THIS POSITION IS ON-CALL AND REQUIRES DAYS, NIGHTS, WEEKENDS, AND HOLIDAYS AS NEEDED ... $28,911.12 - $38,162.64").

Prayers for Guatemala, and rock on, brothers and sisters from Murray.

Oh, Kentucky

Christmas parades: Owensboro, Nov. 19; Bardstown, Dec. 1 (or maybe Dec. 2); Richmond, Dec. 2; Berea, Glasgow and Madisonville, Dec. 3; Boyce and Owenton, Dec. 4, and Cave City, Elkton, Hopkinsville and Pikeville, Dec. 10.

Good jobs news from Bowling Green and Henderson. Bad from Bowling Green and Henderson (and Madisonville).

I love Holiday Inn Expresses.

The Kentucky Historical Society is commemorating the founding of the seventh-oldest Boy Scout troop in the country, Paducah Troop 1.

The new Prairie Home Companion guy lived in Murray for a while.

"If people will just commit to listening to what is going on with other parts of the community, to actively and with intention listen, we can start to build understanding."

89 Games Left

So 28 more teams had their seasons ended last night, while 28 other teams got one game closer to Rupp Arena.  Shed a tear for Owen County, which ends the season with a record of 29-4.  But don't shed a tear for the top-10 teams, none of whom were eliminated:

1st Region Quarter-Finals (at Murray St. U.):
Graves Co. 61, Marshall Co. 51
McCracken Co. 61, Carlisle Co. 53

2d Region Quarter-Finals (at Hopkins Co. Cent.):
(1) Christian Co. 58, Henderson Co. 39
Trigg Co. 44, Caldwell Co. 38

3d Region Quarter-Finals (at Owensboro Sportscenter):
Breckinridge Co. 81, Butler Co. 57
Owensboro Catholic 47, Ohio Co. 35

4th Region Quarter-Finals (at W. Kentucky U.):
(5) Bowling Green 71, Glasgow 26
Russell Co. 70, Russellville 69

5th Region Quarter-Finals (at Nelson Co.):
N. Hardin 68, Green Co. 53
Taylor Co. 84, Nelson Co. 50

8th Region Quarter-Finals (at Henry Co.):
S. Oldham 81, Owen Co. 76
Martha Layne Collins 54, Simon Kenton 52 (OT)

9th Region Quarter-Finals (at BB&T Arena):
Conner 62, St. Henry 59
(4) Cov. Catholic 77, Newport 48

10th Region Quarter-Finals (at Montgomery Co.):
Mason Co. 72, Campbell Co. 70
Paris 75, Harrison Co. 60

11th Region Quarter-Finals (at E. Kentucky U.):
Lex. Lafayette 76, Franklin Co. 42
(3) Scott Co. 71, Madison Cent. 67

12th Region Quarter-Finals (at Pulaski Co.):
(2) Mercer Co. 61, Rockcastle Co. 49
Southwestern 64, Lincoln Co. 42

13th Region Quarter-Finals (at Corbin Arena):
Knox Cent. 71, N. Laurel 69 (3 OT)
S. Laurel 56, Bell Co. 35

14th Region Quarter-Finals (at Knott Co. Cent.):
June Buchanan 65, Jackson City 43
Perry Co. Cent. 84, Estill Co. 34

15th Region Quarter-Finals (at E. Kentucky Expo Center):
E. Ridge 62, Allen Cent. 51
Johnson Cent. 62, Belfry 53

16th Region Quarter-Finals (at Morehead St. U.):
Elliott Co. 59, Fairview 46
Lewis Co. 64, Fleming Co. 59

But we still have 89 games left in the season.  Here are tonight's games. What a lousy draw for Webster County.  Another big night for Eric's guys from Fern Creek:

1st Region Quarter-Finals (at Murray St. U.):
Murray (26-5) v. Hickman Co. (12-16)
Paducah Tilghman (26-4) v. Mayfield (13-15)

2d Region Quarter-Finals (at Hopkins Co. Cent.):
Webster Co. (25-4) v. Hopkinsville (18-12)
Madisonville-N. Hopkins (21-7) v. Lyon Co. (13-16)

3d Region Quarter-Finals (at Owensboro Sportscenter):
Meade Co. (20-10) v. Grayson Co. (11-16)
Muhlenberg Co. (15-13) v. Owensboro Apollo (9-17)

5th Region Quarter-Finals (at Nelson Co.):
Bardstown (24-7) v. Marion Co. (9-22)
Caverna (16-10) v. Central Hardin (21-6)

6th Region Semi-Finals (at Lou. Valley):
(10) Bullitt East (26-5) v. Lou. DeSales (10-20)
Lou. Fern Creek (19-12) v. Lou. Doss (25-5)

8th Region Quarter-Finals (at Henry Co.):
Anderson Co. (16-13) v. Walton-Verona (18-10)
Oldham Co. (22-8) v. Henry Co. (15-15)

11th Region Quarter-Finals (at E. Kentucky U.):
Lex. Dunbar (26-6) v. Madison Southern (18-14)
(8) Lex. Henry Clay (27-5) v. Woodford Co. (14-16)

12th Region Quarter-Finals (at Pulaski Co.):
Casey Co. (14-17) v. W. Jessamine (18-13)
Wayne Co. (18-10) v. Boyle Co. (14-11)

13th Region Quarter-Finals (at Corbin Arena):
Clay Co. (23-7) v. Barbourville (14-15)
Harlan Co. (23-4) v. Corbin (19-10)

14th Region Quarter-Finals (at Knott Co. Cent.):
Powell Co. (14-15) v. Breathitt Co. (19-13)
Letcher Co. Cent. (21-9) v. Buckhorn (16-15)

Oh, Kentucky

30-NOV-1928 Happy 87th Birthday to Joe B. Hall. Hall played 3 games at UK, scoring 0 pts, then transferred to Sewanee where he starred...

— bigbluehistory (@bigbluehistory) November 30, 2015

...Hall later returned to UK to graduate. He coached at Regis College, then took asst. coach at UK, then head coach pic.twitter.com/ihB7o2fYRd

— bigbluehistory (@bigbluehistory) November 30, 2015

Joe B. will always be known for taking Cats to every part of Commonwealth with exhibition games each year. That's when Kentucky became BBN.

— Oscar Combs (@wildcatnews) November 30, 2015

Louisville wins again in Lexington.

Building a (new) bridge in Aurora.

"Because Kentuckians are often celebrated for their fighting spirit, those individuals and groups in the state who have questioned war have often been downplayed or ignored by historians."

“Whatever Christmas was before, whatever losses you’ve suffered, however far you’ve traveled, Christmas has to be where you are now—that’s the last line: ‘it has to be here.’”

Christmas parades: Hazard and Owensboro, Nov. 21; Ashland, Nov. 24; Russell Springs and Williamstown, Nov. 28; Lexington, Dec. 1; Louisa, Dec. 3; Central City, Harlan, Maysville and Walton, Dec. 4; Arlington, Bowling Green, Frankfort, Grayson, Hopkinsville, Lawrenceburg, Madisonville, Middlesboro, Munfordville, Murray, Paducah, Somerset and Winchester, Dec. 5; Hickman, Dec. 8, and Benton, Elizabethtown, Elkton, La Center and Nicholasville, Dec. 12.

Oh, Kentucky

Is Hopkins County out of coal?

How would the president's budget proposal impact Appalachia?

Paducah's downtown hotel has hit a snag. 

London fire destroys Weaver’s, Bob’s Ready to Wear http://t.co/R7sdAYEYtN pic.twitter.com/MSKR16zylo
— The Times-Tribune (@TimesTribuneKY) February 3, 2015

The unemployment rate is down.

So's "serious crime" in Madisonville.

The autobiography of a Logan County journalist who became "the first reporter to query President Eisenhower on civil rights" is being re-released.

Per "the magic of the bookmobile" in Warren County.

Seven more shopping days until Arts Day in Kentucky.

The Christmas parades in Bremen and Central City went fine.

Oh, Kentucky

And you've got to figure there was a considerable amount of split vote among 2, 3 and 4.

A ladder, a lasso and an ax – and a lot of patience – were used to rescue a horse from a frozen pond Jan. 7. ... Several agencies were out in force on one of the coldest nights in several years as they combed the Maxine area for two missing teenagers. ... Hodgenville Mayor Terry L. Cruse and City Clerk MaDonna Hornback pleaded not guilty at their arraignment Tuesday in LaRue Circuit Court. ... The LaRue County Herald News firewall certainly gets one's imagination off the couch and jogging (also, kudos to Linda Ireland for some compelling news-lede writing).

It was not BaU at the ol' Jackson County fiscal-court meeting yesterday. 

The Barkley Regional Airport manager, via Bill Hughes writes at WestKentuckyStar.com, looks at the impact of airline deregulation on Paducah.

Some interesting insights here into the state's historical-marker program.

But if the HP doesn't get into the whole historical-marker advocacy game, maybe we ought to look into sponsoring concession stands.

"Arts Day in Kentucky fosters discussions among the Commonwealth's arts leaders about the state of the arts industry in Kentucky."

Picture from our viewer Michelle Warren of the fire at Moonlite. The fire is out @ restaurant will be OPEN today. pic.twitter.com/chKvwaSAz5
— Beth Sweeney (@Beth14News) January 15, 2014

Rest in peace, Mrs. Cluck, co-owner of the ahead-of-its-time Cluck's Grocery of Dawson Springs.

Oh, Kentucky

Iced bowls?

#TwinSpires to glow orange, white in support of football title bid by neighboring DeSales High http://t.co/jMca3Ykwyi pic.twitter.com/JOOzaX5vx7
— Churchill Downs (@ChurchillDowns) December 4, 2013

If I was a student in the Mayfield schools, I would be so appreciative of the high-school football team.

Plaque time for the WJHS Colts statisticians!

Les Johns of the Kentucky New Era delivers a compelling Q&A with Matt Jones of Kentucky Sports Radio.

Good jobs news from Bowling Green and Wickliffe.

Christmas parades: Bardstown, today; Elkton, Lebanon and Maysville, Dec. 6; Beaver Dam/Hartford, Bradfordville, Clinton, Columbia, Greenville (themed), Henderson, Hopkinsville, Lawrenceburg, Madisonville (marshaled), Marion, Middlesboro, Murray, Paducah, Princeton, Shelbyville and Somerset, Dec. 7; Evarts and Owenton, Dec. 8; Nortonville (canceled), not Dec. 8; Clay (rescheduled), Dec. 13; Benton, Cave City, La Center and Stamping Ground, Dec. 14, and Central City, Dec. 15. 

Oh, Kentucky

Olympics update! "I grew up just like you. I worked on the farm. I rode the bus to school. I went to the old elementary school and the old high school. I played football against Carroll County and Trimble County."

Piecing together the story of Mrs. Davis and "Elizabeth" around Finchville, Clayvillage and Shelbyville.

How the terrorists got to Bowling Green.

4 tornadoes confirmed from long-track supercell that devastated Brookport, IL and includes three EF3 tracks. Map: pic.twitter.com/ONQToDNNGd
— WPSD Weather (@WPSDWeather) November 20, 2013

Stanford's Christmas-tree lighting is Friday night. Simpsonville is already twinkling.

Christmas parades: Hazard and Owensboro (new route announced), Nov. 23; Ashland, Nov. 26; Lebanon and Loretto, Nov. 29; Inez, Nov. 30; Nortonville, Dec. 1; Glasgow, Dec. 5, 1960; Elkton, Lebanon and Maysville, Dec. 6; Bradfordville, Columbia, Lawrenceburg, Marion, Middlesboro, Paducah, Shelbyville and Somerset, Dec. 7; Evarts, Dec. 8, and Stamping Ground, Dec. 14.

Rest in peace, Mrs. Lafoon. "Why can't we all be happy and content as she"?

Oh, Kentucky

Good jobs news from Louisville and Owingsville.

I wonder what John Herndon has to say beyond the paywall.

About the wind turbines in Fleming and Mason counties, ...

About Obamacare in Lebanon, ...

An array of U.S. 60 activities: More green on Main in Marion, Monarch Butterfly Migration Mysteries in Henderson, Monroe Style Mandolin Camp in Owensboro and the Long Run Massacre & Floyd's Defeat Re-enactment in Shelbyville.

Loyall wants a fire truck.

Owen County led Kentucky in deer kills in 2012.

Shingles sounds awful, and here's hoping the owner of the former Lynn's Paradise Cafe is feeling better and better each day.

A former Spice Girl favors Pineville's Jimmy Rose for tonight's America's Got Talent title.

Oh, Kentucky

"N-NUKE"--2008 and 2010 OVC men's golf medalist and older brother of 2012 OVC medalist (and last summer's HP amateur-golfing fascination) "P-NUKE"--has a new gig.

Wine County.

Good jobs news from Owensboro (looking good!).

Oh, God. Booked in Covington.

"Goose(d)" in Owenton!

Good for "The Kaintuckeean," ready to rock Winchester.

Yours N Ours in Clementsville is uniquely hers.

Hazel Green Academy might, indeed, be "Gone With the Wind," but Tom Eblen hasn't forgotten.

#AlbumReviews: two by Macho Mic of Madisonville.

States of the commonwealth: Exports impressively up, support for the death penalty allegedly down, corn and soybeans booming, telemedicine coming and Ale-8-One approaching a bottle crisis.

Is Dixon's long municipal nightmare only beginning?

Oh, Kentucky

KHSAA football season starts just four Fridays from tonight. They're scrimmaging at Mason County and Perry County Central, mulling helmet colors in Middlesboro and voting to stay the course at 56.2 percent of 210 of Kentucky's 220 football-playing schools.

Kenny Perry is probably back home in Kentucky studying up on how his old Lone Oak boys are blending in with the McCracken County Mustangs, who open Saturday, Aug. 24, against the Paducah Tilghman Blue Tornado. But Saint Mary's doesn't play football, so Paducah's Russ Cochran is over in England--he played the first round of the Senior British Open Thursday in 1-over, currently tied for 20th and five strokes off the lead.

Back to school in West Paducah.

"(W)e should not have to tear down every vestige of that past to make room for progress;" that said, Owen County paved an old house that was built by a Christian County emigree in 1870 and passed on to his colonel son so that it could put up a new Dollar General.

Comments about Miscellaneous Ramblings from a Paducah City Commissioner.

Looks like Maiden Alley made it!

Surely, Jennifer Lawrence isn't actually calling her mother, "mum," right? Surely, that was just how the Kiwis at NZCity.co.nz heard it but not how Jennifer Lawrence said it ..., right?  

The UMC women's Mission U at LWC.

In Kentucky, unemployment is highest in Magoffin County and lowest in Woodford. And, by the way, there are no more "unemployment offices" in Kentucky.

Good jobs news from Lexington, Louisville, Owensboro, Winchester and (more from) Versailles.

Getting a first look at the new KFC Eleven restaurant on Baxter. No giant buckets here! More at 4 and 6 on @WHAS11 pic.twitter.com/pRHIZrMSLo
— Michelle Arnold (@WHAS11Michelle) July 25, 2013

Rest in peace, Mr. Kelly, a Bostonian who didn't initially know much about horses but moved to Lexington and helped bring the 2010 World Equestrian Games there.

Rock on, Mr. Sanchez-Blazquez, a 112-year-old Spaniard who came to the United States via Cuba and through Ellis Island and then worked for years in the coal mines at Lynch.

Oh, Kentucky

Rest in peace, Mr. Thomason, Korean War vet, frequent nursing-home visitor, Disneyworld grandchildren chaperone and provider of air conditioning to those in need.

Of Obamacare, per Paducah and Owensboro.

The U.S. Post Office in Buffalo is closing, but I'll bet it's not why you think.

Bullying just stinks.

From the county-fair beat: It's a (happy) wrap in Owen County.

Congratulations to Sims Dairy Queen of Flemingsburg!

CELEBRATING 60 years in business. July 4th. We want to say a BIG THANK YOU to all of our customers and look forward to another 60 years!!
— Sims DQ (@SimsDQ) July 4, 2013

Adair County High School's baseball coach was sorry for something he did at a Little League game in May, and some people are upset that he apparently lost his job Tuesday over the matter, and some people think whatever it was he did was bad enough that it could not be tolerated.

TUCFRC.

"Take On Me" by A-ha is (so far) this year's 182nd-most-requested song for Wedding Bells DJ Entertainment, for whom the Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce threw a ribbon-cutting last week. Without checking this link of the full top 200, can you guess No. 1?

Oh, Kentucky

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

Oh, Kentucky

The Pirates (but not our Pirates) are on their way to Bowling Green today for the football state championships. The Belfry Middle School principal Tweeted out a picture of a sendoff his school hosted for the high-school team before they got on the long road. (Belfry won the state middle-school football title this season.)

It's high-school basketball season, too.

Walmart is on the move in Madisonville. Honestly, this is huge, huge local news.

Good jobs news from Benton.

The mayor of Tom T. Hall's Olive Hill has resigned, and I imagine we'll be hearing a lot more about this story.

Saving the Alexander and Alice in Leitchfield?

Christmas parades: Murray, Dec. 1, and Owenton, Dec. 2.

Oh, Kentucky

No media outlet in the world had a more compelling headline in the last 24 hours than The Anderson News put on this story yesterday.

Actually, this one's a grabber, too, given the audience.

Oakland's post office is a keeper.

The Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, again, looks like a goner.

Owen County's new library is open.

Middlesboro's old Little League team is remembered.

West Point remains evacuated.

Bad jobs news from Elizabethtown.

Rest in peace, Mrs. Sparkman, Knott County native, Hazard radio magnate and Perry County senior-citizens advocate.