Oh, Kentucky

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— Kentucky New Era (@KentuckyNewEra) May 9, 2018

 

It's always interesting to see when Sen. McConnell chooses to be clear and when he chooses to be not clear. The number of words (4 vs. 134 in this case) is a pretty dependable tell.

A robo cop (not Robo Cop) appears to be coming to Madisonville.

Maker's Mark plans an expansion near Raywick, reports Stevie Lowery in The Lebanon Enterprise.

They're growing tennis players at Springfield's Idle Hours Park, writes Zack Penalva in The Springfield Sun.

Metcalfe County is raising its birds-per-barn ribbon by about 7 percent to better align with trends in today's poultry industry, Gina Kinslow details in the Glasgow Daily Times.

Angela Turner in Corbin's Times-Tribune: "(I)f you buy a bushel of tomatoes or a mound of cucumbers at the Whitley County Farmers’ Market, you just might be buying them from a hometown hero."

Jeff Neal and Janie Slaven deliver an interesting report on a mistake and correction around a burial at Pulaski County's Science Hill Cemetery, and the Somerset Commonwealth Journal article thoroughly answers a question I had never thought to ask: What happens to a person with no money or identifiable next of kin when he or she dies?

Rest in peace, Alvin Luther Randlett, 32-year janitor at Covington's Sixth Street Elementary School and $175,000 giver to the state Child Victims Trust Fund.