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Catching up ...

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He turned 100, and he wanted to mow.

Trump, Bevin, coal, renewables, TVA, the DoE, John Prine, U of L, newspapers ... this story by WFPL's Ryan Van Velzer has everything.

There's a big U.S./China economic and cultural event going down in Lexington this week, and the National Governors Association hails "the exclusive deal-making opportunity." Indeed, here's a deal struck having to do with Chinese-mined magnesium.

Kentucky is considering whether to ban tattoos on scarred skin, and you can weigh in with emailed comments.

A new bar/pizza place in Covington closes; an old restaurant in Franklin is expanding to offer coffees and breakfast.

The Gleaner's Douglas White delivers his typically outstanding 411 on the purchase of a 50-year-old Henderson Ford dealership by a Bowling Green Toyota outfit.

Untethered from presses, the Kentucky New Era has moved back to downtown Hopkinsville. Interesting trend observed by Al Cross at his always-great Rural Blog.

Booming Beaver Dam--it is about a sixth more populous since 1980--has hired its first full-time fire chief.

Corbin's tourism director says the season's first movies-in-the-park event drew about 175 to (Col.) Sanders Park.

The Paducah area's Women in Maritime Operations are (formally) getting it together.

The elementary teacher of the year is from London, and the local Sentinel-Echo is hosting a virtual celebration.

Turning to sports, a globetrotting volleyballer from Erlanger is thinking about turning away.

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The Kentucky Standard's Forrest Berkshire and Randy Patrick weigh in with a terrific, thick series of stories on how depictions of the black experience have changed in Bardstown arts and history.

Good jobs news from Coal Run and Franklin.

The Christian Church (Disciples of Kentucky) is restructuring itself, and you can learn more and weigh in on the proposed changes.

First Aid Kit, so hot at the HP in 2018, is on the docket for July's Forecastle Festival in Louisville.

Turning to sports, the KHSAA's tweaks to its state golf tournaments aggravated the Golf Channel crowd.

Rest in peace, "Joe Franklin Fulks, Corporal US Marine Corps." (Steve Flairty in the Northern Kentucky Tribune revisits the triumphant and tragic tale of the "Kuttawa Clipper.")

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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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Christmas parades: Georgetown, Dec. 2, and Lexington, Dec. 6.

It's Burger Week, and Corbin's Travis' Cafe is blowing my mind with news of its "Quesadilla Burger."

The Henderson Farmers Market says "a big 'Thank You,' to the gentlemen in their lives."

Congratulations to the White House News Photographers Association’s 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award winner, J. Scott Applewhite, formerly of the College Heights Herald, The Gleaner and The Courier-Journal.

The Glasgow Daily Times' Gina Kinslow, another pro formerly of the Herald, sticks to just the facts, ma'am, in economically reporting the Cave City council session that resulted in the purchase of land from a member of the council.

Upon reading Darrell Bird's very interesting report for Cats Pause on Mitch Barnhart's experience on the NC2A selection committee for the men's basketball tournament, my feeling is now that the committee should, instead of meeting all season over which teams are selected for the tournament and how they're seeded, should meet all offseason over the mathematical formula by which the tournament is selected and seeded. And I believe those meetings should be open and streamed live at the NC2A website.

Placing Jefferson Davis in context, at long last.

Kuttawa is amping up its tourism game.

Good jobs news from Whitley County.

Here's the Hazard Bombers' jingle.

Seventy-six ANU-Pikeville Eagles are set to receive degrees and diplomas next week at the Church of Christ in Coal Run.

I didn't yet know to worry about this vinegar fly, but that's all over now.

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Post by McCracken County Public Schools.

The Disciples are getting ready to hit Hoptown next month. 

The 2007-08 and 2010-12 KHSAA Class 6A champs are getting ready for kickoff next Friday!

The skies are gray at Trinity's football practice today. pic.twitter.com/nAAnxrnwgp
— Jason Frakes (@kyhighs) August 14, 2014

Meanwhile, Broadbent's of Kuttawa racked up its 16th state championship. 

In 2012, 13 percent of people living in Kentucky were from Ohio or other states in the Midwest; 7 percent, from Tennessee or other states in the South.

"I started this because my dad is always at work and I wanted him to come home, so we can all be together."

Franklin's getting a new farmers' market.

List price for The Ballard County Weekly is $15,000.

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KENNY PERRY!

MICHELLE MCKAMEY!

@BluegressBasketball asked its Twitter followers to send in pictures of Kentucky gyms, and the results are awesome (and still coming in).

@BluegrassBball Corbin Redhounds. pic.twitter.com/lw1ptJgkED
— Jacob Partin (@Jacobpartin) May 20, 2014

"This is devastating for the people of Nicholas County."

"It's an accumulation of lots of things that weren't being done right."

"A brief in support of Kentucky's gay marriage ban is so outrageous that some are questioning whether the state is purposefully trying to lose the case."

Good jobs news from Bowling Green and Florence.

The Kentucky Kingdom comeback looms.

The mystery of the Lake Barkley Asian-carp die-off might be solved.

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Happy Beef Month!

Bourbon demand (good bourbon, anyway) is apparently outpacing supply.

The KHSAA Sweet Sixteen girls' basketball tournament is moving from Bowling Green to Highland Heights.

What's the deal with the die-off of Lake Barkley Asian carp?

@Wayne_C_Hart @Kentuckyweather Maceo, Ky pic.twitter.com/QM587dxHEz
— Jenae Blake (@jenaeb24) May 13, 2014

"The current database has 5,813 names. More research is needed to account for all 7,607 soldiers who died, were wounded or went missing during the battle in 1862."

Bad jobs news from western Paducah and Radcliff. Good from Auburn.

Granular Madisonville (A Member of the "Oh, Kentucky" Family of Posts)

I’m very concerned about "Vagabond Mike's Pizza Place" (not its real name[1]).

I just drove by the Madisonville restaurant at noon on a Friday, and the neon OPEN sign was dark and the parking lot, empty. So I continued on back National Mine Road—past the United States Department of Agriculture Service Center, Daymar College and Schwan’s. And I spun around at the end of the street in the parking lot of United Central Industrial Supply. Back past Schwan’s, Daymar and the USDA. Now there was one of the "Vagabond Mike's" delivery vans parked in front of the restaurant. A man hopped out of the driver’s side and then came around to let a boy out of the passenger seat. Then they both went in. But the OPEN sign remained dark.

Might "Vagabond Mike's" have closed?

Certainly, I have not done my civic duty to keep this locally owned restaurant afloat during the reeeeeeeecesssssssssssion. When it comes to local pizza, I’m a Roxanne’s man. And the last pizza I bought was a $5 HOT-N-READY^® job from the new Little Caesars that opened in town a few months ago.

But I always guessed that "Vagabond Mike's" had legion local followers. I know it’s the favorite of the music director at my church. And I know he and his wife sometimes meet the guy who runs the local office-supply business and that guy’s wife there for lunch. Surely there’s plenty of local love for "Vagabond Mike's."

Surely?

I’m parked in the lot of American Mini Storage, typing this—two properties down from Hobo Mickey’s—and—oh, no!—a black pickup just pulled in to the "Vagabond Mike's" lot and then pulled back out, as though he was accustomed to it being open for Friday lunch and now it’s not.

Did my apathy kill "Vagabond Mike's?"

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[1] Given that I’m honestly not sure what’s going on with this place, I certainly don’t want somebody to Google upon this post and decide not to head over there for dinner tonight if it turns out that "Vagabond Mike's" is still open.