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There's a lot of stuff going on--wars and refugees, churches and cities, the 1970s and Vietnam, the 1980s and Japan, etc.--in this fascinating Georgetown News-Graphic article by Jackie Anders on the sale of the Cardome to the Catholic Diocese of Lexington. I had to read it a couple of times to take it all in, and I'm glad I did.

Bath County High has a (beautiful) new fine-arts wing. 

The NWSL is coming to Louisville.

"With forward-thinking public officials and involved volunteer groups, the rebirth of downtown Winchester will continue unabated."

"The report brings up many good questions for Danville and Boyle County. How are we doing on being a rural development hub? Are we setting our community up to succeed long-term in a world where everyone thinks rural communities are dying? How are we doing on improving quality of life, particularly for our most vulnerable populations? Are we resisting changes that could have huge impacts because we are risk-averse? Are we putting too much emphasis on old economic development methods and measuring sticks? How well are we working regionally?"

"Too big of a challenge to focus on our differences."

Free Thanksgiving dinner, in Ashland. (And Whitesburg.) (And Wurtland.)

Free Christmas trees, at LBL.

Christmas parades: Sharpsburg, Nov. 9; Owensboro, Nov. 23; Central City, Nov. 24; Lebanon and Louisville, Nov. 29; Brownsville, Greensburg, Guthrie, Mayfield and Pikeville, Nov. 30; Boyce, Dawson Springs and Murray, Dec. 1; Bardstown, Dec. 5; Fredonia, Harrodsburg, Hopkinsville, London, Monticello, Pineville, Richmond and Trenton, Dec. 6; Barbourville, Berea, Bowling Green, Cadiz, Calvert City, Columbia, Corbin, Cynthiana, Danville, Frankfort, Glasgow, Grayson, Hawesville, Henderson, Lawrenceburg, Lexington, Madisonville, Marion, Middlesboro, Morgantown, Murray, Owingsville, Paducah, Rabbit Hash, Scottsville, Shelbyville, Somerset, Trenton, Versailles, Whitley City and Winchester, Dec. 7; Georgetown, Dec. 8; Cave City, Dec. 10; Burkesville, Burnside, Elkton, Providence, 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.

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You're going to want to check this list before you get your LBL on.

Madisonville's Dr. Festus Claybon Memorial Park is getting a new football field and all-inclusive playground.

Sam Adler Bell delivers in New Internationalist an economical, power-packed 2,300 words on eastern Kentucky and coal's decline.

100 years for Lexington-based A&W, purchased by its franchisees from YUM! Brands in 2011.

Rest in peace, Lt. Brown, Covington firefighter of 25 years who "found little blessings in helping people."

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Will Perkins with the Glasgow Daily Times delivers a lively feature from Farm Safety Day for Metcalfe County Middle School students. It sounds like quite an elaborate event--on the working family farm of a high-school ag teacher, 40 stations focused on different aspects of farm safety and involvement from businesses from as far away as Elizabethtown and Glasgow. "It's just a super, hands-on learning experience," said an advanced-placement biology teacher.

I'll tell you what also sounds great: the Tennessee River-Line trails project!

Mayor updates on Rite Aid renovation; groundbreaking set for new water planthttps://t.co/Oiqx2KT5FU pic.twitter.com/sKLJZO2sOL

— Grayson News-Gazette (@gcnewsgazette) May 10, 2019

Paper recycling? Yes in Covington, no in Lexington.

It's signing day for Madisonville Community College's advanced-manufacturing prospects.

The 2019 Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute (ELI) class at Somerset's Center for Rural Development has been named. "ELI provides high school students in Southern and Eastern Kentucky with an in-depth look at what it takes to start their own business venture — from idea development to building a model prototype of their business concept."

Hiring in Harlan.

A residential treatment center for drug-addicted women and their children is planned for Clay County.

The Russell County Detention Center is moving to a higher-tech approach to identifying and tracking inmates, and the jailer interviewed on WJRS of Russell Springs--FM 104.9, "Lake Cumberland's Best Country"--sounds realistic but generally optimistic.

Three Murray State students shared their findings on "trauma journalism" with The Paducah Sun.

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Just a fantastic and inspiring feature in the Lexington Herald-Leader from Will Wright of Report for America: The People, Yes.

More Yes: Lashana Harney has a good one in The Winchester Sun on a retiring Bluegrass Community and Technical College professor and her enjoyment of "the application and then thinking critically, mastering concepts."

Astronomy Day is coming up next month, and the West Kentucky Amateur Astronomers have a full day of interesting free programming planned at LBL, and I'm invited, and so are you. Yes! Yes! YES!

Metcalfe County does not have a jail, but it does have a jailer, and now the jailer has newly approved direction on compensation and responsibilities.

The Section 8 waiting list is being reopened in Lawrence County.

Kentucky for sale:

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$25K to "Grow Rural Education" in Ballard County.

Solar-powered wine, from Pulaski County.

"Load your guns, lock your doors," says the sheriff in Martin County.

Rallying for Paradise.

Kentucky's infrastructure report card: C-minus.

Retiring in Kentucky? Keep looking.

Kentucky is big for Sasquatch sightings, with Anderson County leading the way, per an interesting Marie Mitchell column for the Richmond Register.

Turning to sports, John Wall is coming back, and Matt House reportedly couldn't leave.

Hiring in Madisonville and Central City (part-time MCC faculty in all sections).

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The governor, on the radio in northeastern Kentucky: "Where do you draw the line? ... What I do think is appropriate is to call down any racism, any bigotry, to call it out for the heinous stance that it is, regardless of what corner it comes from. It doesn’t matter if it comes from a white supremacist; it doesn’t matter if it comes from an anarchist; it doesn’t matter if it comes from Black Lives Matter person; wherever hatred and bigotry comes from, it should be called out. It should be scorned and shut down. There should be no tolerance of it in society."

Unanimous in Lexington.

An online petition is calling for the removal of a Confederate statue in Paducah and the renaming of a school. https://t.co/Rl5hX1obdP

— WKMS (@wkms) August 15, 2017

Meanwhile, in Hoptown, ...

McCracken County commissioner Bill Bartleman brokers a compromise on the flea-market fireworks show around the eclipse in Paducah.

Meanwhile, at Ferrell's, ...

Broadband for all in Graves County--even Symsonia and Water Valley.

Good jobs news from Campbellsville.

Hiring in Horse Cave (pressman trainee/$9.50 per hour).

Kentucky (probably) for sale (from New Mexico) ...

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"Totality alley."

#VivaLaVue!

You can get a certified Gig in Adairville, Auburn and Lewisburg.

Ballard County has a new judge-executive, and he's a Class-of-'84 Bomber.

Lexington is getting a fourth skate park; Benton, a new library.

Murray is considering payroll and net-profit taxes, and, in a shocker, 73 percent of the businesses and other members surveyed by the local chamber oppose the proposal, WestKentuckyStar.com reports.

WEKU says Williamstown's Ark Encounter has appealed for a break on the $700,000 bill for increased police and fire services but that the city says, uh, no.

Hoptown's north-side IGA is closing.

Good jobs news in Somerset.

Rest in peace, Mr. Reno, a former McLean County magistrate, multiple-term county clerk, Sacramento Lions Club charter member, district Lions wheel and husband of Mrs. Reno for 68 years.

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"THE RICHMOND REGISTER GARAGE SALE INTERACTIVE MAP" is the best. The! Best!

Also, in Monroe County, "MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR A BIG WEEKEND!"

"RISE UP MADISONVILLE" on Sunday morning.

On his visit to see the Democrats in Marshall County, supported by the Democrats in Calloway County, Martin O'Malley tells Channel 6 that he might again run for president.

Meanwhile, Rep. Comer ... "I'm continuing my mission to hold a town hall in all 35 counties in the first district. I recently just finished my 18th town hall, and I'm now halfway to the goal."

I think Brian D. McLaren gets his bracketing exactly right in The Christian Century: "A church that goes against the grain in a politically and socially conservative area has three main options. It can be a community for liberal refugees, a place for the political or social minority to gather with kindred spirits. Or it can be a bridge-building community, seeking to bring together people who see things differently, helping them understand and perhaps influence each other. Or it can be an activist community, seeking to change the social and political climate of the region in a progressive direction." The pastor at Morgantown Community Church counts his congregation in McLaren's first category.

I love Cadiz's downtown antique mall, and I love ice cream, and I love driving old U.S. 68, so I am thrilled by this WKDZ report.

Hiring in Lyon County, too.

Good jobs news from Coal Run Village and Debord.

July 4 fireworks are returning to Winchester.

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ICYMI: Video: Mitch McConnell was greeted by chanting protesters as he arrived at lunch in Lawrenceburg on Tuesday https://t.co/7L2ROIPodj pic.twitter.com/3pHrRdV0IS

— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) February 22, 2017

Life is challenging enough without having to worry about a giant Asian carp leaping into the air and hitting you in the face as you drive by in your boat.

Dayton considers possibilities for capitalizing on its Slush Puppie heritage.

I could spend all day reading and thinking about Kentucky newspaper obituaries. Two in today's Madisonville Messenger are both great. Rest in peace, Mr. Crockett, a Kerco pipe fitter of 23 years (and friend of "Rowdy," presumably), and Mr. Hubbard, a Flint, Michigan, native who retired from GM and then served as a deacon at Earlington General Baptist for 13 years.

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Until Christmas eve, you can cut down and take a cedar tree for free from (a lot of) Land Between the Lakes.

#Snow falling at Kingdom Come #StatePark. Tag us in all your #kystateparks snow pics if it's snowing in your park.❄️ https://t.co/A6s0zdDo2v pic.twitter.com/J7BEWdILi7

— KentuckyStateParks (@KYStateParks) December 9, 2016

Christmas parades: Owensboro, Nov. 19; Ashland, Nov. 22; Lebanon, Nov. 25; Brownsville and Sebree, Nov. 26; Bardstown and Tompkinsville, Dec. 1; Lawrenceburg, London, Louisa, Maysville, Monticello and Richmond, Dec. 2; Arlington, Beaver Dam/Hartford, Beaver Dam/Hartford, Berea, Bowling Green, Cadiz (in 59 pictures), Calvert City, Clinton, Columbia, Corbin, Flatwoods, Frankfort, Franklin, Glasgow, Grayson, Greenville, Guthrie, Harlan, Henderson, Horse Cave, Leitchfield, Madisonville, Manchester, Marion, Morgantown, Munfordville, Murray, Paducah, Paintsville, Paris, Richardsville, Salyersville, Somerset, Scottsville and Winchester, Dec. 3; Boyce, Nortonville, Owenton and Schochoh, Dec. 4; Hickman and Lexington, Dec. 6; Augusta, Benton, Burnside ("the only town on Lake Cumberland"), Cave City, Crofton, Edmonton, Elizabethtown, Elkton, Hopkinsville, La Center, Livermore, Nicholasville, Pikeville, Princeton, Quality, Salem and Williamsburg, Dec. 10, and Auburn, Dec. 11.

Regarding the homeless of Hopkinsville.

Rules are rules, Fort Wright Chick-fil-A.

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Rest in peace, Dennis Fradin (1945-2012), who was not from Kentucky and “whose works were lauded for both their meticulous research and accessibility to young readers, and he delved into subjects ranging from natural disasters (Earthquakes: Witness to Disaster) to the American Revolution (Samuel Adams: The Father of American Independence, The Boston Tea Party and Let It Begin Here! Lexington & Concord: First Battles of the American Revolution),” per the Chicago Tribune. 

Kentucky for sale.

The 7-1 Belfry High School Pirates, the three-time defending Class 3A Kentucky High School Athletic Association football champs, host Pike County Central tonight, and it'll be Game 3,001 (or so) for the school's stats guy of 38 years, Bennett West.

Tom T. Hall could come out of retirement and do an album called, "The Eggner's Ferry Bridge." Each song could be about some real or imagined event involving the bridge, and certainly this one, from 1940, would be the subject of one of the tunes.

A study indicates about half of Kentucky's kids have tooth problems.

Hardin County apparently can't get enough of Beef O'Brady's, and the feeling's mutual.

More Kentuckians than ever are registered to vote. More than 100,000 new voters--including 46,328 registering Republican and 44,712 registering Democrat--are now on the rolls.

The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth have been fasting and praying for peace Tuesdays through Election Day since the summer.

The state supreme court struck down Lexington's and Louisville's minimum-wage hikes.

Good jobs news from Louisville.

The state's first home for woman veterans is open, in Lexington.

Kentucky State University, Frankfort Independent Schools and a North Carolina foundation are working together to boost STEM participation among African-American boys.

Survey says ..., in Cadiz.

Debt-free, since 2014 in Lyon County.

Here are the stories that made our front page pic.twitter.com/likibCY82X

— Kentucky New Era (@KentuckyNewEra) October 21, 2016

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Ready to vote in western Kentucky? Channel 12 is.

Kentucky for sale: "ALL OF OUR GEODES COME FORM CREEKS AND THE BACK WOODS OF KENTUCKY …"

LBL’s Energy Lake, Hillman Ferry, Piney and Wranglers campgrounds want part of that sweet eclipse action.

Marion County Public Library is turning itself into a "makerspace."

Good jobs news from Central City.

Ellie and Finn's parents update The Lane Report on challenges and opportunities for the Berea-based EllieFinn healthy-snacks business.

Here's hoping you find that pot of gold. Beautiful double rainbow over Paducah this morning. #WPSDWx pic.twitter.com/iATsh8IQMz

— WPSD Local 6 (@WPSDLocal6) October 20, 2016

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The armadillos have reached Pulaski County.

An unidentifed good Samaritan and the Krypton Fire Department saved the Yerkes U.S. Post Office from catastrophe; the Avawam Post Office is helping out until Yerkes is back up and running, and the Perry County Sheriff's Department, Kentucky State Police, WYMT, YouTube and The Hazard Herald are working together to help track down a suspected arsonist. YEAH!!!

This week in Lebanon:

Looking back at Golden Pond.

Good jobs news from Henderson.

Christmas parades: Owensboro, Nov. 19; Glasgow, Dec. 3, and Pikeville, Dec. 10.

Rest in peace, Joe Bailey of Williamsburg, "an educator, an outdoorsman, musician, businessman, but mostly a great human," per Corbin’s Times-Tribune.

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Hurrah!

A prodigious rainbow appeared over Christian County on Wednesday, and the WHOP Facebook feed was all over it:

Per Gina Kinslow in the Glasgow Daily Times, local officials aren't going so far to call it an economic boom, but "there's a lot going on in Cave City."

The Pulaski County Park expansion plans includes more RV sites, a miniature-golf course, more trails, a splash park, a new playground, etc.

Activities at the Beaver Dam Strawberry Festival include the opportunity to shoot "old west Colt 45s" on Monday.

The ruby-throated hummingbirds are back from Central America to summer at Land Between the Lakes, and you can watch them and their friends live here ...

Bad jobs news from Lexington. Good from Bardstown.

Hurrah, too, for this fantastic story from T.J. Caudill on a Hazard hotel breaking away from a national chain, making various enhancements and keeping full employment.

Public K-12 classes around Kentucky are shutting down for summer, but the KHSAA baseball and softball tournaments are still each a couple of weeks out.

One last hurrah: "BEST NEW THING IN MADISONVILLE and one of the reasons we live in the Best Town on Earth--folks who work to take care of 'the least of these' and folks who have the courage to accept the invitation."

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And more from the April, May and June 1969 editions of Hopkinsville's Kentucky New Era ...

Good jobs news for Hoptown ... American Snuff is out, and English candy is in ... Volt sporting goods ... a new mall ...

Turning to sports, ...

Maybe it was George McGinnis's extra motivation, or maybe it was Dick Lugar's pep talk, but this is not going to end well for the Kentuckians ...

When Tom Payne of Louisville Shawnee signed on with UK, it made A1 in Hoptown ...

No, he's not ...

This Tilghman grad ended up with a laudable career record of 31-21 and 3.89 ERA in five minor-league seasons ...

Finally, tonight, from Calvert City, ...

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Meet the Artists of Paducah.

Hold the chickens in Lawrenceburg.

Good jobs news in Hopkinsville and Morgantown.

The Todd County Public Library has gone bike-friendly.

Is the state getting ready to take over Menifee County schools?

Emotions ran high at the first public forum at Land Between the Lakes last night. http://t.co/kRsaOqertO #WPSD pic.twitter.com/Vrnrzf89pg

— WPSD Local 6 (@WPSDLocal6) June 12, 2015

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"Getting home to Sulphur Well on the bus was a blur."

Another find at the station inside a box. Partial front page of "Sun-Democrat" evening edition Nov 22 1963 pic.twitter.com/tfQNkYvVuQ
— Todd Faulkner (@TFaulknerWPSD) November 16, 2013

Tonight, 25 years ago: Lexington Lafayette 0 at Caldwell County 25.

UNESCO hails Paducah.

KET News Quiz.

Free trees!

Christmas parades: Hazard and Owensboro, Nov. 23; Ashland, Nov. 26; Lebanon and Loretto, Nov. 29; Inez, Nov. 30; Nortonville, Dec. 1; Elkton, Lebanon and Maysville, Dec. 6; Beaver Dam/Hartford, Bradfordville, Columbia, Henderson, Lawrenceburg, Marion, Middlesboro, Paducah, Shelbyville and Somerset, Dec. 7; Evarts, Dec. 8; Cave City and Stamping Ground, Dec. 14, and Central City (controversially), Dec. 15.

He's "just a kid from Union," and "the only thing (she'll) ever identify with as home is Louisville."

Get well soon, John Prine.

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Look! It's a bear!

Then there was the time that the turnip-pursuing cow got stuck in the really long hollow sycamore.

We've reached the semifinals of Channel 6's "Who is the greatest team of the Gridiron Glory era?" fantasy-football tournament, and we've still got a possibility of a Mayfield-v.-Mayfield championship. By the way, neither Heath 1985 nor Heath 1986 was eligible.

**TRAFFIC ALERT:** The new U.S. 60 Tennessee River Bridge between McCracken & Livingston is now OPEN! pic.twitter.com/nmVQy9DsRZ
— westkystar_traffic (@wkystar_traffic) July 30, 2013

Best of luck to Mr. Ung and Hoptown Donuts, which opens today.

Good jobs news from Franklin and Louisville.

How the SNAP cuts stand to impact 10,693 Harlan Countians.

Homecomings where there homes were.

Master P's anti-violence tour reaches Louisville.

We live in a freaking fantastic country.

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Kentucky's largest church is in mourning.

Rest in peace, Dewayne Bunch, a former state legislator and Whitley County High School math teacher.

Good jobs news from Hebron and Louisville.

Books for Appalachia.

"Miracle" might be a little strong, but this really is a heck of a nice gift to Louisville schools from Barry Manilow.

What to put in Madisonville's new park? What to cut at LBL?

Don't move to Houston just yet, BBN.

Trigg County, one of the state's prep-archery juggernauts, is amid a bit of re-org.

KHSAA hoops hall-of-famer Kelly Coleman was "King" of Kentucky Wesleyan for a little while, too.

Russ Cochran of Paducah Saint Mary's and Kenny Perry of Lone Oak are U.S. Senior Opening this weekend.

Might Miss Emma Talley one day play with a home-course advantage?

Say (ah) cheese.