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Thomas Barr in The Pioneer Press delivers the down low on Hillview's thinking and plans on holidays and city-meeting scheduling.

Newport Wash & Tan will only wash (and not tan) in the old Bob Evans, Fort Thomas Matters reports.

Per Etown's News Enterprise, Louisville's Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Kitchen chain is extending south.

Hiring at Murray State.

Fran Tarkenton is coming (virtually) to Hopkins County Regional Chamber of Commerce, and maybe I'll ask him if he's getting excited about the HP's planned coverage of NFL73!

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A former Kuttawa city clerk is charged with stealing a bunch of town money and running off to Gatlinburg.

About the "squatters" in Hillview.

No library tax in Hardin County.

An Edgewood thoracic surgeon is to narrate a lung-cancer surgery he performed on a 34-year-old during a live Facebook broadcast Friday.

Good jobs news from Lexington and Pikeville.

"FARMERS NEEDED!" In Lyon County.

Christmas parades: Owensboro, Nov. 17; Ashland, Nov. 20; Brownsville, Nov. 24; Cumberland and Fredonia (grandly marshaled by the Faughns, wed 69 years), Nov. 30; Arlington, Berea, Cadiz ("WKDZ 106.5 will broadcast live, and will have live video stream if you just can't make it"), Calvert City (59th annual), Columbia, Jenkins, Lawrenceburg, Madisonville, Marion, Paducah, Salyersville, Somerset and Whitley City, Dec. 1; Bowling Green (rescheduled from the day before), Dawson Springs, Dec. 2; Lexington, Dec. 4; Greenup, Dec. 6; Frankfort, Monticello and Richmond, Dec. 7; Elkton, Eubank, Hopkinsville ("Get ready to text in your favorite float number for the PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD!"), Louisa and Stamping Ground (grandly marshaled by a Scott County sheriff's deputy paralyzed when shot responding to a suspected bank robbery in September), Dec. 8; Whitesburg, Dec. 14; Burnside, La Center and Neon, Dec. 15.

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'I hate to leave': Hinton Cleaners closing after 91 years https://t.co/ZjJJOajisA

— BG Daily News (@bgdailynews) August 15, 2018

 

"100 miles of history, beauty, and unique shops" around Carter County.

$124 million to spruce up roughly 200 Kentucky McDonald's restaurants.

Hillview is considering bumping the upper limits of its pay ranges for some city employees, in hopes of boosting retention.

Hiring (for a library circulation supervisor/technology coordinator) in Madisonville.

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NEWS || #BBN does it again. @KentuckyMBB led the nation in avg. home attendance for 19th time in past 22 seasons. https://t.co/zj0IUXJOVY pic.twitter.com/A4nHJCBDIb

— CoachCal.com (@CoachCalDotCom) August 8, 2017

Forrest Berkshire in Bardstown's Kentucky Standard: "He was similar in many ways to most other Nelson County residents who go to work each day to pursue the American Dream of raising a family and making a better life for their children. But there was one difference. Cortez entered the United States without authorization 20 years ago, when he was 15 years old. Late last month, U.S. Immigration enforcement deported him, leaving him at a Mexico City airport with no identification or money and only a bag of cookies, some chips and a water bottle."

Economywise, things are getting worse in eastern Kentucky, per the Appalachian Regional Commission.

Bad jobs news from Lexington.

Paducah's Paxtons have purchased Russellville's twice-weekly News-Democrat & Leader.

Gov. Bevin's posse has discovered a big black book of donors left behind by Gov. Beshear in Frankfort.

You can recycle in Elkton now--next door to the Dairy Queen.

Princeton City Council throws its support behind a new home for the Caldwell County Farmers Market.

Rest in peace, Mrs. Saltsman, itinerant southcentral-Kentucky drycleaners inspector (and welcome to the HP, Summer Shade).

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Shaun King of the New York Daily News and Woodford County High: "What I am doing is not enough, though. Police brutality, by every statistical measure is the worst it's ever been. Racial terror is real in this country. The deadliest hate crime against African Americans in the past 85 years didn't happen in 1955, 1965, or 1975, but happened LAST YEAR in Charleston. LAST YEAR. On our watch, in our lives. Police are murdering are sons and daughters, mothers and fathers with relative impunity all over this country."

Prayers for the flooded.

In Dunnville--and, apparently, across south-central Kentucky--"(l)ack of workers is now my No. 1 inhibiting growth factor, bar none."

An Owensboro Independence Day party never stops.

We've made the turn to the back nine toward Christmas, and early next week in Berea is the time to get your act together.

Good things ahead! An update on the upcoming expansion of the @BSCTC05 Pikeville Campus from Pres. @DevinStephenson: pic.twitter.com/QmYw6UwhxQ

— City of Pikeville (@PikevilleBuzz) July 6, 2016

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This would be a good opening sentence to something: Sixty years ago, the crooks spared just one thing when they robbed the Golden Rocket out on U.S. 62: the juke box.

Site for IBM plant at New Circle Rd (E to W) and Newtown Pike, Aug. 1956. Now @lexmark HQ More http://t.co/oWWk4jhTRx pic.twitter.com/uB8YWKVNcb
— KY Photo Archive (@KYPhotoArchive) July 23, 2014

Bad jobs news from Whitesburg.

More Kentucky kids live in poverty than a quarter century ago.

Cumberland, Hindman, Lexington and Louisville are raking in some federal dough to improve their livability and place arts at their cores.

Forthcoming from eastern Kentucky: "a different picture about this region’s quality of life, progress and hope."

Does northern Bullitt County want a hospital or not?

Stay off the Brookport Bridge!

Murray State's new prez, who moved from eastern Oregon, is taking a look around Paducah. Maybe he'll go on the Red-Line Tour. We went on the Red-Line Tour almost immediately when we moved to Paducah in 1973.

Tiger's retiring, and he's passing along some parting advice (via Shelbyville's Sentinel-News): "Somewhere along the way I found what was truly important. I encourage everyone to take time to enjoy the relationships that are built over the course of one’s career."

The Mustangs and UK-bound-quarterback Zy'aire Hughes will wait another week to open at Tilghman, but many KHSAA football teams start the new season Aug. 22.

New top of my YouTube wish list: Spectacle in Taylorsville, 1974.

Rock on, (Mount Sterling's own!) Rev. Brandon Gilvin.

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Almost springtime. The boat salesperson whom Coach Hall interviewed on The Joe B & Denny Show for about 20 minutes this morning said that the "bass are getting up in the shallows."

Also, Coach Crum, on an earlier episode this week, revealed that he blends cinnamon and sugar into his snickerdoodle batter (in addition to sprinkling both on the outside of the plops of dough).

More news for The Heath Post's foodies. I love shitake mushrooms.

Itzhak Perlman jams with the UK orchestra. And Ela Weissberger is going to sit in with the University of Kentucky Opera Theatre.

Time to get to Bowling Green. My two-year-old is going to completely dig this.

Searching for dreamers, CMT is coming to northern Kentucky. So are a bunch of wrestlers.

Many of us in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) also do Ash Wednesday and Lent. No Friday-night fish fries, though.