Oh, Kentucky

Urban areas of Kentucky have seen strong job growth since the recovery started around 2010, but rural areas have seen “essentially no job growth." https://t.co/hqPbfUzlIY

— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) August 28, 2018

Hiring (for a librarian) in Frankfort.

The CrossFit craze reaches Nicholasville.

"Market 606" comes to downtown Paintsville Saturday night.

Happy days are here again in Wickliffe, and Ronnie McDowell hasn't even gotten to town yet ...

Don of Brownie is not on the docket, but the Everly Brothers Rock-'n'-Roll Cruise In commences tonight in Central City, and that's reason enough to again post this great thing ...

If it's not Connie or Dawn on the line, it's not The Cadiz Record or Trigg County Chamber of Commerce calling you.

Congratulations, Logan "Bud" Shown, on 20 years of service to Habitat for Humanity in Ohio County and beyond!

The new Lebanon Junction fire chief takes over from his brother, who took over from their dad.

The No. 16 community college in the whole freaking country is combating food insecurity on its campus.

Bardstown is getting proactive about its cigarette-butt problem.

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Christmas parades: Owensboro, Nov. 18; Barbourville, Fordsville, Georgetown, Madisonville, Murray and Winchester, Dec. 2; Lexington, Dec. 6, and Hopkinsville, Dec. 9.

Except for an uptick in 2006, donations to Paducah's Telethon of Stars have been on the slide since their peak in 1997, per a Channel 6 graph. Last year's total of $228,410 in gifts appears to be about on par with 1971 giving.

Continuing a fantastic but chilling series, Elizabeth Klibanoff with the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting surveys Kentucky's hate-group landscape.

"Hero."

Rest in peace, Mr. Atwell, "Caverna's most successful man."

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Mark your calendars for this free family-friendly Oktoberfest! pic.twitter.com/xfVX3psdNk

— Boone County Library (@boonelibrary) September 12, 2017

Christmas parades: Owensboro, Nov. 18; Barbourville, Georgetown, Madisonville and Winchester, Dec. 2; Lexington, Dec. 6, and Hopkinsville, Dec. 9.

Thomas George came home to Paducah to promote his latest book, and it turns out that he's in a bit of a tiff with Mike Martz.

Good jobs news from Jamestown and Madisonville.

Fiber to the home in Bowling Green.

Shaun King is almost certainly getting my vote for Kentuckian of the Year, but mad props to Rachel Ritchie, too.

Gov. Bevin suggests to post-secondary educators that Kentucky's colleges should cut departments not producing graduates who are in high demand among industry.

Rest in peace, Mr. Leach of Fordsville, Marines rifleman, truck driver and widower/father/grandfather.

Uni

Oh, Kentucky (1969)

The 1969 desk takes a road trip from Hoptown to Hartford.

"Your Picture Newspaper" put the following picture of the 11th District basketball champs on Page 1 of the March 13, 1969, edition. The Eagles ripped the Fordsville Trojans, 145-59, and then turned back the (1965-state-champion) Breckinridge County Tigers, 75-59, to win the district tournament.

"Ohio County played Drakesboro last night in the opening game of the regional tournament at Owensboro," added the Page 15 story. "Results of the game were not known at press time."

Says Wikipedia: "Ohio County is famous for its coal mines, which in the 1970s produced much of the nation's coal."

In 1969, though, basketball appeared to be a big deal. Here's a brief about some sort of rec-league game that ended 107-106!

I love newspaper activities like these.

 

Listing the hospital's visiting hours right there with the admissions is a brilliant stroke of community building.

Clean sweep for ol' OCHS ...

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Good jobs news from Bowling Green, Hebron and Lexington.

Bad guard-rail news.

Judge to hold conference call in Eggner's Ferry Bridge lawsuit: http://t.co/lBwNiW72uJ #WPSD pic.twitter.com/SuAROxO2rw
— WPSD Local 6 (@WPSDLocal6) December 1, 2014

“I have always envisioned General Burnside Island being developed into a world-class resort destination.”

"It was an event that proved Hazard is not a little coal town gone bust."

Christmas parades are hot and heavy around the commonwealth. My wife and daughter and I got out to a bit of Owensboro's early-bird affair last Saturday, and it was grand. Ashland's, Bardstown's and Louisville's parades happened in the last few days, and now things are poised to really rock: Lexington, Dec. 2; Catlettsburg, Russell and Taylorsville; Dec. 4; Danville and Monticello, Dec. 5; Berea, Bowling Green, Cadiz, Calhoun, Columbia, Fordsville, Harlan, Island, Morganfield, Paducah, Shelbyville and Winchester, Dec. 6; Dawson Springs and Evarts, Dec. 7, and Benton, Livermore and Sacramento, Dec. 13. 

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Condolensces to John Calipari and family.

Bowling Green is getting ready. Belfry and Hazard are getting ready. Mayfield and Hopkinsville are getting ready. The KHSAA is getting ready.

It's an unsettling time for ice-cream fans in northern Kentucky.

Travels with Pidge.

There are only 25 shopping days left until Christmas.

Mad props to Murray State.

Even madder to the Ohio County sheriff's department.