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Catching up from the long weekend ...

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; Barbourville, Berea, Bowling Green, Brownsville, Cadiz, Calvert City, 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.

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Henderson reconsiders LGBTQ rights and fairness 20 years later. Chris Kenning with The Courier-Journal visits in advance of Tuesday's vote.

Hiring in Salem (for CNAs for all shifts and with a $1,500 signing bonus), Dixon (for Webster County High archery, cheer, golf and soccer coaches) and throughout the state (for career, elementary, special and technical education, among others).

"A quirky history podcast produced right here in Kentucky," The Past and The Curious, is getting a lot of love.

Thanks, Feds, for not shutting donw Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers in Edmonson, McCreary and Menifee counties.

Happy 50th, Louisville Zoo.

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Christmas17 at the courthouse:

Downtown Smithland, 1935:

"Let's Go Crazy" in Grand Rivers:

Revved up in Salem:

The Tiline Mafia:

Three hundred seconds over Carrsville:

Touchdown in Burna:

Overflow in Birdsville:

Waterfall in Joy:

Rest in peace, Ledbetter Bridge (1931-2014):

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Christmas parades: Irvington and Owensboro, Nov. 18; Ashland, Nov. 21; Lebanon, Nov. 24; Brownsville and Danville, Nov. 25; Greenup, Nov. 28; Cumberland, London, Monticello and Richmond, Dec. 1; Arlington, Barbourville, Beaver Dam, Bowling Green ("traffic impacts are expected"), Cadiz (no promises, but the HP's Kentucky desk may have a live remote from there), Corbin (they're making cards for soldiers), Fordsville, Georgetown, Harlan, Hartford, Henderson (after the 10 a.m. parade, Santa's having an open house in the park), Lawrenceburg, Madisonville, Marion, Munfordville, Murray, Paducah, Somerset 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, Hopkinsville, Paintsville and Salem, Dec. 9, and La Center and Oak Grove, Dec. 16.

Kentucky agriculture is having a better year.

Madisonville is vying to land a training center for helicopter pilots for its airport (really in Anton).

Good jobs news from Jtown.

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Rest in peace, Army Sgt. William Bays, 29-year-old Californian transplanted to Todd County, husband and father of three daughters.

Back to West Paducah.

Mr. Basketball 1986.

Kentuckian of the year:

We are losing the fight against police brutality in America. Period. https://t.co/695glBI0eV

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) June 22, 2017

Every day, the news is chock-full of the saddest and most desperate, pregnant opening scenes of movies, and about the only way I can bring myself to keep looking at them is to imagine the happiest, most unlikely endings.

Four thousand twenty-five homeless people in Kentucky.

The state is seeking to enlarge its diversity of adoptive families.

Two minutes and forty seconds each Aug. 21 in Allensville, Dycusburg, Fairview, Hopkinsville, Princeton and Salem ...

Tonight in Hoptown: "Mr. Eclipse."

Archaeology day camps for kids 9-11 start tomorrow at Wickliffe Mounds State Historic Site.

Good jobs news from Paducah.

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is coming to Etown!

Mall ready for Friday Night Thunder https://t.co/rrq0WKIqoO #somky pic.twitter.com/4VOy8DjWzn

— Somerset Kentucky (@Somerset_KY) June 22, 2017

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Long lines at Red's Donuts in Paducah for #NationalDonutDay! They are handing out glazed donuts and coffee while supplies last!#WPSD pic.twitter.com/K0oQFT2M7P

— WPSD Local 6 (@WPSDLocal6) June 2, 2017

Gov. Bevin goes to West Louisville. (The West Louisville Ministers Coalition greets him.)

Some Florida high-school kids have launched a program to help counterparts such as in Fayette County eat better than a cold cheese sandwich for lunch.

The Student Press Law Center is "proud to support the freedom-of-information work of Herald journalists through the College Heights Herald Fund."

Indivisible Kentucky "will be marching with two related messages for Trump: we need truth in democracy and truth in science."

They saved the dog (in Salem)!

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Christmas parades: Owensboro, Nov. 19; Ashland, Nov. 22; Lebanon (are you missing your glasses?), Nov. 25; ...

... Brownsville and Sebree, Nov. 26; Bardstown and Tompkinsville, Dec. 1; Lawrenceburg, ...

... London, Louisa, ... 

Maysville, Monticello ...

... and Richmond, Dec. 2; Arlington, Beaver Dam/Hartford (Jones Septic edges the library and Soggy Dawg Pet Grooming), Beaver Dam/Hartford, Berea, Bowling Green, ...

#BGChristmasParade2016 finale pic.twitter.com/VWQtKbn7sf

— BG Christmas Parade (@BGParade) December 3, 2016

... Cadiz, Calvert City, Clinton, Columbia, Corbin, Flatwoods, Frankfort, Franklin, ...

... Glasgow, Grayson, Greenville, ...

... Guthrie, Harlan, Henderson, Horse Cave, Leitchfield, ...

... Madisonville, Manchester, Marion, Morgantown, Munfordville, Murray, Paducah, ...

... Paintsville, Paris, Richardsville, Salyersville, ...

... Somerset, Scottsville and Winchester, Dec. 3; Boyce, Nortonville, Owenton and Schochoh, Dec. 4; Hickman and Lexington, Dec. 6; Augusta, Benton, Burnside, Cave City, Crofton, Edmonton, Elizabethtown ("a reading of 'The Night Before Christmas' with Mayor Edna Berger and the official lighting of downtown will follow," reports Anna Taylor in The News-Enterprise), Elkton, Hopkinsville, La Center, Livermore, Nicholasville, Pikeville, Princeton, Quality, Salem (U.S. 60 travelers in Livingston County should plan accordingly) and Williamsburg, Dec. 10, and Auburn, Dec. 11.

Logan County has a new pet resort.

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Good morning MCHS!!! Let's get it started! #TheTraditionBegins #GoMcCracken pic.twitter.com/4yGpESmLmt
— GoMcCracken (@GoMcCracken) August 9, 2013

The 5th District Tournament in 1975

Continuing our look at 1975, here was how the Fifth District Tournament played out that year: 

Trigg Co. 68, Livingston Central 44 

Crittenden Co. 74, Lyon Co. 65 

Trigg Co. 82, Caldwell Co. 69 

Trigg Co. 92, Crittenden Co. 57 

By the way, the last school merger in this part of the Commonwealth took place at the beginning of the 1972-73 season, when the Fredonia Yellowjackets merged into Caldwell County. 

Other facts about this district: 

Princeton Dotson, the school for African-Americans in Princeton, merged with Caldwell County at the beginning of the 1963-64 school year. 

During the 1957-58 season, Salem High School merged with Livingston County to form Livingston Central. 

Before the 1957-58 school year, Marion High School merged with Crittenden County High School. 

Before the 1950-51 school year, Shady Grove H.S., Tolu H.S., Mattoon H.S., and Frances H.S. merged to form Crittenden County High School. 

In its last year of existence (1950), Frances High School won the Sixth District Tournament with big wins over Mattoon (75-29), Marion (75-30), and Livingston County (59-38). In the 2d Region tournament, Frances beat Lyon County 59-55 to reach the semi-finals. But in the semi-final, Frances lost to Guthrie 47-45 in its final game. Frances ended the year with a record of 32-4. 

Before the 1947-48 school year, Kuttawa High School and Eddyville High School merged to form Lyon Co.

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A romance 62 years in the making, three years in duration and remembered 27 years later.

Good jobs news from Somerset, bad from Barbourville. Rumors of good from near Fulton County. Optimism from Ballard. Making do in Livingston and Hopkins.

Meanwhile, I am happy to report that Dippin' Dots was soldiering on bravely, for sale at the Garrison Keillor show in Murray on Saturday.

The president of the opening-soon Juicy’s Sports Bar and Grill on Bowling Green's Park Row "had been considering a more titillating name for the business, but changed it after hearing objections from other downtown business owners and residents." Hmmm ...?

The KHSAA soccer championships were decided over the weekend: Louisville Saint Xavier beat Union Larry A. Ryle, 3-0, in the boys' final; Park Hills Notre Dame beat Louisville Sacred Heart, 2-0, for the girls' crown. Previously this fall, we've identified the state's best boy and girl golfers, and, back on Oct. 29, Louisville Assumption completed a 42-1 season in volleyball with a 25-13, 25-18 championship victory over Bowling Green Greenwood. The next KHSAA championships on the docket are the Nov. 12 cross-country races (boys and girls in three classes) in Lexington.

One of the more interesting local races in tomorrow's elections figures to be Lynch mayor.

As goes the hellbender, ...

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Barbourville, too, claims this guy.

Good jobs news from Louisville, Murray and Providence.

Did I ever tell you about the time I guessed the Wheel of Fortune puzzle "DONNY AND MARIE" without any letters overturned? It was awesome.

There are spills, and there are spills.

Good for George Wilson.

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A lot of Kentuckians will be able to much more quickly access The Heath Post soon.

Few University of Kentucky football coaches took the job with seemingly as good of chances for success as has Joker Phillips. Check out Page 2 of Brett Dawson's story.

Speaking of Phillips, who quarterbacked the Wildcats to two Class 3A state championships, it appears that he and Kenny Perry might not have overlapped at Franklin-Simpson High School. They are within three years of age of each other, but Perry wasn't at F-S long before his family moved to Paducah.

Before heading out with his team for three exhibitions in Canada later this month (the first of which is already sold out), University of Kentucky men's basketball coach John Calipari was in Maysville looking for the next Darius Miller.

A new book looks back on Louisville's baseball history.