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Not the old, old Whaler's Catch, but Paducah's old Whaler's Catch appears headed for new life next year.

Hiring in Dawson Springs, Dixon, Graham, Madisonville, Sebree, etc. Closed for good in Lawrenceburg, Radcliff and Winchester.

Hail to the bus-driver woman, Miss J.

The Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System was in better position again in fiscal 2019, says the state auditor.

It appears it'll be back to biz for Kentucky's apparently former New Hampshire vice-presidential hopeful.

Turning to sports, in Murray, it's rodeo time again. In Elkton, they had "the annual Meet the Rebels. YSE was there and got some of the first pics of the season of this year's team." And rest in peace, Mr. Terrell--he "loved the City of Corbin, he loved the Redhounds and most of all he loved people."

Christmas parades: Sharpsburg, Nov. 9; Owensboro, Nov. 23; Lebanon and Louisville, Nov. 29; Pikeville, Nov. 30; Boyce, Dawson Springs and Murray, Dec. 1; Bardstown, Dec. 5; Fredonia, Harrodsburg, Hopkinsville, London, Monticello and Pineville, Dec. 6; Barbourville, Berea, Bowling Green, Cadiz, Calvert City, Columbia, Corbin, Cynthiana, Danville, Frankfort, Glasgow, Henderson, Lawrenceburg, Lexington, Madisonville, Owingsville, Paducah, Scottsville, Shelbyville, Trenton, Versailles and Whitley City, Dec. 7; Georgetown, Dec. 8; Cave City, Dec. 10; Burnside, Elkton and Williamsburg, Dec. 14, and Tollesboro, Dec. 15.

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Chuck E. Cheese is ready to blow our minds, in Lexington.

CDT and EDT all of the T?

Frenchburg's city employees get a raise.

Allen's hiring.

Russell County Public Library is on the move.

LBL appears headed for its first from-helicopters, feral-hog shoot.

Turning to sports, the University of the Cumberlands has landed a key reserve on Mercer County's #khsgbk17 and #khsbbk18 state champs, and the Clinton County Bulldogs claim their first-ever #khsfb-playoffs win.

Christmas parades: Sharpsburg, Nov. 9; Owensboro, Nov. 23; Boyce, Dawson Springs and Murray, Dec. 1; Bardstown, Dec. 5; Harrodsburg, Hopkinsville and Monticello, Dec. 6; Berea, Bowling Green, Calvert City, Danville, Frankfort, Glasgow, Henderson, Lawrenceburg, Lexington, Madisonville, Paducah, Scottsville, Shelbyville, Trenton, Versailles and Whitley City, Dec. 7; Georgetown, Dec. 8; Cave City, Dec. 10, and Burnside, Elkton and Williamsburg, Dec. 14.

KHSAA Football Polls

McCracken County beat Mayfield.  Caldwell County crushed Crittenden County.  Madisonville beat Christian County.  Some pretty big games last Friday.  Here is the list of ranked football teams from Western Kentucky:

6A:
7.  Henderson Co:  4-0

5A:
4.  S. Warren:  4-0
5.  Bowling Green:  3-1
7.  Owensboro:  3-1
10.  Greenwood:  4-0

4A:
3.  Madisonville-North Hopkins:  4-0
9.  Hopkinsville:  2-2

3A:
8.  Trigg Co:  4-0
9.  Paducah Tilghman:  3-1

2A:
3.  Mayfield:  3-1
5.  Caldwell Co:  3-1
6.  Owensboro Catholic:  3-1
7.  Murray:  3-1
9.  Todd Co. Cent:  4-0

A:
7.  Crittenden Co:  3-1

AP Polls for KHSAA Football

Here are your ranked teams in Western Kentucky.  Eric, is Madisonville really this good?

6A:
9.  Henderson Co:  3-0

5A:
4.  S. Warren:  3-0
5.  Bowling Green:  3-0
7.  Owensboro:  2-1
10.  Greenwood:  3-0

4A:
3.  Madisonville-North Hopkins:  3-0
6.  Hopkinsville:  2-1

3A:
9.  Trigg Co:  3-0
10.  Paducah Tilghman:  2-1

2A:
1.  Mayfield
5.  Caldwell Co:  2-1
6.  Owensboro Catholic:  2-1
7.  Murray:  2-1
9.  Todd Co. Central:  2-0

A:
5.  Crittenden Co:  3-0

AP Polls for KHSAA Football

As of today, the following teams from Western Kentucky are ranked in the AP's polls for the KHSAA:

6A:
10.  Henderson Co.  2-0

5A:
5.  Bowling Green  1-1
7.  Owensboro  1-1
10.  Greenwood  2-0

4A:
5.  Madisonville-North Hopkins  2-0
9.  Hopkinsville  1-1
10.  Logan Co.  2-0

3A:
5.  Paducah Tilghman  2-0
9.  Trigg Co.  2-0

2A:
1.  Mayfield  2-0
3.  Caldwell Co.  2-0
4.  Owensboro Catholic  2-0
8.  Murray  1-1
T10.  Todd Co. Central  2-0

1A:
5.  Crittenden Co.  2-0

Oh, Kentucky

Home sales are up in Kentucky.

Is Lexington's Helix Garage the country's coolest parking lot?

Public libraries are the best. At Glasgow's, you could be learning American Sign Language this summer.

Both the state's governor and its attorney general--opponents in the governor's race--are chasing miners' unpaid wages from a bankrupt Harlan County operator.

Plenty of law-enforcement opportunities in Elkton.

Bridge is out, in northern Crittenden County.

I'm so happy for Brenda Powers with the Big Sandy Area Development District and the other involved federal-, state- and local-agency personnel that the third phase of the more-than-a-decade-old "Pride on the River" sewer project is complete. (And I loved the level of detail on the saga that Mary Meadows delivered in her reporting for the Floyd County Chronicle.)

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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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Just tremendous jobs news from Brandenburg ...

Bevin announces Nucor Corp. to build $1.35 billion steel mill in Meade Co.; average full-time position to pay $72k per year https://t.co/vHDaDDVFVY

— K105 Radio (@k105radio) March 28, 2019

Justin Case with WYMT in Hazard ("Dedicated to Eastern Kentucky") heads to JRL Coal in Harlan County's Coalgood community to see how the "Green New Deal" is going over. (I don't believe I had ever heard of Coalgood.)

Hiring in Elkton (for an assistant city clerk at at least $16.39 an hour) and Madisonville (for BestVines viral-video finders).

The state's birth rate among females ages 15 to 19 is about 3.6 percent. Powell County has the state's highest rate, at more than twice that.

Will London get the neonatal intensive care unit?

What happens to the homeless after Louisville gets rid of a giant camp downtown? 

Pike County's got bridge problems.

A part-time worker at a Lexington Taco Bell successfully called on his CPR training from Tates Creek High when he saw a man unresponsive outside the restaurant.

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"Something that has stuck with me from my latest work is, 'Everyone wants to be a lion until it’s time to hunt.' I find this applies to many things and not just writing but specifically to young writers I would say it means to you that everyone wants the novel, the play on Broadway...the finished product. That is the metaphorical 'lion' but not as many want to be a lion when it’s time to write the 15th draft, or format a script or do all the “stuff” that isn’t as glamorous. You can’t be a lion without doing the hunt which is the blood, sweat and tears of what makes a lion so magnificent." Just a fantastic Q&A in Barbourville's Mountain Advocate with Cathy Goguen, "former Knox County teacher, published playwright and author, and mobility advocate...just to name a few," writes Brooke Cole Stansbury.

"We are reminded of God’s creativity and deep connection with all creatures, ecosystems, and humans.  Psalm 24 says, 'The earth is the LORD’s and everything in it, the world and its inhabitants too.' This invites us to protect the earth as home, not only for people including future generations, not only for all plants and animals, rocks and mountains but for God. The word 'ecology' is formed from the Greek words for 'house' (oikos) and 'word, purpose' (logos). Creation is the home of God and for God’s people, ecology calls us to our purpose in this joint household. Our purpose for living, according to the Psalms, is to praise God – not alone, not as a solo, but to join our whole being in praise, with the sun and moon, with sea monsters, trees, creatures that creep along, and birds that fly. We praise God by being who God created us to be, to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God, to love one another, care for the least of these among us, and to protect and care our common home." Amen, Carol Devine of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Nicholasville.

"According to a study on religion in America by the Pew Research Center, 22% of Kentucky residents are religiously unaffiliated. Younger Americans are even more likely to be nonreligious. Kentucky lawmakers should not stigmatize these students by promoting religious messages in school! National motto display bills like HB 46 are being pushed by special interests as part of Project Blitz, an effort by Christian nationalists to rewrite American history so that it favors their agenda. These bills aim to undermine the separation of religion and government and spread a false narrative that America was founded as a Christian nation. We cannot allow special interests to use our children to achieve their political goals." American Atheists Inc. issues a call to Kentuckian action.

Turning to sports, “I thank God for the opportunity to do the job I love so close to home.”

And speaking Pine Mountain State Resort Park, which is fantastic ... hiring in Pineville (immediately for a front-desk clerk).

Good jobs news from Erlanger, Elizabethtown and Lexington--and maybe Cave City, too. Bad from Madisonville.

Per USA Today, the richest Kentuckian is an Oklahoman who got himself really rich in California after a trip to Texas.

Paducah and San Antonio, Texas, are trading their UNESCO Creative City crews.

The Beaver Dam Amphitheatre summer schedule is out, and the Class of '86 is going to freak!

Spring cleanup nears in Elkton.

Beds for 50 Shepherdsville Elementary kids who need them.

Relief for cross-state commuters to and from Wickliffe.

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Proud for Sprocket to host today's announcement by the KY Innovation office of the launch of a Regional Innovation for Startups and Entrepreneurs (RISE) hub for our region! pic.twitter.com/7V7Lv0gRQt

— Paducah Schools (@bluetornado1) November 27, 2018

 

I will be excited to read the Jim Host story.

I tend to want to live in and be in houses with some age, but I do love myself a new hotel.

"In Kentucky alone, SNAP keeps 164,000 of us out of poverty, including 73,000 children. It also helps our economy. In 2017, the federal government injected $933 million into local Kentucky economies through SNAP. And by reducing food insecurity, SNAP keeps us healthier, too. Research shows that people who are food insecure are likelier to have a chronic disease such as heart disease, cancer or diabetes. Despite all of these benefits, the state has erected new barriers to SNAP participation in recent months."

"There is no generic marker for 'race'--it is a creation of our culture and law, and very often a cruel creation."

"We’ve had nothing but crap from the people that have attended these meetings that are saying that we’re not doing anything and, by God, we need to be doing this. And this is one of the steps that you take before you even get to the decision-making process."

Paintsville's Market 606 small-business-Saturday shopping event included what the local Herald described as "a massive giveaway of free Christmas decorations," which is an excellent idea.

Christmas parades: Owensboro, Nov. 17; Ashland, Nov. 20; Brownsville, Nov. 24; Arlington, Berea, Bowling Green, Cadiz, Columbia, Lawrenceburg, Madisonville, Marion, Paducah, Salyersville, Somerset and Whitley City, Dec. 1; Dawson Springs, Dec. 2; Lexington, Dec. 4; Greenup, Dec. 6; Frankfort, Monticello and Richmond, Dec. 7; Elkton (grandly marshaled by a member of the CBK58 champs and first-ever basketball coach at Todd County Central High), Eubank and Hopkinsville, Dec. 8, and Burnside and La Center, Dec. 15.

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Good jobs news from Bowling Green, Erlanger and Lexington.

"If part of your community is doing well and the other part not doing so good then the community can only fail. But if both sides of the community flourish, then the community will rise together and we all win because the sky is the limit."

"Their new group, Co-Heirs with Christ Missions, is different from some churches they attended in Africa. Too often, Frimpong remembered, leaders preached that joining the church would change their lives immediately – that their belief would guarantee prosperity. This tactic brought people to churches, but it only exacerbated the poverty rate, as people started to believe that they didn’t need to look for work."

UK's Kentucky Kernel has a new advisor (second consecutive one from WKU), and the Todd County Standard is on the market.

Sweet Paducah Sun story about a South Carolina man returning to where he and his late wife married in 1955--with helpful bonus material on the history of PJC/PCC/WKTC/WKCTC.

Terrific Bill Estep report in the Lexington Herald-Leader on the impact of drugs on the labor market in eastern Kentucky.

A Hardinsburg barber stars in an Amazon movie that came out yesterday, and it sounds hair-raising!

With the U.S. Senior Open rolling, the USGA took a road trip to Franklin to visit with the defending champ.

Corbin's getting a mural, on Roy Kidd Avenue.

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Here are the stories that made our front page pic.twitter.com/i1HxVUdG2z

— Kentucky New Era (@KentuckyNewEra) June 11, 2018

 

Great lede in Etown's News-Enterprise by Mary Alford: "It wasn’t until his senior year of high school that Marty Fulkerson first attended the Hardin County Fair & Horse Show. He had his tie eaten by a goat."

"People get addicted to the improvement." Nice Q&A from Hannah Brown in The State Journal with Kirk Schooley, who is the pro at Frankfort's Juniper Hill Golf Course, won the 1993 PGA Kentucky Section championship and "grew up in a pro shop."

The state FFA's 2018 Ag. Teachers Change Lives Award goes to Mr. Green, retiring after 33 years at Todd Central High.

Ms. Zaino, English teacher, leaves Covington Holmes with a bang.

Good jobs news from Paducah?

Hiring in Carrollton ("TO PERFORM SPECIALIZED INTAKE WORK IN CASES OF YOUTH DEEMED HIGH NEEDS OR UNSUCCESSFUL IN THE DIVERSION PROCESS; TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND FEEDBACK FOR CDWS AND THE JUDICIARY ON PUBLIC AND STATUS CASES ... THIS POSITION IS ON-CALL AND REQUIRES DAYS, NIGHTS, WEEKENDS, AND HOLIDAYS AS NEEDED ... $28,911.12 - $38,162.64").

Prayers for Guatemala, and rock on, brothers and sisters from Murray.

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A timely and helpful article from Insider Louisville's Darla Carter: "Ways to avoid Hepatitis A during Derby week."

It's Bike Night in Elkton.

You can read away your fines at the Lexington Public Library later this month.

Meanwhile, in Logan County, the library is hiring for an intern to better serve Spanish speakers.

Once "really bustling," Frankfort's Capital Plaza Fountain Place Shops are, at last, out of business.

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Paducah Sen Danny Carroll, whose district includes Marshall County, says gun control won't stop school shootings "these go beyond things we can solve in Frankfort."

Says people need to change the way they talk to each other. pic.twitter.com/F4RZHtxgea

— Ryland Barton (@RylandKY) January 24, 2018

 

Standing with the Marshals.

On tourism in Elkton.

Bullitt County: "an exciting mix between 'No Country For Old Men,' 'Deliverance,' and 'The Shining.'"

Louisville is amid a Community Mikvah crisis.

Good jobs news from Guthrie.

Jerry's is no more in Bowling Green, but this might not be the end of the story.

Pennyrile is souping up for spring.

Wipes of all types — even ‘flushable’ ones — wreaking havoc in city sewer system https://t.co/Eo40tR2OuX pic.twitter.com/lAWiFaddGC

— Nelson Co. Gazette (@NCGBreakingNews) January 22, 2018

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pic.twitter.com/oIAj5o2UTQ

— ACS Sports (@acs_sports) January 6, 2018

“Produce Best Practices Training,” “Eastern Kentucky Beekeeping School,” “Women & Your Finances,” “Marketing Locally Grown Meat Workshop,” “Becoming Body Aware,” “Plate It Up,” “Beef Quality and Care Assurance Training” are among the Kentucky Cooperative Extension this month in eastern Kentucky.

Per Brittany Fuller's story in The Jessamine Journal, nine chimpanzees and 38 different breeds of monkeys live at Nicholasville’s 30-year-old Primate Rescue Center.

Kentucky Lottery sales were highest last year in Jefferson, Fayette, Kenton, Hardin and Christian counties, but, of course, we need these numbers to be converted relative to population. It should be noted, for example, that Christian County is only the 11th-largest Kentucky county.

Henderson's Kmart also is closing.

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Rest in peace, Rep. Danny Ray Johnson.

Christmas parades: Irvington and Owensboro, Nov. 18; Central City, Nov. 19; Ashland, Nov. 21; Lebanon, Nov. 24; Brownsville and Danville, Nov. 25; Greenup, Nov. 28; Cumberland, London, Monticello and Richmond, Dec. 1; Arlington, Barbourville, Beaver Dam, Bowling Green, Cadiz, Corbin, Fordsville, Georgetown, Glasgow, Harlan, Hartford, Henderson, Lawrenceburg, Madisonville, Marion, Munfordville, Murray, Paducah, Somerset and Winchester, Dec. 2; Dawson Springs, Evarts and Nortonville, Dec. 3; Mount Sterling, Dec. 4; Lexington, Dec. 5; Bardstown, Dec. 7; Frankfort and Fredonia, Dec. 8; Augusta, Berea, Burnside, Cave City, Crofton, Edmonton, Elkton, Hanson, Hickman, Hopkinsville, Paintsville, Prestonsburg, Salem, Vanceburg and Whitesville, Dec. 9, and La Center and Oak Grove, Dec. 16.

Good jobs news from Glasgow, Lexington and Pikeville.

One more week for Kennedy's Wildcat Den bookstore.

The Kentucky Castle has big long-term plans, though.

The new Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky president is coming (almost) home from Japan starting in the new year.

CNN's Jessica Ravitz in eastern Kentucky: "What can make a difference in tackling unplanned and unwanted pregnancies are more conversations about -- and more access to -- birth control, reproductive health care and sex ed. But the challenges in opening up these discussions run as deep as the 'hollers,' or valleys, that cut through these green hills."

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Good jobs news from West Paducah, Morganfield, Murray, Louisville, Glasgow, Frankfort, Florence, Lexington and Pikeville.

"Motivated to serve families and children in the family’s homes"? Hiring in Hopkinsville, Mayfield and Princeton.

Christmas parades: Irvington and Owensboro, Nov. 18; Central City, Nov. 19; Ashland, Nov. 21; Lebanon, Nov. 24; Brownsville and Danville, Nov. 25; Greenup, Nov. 28; Cumberland, London, Monticello and Richmond, Dec. 1; Arlington, Barbourville, Beaver Dam, Bowling Green, Cadiz, Corbin, Fordsville, Georgetown, Glasgow, Harlan, Hartford, Henderson, Lawrenceburg, Madisonville, Marion, Munfordville, Murray, Paducah ("a beautiful night for this wonderful community"), Somerset and Winchester, Dec. 2; Dawson Springs, Evarts and Nortonville, Dec. 3; Mount Sterling, Dec. 4; Lexington, Dec. 5; Bardstown, Dec. 7; Frankfort ("Saving Christmas") and Fredonia, Dec. 8; Augusta, Berea, Burnside, Cave City, Crofton ("no entry free and no theme"), Edmonton, Elkton, Hanson, Hopkinsville, Paintsville, Salem and Whitesville, Dec. 9, and La Center and Oak Grove, Dec. 16.

Across the last 60 years, Frankfort resident Patsy Faulconer and Pulaski County resident Doris Arnold, have been sending the same Christmas card back and forth, often in creative ways. https://t.co/BeqNBvaNoa pic.twitter.com/XJISvUx1Pr

— The State Journal (@statejournal) December 7, 2017

 

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A new monument in Madisonville (#FalconFabulous!)

Christmas parades: Irvington and Owensboro, Nov. 18; Danville, Nov. 25; Greenup, Nov. 28; London, Monticello and Richmond, Dec. 1; Barbourville, Beaver Dam, Fordsville, Georgetown, Hartford, Henderson, Madisonville, Murray, Somerset and Winchester, Dec. 2; Lexington, Dec. 5, and Elkton, Hanson and Hopkinsville, Dec. 9.

Good for Mr. Dennison's plan not to work so hard.

Baptist Health continues its expansion through acquisition.

NC2A ... #smh.

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Happy 29th tomorrow, Kevin Olusola, Owensboro-born "celloboxing" pioneer:

It's ham season in Trigg County.

Sue Grafton's Y Is For Yesterday and other new titles at the Nelson County Public Library.

Elkton is seeking a curbside leaf collector; the Daniel Boone Community Action Agency in Manchester, a transit driver.

Good jobs news from Barren County.

A lot of reasons! Love of history, love of Kentucky, love of records. #TheAnswerIsLove #AskAnArchivist https://t.co/4RnYlfERZg

— KY State Archives (@KYStateArchives) October 4, 2017

Gov. Bevin told WKYX that he thinks NCAA student-athletes should be paid.

"When we eat a meal together, good things happen in your family and those around you."

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Team praying for our nation. #standinthegap pic.twitter.com/3lIxlVvxeF

— Perry Thomas (@cutigercoach) October 2, 2017

The Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce reports 5,300 jobs in a 10-county region of southcentral Kentucky. That's down by 500 jobs since last month.

Is anyone interested in teaching welding in Elkton?

Douglas White in The Gleaner delivers an outstanding overview of tobacco farming in Henderson County, now and then.

The feds allege that a Harlan pharmacy went rogue, and its Lexington sugar daddies settle the score.

You can still reserve your spot for Laundry & Cleaning 101 at Caldwell County Extension today.

A-plus for Bullhorn Creative, the rare Kentucky "B Corp."