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Good jobs news from Glasgow.

IGA and Kroger (along with a bunch of other workplaces) will be going head to head for employees at a hiring fair in West Liberty next week.

Opening in Fort Mitchell. Closing in Owensboro. Coming back in Madisonville. Came back in Beattyville.

I am tempted to enroll as a nontraditional, commuter student at Hazard Community and Technical College just to give this cool-looking CDL simulator a spin.

The nation's highest-paid state CIO is the one in Frankfort, per Lexington's Council on State Governments, reports Louisville's Courier-Journal.

Essential Hendersonian Douglas White weighs in with a typically outstanding update on the back and forth on the former Player's Club golf course.

The horse-racing track that Churchill Downs and Keeneland are planning to open in Oak Grove has moved a step closer toward a projected 2020 opening.


Heavenly Treasures shared in Washington County and beyond.

The alleged Nancy apple bandits have been apprehended.

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An early-morning fire today has staggered Ferrell's, which arrived in Madisonville when my dad was 4, remained his standard for hamburgers the rest of his life and became mine once my wife and I moved to town in 2008.

On the better-news-from-here front, Madisonville Community College has graduated its first class of utility lineman, and more than half are reported to be already employed.

Aluminum to the rescue, in coal country, per Forbes.

Hiring (at a coal mine) in Hazard.

The University of the Cumberlands is cutting tuition for undergraduate students by 57 percent.

A new clinic "to extend the healing ministry of Christ to everyone" in Manchester.

Kentucky considers boosting its animal-cruelty penalties, and The Horse takes hopeful note.

USA Today reports on a nationwide effort is underway to save 458 pigs rescued from a Falmouth farm.

The state has a new Boxing and Wrestling Commission chair, and he's a former Somerset High Briar Jumpers football star with a "mind for money" and solid résumé of excelling on state boards, reports Christopher Harris in the Commonwealth Journal.

Joe Asher in the Harlan Daily Enterprise delivers a comprehensive report on the fiscal court's tourism priorities and efforts to refresh the county's parks.

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First day of school at Oakview Elementary in Ashland pic.twitter.com/Wx2UydtYSc

— The Daily Independent (@ashlandkydaily) August 15, 2018

 

Stay tuned for more back-to-school pictures in Central City's Times-Argus.

There's a bus-driver shortage in Hardin County, too.

Clarkson is adding a third full-time police officer (and planning to rehab its 30-year-old sewer system and readying for Honeyfest).

Matt Bevin, prospective vice-presidential nominee from New Hampshire, is again taking shots at Kentucky's public employees.

Louisville has a last-second mayoral candidate "known as a political bomb thrower," per Phillip M. Bailey in The Courier-Journal.

Newport Shopping Center and Plaza is getting more populated.

"Veterans as Entrepreneurs/ Veterans to Enhance Workforce," "Importance of Relationship Between Economic Development & Community College" and "Coworking Spaces & Makerspaces" are among the topics scheduled to be covered at the Oct. 18 Madisonville-Hopkins County Rural Development Conference.

"It's come one, come all," for fourth- through eighth-graders wanting to sing in the Harlan County Children's Choir.

Rest in peace, Mr. Isham, Somerset Community College psychology professor, Stoner Little Theatre regular, former Pulaski County Library board member, audio-book narrator and possessor of "a tremendous voice that any broadcaster would envy," according to Christopher Harris's fine story in Corbin's Times-Tribune.

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Channel 6 spent at least the first half of last night's 10 p.m. news on this breaking and terrifying story, which stands to yield route ramifications into even next (Ah) fall.

Heath and Olive Hill West Carter at 4 p.m. Central tip off today's four Touchstone Energy All "A" Classic boys' basketball games in Frankfort.

Just up the road from Betsy Layne.

This Jerry Tipton story about Hoptown's Anthony Hickey, now of LSU, drew comments about Lexington's Shelvin Mack, who played at Butler, and Cawood's Phil Cox, at Vandy.

100 years of U of L hoops.

Mmmm ...?

Updating the tally, ...

And from the mural beat, ...

Good jobs news from Erlanger, Louisville, Madisonville and 114 of 120 counties.

Another act for the Columbia?

I love Ultimate Frisbee(R).

Go, Mark and Bopper! And hooray for Manchester.

Another perfect score this week on the KET News Quiz!