Oh, Kentucky

Did you know that Northern Kentucky and the @kyanaworks areas led the state in growth of weekly wages from 2010 to 2018? Learn more in the most recent Kentucky Labor Force Update: https://t.co/hkrSVlupN2 #kydata pic.twitter.com/QLRYdgwh8G

— KY Center for Statistics (@kystats) November 20, 2018

 

Good jobs news from Jeffersontown.

A slow the expansion roll at Anton International.

UK has its first Rhodes Scholar since 1955.

Christmas parades: Owensboro, Nov. 17; Ashland, Nov. 20; Arlington, Berea, Bowling Green, Cadiz, Columbia, Lawrenceburg, Madisonville, Paducah (and etc.) and Somerset ("like it or not, for some children, this might be the only positive experience they have this Christmas; we want to make sure to give them a really great experience, a memory that they can hang on to"), Dec. 1; Dawson Springs, Dec. 2; Frankfort (including Moms Demand Action, on gun violence) and Richmond, Dec. 7; Hopkinsville, Dec. 8, La Center, Dec. 15.

Kentucky High-school Girls' Basketball, 12 Teams Left

Twelve teams remain in play for the state championship, and here are today's four games ...

Noon Eastern, Henderson County Lady Colonels (27-5) vs. Hindman Knott County Central Lady Patriots (28-6)

I've went ahead and tuned in to WSON AM 860 ("Your Teams, Your Town") early this morning, and, before Lady Col-pregame coverage started, I happily heard Them's 1964 "Gloria;" Michael Jackson's 1982 "Beat It;" Chicago's 1988 "I Don't Want To Live Without Your Love;" Boz Scaggs's fantastic 1977 "Lido Shuffle;" Kenny Loggins's 1986 "Danger Zone" (I moved back to Kentucky in 2008, and, seriously, I can't imagine one day has passed since then that I didn't hear this song on some local radio station or supermarket overhead); Harry Chapin's 1974 "Cats in the Cradle" (this one's for you, Go Heath!); Chic's 1977 "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)," which I thought was going to be Steve Miller Band's (also) 1977 "Swingtown;" the Hall & Oates 1980 version of "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," and Bachman-Turner Overdrive's 1974 "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet."

1:30 p.m., Russell County Lakers (26-8) vs. Franklin County Lady Flyers (30-5)

6:30 p.m., Independence Simon Kenton Lady Pioneers (27-6) vs. Paintsville Lady Tigers (28-4)

8 p.m., Covington Holmes Lady Bulldogs (27-5) vs. Grayson County Lady Cougars (22-10)

Oh, Kentucky

HAPPENING NOW: Islamic funeral prayer for late boxing champion Muhammad Ali in Louisville. https://t.co/G6hSm5QIfJ pic.twitter.com/bIHvu5iFOa

— Reuters Live (@ReutersLive) June 9, 2016

Ensign Pride comes home.

Paducah: great for retirees. Kentucky: not so hot for millennials.

Banks in Sacramento and Caneyville, founded in 1895 and 1897, respectively, are merging.

Lexington's Space Tango and three other Kentucky tech companies went to Germany and bumped into President Obama. The auto industry came to Louisville. J.C. Penney's president and CEO went to Etown.

Hoptown's expanded International Festival kicks off Friday.

"Originating in 1975 as the Paducah Summer Festival Photo Competition, Paducah Photo has grown from a fledgling contest into an international juried exhibition. Over the past 40 years, this exhibition has become one of the Mid-South’s most prestigious annual photographic events. In 2013, Paducah was bestowed the honor of being designated a member of the United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Creative Cities Network in the area of Crafts & Folk Art. To embrace both this international honor and reflect the international growth of the exhibition, this year Paducah Photo will take on a new name, Art Through the Lens."

"There's nobody hated more in this nation than Christians."

Oh, Kentucky

It's a Wonderful Life in Owensboro.

Merry Christmas from Mortons Gap!

Congratulations, Pizza Inn, et al, in Paducah. And welcome home, finally, in Shelbyville.

More Christmas parades: Cumberland and Richmond, tonight; Radcliff, Dec. 8, and Monticello, Dec. 15.

KET News Quiz!

Prestonsburg's Strand Twin theater is closing. The building formerly housing Thomasville Furniture in Corbin might be re-opening.

Rook season at the Kentucky State Parks is upon us.

About 100 trophies from "the old high school" are in storage at the Leitchfield City Hall. Presumably, that would be the former Leitchfield High School (the Bulldogs), which consolidated with Clarkson High (Red Devils) and Caneyville High (Purple Flash) to form Grayson County High in 1974.

Rest in peace, Mr. Hayes, a UK and Jeopardy fan who "was the Adair Progress." 

Oh, Kentucky

Bold move by the Kentucky Aviation Conference to go head-to-head with opening night for the NFL.

An unemployed Murray State poli-sci major is in Charlotte to hear the president's case.

Fazoli's is better off than it was 26 months ago.

Mini-golf comes to Mayfield.

Fire (station) sales in Brownies Creek, Calloway and Colmar. School switch in Caneyville.

Strike up the band in Webster County. Pass/fail (and really passing/really failing) in Marshall. More college grads in Floyd.

Hoptown's moment of being blocked from the sun.

They haven't yet solved the crime of the stolen baseball equipment in Cordia, but a Colorado man has helped offset the team's loss.

The defending OVC golfer of the year--plus two-time Kentucky State Amateur champ and U.S. Am round-of-16 qualifier--begins his senior season at Murray State on Sept. 10.

Kentuckians documenting a Kentuckian.

Oh, Kentucky

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.

Oh, Kentucky

I have seen the future of ... oh, nevermind ... here's another good one from ColumbiaMagazine.com, followed by a pretty good postscript.

A lady Topper is Miss Kentucky.

This just in from Cardinal Point!

This story fails to mention whether Miss Kentucky Teen Motor Speedway advanced, so, for now, I'm rooting for Smithland's Hearts at War.

Good jobs news from Corbin.

Hooray for Forbes's hooray for Kentucky.

No more floodsout.

Oh, Kentucky

On the road in western Kentucky in 2007 and in eastern Kentucky in 1934.

StoryCorps is visiting the commonwealth, too, to talk with homosexuals about their little hometowns.

A caller on The Joe B and Denny Show this morning prompted Coach Crum to talk about his first team at the University of Louisville. His starting guards included Jim Price of Russellville.



Even more done than we realized: State-champ Christian County is looking for a new head coach. The former coach is the head looker. (Hopkinsville's Bird Averitt, by the way, played for City, not County.)



I can't wait for the first KHSAA Bowldown, next March.

Or next Lady Topper golf season.

I have seen the future of journalism, and one of its names is ColumbiaMagazine.com.

I love playgrounds.