Showing posts with label Junction City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Junction City. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Oh, Kentucky
Rest in peace, Jim McDaniels (1948-2017). We are amid a hard season.
And they're off! Just some of the nearly 50 members of the @PaducahChamber delegation in Washington, D.C. pushing for local projects #wpsd pic.twitter.com/cFF0jjtGaT— Todd Faulkner (@TFaulknerWPSD) September 6, 2017
Against infrastructure decline.
WBKO's Kelly Dean delivers a moving feature on a family of Harvey refugees resettling in Bowling Green.
Kate Howard of the Kentucky Center for Investigative Journalism reports on the Louisville police's compassionate assistance to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
Oopsy daisy.
Individual health-insurance plans will be offered in all of Kentucky's 120 counties next year--but Blue Cross Blue Shield is getting out of 61 of them.
Kroger's got a new idea cooking in Union, and they're hiring.
Getting off the beaten path in Boyle County.
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Oh, Kentucky
A beautiful story of hospitality in Junction City, from Bob Kleppinger of Danville's Advocate-Messenger.
Here are the services provided by the Clay County Senior Citizens Center.
Self-defense courses in Winchester will benefit a rape crisis center in Nicholasville.
The Henderson County Detention Center credits e-cigarettes for a more peaceful jail.
Aging director: State, region are growing older https://t.co/7LSaAaRzvP via @KentuckyNewEra pic.twitter.com/RxVMMurNFk— KY State Data Center (@ky_sdc) July 19, 2017
Hiring at Kenlake. Maybe at Danville's Wilderness Trace Solar, too.
Good jobs news from Harlan. Bad from Somerset.
The state treasurer has been making the rounds in western Kentucky with happy news of unclaimed property. Rejoiced the Lyon County judge-executive yesterday: "$688,000! LYON county citizens have $688,000 sitting in an account in Frankfort under the unclaimed property! KY State Treasurer Allison Ball was in Lyon yesterday and talked to us about Unclaimed Property. We asked they provide us a list of Lyon Countians that have unclaimed $$. We await that list. But in the meantime Krista Grigg in my office has already begun searching names and found many we personally know that have unclaimed money. We are contacting them now."
Simply fantastic detail from Andrew Adkins in Ashland's Daily Independent on a Raceland city-council meeting covering a controversial proposal to build a mobile-home park: "The council, in its typical style, allowed residents to speak seemingly at will, even prior to the scheduled public comment period. At one point, three local residents stood together at the podium and spoke on the same topic. The room was at high capacity. It was also noisy, as members of the crowd and council talked among themselves throughout most of the meeting and a loud air conditioner fan muffled the conversations."
The Holiday Inn Paducah Riverfront is open for biz.
They paved El Chico, putting up a Qdoba, etc.
The Burgin Bulldogs eye the big time.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Oh, Kentucky
Rest in peace, Mr. Crittenden, a big winner in Cuba and later Russia, a record-breaking Racer in between, a snubber of the Knicks for the Peoria Caterpillars, Calloway County High's first basketball coach and, finally, one of the state's premier principals.
Happy 50th, Boyle County High.
Live from Gilbertsville, it's Col. Sanders.
Live on TV, it's Pineville's Jimmy Rose.
Good jobs news from Frankfort, Georgetown, Hopkinsville, Louisville and Russell Springs.
Happy 50th, Boyle County High.
The culture wars rage on--outside a McCracken County High art classroom and inside the Harlan County school cafeterias.
Live on TV, it's Pineville's Jimmy Rose.
Good jobs news from Frankfort, Georgetown, Hopkinsville, Louisville and Russell Springs.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Oh, Kentucky
KET News Quiz!
Good jobs news for Bowling Green, Louisville and western Kentucky.
Christmas parade: Junction City, tonight (!); Henderson, Dec. 1; Prestonsburg, Dec. 7, and Wheelwright, Dec. 8.
Happy (belated) birthday (and rest in peace), Merle Travis, a celebrated musician, an underrated taxidermist and a proud son of Muhlenberg County.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Ah, footbah
The new Kentucky high-school football season gets rolling in earnest tonight. Let's re-acquaint ourselves.
The Kentucky High School Athletic Association divides the state's teams into six classes--from the tiny As to the big 6As--and, within each class, there are eight districts--from the western 1s to the eastern 8s. A team advances to the playoffs, which are scheduled to begin Nov. 4, by finishing in the top four of its district. That means 192 teams (pretty much all of them) compete in the six playoff tournaments, which are planned to conclude Dec. 2 and 3 at Western Kentucky University's L.T. Smith Stadium in Bowling Green.
The 2010 champs were Mayfield (Class A), Newport Central Catholic (2A), Louisville Central (3A), Boyle County (4A), Fort Thomas Highlands (5A) and Louisville Trinity (6A), and those teams are all expected to be awfully good again this fall. The state's "Mr. Football" honoree was Boyle County's Lamar Dawson, a linebacker who I learned today hails from Junction City. He is now a freshman at the University of Southern California. The two players getting the most attention in the preseason this year are Highlands' Patrick Towles and Edgewood Dixie Heights' Zeke Pike, who have committed to Kentucky and Auburn, respectively.
Now, those are the competitive basics. Of course, we all know that Kentucky is not thought of as an especially strong state for high-school football. And some folks find that spreading the shallow pool of teams and talent across so wide of a system of divisions and tournaments results in a snoozer of a season.
Well, to this I say pish-posh. When I went to high school, at Heath in the mid 1980s, the fun of football season was at least as much about getting out of Friday-afternoon classes for the pep rallies, hanging out with friends at home games and riding buses to and from the away dates as it was the football itself. And if the competition and individual talent level wasn't up to Georgia/Alabama/Texas/Ohio/Pennsylvania snuff, they were at least compelling enough to trick me into believing that this year was going to be the year that Heath finally upset Mayfield or that the Pirates' 1983 quarterback, Mike "The Rifleman" Colson, would eventually be starring in the NFL.
Things haven't changed a great deal in the 25 years since (Class of '86, represent!). I'm thrilled about the start of the new season. I'm ecstatic to think about where and what I might get to eat when I do actually go to games and to imagine the routes I would take to the games that I don't. And by the end of the season, I will have become tricked into believing that some team or some player whom I've been reading about all autumn is really fantastic and ready to rock the CW's world.
It's going to be great, and it gets started tonight. Here are some of the weekend's matchups that intoxicate me:
-- Mayfield at Bowling Green Greenwood (Fruit of the Loom Bowl)
-- Nicholasville West Jessamine vs. Somerset (Visitnich.com Bowl at East Jessamine)
-- Fort Thomas Highlands at Boyle County
-- Louisville Trinity at Brentwood Academy (Tenn.)
-- Caldwell County at Calloway County
-- Lexington Christian at Louisville Christian Academy
-- Owensboro at Daviess County
-- Newport Central Catholic at Edgewood Dixie Heights
-- Louisville Central at Louisville DuPont Manual
-- McLean County at Edmonson County
-- Henderson County at Evansville F.J. Reitz (Ind.)
-- Clarksville (Tenn.) at Fort Campbell
-- Christian County at Madisonville-North Hopkins
-- Franklin-Simpson at Monroe County
-- Owensboro Apollo at Owensboro Catholic
-- Lone Oak at Paducah Tilghman
-- Fulton County at Reidland
-- Buechel Fern Creek at Louisville Saint Xavier
-- Russellville at Trigg County
-- Pulaski County vs. Hopkinsville (Saturday, Don Franklin Bowl in Columbia)
-- Warren East vs. South Warren and Bowling Green vs. Allen County-Scottsville (Saturday, Rafferty's Bowl in Bowling Green)
-- Heath at Paintsville Johnson Central (Saturday)
The Kentucky High School Athletic Association divides the state's teams into six classes--from the tiny As to the big 6As--and, within each class, there are eight districts--from the western 1s to the eastern 8s. A team advances to the playoffs, which are scheduled to begin Nov. 4, by finishing in the top four of its district. That means 192 teams (pretty much all of them) compete in the six playoff tournaments, which are planned to conclude Dec. 2 and 3 at Western Kentucky University's L.T. Smith Stadium in Bowling Green.
The 2010 champs were Mayfield (Class A), Newport Central Catholic (2A), Louisville Central (3A), Boyle County (4A), Fort Thomas Highlands (5A) and Louisville Trinity (6A), and those teams are all expected to be awfully good again this fall. The state's "Mr. Football" honoree was Boyle County's Lamar Dawson, a linebacker who I learned today hails from Junction City. He is now a freshman at the University of Southern California. The two players getting the most attention in the preseason this year are Highlands' Patrick Towles and Edgewood Dixie Heights' Zeke Pike, who have committed to Kentucky and Auburn, respectively.
Now, those are the competitive basics. Of course, we all know that Kentucky is not thought of as an especially strong state for high-school football. And some folks find that spreading the shallow pool of teams and talent across so wide of a system of divisions and tournaments results in a snoozer of a season.
Well, to this I say pish-posh. When I went to high school, at Heath in the mid 1980s, the fun of football season was at least as much about getting out of Friday-afternoon classes for the pep rallies, hanging out with friends at home games and riding buses to and from the away dates as it was the football itself. And if the competition and individual talent level wasn't up to Georgia/Alabama/Texas/Ohio/Pennsylvania snuff, they were at least compelling enough to trick me into believing that this year was going to be the year that Heath finally upset Mayfield or that the Pirates' 1983 quarterback, Mike "The Rifleman" Colson, would eventually be starring in the NFL.
Things haven't changed a great deal in the 25 years since (Class of '86, represent!). I'm thrilled about the start of the new season. I'm ecstatic to think about where and what I might get to eat when I do actually go to games and to imagine the routes I would take to the games that I don't. And by the end of the season, I will have become tricked into believing that some team or some player whom I've been reading about all autumn is really fantastic and ready to rock the CW's world.
It's going to be great, and it gets started tonight. Here are some of the weekend's matchups that intoxicate me:
-- Mayfield at Bowling Green Greenwood (Fruit of the Loom Bowl)
-- Nicholasville West Jessamine vs. Somerset (Visitnich.com Bowl at East Jessamine)
-- Fort Thomas Highlands at Boyle County
-- Louisville Trinity at Brentwood Academy (Tenn.)
-- Caldwell County at Calloway County
-- Lexington Christian at Louisville Christian Academy
-- Owensboro at Daviess County
-- Newport Central Catholic at Edgewood Dixie Heights
-- Louisville Central at Louisville DuPont Manual
-- McLean County at Edmonson County
-- Henderson County at Evansville F.J. Reitz (Ind.)
-- Clarksville (Tenn.) at Fort Campbell
-- Christian County at Madisonville-North Hopkins
-- Franklin-Simpson at Monroe County
-- Owensboro Apollo at Owensboro Catholic
-- Lone Oak at Paducah Tilghman
-- Fulton County at Reidland
-- Buechel Fern Creek at Louisville Saint Xavier
-- Russellville at Trigg County
-- Pulaski County vs. Hopkinsville (Saturday, Don Franklin Bowl in Columbia)
-- Warren East vs. South Warren and Bowling Green vs. Allen County-Scottsville (Saturday, Rafferty's Bowl in Bowling Green)
-- Heath at Paintsville Johnson Central (Saturday)
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