Showing posts with label Shelbyville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shelbyville. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Oh, Kentucky
Bad jobs news from Shelbyville. Here was the best of the good from last year.
OK, now that the Christmas19 hustle and bustle are behind us, it's time to take it easy. For example, it's a perfect time to start thinking about your 2020 vacations, because this year's visitor's guide is out!
Per Angela Turner's reporting in the local Times-Tribune, there are at least three good reasons that Corbin is excited about its upcoming third World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) event in the last three years: One, the 2018 bash broke attendance records for The Corbin Arena; two, some wrestling fans reportedly say the scheduled card is more appealing than what Rupp Arena gets for Monday Night Raw, and, three, there's the building's improved sound quality.
Living in these troubled times demands creativity sometimes, and Marshall County got some, and now it has a Caring Community Center. Good play by play from Channel 6's Chris Yu.
Ready for the times to get better? Well, Danville's Advocate-Messenger says Kentucky's waiving testing fees for the General Education Diploma (GED) portends positively: "If just 50 more people earn their GEDs over the next two years as a result of this change, that could mean $420,000 more in annual income for some of Boyle County’s poorest residents."
Hallelujah, these people seem to love Burnside so! Christopher Harris on Somerset's Commonwealth Journal has a happy, fun story from the first city council meeting of the new year.
It's like we never said goodbye to Michael Scott and all of the gang. The Office! is coming to The Kentucky Center.
OK, now that the Christmas19 hustle and bustle are behind us, it's time to take it easy. For example, it's a perfect time to start thinking about your 2020 vacations, because this year's visitor's guide is out!
Per Angela Turner's reporting in the local Times-Tribune, there are at least three good reasons that Corbin is excited about its upcoming third World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) event in the last three years: One, the 2018 bash broke attendance records for The Corbin Arena; two, some wrestling fans reportedly say the scheduled card is more appealing than what Rupp Arena gets for Monday Night Raw, and, three, there's the building's improved sound quality.
Living in these troubled times demands creativity sometimes, and Marshall County got some, and now it has a Caring Community Center. Good play by play from Channel 6's Chris Yu.
Ready for the times to get better? Well, Danville's Advocate-Messenger says Kentucky's waiving testing fees for the General Education Diploma (GED) portends positively: "If just 50 more people earn their GEDs over the next two years as a result of this change, that could mean $420,000 more in annual income for some of Boyle County’s poorest residents."
Hallelujah, these people seem to love Burnside so! Christopher Harris on Somerset's Commonwealth Journal has a happy, fun story from the first city council meeting of the new year.
It's like we never said goodbye to Michael Scott and all of the gang. The Office! is coming to The Kentucky Center.
Friday, December 13, 2019
Oh, Kentucky
And congratulations to Russell County Public Library Director Lindsey Westerfield. It's a bear to get a new public library open, and the director bears the bulk of the burden.
Speaking of "The Best Town on Earth," filing deadline for the city council is Jan. 10, and no one has filed for any of the six seats.
In nine of Kentucky's 120 counties, more registered voters did vote than did not in last month's gubernatorial election: Anderson, Franklin, Graves, Hancock, McLean, Metcalfe, Shelby, Washington and Woodford. And turnout was higher than in more than two decades. Very interesting report from Perry Bacon Jr. and Josh Poe in Louisville's LEO Weekly.
President Trump's nominee for the alternate to the U.S. ambassador to the UN (a Kentuckian) is a Kentuckian.
I love me some minimally-invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), and I'm thrilled to read that it's now being offered at Baptist Health Paducah (in addition to at UK HealthCare).
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; Clay, Fredonia, Harrodsburg, Hopkinsville, Irvine/Ravenna, London, Maysville, Monticello, Pineville, Richmond, Smiths Grove, Stanton and Trenton, Dec. 6; Arlington, Barbourville, Beattyville, Berea, Bloomfield, Bowling Green, romley/Ludlow, Brownsville, Cadiz, Calvert City, Carlisle, Clinton, Columbia, Corbin, Cynthiana, Danville, Frankfort, Glasgow, Grayson, Greenville, Hawesville, Henderson, Horse Cave, Inez, Lawrenceburg, Leitchfield, Lexington, Madisonville, Marion, Middlesboro, Morgantown, Munfordville, Murray, Owingsville, Paducah, Prestonsburg, Rabbit Hash, Raceland, Russell Springs, Salyersville, Scottsville, Shelbyville, Somerset, Trenton, Versailles, Whitley City and Winchester, Dec. 7; Auburn, Georgetown and New Haven, Dec. 8; Augusta, Burkesville, Burnside, Campbellsville, Cave City, Elkton, Franklin, Louisa, Mayfield, Providence, Williamsburg and Woodburn, Dec. 14, and Tollesboro, Dec. 15.
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Oh, Kentucky
On the Babies 'R Us transformation in Florence.
On the Patti's comeback in Grand Rivers.
On the Christmas-decor redo debut in Columbia.
Fiber to the (Princeton) home.
Good jobs news from Berea, Erlanger, Hopkinsville and Maysville. Bad from Ashland and Shelbyville. False hope in Inez.
Turning to sports, Franklin County High's Benny Watkins Field will be under scrutiny Friday night; Martha Layne Collins High celebrates its first Division I hoops signees, and Season 4 for the SoKY Ice Rink is afoot.
Christmas parades: Sharpsburg, Nov. 9; Owensboro, Nov. 23; Boyce, Dawson Springs and Murray, Dec. 1; Bardstown, Dec. 5; Harrodsburg, Hopkinsville and Monticello, Dec. 6; Berea, Bowling Green, Calvert City, Danville, Frankfort, Glasgow, Henderson, Lawrenceburg, Lexington, Madisonville, Paducah, Scottsville, Shelbyville, Trenton, Versailles and Whitley City, Dec. 7; Georgetown, Dec. 8; Cave City, Dec. 10, and Burnside, Elkton and Williamsburg, Dec. 14.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Oh, Kentucky
Hey, look, Kentucky made Drudge:
Christmas parades: Sharpsburg, Nov. 9; Boyce, Dawson Springs and Murray, Dec. 1; Bardstown, Dec. 5; Harrodsburg, Hopkinsville and Monticello, Dec. 6; Berea, Bowling Green, Danville, Frankfort, Glasgow, Henderson, Madisonville, Paducah, Scottsville, Shelbyville, Trenton and Whitley City, Dec. 7, and Cave City, Dec. 10.
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Oh, Kentucky
Update from Madisonville: Ferrell's Snappy Service is on track to be back by Flag Day!
Update from Paducah: SRO at the city commission, and 4-1 in favor of an amended fairness ordinance.
Update from Betsy Layne:
Closing of Boyle County's largest child-care provider has spurred a long, hard look at the problem, its ramifications and possible solutions among community members in and around Danville. Solid meeting coverage from Robin Hart in The-Advocate Messenger.
Thanks, Feds, for the dough to train aviation maintenance technicians at and around EKU.
The first signee to John Prine's Oh Boy Records in 15 years is from Monkey's Eyebrow.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Oh, Kentucky
About HB46, the effort to "Amend KRS 158.195 to require each public elementary and secondary school to display the national motto in a prominent location in the school." It received first reading in Kentucky's senate yesterday.
Good jobs news from Pike County (involving solar panels, a TEDx event and a Democrat running for governor).
Fourth "sickout" in two weeks for Jefferson County schools.
Who was your favorite teacher, in Henderson County?
Turning to sports, ...
Happy 50th, KFC in Middlesboro!
Thursday, January 3, 2019
Oh, Kentucky
Thomas Barr in The Pioneer Press delivers the down low on Hillview's thinking and plans on holidays and city-meeting scheduling.
Newport Wash & Tan will only wash (and not tan) in the old Bob Evans, Fort Thomas Matters reports.
Per Etown's News Enterprise, Louisville's Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Kitchen chain is extending south.
Hiring at Murray State.
Fran Tarkenton is coming (virtually) to Hopkins County Regional Chamber of Commerce, and maybe I'll ask him if he's getting excited about the HP's planned coverage of NFL73!
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Oh, Kentucky
Christmas parades: Owensboro (more than 20k expected), Nov. 17; Ashland (grandly marshaled by the voice of the Reds), Nov. 20; Berea, Bowling Green, Cadiz, Lawrenceburg (indeed, featuring the New Jersey woman credited with helping prevent school shootings in Anderson and Shelby counties), Madisonville and Paducah, Dec. 1; Dawson Springs, Dec. 2; Richmond, Dec. 7; Hopkinsville, Dec. 8, La Center, Dec. 15.
Country Loving hails Bardstown as one of the nation's best 30 small towns for Christmas.
American Pickers falls for Big City of Madisonville.
"Unnecessary and extremely unfair." The Lebanon Enterprise takes on the grinches on the local Property Maintenance Code Enforcement Board.
In Russellville, "you will think you are on vacation in Florida." Neat story on a "ground blessing" for a forthcoming local hotel by Chris Cooper in the News-Democrat & Leader.
The last link of the once-13-stores-strong Food Fair of Somerset chain is apparently finished, reports Janie Slaven in the Commonwealth Journal.
Kentucky’s longest wooden covered bridge (in Washington County) is back!
Good jobs news from Russellville and Wilder.
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Oh, Kentucky
A "sprayground" and Cattleman's Roadhouse are coming to Oldham County--but neither until next year, reports The Oldham Era, so pipe down.
The headlines on The Kentucky Standard opinion page should make for some lively conversations around Bardstown this week: "I'll explain why you don't need a Straight Pride Parade," "Don't use the Bible, religion to defend prejudices ..."
The end for a house built in Paris by a Revolutionary War officer the year before Kentucky became a state?
A reprieve for the Cave In Rock Ferry.
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Oh, Kentucky
Here's how Kentucky newspapers played last week's eclipse, which was amazing.
Paducah has a new Dairy Queen.
Marcella's Kitchen, which serves hot meals to folks in need, is moving across Marshall County and doubling its capacity.
Shoney's reopens https://t.co/eOhX7243nt pic.twitter.com/oKo366GuHw— WHOP AM/FM (@WHOPradio) August 28, 2017
Paducah has a new Dairy Queen.
Marcella's Kitchen, which serves hot meals to folks in need, is moving across Marshall County and doubling its capacity.
Monday, July 31, 2017
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Oh, Kentucky
The Kentucky desk is opening a downtown-Madisonville branch.
It has been a rough time for newspapers, and there has been some really innovative stuff that has come out of this period. Good luck to the Danville Advocate-Messenger with its "Bluegrass Portraits" undertaking.
Why has the Pulaski County Public Library been so lively for the last 20 years? "None of the librarians ever said my name. It was a very quiet library. I was determined then and there that if any child came into the library, nobody would going without, 'Hi, I’m glad you’re here.' It would be a loud place, a place where bicycles are ridden and trains. Normal behavior."
Kentucky for sale ("The Legend Lives On"):
Learn to glean Lexington.
You can now just pick up your groceries at the Henderson Walmart.
Bellevue's Waffle House plans are pending some Kroger developments.
Meanwhile, in Casey County, a Vanceburg native has reopened Penny's Place as a general store, and Rusty Joe's of Liberty is taking its boutique game on the road.
With the lifeguards headed back to school, Carter Caves State Resort Park is tweaking its pool schedule next month.
Hiring at Levi Jackson and in Leitchfield.
The state has announced a slew of apprenticeships in recent weeks--in moving and rigging, nursing, welding and "computer numerical control."
Honoring the "Cold-War Patriots" of West Paducah.
Rest in peace, Dale McMillen, whose "descriptions of 9th Region basketball games were inimitable, his enthusiasm for Northern Kentucky hoops melodiously flowing over the airwaves with every basket, rebound, and blocked shot."
It has been a rough time for newspapers, and there has been some really innovative stuff that has come out of this period. Good luck to the Danville Advocate-Messenger with its "Bluegrass Portraits" undertaking.
Why has the Pulaski County Public Library been so lively for the last 20 years? "None of the librarians ever said my name. It was a very quiet library. I was determined then and there that if any child came into the library, nobody would going without, 'Hi, I’m glad you’re here.' It would be a loud place, a place where bicycles are ridden and trains. Normal behavior."
Kentucky for sale ("The Legend Lives On"):
Learn to glean Lexington.
You can now just pick up your groceries at the Henderson Walmart.
Bellevue's Waffle House plans are pending some Kroger developments.
Meanwhile, in Casey County, a Vanceburg native has reopened Penny's Place as a general store, and Rusty Joe's of Liberty is taking its boutique game on the road.
With the lifeguards headed back to school, Carter Caves State Resort Park is tweaking its pool schedule next month.
Hiring at Levi Jackson and in Leitchfield.
The state has announced a slew of apprenticeships in recent weeks--in moving and rigging, nursing, welding and "computer numerical control."
Honoring the "Cold-War Patriots" of West Paducah.
Rest in peace, Dale McMillen, whose "descriptions of 9th Region basketball games were inimitable, his enthusiasm for Northern Kentucky hoops melodiously flowing over the airwaves with every basket, rebound, and blocked shot."
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Oh, Kentucky
I'm with Ray Wilson ...
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.
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.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Oh, Kentucky
https://t.co/QNmYNGUGmk Kentucky Classic Orchestra held their Spring Concert this past week at Angelic Hall in Lebanon. Part two of two.— CentralKentuckyTV (@Channel6TV) May 17, 2017
Valarie Honeycutt Spears in the Lexington Herald-Leader surveys the policy landscape for public-school "lunch shaming" in central Kentucky.
Congratulations to Gov. Bevin's old Shelbyville friend for landing a $250,000-a-year, state-government gig to lead workforce development in the state. His old company, Shelby Industries, closed in October, citing foreign competition.
Toyota is kicking in a bunch of money to help pay for K-12 and community-college programs intended to prepare students for advanced-manufacturing jobs.
"(T)here are only five communities in the state of Kentucky that have all-inclusive playgrounds, according to AccessiblePlayground.net. The closest of those is nearly an hour from the City of Madisonville, and even further for the surrounding areas we serve. As the hub of our six-county service area, we feel an obligation to meet the needs of all the children we serve. We envision an area where all children have equal opportunity to play, dream, learn to overcome challenges, exercise, and develop a love of the outdoors."
Kentucky Dam Village State Resort Park is hiring for a golf-course superintendent, and it pays between $29,000 and $39,000 a year for 37.5 hours of work a week.
Camp Kum-Ba-Ya Needs List 2017
This year KBY will host the Solar Eclipse August 19-21. This list contains things that we will use for both our summer events and the solar eclipse. Anything left from our summer use will then be used during the solar eclipse. If you want, we can make the purchases for you. Just note on memo line what item you want us to get. The items that have prices are from Sams'
Canteen…
Candy Bars:
Milky Way (36 - $20.68)
3 Musketeer (24 - $26.37)
M/M Plain (24 - $26.37)
Snickers (48 - $27.58)
Butterfinger (36 - $20.68)
Kit Kat (not snack size)
Reece Cups (not snack size)
Crackers, etc.:
Granola Bars (non chocolate)
Peanut Butter (40 - $6.88)
Sweet & Salty (30 - $7.98)
Bottled Water (5 cases)
Dr. Pepper (5-12 packs)
Sprite (5-12 packs)
Coke (5-12 packs)
Diet Coke (5-12 packs)
Hoptown girds for Little Free Libraries rollout.
Rest in peace, Mr. Schroeder, founder of Schroeder Publishing, publisher of best-selling One Thousand Fruit Jars with Current Value, founder of the American Quilters Society and The National Quilt Museum, dreamer of the flood-wall murals and husband of Meredith Carnahan Schroeder for 63 years. "His greatest love was for his family, hunting, fishing and Paducah."
Sunday, March 19, 2017
Kentucky High-school Boys' Basketball, Two Teams Left
2 p.m. Eastern today: Bowling Green Purples (36-2) vs. Union Cooper Jaguars (32-4)
1919 Lexington (Henry Clay)
1920 Lexington (Henry Clay)
1921 Louisville duPont Manual
1922 Lexington
1923 Louisville duPont Manual
1924 Lexington
1925 Louisville duPont Manual
1926 Louisville Saint Xavier
1927 Millersburg Military Institute
1928 Ashland (Blazer)
1929 West Paducah Heath!
1930 Corinth
1931 Louisville duPont Manual
1932 Hazard
1933 Ashland (Blazer)
1934 Ashland (Blazer)
1935 Louisville Saint Xavier
1936 Corbin
1937 Midway
1938 Sharpe
1939 Brooksville
78 years ago today, the Polar Bears won their first and only basketball state championship in 1939. pic.twitter.com/SGiY2xcymS— Polar Bears (@brackencounty) March 20, 2017
1941 Inez
Lester West, center, won a state championship with Inez in 1941, killed in action near Truk Island (Pacific Theater) on April 16, 1944. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/1ABQeS7oYq— Mountain Sports HOF (@MtnSportsHoF) March 30, 2017
1943 Hindman
1944 Harlan
1945 Louisville Male
1946 Breckinridge Training
1947 Marysville
70 years ago tonight, the Maysville Bulldogs beat Brewers 54-50 in the championship game of the 1947 state tournament pic.twitter.com/Ti4JwW8G87— Danny Weddle (@DannyEWeddle) March 23, 2017
1949 Owensboro
1950 Lexington Lafayette
1951 Clark County
1952 Cuba
1953 Lexington Lafayette
Opening game of the boys state tourney in Memorial Coliseum March 1953. 2017 @KHSAA Boys Sweet 16 opens today in Rupp Arena. pic.twitter.com/0RNNCh7dOt— KY Photo Archive (@KYPhotoArchive) March 15, 2017
What a headline from 1954!#MountainSportsHOF pic.twitter.com/v0BnDBjcFE— Mountain Sports HOF (@MtnSportsHoF) March 30, 2017
1956 Carr Creek
1957 Lexington Lafayette
1958 Louisville Saint Xavier
1959 Calvert City North Marshall
1961 Ashland (Blazer)
Ashland Tomcats bench erupts after quarter-final match with Seneca, 1961, Memorial Coliseum. 2017 @KHSAA semifinals tonight in Rupp Arena. pic.twitter.com/n4REOkEOeC— KY Photo Archive (@KYPhotoArchive) March 18, 2017
1963 Louisville Seneca
1963 @KHSAA Sweet 16 All Tourney team included Taylor Co.’s Clem Haskins, whose Cardinals play Ballard today at 1:30pm in Rupp Arena pic.twitter.com/6qIDZeClR8— KY Photo Archive (@KYPhotoArchive) March 16, 2017
1965 Breckinridge County
1966 Shelby County
1967 Earlington
50 years ago today Tyrone Hopson's rebound basket with :01 left gave Earlington a 54-53 win over CovCath in state finals in Freedom Hall. pic.twitter.com/mlYYiSr1lw— Mike Fields (@MikeFieldsKHSAA) March 18, 2017
Great Day Celetbrating the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 Earlington Yellowjackets State Championship! pic.twitter.com/2EYF3Xq02g— Jay Burgett (@MNHCoachBurgett) March 19, 2017
1969 Louisville Central
1970 Louisville Male
1971 Louisville Male
1972 Owensboro
1973 Louisville Shawnee
1974 Louisville Central
1975 Louisville Male
1976 Edmonson County
1977 Louisville Ballard
Sweet 16 program cover from 1977. Ballard, led by Jeff Lamp's 43 pts, beat Valley in finals in Freedom Hall. #MyReasonWhy pic.twitter.com/tWKsihRfsZ— Mike Fields (@MikeFieldsKHSAA) March 16, 2017
1979 Lexington Lafayette
Lafayette wins state title defeating Christian Co 62-52 in 1979. 2017 @KHSAA championship game this afternoon in Rupp Arena. pic.twitter.com/UCHm91ykTc— KY Photo Archive (@KYPhotoArchive) March 19, 2017
1981 Independence Simon Kenton
1982 Laurel County
Virgie’s Todd May in action, 1982 state tournament. May was named tourney MVP. Action continues today @KHSAA Sweet 16 in Rupp Arena pic.twitter.com/c8AeuzeW22— KY Photo Archive (@KYPhotoArchive) March 17, 2017
1984 Logan County
1985 Hopkinsville
1986 Pulaski County
1987 Clay County
1988 Louisville Ballard
1989 Louisville Pleasure Ridge Park
1990 Louisville Fairdale
1991 Louisville Fairdale
1992 Hopkinsville University Heights
1993 Marion County
1994 Louisville Fairdale 59
1995 Breckinridge County
1996 Paintsville
1997 Middletown Eastern
1998 Scott County
1999 Louisville Ballard
2000 Elizabethtown
2001 Lexington Lafayette
2002 Lexington Catholic 83
2003 Mason County
2004 Bowling Green Warren Central
2005 London South Laurel
2006 Jeffersontown
2007 Scott County
2008 Mason County
2009 Covington Holmes
2010 Pikeville Shelby Valley
2011 Christian County
2012 Louisville Trinity
2013 Richmond Madison Central
2014 Covington Catholic
2015 Owensboro
2016 Lexington Paul L. Dunbar
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Kentucky High-school Boys' Basketball, Four Teams Left
Semifinals! I'm for BG and Creek.
6:30 p.m. Eastern, Bowling Green Purples (35-2) vs. Taylor Mill Scott Eagles (24-12)
8 p.m., Union Cooper Jaguars (31-4) vs. Louisville Fern Creek Tigers (36-2)
6:30 p.m. Eastern, Bowling Green Purples (35-2) vs. Taylor Mill Scott Eagles (24-12)
8 p.m., Union Cooper Jaguars (31-4) vs. Louisville Fern Creek Tigers (36-2)
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