Oh, Kentucky

Oh, Kentucky

Oh, Kentucky

Hiring at the pen (starting at $14.25 per hour). Seeking someone with "a sincere passion for Henderson and our region."

Locals take over Owensboro's Towne Square Mall. Paducah downtown is amid a makeover (including a possible influx of Louisville investment). I love malls and downtowns, as well as Paducah and Owensboro, so this is all great news by my score.

Lexingtonwise, Sav's No. 2 has opened downtown; Drake's No. 14, in Hamburg.

Garbage goes private in Liberty.

Christmas parades: Sharpsburg, Nov. 9; Owensboro, Nov. 23; Central City, Nov. 24; Lebanon and Louisville, Nov. 29;  Greensburg, Guthrie and Pikeville, Nov. 30; Boyce, Dawson Springs, Murray, Salem and Sebree, Dec. 1; Bardstown, Dec. 5; Clay, Fredonia, Harrodsburg, Hopkinsville, Irvine/Ravenna, London, Maysville, Monticello, Pineville, Richmond, Smiths Grove, Stanton and Trenton, Dec. 6; Arlington, Barbourville, Beattyville, Berea, Bloomfield, Bowling Green,  romley/Ludlow, Brownsville, Cadiz, Calvert City, Carlisle, Clinton, Columbia, Corbin, Cynthiana, Danville, Frankfort, Glasgow, Grayson, Greenville, Hawesville, Henderson, Horse Cave, Inez, Lawrenceburg, Leitchfield, Lexington, Madisonville, Marion, Middlesboro, Morgantown, Munfordville, Murray, Owingsville, Paducah, Rabbit Hash, Raceland, Russell Springs, Salyersville, Scottsville, Shelbyville, Somerset, Trenton, Versailles, Whitley City and Winchester, Dec. 7; Auburn, Georgetown and New Haven, Dec. 8; Augusta, Burkesville, Burnside, Campbellsville, Cave City, Elkton, Franklin, Louisa, Mayfield, Providence, Williamsburg and Woodburn, Dec. 14, and Tollesboro, Dec. 15.

Oh, Kentucky

Kentucky's local "Lights for Liberty" vigils to end family separation and human concentration camps are scheduled to take place Friday at 9 p.m. locally in Danville, Florence, Frankfort, Lexington, Louisville and Paris so far.

$477 million in federal grant money for airport infrastructure is rolling in to Campbellsville, Falmouth, Greenville, London, Owensboro and Sparta, announced U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao (McConnell).

Spoiler alert: Probably not, surmises FiveThirtyEight.

At the Northpoint Training Center in Burgin, the state is piloting a program designed to help inmates not return to using illegal drugs after their release.

Shelby County's volunteer fire departments are shorthanded.

Southern Living is all about the free Kentucky River water-quality knowledge that Kentucky State University is dropping on us this summer.

I think the Chemical Coaters Association Intl. (CCAI) of Independence made an outstanding choice for its James F. & David J. Wright Lifetime Achievement Award winner.

A man shot and killed Monday in southwest Louisville is being remembered as a "great" youth football coach: https://t.co/WqtZSZ2WcQ | @FallonGlick pic.twitter.com/tNZAJpd1Ls

— WDRB News (@WDRBNews) July 10, 2019

Rest in peace, ex-UK Wildcat Jared Lorenzen, and way to go, former U of L Cardinals Deion Branch, Jamon Brown and Chris Redman.

Oh, Kentucky

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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.

Oh, Kentucky

A former EKU cheerleader who grew up in Winchester was working at a Las Vegas Hooters, where she met a model. They started dating. Then he got a job as a server at a restaurant featured in a Bravo reality-TV series. Then the guy and the woman from Winchester ended up getting their own Bravo spinoff, and on Saturday they got married at the Kentucky Castle in Versailles. People has exclusive photos and coverage--including details such as that former 'NSYNC performer Lance Bass officiated and that rentals were provided by Bryant's Rent-all of Lexington. "Mr. Vernon Bryant started in the rental business in Lexington, Kentucky in 1953, as a United Rent-All franchise store. His store was located at 531 South Limestone, just opposite the University of Kentucky. This was the first equipment rental store in central Kentucky. The telephone book did not have 'rental' as a heading at the time, so Mr. Bryant was the first business under that heading."

A mechanic decided to shift to law enforcement in 1957. He retired Friday from the Campbell County Sheriff's Office.

Hazard's new police department is an old McDonald's.

The U.S. Postal Service says Louisville's Girard Drive has gone to the dogs, and so they aren't going there for now.

Good jobs news from Wurtland.

World's largest pocketknife, in Radcliff.

"That's OK if you don’t believe in it, but it’s all about everybody being treated fairly." Shamarria Morrison has an interesting feature on Paducah's "safe spaces" for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or sexual-identity-questioning people.

Christmas parades: Dawson Springs and Murray, Dec. 1; Hopkinsville, Dec. 6, and Henderson and Scottsville, Dec. 7.

Oh, Kentucky

"This is a sad day for our wonderful, close-knit community. If we can't extend a helping hand for our elderly that have blazed the path for our current and future generations then that speaks volumes for our integrity." Rachel Keller Collins delivers the breaking and heartbreaking news in The Marshall County Tribune-Courier that the Marshall County Senior Citizens Center is giving up the fight.

Madisonville's hoping to draw new residents from Fort Campbell.

The Kentucky Motorsports Hall of Fame and Museum is leaving Owensboro for Central City.

Muhlenberg County is also getting a new indoor-sports facility.

For what (I think) is its third CEO in three years, Lexmark taps a lifer.

A couple of Erlanger-Elsmere originals are shutting down Florence's "hands-on" Herbs & More after 22 years, and it sounds like backroads driving, family visiting and maybe even (finally again) some fishing might be on the agenda. Patricia Scheyer's farewell feature at The River City News is a fun read.

Banking hiccups are holding back hemp in Kentucky, an Eddyville operator and other industry leaders tell Sen. McConnell and other congressional leaders.

There's a Head Start hard stop in Flemingsburg, but no one's yet saying what's up.

More on the passing of "King" Coleman: Per Steve LeMaster in the Floyd County Chronicle, visitation will be 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday in the Wayland High School gym, and the family asks memorial contributions go to the Mountain Sports Hall of Fame.

Oh, Kentucky

Kentucky for sale:

I'm pretty certain I'm not as effective or diligent of a disciple of Christ's as this Hardin County fellow is for what he's discipling.

Ashland revisits the curbside-recycling question, with input from nearby Russell and less-so Paducah.

Prayers for Mr. Howard, and way to go, Benham Schoolhouse Inn.

Turning to sports, hooray for Reggie Warford and the rest of this year's Dawahares/KHSAA Hall of Fame class.

Oh, Kentucky

Welcome to Greenville (coming soon).

Hiring in Princeton (for jobs there and in Eddyville, Grand Rivers, Marion, etc.)

If you're planning to get your Chik-fil-A on in Ashland, you better get it going. But chill: "It is temporarily a bad thing but it is long term a good thing."

Some in Louisville City FC Nation are not about to chill.

Wonderful Nita Johnson feature in London's Sentinel Echo on Laurel County's new teacher of the year: "I always tell them, Te Amo Mucho - I love you a lot," she said. "I always want that to be the last words they hear."


The equivalent of about half of Kentucky's old tires reportedly are being converted into energy at East Kentucky Power Cooperative’s Spurlock Station in Maysville.

Why are people getting sick in the mail room of the federal prison in Manchester?

Oh, Kentucky

Congrats on 40 years behind the mic at @WFTMRadio , @DannyEWeddle pic.twitter.com/5kAjrJDduT

— Ron Bailey (@RonEBailey) August 21, 2018

 

No. 16!

More foster-care children, longer periods to locate foster homes.

Nipping the opioid bud in Muhlenberg County.

Leitchfield's city parks are getting a refresh.

A dog-friendly park is scheduled to open in Georgetown next spring.

On the construction-jobs boom coming to Ashland.

Adam May with WHOP reports that New Hampshire vice-presidential hopeful Matt Bevin "sounds like someone who will be on the ballot" for re-election as governor of Kentucky in 2019.

Union County's White Buck Vineyards and Winery is on the market.

The Cadiz Main Street of the 1920s is coming back to life next month.

Solving the mystery of a 1919 desk from the Butler County Courthouse.

Oh, Kentucky

There's an alleged (balding) stereoscope thief on the loose in or around Paducah.

Jacob Ryan with the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting dives into the link between availability of public trash cans and poverty across Louisville.

Bad jobs news from Winchester.

The WKMS Battle of the Bands entry deadline is March 4.

Hiring in Madisonville (production technician starting at $15.36 an hour or receptionist for $10-$12 per).

Rep. Toby Herald (R-Beattyville) has proposed a 54-county Kentucky, and Ralph B. Davis with EKB-TV gives us the 411 of what that would look like.

Eighty-nine women filed to run for seats in the state legislature.

Oh, Kentucky

Glenn's On Main is no more in Marion, which translates into more owner involvement in The 88 Dip.

Hoptown's new Blackpatch Steak and Seafood isn't normally open Sundays and Mondays, but the eclipse is another matter.

In Lexington starting in September: "an all-local food hall that will feature all-independent local restaurants and chefs who honor Kentucky traditions."



Speaking of the eclipse, TVA assures western Kentucky that its mix of power generation is diverse enough that its grid will have the resilience to ride out the interruption of solar input. (My favorite part of this story is the WestKentuckyStar.com commenter named “Obam a” who weighs in, “Much ado about nothing just like the Y2K run up.”)

“I think having an author who has worked in such licenses universes as Star Trek and Supernatural is an interesting opportunity for local readers,” the organizer of the Providence Literary Festival tells The Journal-Enterprise. I think so, too.

Clark County's school-bus drivers are getting a raise!

Todd County is hiring for a part-time librarian ("Secretarial and Housekeeping skills will also be utilized").

You're invited to Logan County Public Library's 50th-anniversary celebration Sunday afternoon ("cake and punch will be provided").

Remembering "Clay's Darkest Day."

The "City Built on Coal" considers a casino.

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.

Oh, Kentucky

Kentucky for sale:

Police arrested that guy who allegedly stabbed the Middlesboro sports writer and college professor.

West Kentucky Star's Facebook post about a bank's sponsorship of an Alabama concert in Mayfield turned into a conversation about the bank's marketing expenditures, a 1981 show by the band in Paducah and Mitch McConnell.

Meanwhile, RaeLynn's coming to Madisonville.

The Hartings of Leitchfield make a return appearance on Family Feud. “Everybody needs to watch this time,” Pastor Harting tells Matt Lasley of The Grayson County News-Gazette.  “That’s all I’ll say.”

It's #QuiltWeek! These are some of the awesome pieces of artwork you'll see at this year's show. pic.twitter.com/iN0pUD1hXR

— Brianna Clark WPSD (@bclark_WPSD) April 26, 2017

Good jobs news from The McConnell House in Wurtland.

The Kentucky Democratic Party's new executive director is a Frankfort coffeeshop operator and Bernie Sanders backer.

You can come out to a meeting this afternoon in the City of Manchester Council Room to speak your piece on the proposed Ramsey Ballpark renovations (or you can write to Frankfort in the next couple of weeks), but, if you intended to hear state Sen. C.B. Ramsey (R-Louisville/Morgantown) talk General Assembly at the Ohio County Senior Citizens Center, you're a day late and a pillow short, bub.

Also in sports, ...

Former Edmonson County Coach Charles Alexander Has Number Officially Retired In Ceremony:https://t.co/hVuSibq63C pic.twitter.com/lx1FpPPZVh

— The Edmonson Voice®™ (@edmonsonvoice) April 26, 2017

Anderson Co. softball player @Bailey_Curry11 is closing in on national HR record despite a ton of intentional walks. https://t.co/oI1DpNmrtJ pic.twitter.com/TFtvzxndZR

— John Herndon (@ANewsJPHerndon) April 26, 2017

The 64-team field is set for the KHSAA state fishing championship, May 12-13 in Gilbertsville.

The parks aren't, but Kentucky State Parks is moving.

Oh, Kentucky

"The US resettlement program may be suspended by executive order, but KRM will continue to make Kentucky home for refugees. Join us on this journey."

"This is what I needed when I was on the street, and it wasn’t there for me."

Kayla VanHoose reports (via Cameron Mills) that the Smithsonian Institution’s “Hometown Teams” exhibit is coming to 15 Kentucky locations, starting with Wayland.

Meanwhile, the Messenger-Inquirer has it that Darryl Strawberry is coming to Owensboro.

Bad bikes and bowling news from Louisville and Lexington, respectively.

Say hello to the Norse ...

A former NKU student paid for 70-plus students to make the trip to Detroit to cheer on the Norse in the Horizon League tournament finals. pic.twitter.com/L6n4ivbgGr

— Enquirer (@Enquirer) March 7, 2017

#NKU is going DANCING in their first year of eligibility 🎉#HorizonLeague pic.twitter.com/QDXuL4ZLyR

— Tres Terrell (@TerrellTres) March 8, 2017

NORSE WINNNNN!!! #Champions #NKU #motorcitymadness pic.twitter.com/1oaB6S8E05

— NKUDanceTeam (@NKUDanceTeam) March 8, 2017

If @NKUNorseMBB is going dancing, @Jbut00 and I are going dancing. NORSE TF UP pic.twitter.com/CCyqXihScI

— Adam Anderson (@Anderson_adam94) March 8, 2017

.@NKUNorseMBB highlights from its @HorizonLeague Championship win on Tues. night, Who's ready to dance?! #NorseUp #OnTheRise pic.twitter.com/dYpku1YBEc

— NKU Norse (@NKUNorse) March 8, 2017

Oh, Kentucky

Christmas parades: Owensboro, Nov. 19; Ashland, Nov. 22; Lebanon (are you missing your glasses?), 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 (Jones Septic edges the library and Soggy Dawg Pet Grooming), Beaver Dam/Hartford, Berea, Bowling Green, ...

#BGChristmasParade2016 finale pic.twitter.com/VWQtKbn7sf

— BG Christmas Parade (@BGParade) December 3, 2016

... Cadiz, 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, Cave City, Crofton, Edmonton, Elizabethtown ("a reading of 'The Night Before Christmas' with Mayor Edna Berger and the official lighting of downtown will follow," reports Anna Taylor in The News-Enterprise), Elkton, Hopkinsville, La Center, Livermore, Nicholasville, Pikeville, Princeton, Quality, Salem (U.S. 60 travelers in Livingston County should plan accordingly) and Williamsburg, Dec. 10, and Auburn, Dec. 11.

Logan County has a new pet resort.

Oh, Kentucky

Muhammad Ali with mom Odessa, dad n brother in background @ family home in Louisville, 1965. https://t.co/TPr6Hznxbg pic.twitter.com/rk8Dm4kb4M

— Rasheed Kappan (@kappansky) June 4, 2016

The Kentucky desk is pleased to announce that, with Gov. Bevin's (indirect) blessing, we have resumed considering recommendations for the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels.

Emmanuel Felton with The Hechinger Report delivers a very thought-provoking story on how Kentucky has adjusted its systems on the premise that NOT all students need college.

Meanwhile, in a personally-heartbreaking-for-me (but well-done) report in The New York Times, Stephanie Saul reports on how Western Kentucky University decided that it did NOT need all of the Indian students that it recruited.

Draffenville's Ponderosa baroness is spreading her game to Reidland.

Kroger is putting a Ruler Foods in the old Russellville Houchens.

OK, updating previous reports, it appears now that Uncle Lee's is, indeed, back to operating in Greenville but that it is now all or almost all guns. And now Coal County Vendor Mall is set to open in the rest of the old store that apparently isn't totally being used by Uncle's Lee's ("Powered by: Budsgunshop.com"). Will advise as events warrant.

Hopkinsville appears headed toward raising taxes on home and vehicle insurance premiums by 33 percent to pay for a new sports complex and trails expansion.

Jeannie C. Riley is NOT on the Western Kentucky State Fair docket, but a demolition derby, tractor pulls and wrestling are.

Paducah's Fin Gourmet entrepreneurial success story just keeps building: "We put Kentucky proud fish products onto American tables. We solve the problems that many Americans have very few options to healthy, year round, wild-caught USA fish products. We solve this problem by sustainably sourcing and manufacturing locally caught fish into delicious, healthy, ready-to-eat fish products. Our fish are fresh daily. We hand-select and hand-craft our products. We are committed to preserving the quality of homemade goodness: fresh, natural, and always free of chemicals and preservatives."

Turning to sports, our McCracken County Mustangs football coach is NOT going back to Georgia; here's the program for the KHSAA baseball tournament, which starts Thursday in Lexington, and the Louisville International Open women's tennis tournament is NOT happening this year.

Former Glasgow HS and MTSU star Kent Bulle, the 2015 Kentucky Open champ, earned a spot in this month's U.S. Open. https://t.co/AWnnsAxpcB

— Herald-Leader Sports (@KentuckySports) June 7, 2016

Oh, Kentucky

Everly Brothers, Zac Brown Band and Earth, Wind & Fire tribute acts are among the headliners for this summer's free-concert series in Greenville. (Kalimba sounds fantastic, by the way.)

We just scored this sweet Paducah Chiefs cap! Read about their return in PADUCAH LIFE Magazine. #paducah pic.twitter.com/8FCYOf2Shm

— Paducah Life (@PaducahLife) May 11, 2016

Good jobs news from Elkton and Madisonville.

Pulaski County might be shutting down its jail.

OK, I'd be ordering the Steak Sandwich, French Fried Potatoes with an order of German Slaw and an appetizer of Celery Stuffed With Roquefort Cheese.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is keeping watch on Walton.

The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting digs in to Kentucky's possible Panama Paper ties.

Oh, Kentucky

Christmas parades: Murray and Winchester, Dec. 5.

"WHO YA WITH?!"

Rowan Co clerk Kim Davis continues to deny marriage licenses to couples day before contempt hearing in federal court pic.twitter.com/oGjQLZnxwR

— Ryland Barton (@RylandKY) September 2, 2015

.@statejournal cartoonist Linda Boileau is leaving the paper after an editorial critical of Frankfort's cable company pic.twitter.com/qIXrlXPkg7

— Phillip M. Bailey (@phillipmbailey) July 30, 2015

Summer sunsets of Trenton.

Dusk for Jerry's.

As long as A&W doesn't get rid of the tap root beer, I'm OK with whatever.

Latest in the Dippin' Dots/Crumbs Cupcakes saga.

The oldest active bowling alley in the United States is closing, in Louisville.

But Uncle Lee's of Greenville is back!

I have seen the future of Ballard County, and it's fishy--in a totally excellent way.

Well, this is terrifying (you can tell by the music) ...

But this is pleasant ...

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 ...