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Good jobs news from Bowling Green. Bad jobs news from Bowling Green.

Editorial roundup:

-- The Floyd County Chronicle: "The Floyd County BOE should speak up about testing troubles"

-- Frankfort's State Journal: "Both sides in mountain bike trail debate need a breather"

Opening Ceremony of Kentucky 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Governors Summit. 👍🏼 @ThinkKentucky @GovMattBevin @NatlGovsAssoc @Alltech pic.twitter.com/hSGrQXDmQX

— Vivek K. Sarin (@V_Sarin) May 23, 2019

Ace is the place, at last in Brownsville.

Dunkin (such as donuts), soon in Cold Spring.

Taking it to the streets, in Mercer County.

Uplifting "the visions and voices of lesbian filmmakers," in Paducah.

Spinning Merle Travis, Spider Rich, Mose Rager, the Everlys, etc., for the kids in Beechmont.

Rest in peace, Wilton A. Hawkins (1922-2019), secret initiator of $2.5 million scholarship fund in Anderson County.

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Rest in peace, Jack E. Bradbury, Air Force lieutenant colonel who served with the Joint Chiefs, doctor of education who taught teachers in Florida after he retired the first time, Habitat for Humanity "Can Man" after he retired the second time and moved to Madisonville, husband of Virginia for 68 years until she died in 2011 and grand marshal of the 2007 Madisonville Kiwanis Christmas parade.

Adairville on Dec. 3 is planning to put on its FIRST Christmas parade! “Light up your car, wagon, truck, lawn mower, atv, boat, whatever and be a part of this … You don’t have to get elaborate, just festive.”

More Christmas parades: Owensboro (Messenger-Inquirer reports the cold didn't deter the crowd), Nov. 19; Ashland (3,500 participants in 10 divisions), Nov. 22; Sebree, Nov. 26; Bardstown, Dec. 1; Maysville, Monticello and Richmond, Dec. 2; Berea, Bowling Green, Glasgow, Harlan, Henderson, Madisonville, Paris, Somerset and Winchester, Dec. 3; Boyce, Owenton and Schochoh, Dec. 4, and Augusta (with fireworks), Cave City, Elkton, Hopkinsville and Pikeville, Dec. 10.

It's fun to imagine this German's trip to Hodgenville and Owensboro a couple of months before the Bicentennial (Kentucky for sale): 

Good jobs news from Hopkinsville.

Elizabethtown's Towne Mall McDonald's is on the comeback trail, and Culver's, Panda Express and Starbucks may be on their way.

Tim Hortons appears to be coming to Cold Spring and Erlanger.

Edmonson County's new senior food pantry is open, and it looks great!

The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce president is coming to Madisonville next month to preview the 2017 (real) legislature.

Elkton is planning to see off an 18-term/36-year city councilperson. "Light refreshments will be served."

Here (between Hector and Eriline, I think) is about where it apparently gets really bad:

There's a darkness on the edge of Bardstown. (Mister State Trooper ...)

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I worked hard with Bill Ford to keep the Lincoln plant in Kentucky. I owed it to the great State of Kentucky for their confidence in me!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2016

You decide.

Good jobs news from London ("yet another") and Louisville.

The Middlesboro Daily News and Harlan Daily Enterprise have a new publisher, and he's "from the area." The Courier-Journal has a new executive editor, and he's from Wisconsin.

Christmas parades: Owensboro (here's the route), Nov. 19; Ashland, Nov. 22; Sebree, Nov. 26; Bardstown, Dec. 1; Maysville, Monticello and Richmond, Dec. 2; Berea, Bowling Green, Glasgow, Madisonville, Paris, Somerset and Winchester, Dec. 3; Boyce and Owenton, Dec. 4, and Cave City, Elkton, Hopkinsville and Pikeville, Dec. 10.

New life at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Owensboro.

"In what ways do you currently connect with fellow feminist social change artists? (Check all that apply)."

Fifty years of the Kentucky Civil Rights Act (and the Bardstown/Nelson County human-rights ordinance).

Kentucky for sale: "Daniel Boone becomes a Colonel of Kentucky," courtesy of Vice President Barkley.

Remember "Grayson's Inn?" Or "Buckskin Bev's"? How about "Guys & Dolls" or "Reflections on the Lake?" Well, all of them are becoming a Cracker Barrel.

An alert Facebook user in New York tipped off the Bank of Edmonson County and The Edmonson Voice to unwitting role in a scam.

Rest in peace, Vonda Robinson, whose "dying words to me was to make sure we got the building checked out;" prayers for the employees of the Floyd County courthouse, and well done, Mary Meadows of the Floyd County Chronicle.

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Christmas parades: Hazard and Owensboro, Nov. 21; Ashland, 6 p.m. Central today (and you can watch it live at this link!); Lexington, Dec. 1; Harlan and Maysville, Dec. 4; Bowling Green, Frankfort, Grayson, Hopkinsville, Lawrenceburg, Madisonville, Munfordville, Murray, Paducah, Somerset and Winchester, Dec. 5; Hickman, Dec. 8, and Benton, Elizabethtown and Elkton, Dec. 12.

"That Holiday Inn was at one time the largest in the U.S."

Cold Spring's third mayor of 2015 is "very anti-heroin."

This time, this UK president decided to cover the controversial mural at Memorial Hall.

Good jobs news from Graham.

Happy Thanksgiving, from Gov. Laffoon and the Kentucky State Archives:

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Todd Hartch is blowing up, and so are Tommy Womack and the Government Cheese. Heath Post Kentuckian of the Year* Rand Paul is, too. But I'm most excited to note Al Baker's blowing up.

Channel 6 reports that the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce's "(t)op priorities for 2011 include lifting the nuclear moratorium ban; supporting the joint commission’s work to get merged government on the ballot for November 2011; and, a building improvement plan for Commerce Center."

Ah, footbah.

A friend of the Paducah dog park. And a friend of ones in Murray and (potentially) Hopkinsville.

A friend of library book sales everywhere.

An interesting company with roots of more than 35 years in Cold Spring has merged with some Texans.

I was thrilled to learn from Kyle Macy that UK has the nation's second-ranked men's tennis player.

I am completely rooting for Alissa Pratt.

Good jobs news from Maysville, but it's still plenty rough out there.

Software solves everything.

Yum! says, "No!"

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Cycling update.

This is Jon Hood's big chance.

A Northern Kentuckian is chasing his dream.

Heath has a girls' volleyball team and a hero cat.