Oh, Kentucky

Oh, Kentucky

Here's the terrorist's history teacher from Union Randall K. Cooper High.

Here's the clueless Shively cop.

Here's the governor who apparently in the last two years has decided it's very crucial that we maintain on government property these monuments celebrating Confederate soldiers.

Here's the Republican state representative calling for removal of Confederate-related holidays from the state's books.

Here come the white nationalists to Lexington.

Oh, Kentucky

Rest in peace, the Rev. Dr. Coffman, a graduate of Russellville High at age 16; pastor of Christian churches in Daysville, Bethlehem, Cerulean, Madisonville, Middlesboro, Greenville, Bowling Green, Paducah and Guthrie; prolific Logan County historian; Kiwanis and Boy Scouts leader, and proud Vanderbilt grad who celebrated his 95th birthday earlier this year by showing his gold.

It's Unity Festival day at the Islamic Center of Bowling Green.

Kentucky for sale (but not tree today): "Native Americans and early American settlers, especially those in the Kentucky territory, roasted and ground the seeds to brew a coffee-like beverage (albeit no caffeine), hence the common name ..."

Northern Kentucky University sold one of its radio signals to the local operators of Dry Ridge's Classic Country 106.7 WNKR, and the price was $4 million cash and $1.3 million in advertising time.

It's a sellers' housing market in Lexington.

Kentucky beekeepers want to narrow the Kentucky Proud needle.

Good jobs news from Louisville.

Kentucky's unemployment up slightly last month https://t.co/Upt4kGC3Ks pic.twitter.com/xBoe9liw0q

— WHOP AM/FM (@WHOPradio) July 20, 2017

NASA warns to choose our eclipse glasses wisely.

Do the state corrections departments rules around prisoners and books violate the First and 14th amendments?

Speaking of reading, it's going to be interesting to check out this as a counterpoint to this.

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Rest in peace, Army Sgt. William Bays, 29-year-old Californian transplanted to Todd County, husband and father of three daughters.

Back to West Paducah.

Mr. Basketball 1986.

Kentuckian of the year:

We are losing the fight against police brutality in America. Period. https://t.co/695glBI0eV

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) June 22, 2017

Every day, the news is chock-full of the saddest and most desperate, pregnant opening scenes of movies, and about the only way I can bring myself to keep looking at them is to imagine the happiest, most unlikely endings.

Four thousand twenty-five homeless people in Kentucky.

The state is seeking to enlarge its diversity of adoptive families.

Two minutes and forty seconds each Aug. 21 in Allensville, Dycusburg, Fairview, Hopkinsville, Princeton and Salem ...

Tonight in Hoptown: "Mr. Eclipse."

Archaeology day camps for kids 9-11 start tomorrow at Wickliffe Mounds State Historic Site.

Good jobs news from Paducah.

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is coming to Etown!

Mall ready for Friday Night Thunder https://t.co/rrq0WKIqoO #somky pic.twitter.com/4VOy8DjWzn

— Somerset Kentucky (@Somerset_KY) June 22, 2017

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The history of @moreheadstate, from 1887 to present day, at 9/8 pm on KET. pic.twitter.com/sMD2sb6eYU

— KET (@KET) June 19, 2017

OK, I totally didn't even know there was such a thing as the "Pride In The Counties" Area at the state fair, and, if I was an Edmonson Contain, I'd totally want to do this.

You can't go to an aquarium in Morgantown, so the Newport Aquarium went there.

Knoth's of Grand Rivers: no beans, no potato salad, no more after Saturday.

WHOP reports that the (Frisch's) big (Boy) bucks of Cincinnati have cost the Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library its director.

The City of Paducah is hiring.

Calvert City continues takeover of the Kentucky Dam State Park Airport.

Todd County's multi-pronged eclipse strategy is outlined.

It appears as though a new Christmas parade might be in the cards for Beaver Dam!

Transitional centers for homeless youth are opening in Breathitt, Floyd, Knott and Pike counties.

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Christmas parades: Georgetown, Dec. 2, and Lexington, Dec. 6.

It's Burger Week, and Corbin's Travis' Cafe is blowing my mind with news of its "Quesadilla Burger."

The Henderson Farmers Market says "a big 'Thank You,' to the gentlemen in their lives."

Congratulations to the White House News Photographers Association’s 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award winner, J. Scott Applewhite, formerly of the College Heights Herald, The Gleaner and The Courier-Journal.

The Glasgow Daily Times' Gina Kinslow, another pro formerly of the Herald, sticks to just the facts, ma'am, in economically reporting the Cave City council session that resulted in the purchase of land from a member of the council.

Upon reading Darrell Bird's very interesting report for Cats Pause on Mitch Barnhart's experience on the NC2A selection committee for the men's basketball tournament, my feeling is now that the committee should, instead of meeting all season over which teams are selected for the tournament and how they're seeded, should meet all offseason over the mathematical formula by which the tournament is selected and seeded. And I believe those meetings should be open and streamed live at the NC2A website.

Placing Jefferson Davis in context, at long last.

Kuttawa is amping up its tourism game.

Good jobs news from Whitley County.

Here's the Hazard Bombers' jingle.

Seventy-six ANU-Pikeville Eagles are set to receive degrees and diplomas next week at the Church of Christ in Coal Run.

I didn't yet know to worry about this vinegar fly, but that's all over now.

Oh, Kentucky

You might score some good deals during the 400 Mile Sale in Kentucky. The sale kicks off tomorrow. https://t.co/3WpISGr6eK #WPSD pic.twitter.com/HBP4IsI95e

— WPSD Local 6 (@WPSDLocal6) May 31, 2017

Hey, Kentucky made The Guardian!

I am scared to death of drugs.

Good jobs news in Hickory.

The Monroe County fiscal court mulls what to do next after construction bids for Tompkinsville's planned new fire station came in higher than budgeted.

No more trolley service in Corbin.

Paducah's old Coke plant sounds like a blast: "The Coca-Cola Bottling Plant was constructed in 1939 and operated as a major bottler and distribution center for almost fifty years.  The two-story building has red brick trimmed with Bedford, Indiana limestone.  The trapezoidal shape building is situated on a triangular lot.  Businesses currently housed in the building include Dry Ground Brewing Company, Pipers Tea and Coffee, Ice Cream Factory, Ochre, True North Yoga Studio, Time on the String, Socially Present, and Mellow Mushroom."

Oh, Kentucky

Same sex marriage opponents praying in Ky rotunda as Casey Co Clerk meets with @GovSteveBeshear @WHAS11 pic.twitter.com/kCgcCAf8N2

— Joe Arnold (@joearnoldreport) July 9, 2015

"Accordingly, this newspaper will follow the law of the land, and we will be publishing same-sex engagements and same-sex marriage announcements."

"Great strides," but Breathitt County Schools remain under state control.

"Brother against brother over Civil War statue."

Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back, by Robert Penn Warren, by The Kaintuckeean.


Code Louisville's Obama bump.

Employment in Kentucky has rebounded to surpass its 2007 and 2008, per a study from the state chamber.

Speaking of #throwbackThursday, here's Bowling Green's Ty Barc rocking "Whispers" in 1978 ...

Fazoli's, founded in Lexington in 1989, has been sold.

Jimi Hendrix playing with the 101st Airbourne while stationed in Fort Campbell, Kentucky in 1962. pic.twitter.com/yOKCumRrQz

— Historical Images (@Historicalmages) July 9, 2015

Mark your calendars.

Prayers for Paducah.

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No. 3!

Danvillle @Kentuckyweather @micahharriswx @JimWKYT @jmloss81 @MikeLindenWX @danvilleky pic.twitter.com/Ef8ZgvZFTo

— Jolene Blevins (@BlevinsJolene) June 27, 2015

Every so often, the "You know you're from Paducah KY when..." Facebook group turns into detailed discussion of Paducah's donut landscape, and I always love it when that happens.

If you live in western Kentucky around you interact with any farmers/gardeners at all, it really is critical to figure out what to do with all of the squash and zucchini.

The Barren County Attorney has a bat problem.

Paducah's atomic plant is coming down.

Good jobs news from Robards.

Foggy morning for @TigerWoods and @GovSteveBeshear @GbrClassic pro-am. #pgatour pic.twitter.com/XbjoH4suFN

— PGA TOUR Media (@PGATOURmedia) July 1, 2015

How to, in Lebanon.

Celebrating the Fourth, in Fairview.

Rest in peace, Laurie Davison, passionate director of the Salato Wildlife Education Director, the "epitome of a conservationist" and parent of two.

Oh, Kentucky

"I have instructed the Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives to provide revised marriage license forms to our county clerks for immediate use, beginning today."

#BBN!

"Black Lives Matter" spray-painted on pedestal of John Hunt Morgan statue at old Fayette County Courthouse. pic.twitter.com/97EppbY1ls

— HLpublicsafety (@HLpublicsafety) June 26, 2015

Here's hoping for a split in the Florida voting bloc.

Good jobs report in every county except Russell.

Good jobs news in North and South Carolina, via Nicholasville.

Pawn, cell-phone repair and (soon) paycheck advance, now open for biz, seven days a week in Middlesboro.

Oh, Kentucky

"We shouldn't live in a country where you start tearing down monuments. There are more important things that the legislators should be doing, like addressing mental health for the fella that killed all those folks."

After Louisville's bag ban.

Spot checked an impressive #Hemp crop in Harrison Co 2day w/Brian Furnish. KY is the leading state in Hemp Production pic.twitter.com/CuQxcOB9B0

— James Comer (@KYComer) June 22, 2015

Christmas parades: Murray, Dec. 5.

Oh, Kentucky

Player intros underway for the 2014 KHSAA Boys Tennis Championship Team Finals. St. X vs McCracken Co. #khstn pic.twitter.com/dlr1aW86A4
— Joe Angolia (@jangoliakhsaa) May 15, 2014

And then Louisville Saint Xavier and Sacred Heart repeated as the boys' and girls' KHSAA tennis champions.

Memorial Day is May 26, but Whitesville isn't going to wait.

The John Hunt Morgan exhibit is charging into Fairview before riding on to Columbus.

If it's election time in Elkton, it's a little tougher to get your hands on a Todd County Standard.

The Old Ledbetter Bridge isn't just falling down; it's coming down--starting June 10.

And: "We just started the new Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Burrito, but it’s for a limited time only. So, if you like hot, I recommend getting one."

Also, it's time to get your act together if you're going to enjoy Lewisburg's spectacular Purple Martin Festival.

We Believe In Owensboro (WBIO) calls the drop in Kentucky joblessness to 7.7 percent is "encouraging," but the jobs news is, on balance, bad, says the state's chamber-of-commerce director.

Washington, D.C., pictures

I lived in Washington, D.C., for a few years in the 1990s, and I always enjoyed taking pictures of the Washington Monument. I loved the Washington Monument, as it always reminded me of western Kentucky. Anyway, here are some of those pictures, taken in 1998.

And here's a picture of the Capitol.

And here's a picture of Mary Tyler Moore, signing books at a DuPont Circle bookstore.

And here's a picture of a barbecue restaurant in the Maryland suburbs that was operated by George Starke, who played offensive tackle on some great Washington Redskins teams in the 1970s and '80s.

Oh, Kentucky

"The Internet is just getting started … we don't want to risk losing those abilities."

"If there was one thing we knew about in Letcher County at that time, it was how to stuff a ballot box."

"Facebook has been alive with congratulatory and complimentary remarks about the new coach and about Logan County's decision to hire him."

"It's seven-on-seven, for goodness' sake. You understand me? That's all it is. It is what it is, all right? Get out there and compete. You understand me?" Ah, ... well, ...?

The YMCA is coming to Stanton--and now so is one of my all-time-favorite Miami Dolphins.

Wet/dry is up for vote in Franklin, too.

Suspended in history in Fairview.

Bicycle-friendlier in Prestonsburg.

Good jobs news from Bowling Green and Elizabethtown. Ripple effects to the bad in Hazard.

Oh, Kentucky

UK's Eric Quigley of Pewee Valley plays for the NCAA men's singles tennis championship at 11 a.m. Central today. Back at Crestwood South Oldham High School, Quigley won 66 consecutive matches--including the 2005, '06, '07 and '08 KHSAA championships. He was the first Kentuckian to win four straight high-school boys' singles state titles since Gary Plock of Louisville Ballard did so, 1971-74, immediately following the four straight championships of Louisville Saint Xavier's Tim Cooper. (Cooper followed his basketball Jones, however, and played on U of L's 1972 Final Four squad.)

Slaughters last week said goodbye, presumably forever, to its school after 95 years of operation. It hadn't been a high school since 1964. The blue-and-gold Panthers never won a regional basketball championship.

"Kentucky sometimes gets a bad rap in the discussion of best sections on the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail."

$14.95 plus shipping.

More frugal than we even realized.

"200.00 reward is offered for the return of a wallet that was lost yesterday at Columbia Walmart. It's black and sequined with lips on the front of it. There was only 2 dollars in it and I'm not concerned with that, but there was also a fake necklace in it that was given to me by my husband and if anyone knows where it is or has any information on it, I would greatly appreciate it."

Obama-2012: The president clobbered "Uncommitted," 239-163, last week in Grayson County.

Rest in peace, Mrs. Young, first and prolific volunteer at the West Kentucky Veterans Center.

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Obama-2012: 479-479 in Calloway County.

Romney-2012: Uncommitted didn't fare nearly as well in the Republican primary, but it did finish second to the nominee-to-be in both Lawrence and Whitley counties.

GOP-2012: Tea time, still, in Kentucky.

Paducah-2012.

Turnout was a state-low 5.59 percent in Todd County.

"There is nothing we would be more proud of than that, in the general election of 2012, Adair County should have 100% of eligible voters registered, and that turnout would be 95-100% of the voters."

Lack of insurance and registration short-circuits a KKK recruiting trip to Beaver Dam.

204 spankings for Jefferson Davis.

Another milestone in Wickliffe Mounds history.

Summertime, finally, in Providence!

For some reason, Bowling Green's Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky, which came in No. 1 nationally in Newsweek's ranking, was not included in the U.S. News & World Report rankings--leaving Louisville duPont Manual as the state's top-rated high school in that magazine.

Bump ahead for Floyd County employees.

Fewer teachers in Hazard.

Help pick Union County High's next principal.

Oh, Kentucky

Bowling Green: For the entrepreneur ... Murray: For the friendly fisherman ... Lexington: For the horse lover ... Paducah: For the folk art lover.

And the doodler.

"Let's get it started (ha). Let's get it started in here."

"If you start me up, ..."

London's WWEL, "SAM (Simply About Music)" 103.9 FM, is streaming live anew, and the first song I heard this morning was REO Speedwagon's "Take It On The Run," which has as good an opening line for a rock-and-roll lyric as you're ever going to hear.

New tour dates announced for the Kentucky Historical Society: Madisonville and Louisville.

KET News Quiz!

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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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"Rise!"

"Mr. Baseball" chooses U of L over the Blue Jays.

Fairview rallies for its flagging Post Office.

Good jobs news from Fountain Run, Lexington, Mayfield and Simpsonville. Bad from Columbia.

Education governor of the year!

"It will be the largest overseas deployment since World War II for the Kentucky guard."

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Hey, cool ... the wife of Johnny Carson's producer was a Kentuckian, from Dover and Centre College.

What do you want to know about "anything related to Lake Barkley, Kentucky Lake, Land Between the Lakes or the 7 surrounding counties"?

Good question, probably frm Nola Sizemore of the Harlan Daily Enterprise: "When asked about his vision regarding roads for Harlan County, Abramson said infrastructure is 'really important.' He said businesses won’t come to areas where they can’t get raw materials in and finished products out. 'My understanding is two sections of U.S. 421 have been finished, and a third of it is on the six-year road plan,' said Abramson. 'The commitment is to finish it — it’s time to finish it, and we’re certainly going to do everything we can to get that finished. We know it’s important for the moving of goods and services and people in and out of Harlan County.'"

This just in from Fairview!

Magic bus in Cadiz.

I would wholeheartedly support Rand Paul's resignation from the U.S. Senate to move from Bowling Green to Ludlow and bring some clear-eyed, refreshing small-government leadership to that town.

"I want my Cracker Barrel back!"

Speaking of limited government, ... they are in Grayson, Hazard and Burlington.

Here's your Heath Post Kentucky Bureau review of Battle: Los Angeles: BOO!

Boys' one and done: Sending off the Fourth Region Dragons.