Showing posts with label Jeremiah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeremiah. 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.

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Oh, Kentucky



Toward keeping Kentucky welcoming.

First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Louisville this Sunday is hosting the Rev. Sandhya Rani Sandhya, founder and director of a collective of 40 organizations creating access, equity and dignity for all in the Oakland, California, area and author of Pre-Post Racial America: Spiritual Stories from the Front Lines.

From WKMS, MSU’s NPR station: "Overcrowded jails in Louisville and across the state aren’t a new issue facing law enforcement and prosecutors in Kentucky. State officials made a push last year to reopen three private prisons that were previously closed amid allegations of mismanagement and reports of sexual abuse. …"

Is AmeriCorps assuming operation of the hospital in Pineville?

From The Hazard Herald: "In 2015, Cornett and his wife moved from Jeremiah, Ky., to Georgetown, Ky., in hopes that an opportunity to work with the Toyota plant would help get their life started. Unfortunately, not all prospects work out the way we want them to."

The Manchester Enterprise has been crowdsourcing the best of Clay County (coffee shop, EKU professor, etc.)

"Santa" this past Christmas went to work on helping offset eventual college expenses for children of Calloway County deputies.

Per the previously reported darkness on the edge of Bardstown, ... a bunch of followers of The Kentucky Standard Facebook page seem to feel a new local whistleblower law will cast a little disinfecting sunlight on the situation. Also, Captain D's is coming.

Metcalfe County has a new animal shelter.