Showing posts with label Frenchburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frenchburg. Show all posts

Friday, November 15, 2019

Oh, Kentucky



"While in the audience of that open meeting, Mayor Perros made a joke about Convention and Visitors Bureau Director Jennifer Kirchner not wearing socks as she gave a presentation, which Magistrate Phil Sammons took to another level by commenting on the attractiveness of her legs." Bobbie Curd, in Danville's Advocate-Messenger, delivers another example of contemporary American journalism's typically stellar meeting coverage.

Even if the grid fails, Fort Knox reportedly--by the garrison commander, to the Hardin County Chamber of Commerce, via Mary Alford in Elizabethtown's News-Enterprise--can power itself back up within 11 minutes.

Deborah Fallows in The Atlantic:
Reporting from those who live or spend time in Kentucky, be that in newsletters or rural press, adds a nuance of understanding that delivers insistent stories of a contaminated water supply, leaky and crumbling pipes, wastewater pipe shortages, industrial leaks and spills, a declining tax base from mine closures, rising water costs, and all the humanly compelling drama that ensues. 
Then the cascade begins. The women bathe the babies, who then develop rashes. The women drive them long distances to see doctors, which is costly and time-consuming. Researching medical counsel or the alternatives of telemedicine often demand broadband connections, which are scarce, spotty, or thin in poor, rural America. Navigating coverage of telehealth from insurance companies is, as you’d imagine, complicated. And of course, all these steps require technology, transportation, and bill-paying, not to mention the wherewithal to accomplish them.
Hiring in Barbourville, Booneville, Frenchburg and Prestonsburg.

Silver Grove Independent School is no more.

Turning to sports, Sunday's your day for (free) ice skating in Corbin; Emma Talley looks back on "the hardest year of my golf career" (and reflects on Jeremiah 29:11), and WKU's Ty Storey is your Manning Award Quarterback of the Week!

Christmas parades: Sharpsburg, Nov. 9; Owensboro, Nov. 23; Louisville, Nov. 29; Pikeville, Nov. 30; 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.

Monday, January 7, 2019

Oh, Kentucky



Beware of bears in Dwale.

Unemployment is highest in Magoffin, lowest in Woodford and below 10 percent in all 120 Kentucky counties.

Bad jobs news for Pikeville/good for Morehead.

The sale of Marion's hospital is complete, and The Crittenden Press reports that the deal stipulates that 36 services must continue to be offered locally for at least three years.

Christmas18 parades: Owensboro, Nov. 17; Ashland, Nov. 20; Brownsville, Nov. 24; Cumberland and Fredonia, Nov. 30; Arlington, Barbourville, Berea, Cadiz, Calvert City, Carlisle, Clinton, Columbia, Hawesville, Jenkins, Lawrenceburg, Leitchfield, Lewisport, Madisonville, Marion, Murray, Paducah, Somerset and Whitley City, Dec. 1; Bowling Green, Dawson Springs (great play-by-play here on the planning and execution from the local Progress), Glasgow and Salyersville, Dec. 2; Lexington, Dec. 4; Bardstown and Greenup, Dec. 6; Frankfort, Maysville, Monticello, Perryville, Richmond and Smiths Grove, Dec. 7; Benton, Elkton, Eubank, Harlan, Hopkinsville, Horse Cave, Loretto, Louisa, Middlesboro, Munfordville, Quality, PikevillePrestonsburg and Stamping Ground, Dec. 8; Grayson, Dec. 11; Whitesburg, Dec. 14; Burnside, La Center, Manchester, Neon and Rabbit Hash, Dec. 15.

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Oh, Kentucky

 

Christmas parades: Irvington and Owensboro, Nov. 18; Ashland, Nov. 21; Lebanon, Nov. 24; Danville, Nov. 25; Greenup, Nov. 28; Cumberland, London, Monticello and Richmond, Dec. 1; Barbourville, Beaver Dam, Fordsville, Georgetown, Harlan, Hartford, Henderson, Lawrenceburg, Madisonville, Murray, Somerset (when the tree will be lit) and Winchester, Dec. 2; Dawson Springs and Evarts, Dec. 3; Mount Sterling, Dec. 4; Lexington, Dec. 5; Bardstown, Dec. 7; Frankfort, Dec. 8; Augusta, Cave City, Elkton, Hanson and Hopkinsville, Dec. 9, and Oak Grove, Dec. 16.

Kentucky for sale (including Delbert Barker of Frenchburg and then Ohio):


"It's true you can't take the hills out of the boy" (including Charles Manson of Ohio and then Ashland and maybe Mousie, etc.)

Bobcats in Boone County? Not too much of a problem--but keep your house cats inside.

Friday, December 6, 2013

Oh, Kentucky




Given that they were already getting off to follow the football state championships in Bowling Green today, the Mayfield school kids should get together and sue to get an extra day off. It seems only fair.


Lots of rescheduling and not-rescheduling news to follow for the boys on the Christmas-parades beat: Lebanon, Maysville (odds are good for a Santa appearance) and Smiths Grove, today; Beaver Dam/Hartford, Bradfordville, Clinton, Columbia, Frenchburg, Glasgow, Greenville, HendersonHorse Cave, Lawrenceburg, Madisonville, Marion, Middlesboro, Munfordville, Paducah, Princeton, Shelbyville and Somerset, Dec. 7; Evarts and Owenton, Dec. 8; Clay and Richmond, Dec. 13; Benton, Cave City, Elkton, HopkinsvilleLa Center, Murray and Stamping Ground, Dec. 14, and Central City, Dec. 15.

Shocker.


Good jobs news from Morganfield.


Have I ever mentioned how much I love #TBT?