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Greetings from Kentucky:

Happy 53rd, WKDZ!

On the table on the Hill: Suspending 101 of 380 academic programs (including 45 with no students currently), altering 55, growing 15 and maintaining 209 as they are.

I lived on Griffith Avenue in Owensboro for a little while, but it's gotten a lot hipper since I moved away.

We had family living in Bardstown for several years, but they moved just about the time the community orchestra was getting together.

Taste the Mayfield.

Kelly is getting together for a chat Thursday evening, and there is a lot to talk about.

The most depressing part about this MLive article about the visiting AAU coach who was arrested Saturday and charged with punching out an official at the Paducah Regional Sports Plex are the comments from the Michigan readership about Flint.

Kresge's is (really) gone.

You might hear some shooting today in Stanford, but, thankfully, it's only a drill.

Mine 9 opens Friday in parts of Kentucky and elsewhere, but, this time, it's only a movie.

Hiring in Whitesburg.

Corbin Pediatric Associates remembers that it's National Child Abuse Prevention Month.

There are all kinds of people doing all kinds of neat stuff out there.

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Here are the stories that made our front page pic.twitter.com/i1HxVUdG2z

— Kentucky New Era (@KentuckyNewEra) June 11, 2018

 

Great lede in Etown's News-Enterprise by Mary Alford: "It wasn’t until his senior year of high school that Marty Fulkerson first attended the Hardin County Fair & Horse Show. He had his tie eaten by a goat."

"People get addicted to the improvement." Nice Q&A from Hannah Brown in The State Journal with Kirk Schooley, who is the pro at Frankfort's Juniper Hill Golf Course, won the 1993 PGA Kentucky Section championship and "grew up in a pro shop."

The state FFA's 2018 Ag. Teachers Change Lives Award goes to Mr. Green, retiring after 33 years at Todd Central High.

Ms. Zaino, English teacher, leaves Covington Holmes with a bang.

Good jobs news from Paducah?

Hiring in Carrollton ("TO PERFORM SPECIALIZED INTAKE WORK IN CASES OF YOUTH DEEMED HIGH NEEDS OR UNSUCCESSFUL IN THE DIVERSION PROCESS; TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND FEEDBACK FOR CDWS AND THE JUDICIARY ON PUBLIC AND STATUS CASES ... THIS POSITION IS ON-CALL AND REQUIRES DAYS, NIGHTS, WEEKENDS, AND HOLIDAYS AS NEEDED ... $28,911.12 - $38,162.64").

Prayers for Guatemala, and rock on, brothers and sisters from Murray.

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The Trigg County Sheriff's Department hopes to give out about 200 bicycles this Christmas, reports WHOP.

Christmas parades: Owensboro, Nov. 19; Ashland, Nov. 22; Lebanon, Nov. 25; Brownsville ("great crowd") and Sebree, Nov. 26; Bardstown, Dec. 1; Maysville, Monticello and Richmond, Dec. 2; Arlington, Beaver Dam, Berea, Bowling Green, Cadiz, Clinton, Frankfort, Glasgow, Harlan, Henderson, Madisonville, Manchester, Murray, Paris, Somerset and Winchester, Dec. 3; Boyce, Owenton and Schochoh, Dec. 4; Hickman and Lexington, Dec. 6, and Augusta, Cave City, Elkton, Hopkinsville, La Center, Nicholasville and Pikeville, Dec. 10.

Kentucky for sale:

The Rankin in that 1911 map is not the Rankin of the famous 1876 Kentucky Meat Shower.

There's a darkness on the edge of Bardstown.

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The University Press of Kentucky is hiring a new editor in chief. The advertised pay range is $57-$96k, and they say you'll wrap up at 5 most days.

Where Are They Now?

What about west Louisville in five years?

Owensboro aflame.

The Ark Encounter in Williamstown has attracted about 400,000 visitors.

Ky. Department of Travel and Tourism creates new webpage for the 2017 Great American Eclipse https://t.co/aWs9Lrxz0h pic.twitter.com/XKCp2i1GNw

— The Lane Report (@TheLaneReport) October 25, 2016

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The Jessamine County Public Library does not have bedbugs.

Cumberland, however, has a new pizzeria. Crofton is getting a new miniature-golf course; Pineville, a new dialysis center. Bowling Green may be getting a new Dollar General Store (again). Columbia's Best Western is not new, but it's owners are.

Woodford and Fulton counties continue to set the poles on the range of unemployment rates across Kentucky.

Disconcerting jobs news from Hawesville.

One of two Mammoth Cave ferries have reopened.

A Houdini and an American Idol finalist are on the docket for the "Little Green Men" Days Festival in Kelly.

Kentucky's "First Family of High School Basketball"--and more from Zach Greenwell in Bowling Green's Daily News from Saturday's KHSAA hoops hall induction in Elizabethtown.

The defending Class 5A KHSAA football champs are tuning up.

So are the marching Green Dragons of Harlan.

Hooray for first responders!