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— App. News-Express (@AppalachianNews) July 2, 2019

Way to go. You missed Barbara Bailey Day in Lexington. It was yesterday.

As for tomorrow: "Happy Fourth of July from the Carlisle Mercury: Nicholas County’s oldest business, serving Fleming County since 1867. The Mercury has been a cornerstone of Nicholas County culture for 152 years and as a product of ‘a free press’ in a nation where inhabitants enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we are proud of the fact that we have operated as a product of The American Free Press longer than the Statue of Liberty has been standing on Ellis Island."

What do you like about The Trimble Banner? There could be four tickets to the Quaker State 400 in it for you.

Floyd County Chronicle: "Both these agencies are public bodies and the business they conduct is done 100 percent on behalf of taxpayers and ratepayers. It’s vital that those on whose behalf this business is being conducted be involved in and aware of what’s going on."

Chuck Witt in The Winchester Sun: "What is impeachment?"

PRNewswire: "Dippin' Dots Heats Up Summer with Launch of Social Media Dance Challenge."

Per U.S. News and World Report, 15 colleges and universities have more than one grad currently serving as chief executive officer of a Fortune 100 company. The University of Kentucky is one of them.

In Elkton, you've got until 10 Central tonight and then 8 a.m.-10 p.m. tomorrow, Friday and Saturday to shoot off your fireworks--but that's it, buddy. In Louisa, it's until midnight Eastern today and then 10 a.m.-midnight tomorrow, and you're done--well, unless you put in a permit 15 days ago, and it was approved.

Felix E. Martin Jr's 2008 gift to Muhlenberg County keeps giving to economic development, community development, education and youth services there.

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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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Not enough interested players causes cancellation of Trimble County High School football https://t.co/pin3fzhMJi pic.twitter.com/D1aYI8lpZ4

— WHAS11 News (@WHAS11) August 7, 2018

Meanwhile, fewest Greater Bullitt County Youth Football League teams in a decade, per The Pioneer News.

When I was at WKU in the late 1980s, there was a student a little older than me who, the story went, had paid for his college by ordering a sun-tanning bed out of a magazine, installing it in his parents' garage and opening the first service of its kind in his home Kentucky county. Then, in the early 1990s, when I was traveling around the state so much, I noticed how it seemed that even the littlest Kentucky town had a place where you could get a sun tan, a place where you could rent a movie and a place where you could get a pizza--and that sometimes you it was one place where you got all of those things ... a one-stop date shop. Then, in 1999, the Kueber brothers launched the Sun Tan City chain out of a video-rental store in Etown. And now, reports The News-Enterprise, that family has given what is "believed to be the largest single private donation to a public school district in state history" to fuel entrepreneurism in Meade County.

"If the U.S. inland waterways system has a hub, Paducah, Ky. is it."

There may or may not be Kentucky Minute reporting in the HP from the Hopkins County AARP Annual Banquet on Monday.

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Kentucky for sale (but not anymore--this dude was gone about five minutes after it posted yesterday, sold for $7):

Kentucky is not joining the constitutional-convention bandwagon (for now).

Georgetown is considering considering a fairness ordinance.

Henderson is going to take a long look at World War I.

Good jobs news from Hanson (thanks to expansion of one of the companies that sponsors the fantastic Bob Mays KHSAA-history site).

A bridge inspector and maintenance superintendent took a break from their Kentucky Transportation Cabinet duties last week to read to Staffordsville Head Start students.

"If you have to decide if you have enough gun on you for an event, perhaps you should rethink going to that event."

What up 41075. Your city is the safest in Kentucky. https://t.co/aGwPKY7Xe4 pic.twitter.com/QrqWdlSi4Z

— Fort Thomas Matters (@FtThomasMatters) March 6, 2017

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Congratulations and happy retirement, Mr. Vandevelde. And way to go, Paducah Bank break-room lunch crowd and Pizza Inn vice president of operations.

The Kentucky Historical Society is amid a re-org. I wonder what the story is with the canoe.

Anderson County is getting started on an expansion of its public library. Hopkins County is moving toward restarting its.

Benham's behind with the feds.

"Kentuckians are bracing ..."

Good jobs news from Louisville.

Weird snake news from Hardin County.

I-6924?

In 1983, The Trimble Banner reported that "Trimble County’s population is expected to reach the number 8,054 by the year 2000, according to a forecast by the Population Research Unit of the Urban Studies Center. Sometime between 1985 and 1990 Kentucky’s population will go over the four million mark and by the year 2010 will top five million." Indeed, in 2000, Trimble County's population was 8,125--71 people more than the projection (and, as of the 2010 Census, it was up to 8,809)--but Kentucky's has not grown nearly at the expected pace. It didn't tip past 4 million until the 2000 Census, and it's still estimated at less than 4.4 million.

"Never in my wildest dreams did I think a legend in country music would be calling little old Jeff Sneed in Glasgow, Kentucky."

Beautiful morning skies in Harrison County @Kentuckyweather pic.twitter.com/UVw1JB2QTP
— Julie Marie ♡ (@mrsdotson13) September 25, 2013

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This church is an outlier.

County-fair season, continued, in Bedford: "Float line up begins at 11:30 a.m. at the high school and the parade will route through town ending at the nursing home. ..."

It's also time again for the 400-mile yard sale, along U.S. 68.

Touring Boone County's "Rural Treasures."

"A Walk Through Fredonia's Past."

Is Elizabethtown the Philadelphia of Kentucky?

The cougars around Leitchfield were inspired by the Lions around Eddyville.

Liberty and Casey County are working together to re-ignite business at the Goose Creek Candle Company. 

All-caps is common for copy to be read on the radio, but this WCLU report on a North Carolina man's world-records-breaking performance at the Glasgow Highland Games is particularly worthy.

Ah: "If I can face my old friend one more time in 2013, it will be a great Friday night regardless of the score."

Remember the Trojans ...

Monticello School athletic uniforms, including cheerleader will beavailable ( for $5.00) today at the school from 8 to 2 and6 to 8.
— WKYM News (@wkym1017) June 5, 2013

Rest in peace, Coach Tabor, a Crittenden County native who guided the Union County Bravettes to the 1996 Girls' Sweet Sixteen championship, who was an All-OVC performer at Murray State in 1957 and who lived less than half a year after his wife of 49 years died in January.

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Latest on a "quirky Louisville staple."

And on "a center of learning, inspiration and life in Corbin for more than 100 years."

As well as Monticello city schools, which appear to be headed for merger with the Wayne County system.

It's a Trimble County mystery!

"You really want me to coach you?"

Hooray for Dan Manley, Voice of the Indians (since 1967)!

A strong Christmas showing appears to have sealed the deal for Spencer County-Taylorsville citizens of the year (SC-TCo12). Congratulations, Lewises!

Wheel of Fortune reportedly wouldn't allow a London native who now lives in Knoxville, Tenn., to identify herself as being from Laurel County. She won $1,900. Cheers to Tiffany Higginbotham. Jeers to Wheel of Fortune, which has never been the same since Chuck Woolery of Ashland moved on in 1981.

Bad jobs news for Todd County. Improving statewide, though.

HeathPo: Kentucky's senators--one, who failed in his primary political goal of the last two years, and the other, HPKo10*--have been in Afghanistan and Israel, respectively.

Remembering when "Dear Abby" came to Lexington.

Foreigner is coming to Paducah--utterly huge news for the HHS Class of '86, at least.

KET News Quiz!

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"It’s the great, confounding reversal of the Gospel of Jesus. If the word we preach is one of attainable perfection, of law, of justification by works, then when we fail, our testimony fails with it. But if we preach our deep brokenness and Christ’s deeper healing, if we preach our inability to take a single breath but for God’s grace, then our weakness exalts him and we’re functioning as we were meant to since the foundation of the world."

"That’s why he dedicated a week of programming to theme of “little and big” ideas, and the joy of thinking small."

Helping in Bedford, Dry Ridge, Independence, Columbia and Middlesboro. Preparing in Paducah.

Helping in Afghanistan, too.

Smart-grid lab in Madisonville.

Louisville foreclosures are up a bit, year-to-year.

Class of '79!

One and done: Girls' wrap and lookahead.

The NAIA women get rolling in Frankfort tonight.