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Good jobs news from Benton, Covington, Frankfort, Grayson, Louisville and Woodburn.

Boom time for Kentucky's "724 registered resident architects as of mid-2017 and another 1,906 registered under reciprocal agreements," per Mark Green in The Lane Report.

Lebanon Junction is requiring its old mayor's house and converting the property to parking, and it sounds like everyone's happy, writes Stephanie Jessie in The Pioneer News.

Third-best-ever summer out of 12 for Tie Breaker Family Aquatic Center in Hoptown.

What's next for Trigg County Hospital?

"Now I have a city commission in Paducah, Kentucky, that says ‘You can’t carry that flag.'" Heck of a gripping meeting story by Pauline Fitzgerald and Justin Jones for Channel 6.

Christmas is coming to "America’s premier faith-based destination."

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Welcome to our newest Racers! The Parade of Racers and Blue and Gold celebration is underway! #GreatBeginnings pic.twitter.com/aQCNVZWXLn

— Murray State University (@murraystateuniv) August 13, 2018

 

Volunteers are erecting and equipping a shelter at the Kelly Elementary School playground where Burlington kids can access IEEE 802.11^™ "Wi-Fi^®."

Per an Answers in Genesis press release, new hotels are coming to northern Kentucky as their operators have noted attendance growth at Williamstown's Ark Encounter and Petersburg's Creation Museum attractions.

Teddy Bear Clinic comes to Carlisle County.

Good jobs news from Glasgow.

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It's really cold inside Louisville's jail.

It's even colder outside Barren County's.

"We say yes to everything," in Corbin.

Crime in Hoptown is down 23 percent since 2013, say the police.

If I'm understanding this correctly, there were 300 Kentuckians whose homes were foreclosed upon 2009-12 by a New Jersey-based company subsequently charged with a host of improprieties--"included, but were not limited to, failing to timely and accurately apply payments made by borrowers; charging unauthorized fees for default-related services; and failing to properly process borrowers’ applications for loan modifications." So Kentucky and a bunch of other states reached a settlement with the company, and those 300 Kentuckians who lost homes are getting payments of (thankfully) a minimum of $840 apiece.

A happy mystery is unfolding in downtown Tompkinsville.

Richmond is getting its own beer.

Dippin' Dots is taking its cryogenics game to the nutraceutical, pharmacy, agriculture, aquaculture and animal-feed industries.

James Patterson is huge in Boone County.

Good jobs news in Bardwell. Hiring in Owensboro.

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A little bit of Christmas magic brings a perfect tree to Fountain Square https://t.co/jMHzbObVSq #somky pic.twitter.com/MsksL6EIww

— Somerset Kentucky (@Somerset_KY) November 21, 2017

 

Christmas parades: Irvington and Owensboro, Nov. 18; Ashland, Nov. 21; Lebanon, Nov. 24; Danville, Nov. 25; Greenup, Nov. 28; Cumberland, London, Monticello and Richmond, Dec. 1; Barbourville, Beaver Dam, Fordsville, Georgetown, Harlan, Hartford, Henderson, Lawrenceburg, Madisonville, Murray, Somerset (when the tree will be lit) and Winchester, Dec. 2; Dawson Springs and Evarts, Dec. 3; Mount Sterling, Dec. 4; Lexington, Dec. 5; Bardstown, Dec. 7; Frankfort, Dec. 8; Augusta, Cave City, Elkton, Hanson and Hopkinsville, Dec. 9, and Oak Grove, Dec. 16.

Kentucky for sale (including Delbert Barker of Frenchburg and then Ohio):

"It's true you can't take the hills out of the boy" (including Charles Manson of Ohio and then Ashland and maybe Mousie, etc.)

Bobcats in Boone County? Not too much of a problem--but keep your house cats inside.

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The Twitter desk loves #TBT.

#TBT The 1970 Eaglettes #MuchMoreVintageSchoolSpirit pic.twitter.com/OP4gYYlLnr
— Morehead State (@moreheadstate) November 21, 2013

And you think four lanes on Main Street is bad! #tbt #ThrowBackThursday #DanvilleKY pic.twitter.com/w09gcbQSse
— Danville, KY Tourism (@danvilleky) November 21, 2013

#ThrowbackThursday: JFK spoke here in 1956. Friday at 1:30, chapel bells will ring on 50th anniversary of his passing pic.twitter.com/HzjjyqS7ju
— Bellarmine U (@bellarmineU) November 21, 2013

Y-E-S-W-E-C-A-N.

Jackson's old post office is being turned into apartments.

Good(will) jobs news from Bowling Green.

Here's a progress report on the planned Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame in Elizabethtown.

Christmas parades: Hazard and Owensboro, Nov. 23; Ashland, Nov. 26; Lebanon and Loretto, Nov. 29; Inez, Nov. 30; Nortonville, Dec. 1; Elkton, Lebanon and Maysville, Dec. 6; Beaver Dam/Hartford (really Hartford), Bradfordville, Columbia, Henderson, Lawrenceburg, Marion, Middlesboro, Paducah, Shelbyville and Somerset, Dec. 7; Evarts, Dec. 8, and Cave City and Stamping Ground, Dec. 14.

Also, "Unique Kentucky Attractions Provide Holiday Spirit."

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Prayers for SoKy.

TORNADO Warning for Allen and Simpson counties till 2:40 PM. This is along I-65 just south of Bowling Green. twitter.com/micahharriswx/…
— Micahharriswx (@micahharriswx) June 10, 2013

Kentucky's public-high-school graduation rate is booming.

"For my students, I just want to show them that the world is so much bigger than Louisville or wherever they live. ... I tell each and every one of them if you get a chance to travel, do it—go somewhere."

The "Ex-Pats of BBN" series at KentuckySportsRadio.com has elicited a fierce debate in the comments.

Paducah Bank Summer 2013 Internship Standings: T1, Murray State, 2; T1, WKU, 2; T3, UK, 1; T3, Ole Miss 1.

The Leitchfield Community Pool's victory lap is off to a successful start.

Good jobs news from Franklin.

Mills Furniture & Appliance, more than Surviving in Arjay since 1957. Central Flooring, rocking Central City since Friday. Park Mammoth Resort, feeling hopeful after this weekend's GLOCK Sport Shooting Foundation event in Edmonson County. Velotta's Fireworks, just north of the Blue Bridge at Owensboro, ...?

Last week in history, per Kaintuckeean.com.

Hey, cool, the person who wrote "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" is from Covington.

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Good jobs news from Georgetown. Great from Winchester.

Ford ramps up, too.

The Baptists retool.

Bell County passes.

"Downtown Louisville ... is well-positioned to continue to be the area’s and the state’s economic engine, officials said."

Western Kentucky tourism ascends.

H&S Charolais Farm near Caneyville reportedly has broken the record at the Mid-Kentucky Livestock Market in Upton, with the auction of a 1,480-pound cow for $1 per pound.

Here's the beef.

Among Kentucky's new "Ones:" Bardstown's Stephen Foster Story, Danville's Great American Dollhouse Museum, Horse Cave's Kentucky Down Under, Lexington's American Saddlebred Museum and Headley-Whitney Museum, Louisville's American Printing House for the Blind and KentuckyShow!, Lynch's Portal 31 Exhibition Mine, Petersburg's Creation Museum, the Pikeville Cut-Through Project and Winchester's Beer Cheese Festival and Ale-8-One.

The Middle Creek Clock invented by Thomas Zane Roberts includes a "Seth Thomas timepiece, a planetarium, a lunarium, and a dial showing the days of the week. ... The planetarium contains an abbreviated model of the solar system, built to scale, and shows the earth’s position relative to Jupiter, Mars and Venus. The orbit of each planet is precisely geared: while Venus gains one degree of arc in 1,656 days, Jupiter loses one degree of arc over 250 years."

Tougher tests.

A new library for New Haven.

Vine Grove, too?

But not Goshen.

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Twenty-five years.

“It’s a small town and you hear things said."

Bellarmine faces Minnesota State at 5 p.m. Central in today's NCAA Division II men's basketball semifinals. (So does West Liberty after the dude from Silver Grove scored 21 to lead the team to victory in the quarters yesterday.) The Knights' Scott Davenport coached Louisville Ballard to the 1988 KHSAA boys' basketball title.

Liz Taylor in Kentucky.

Kentucky en route to Newark.

"... His publicist, Melany Ethridge of A. Larry Ross Communications in Dallas, referred the Herald-Leader to Ham's Facebook page. ..."