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Catching up from the weekend ...

Christmas parades: Sharpsburg, Nov. 9; Owensboro, Nov. 23; Central City, Nov. 24; Lebanon and Louisville, Nov. 29;  Greensburg, Guthrie and Pikeville, Nov. 30; Boyce, Dawson Springs, Murray, Salem and Sebree, Dec. 1; Bardstown, Dec. 5; Clay, Fredonia, Harrodsburg, Irvine/Ravenna, London, Maysville, Monticello, Pineville, Richmond, Smiths Grove, Stanton and Trenton, Dec. 6; Arlington, Barbourville, Beattyville, Berea, Bloomfield, Bowling Green,  romley/Ludlow, Brownsville, Cadiz, Calvert City, Carlisle, Clinton, Columbia, Corbin, Cynthiana, Danville, East Bernstadt, Frankfort, Glasgow, Grayson, Greenville, Hawesville, Henderson, Horse Cave, Inez, Lawrenceburg, Leitchfield, Lexington, Madisonville, Marion, Middlesboro, Morgantown, Munfordville, Murray, Owingsville, Paducah, Prestonsburg, Rabbit Hash, Raceland, Russell Springs, Salyersville, Scottsville, Shelbyville, Somerset, Trenton, Versailles, Whitley City and Winchester, Dec. 7; Auburn, Georgetown and New Haven, Dec. 8, and Augusta, Benton, Burkesville, Burnside, Campbellsville, Cave City, Edmonton, Elkton, Franklin, Hopkinsville, Louisa, Mayfield, Providence, Tollesboro, Williamsburg and Woodburn, Dec. 14.

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“While shared meals have been part of the religous practice of numerous groups for thousands of years, they are being given a new focus in Christianity through the ‘dinner church’ movement—churches that have a shared meal at the center of congregational life,” writes Henry Brinton at Read the Spirit. “… At Potluck Churh in Kentucky, every participant brings something to the table, and a former mayor worships alongside people who struggle to pay their monthly rent.”

"This is the first statewide program of its kind where all hospitals in Kentucky collaborate together to combat the opioid crisis at its root – inappropriate or excess opioid prescribing," says Dr. Phillip Chang, chief medical officer at UK HealthCare, in an encouraging story at The Lane Report.

Thanks, Feds, for the $25M for jobs projects in eastern-Kentucky coal communities.

Kentucky's governor's race made ProPublica (via The Courier-Journal).

Dave Spencer of Owensboro's WBKR wished us a happy Mother's Day, and we almost missed it.

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Helpfully for those of us who are preparing for our Fantasy Legislature drafts, Tom Latek dopes the 2019 General Assembly for the Kentucky Center for Public Service Journalism.

Good jobs news from Shepherdsville.

Ohio Co. Museum annual bean dinner Sept. 14 - https://t.co/Nz3jDTpocL

— Ohio County Monitor (@OCMonitor) September 10, 2018

"Louisville, Not Kentucky"?

About that $215K raise for the governor's old Army buddy, via The Courier-Journal ...

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There's an alleged (balding) stereoscope thief on the loose in or around Paducah.

Jacob Ryan with the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting dives into the link between availability of public trash cans and poverty across Louisville.

Bad jobs news from Winchester.

The WKMS Battle of the Bands entry deadline is March 4.

Hiring in Madisonville (production technician starting at $15.36 an hour or receptionist for $10-$12 per).

Rep. Toby Herald (R-Beattyville) has proposed a 54-county Kentucky, and Ralph B. Davis with EKB-TV gives us the 411 of what that would look like.

Eighty-nine women filed to run for seats in the state legislature.

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#Raptors coach Dwane Casey was attending an all-Black school in racially segregated small town in Kentucky when MLK was assassinated. #MLKDay pic.twitter.com/MsFo15aKKw

— Gianina (@giaplusnina) January 15, 2018

23rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Walk - Cadiz https://t.co/j0bSSAKjeH

— WKDZ Radio (@WKDZ) January 15, 2018

Today in my hometown, Owensboro, Kentucky @visitowensboro the @sozochildren choir was part of a MLK celebration worship service. This awesome choir was rehearsing prior to the service. It includes our Sheriff, Mayor, my 9th grade science teacher etc #thistownrocks #obky pic.twitter.com/tDJpgehPcM

— Jon Brennan (@jonbrennan_com) January 15, 2018

Lexington, UK celebrate MLK Day with downtown march and program: https://t.co/y5z4AefHVu pic.twitter.com/1x3JCNT2N4

— Kentucky Kernel (@KyKernel) January 15, 2018

Kentucky's most recently formed public library is in McLean County, created six years ago, and now it's among the first three in the state to participate in Library Economic Advantage Forum collaboration, reports Rhonda Miller with WKU Public Radio.

Channel 6, hacking off the rest of the Mississippi River counties.

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And you've got to figure there was a considerable amount of split vote among 2, 3 and 4.

A ladder, a lasso and an ax – and a lot of patience – were used to rescue a horse from a frozen pond Jan. 7. ... Several agencies were out in force on one of the coldest nights in several years as they combed the Maxine area for two missing teenagers. ... Hodgenville Mayor Terry L. Cruse and City Clerk MaDonna Hornback pleaded not guilty at their arraignment Tuesday in LaRue Circuit Court. ... The LaRue County Herald News firewall certainly gets one's imagination off the couch and jogging (also, kudos to Linda Ireland for some compelling news-lede writing).

It was not BaU at the ol' Jackson County fiscal-court meeting yesterday. 

The Barkley Regional Airport manager, via Bill Hughes writes at WestKentuckyStar.com, looks at the impact of airline deregulation on Paducah.

Some interesting insights here into the state's historical-marker program.

But if the HP doesn't get into the whole historical-marker advocacy game, maybe we ought to look into sponsoring concession stands.

"Arts Day in Kentucky fosters discussions among the Commonwealth's arts leaders about the state of the arts industry in Kentucky."

Picture from our viewer Michelle Warren of the fire at Moonlite. The fire is out @ restaurant will be OPEN today. pic.twitter.com/chKvwaSAz5
— Beth Sweeney (@Beth14News) January 15, 2014

Rest in peace, Mrs. Cluck, co-owner of the ahead-of-its-time Cluck's Grocery of Dawson Springs.

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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.

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The Internet is awesome, and this is another example why. Hooray for Jessica Dockrey and Aaron Frasier! Hooray for Madisonville! And hooray for now! 

Good jobs news for Morganfield? 

I think the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant is going to be in the news for a good, long while. 

"It looks like we’ll have to have a post office box in another town. Can you imagine how confusing that will be? We’ll have the City of LaFayette with a Herndon address. Does that make any sense in this world?" 

I wonder why the new Clark location was so controversial at the time. 

Here's one that both our made-in-USA and KHSAA-hoops readers will enjoy. Among the new exhibitors at next month's Kentucky Crafted: The Market 2012 in Lexington will be East Bernstadt's Lonnie and Twyla Money, carver and, in turn, painter of wooden chickens and other farm animals. They've been sweethearts since their days at Hazel Green High School, which beat Ashland for the 1940 boys' basketball championship. 

Alaska proud. 

Legislating from the bench in Liberty. 

Volunteers needed. 

Rest in peace, Mr. Hampton, creator and sharer of Uncle Bummy's Sausage.

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This Murray State Racer is No. 5 in the nation and gearing up for tourney time.

State champs!

District champs!

County champs (sound good!)

It's always Christmas-parade season on the Kentucky desk.

Good jobs news from Bowling Green, bad for Sen. McConnell.

Opening in Cadiz, Oak Grove and Hoptown. Lagging in Etown.

Sprucing up in Somerset. Tuning up in Glasgow.

Reading in Bardstown. Rigging in Paducah?

KET news quiz!

Rest in peace, Rev. Huff, "a leader politically, a leader spiritually and a leader personally."