Oh, Kentucky

Let's play. Everyone. Even with the thunderstorms. In Madisonville, as of this week.

Kentucky Council of Churches, "Re-claiming Jesus," in Morehead come October.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers put on a community meeting in Loyall to talk about flow issues at the local lagoon, and the resulting Harlan Enterprise staff report is just chock-full of interesting phrases: "top priority," "design flaw," "right of entry," "whether or not equipment would be parked on properties," "drilling for core samples," "attract copperheads to den and feed in the area," "weren’t in favor of signing and left the meeting without doing so" and "did not yet have a formal plan to fix the problems," among them.

"I feel it's like a time capsule that we just opened up." Nice Jeremy D. Wells feature in the Grayson Journal-Enquirer on an intriguing discovery at an old U.S. 60 truck stop in Globe.

"This industry is new — there’s some growing pains along the way, but we’ll get there." Interesting dispatch from the Owensboro front of the fledgling industrial-hemp game, from Katie Pickens in The Owensboro Times.

WPSD's Shamarria Morrison with a crisp, clear anchoring of a good, thorough story with a lot of moving pieces: "The National Fire Protection Association says Paducah needs 62 firefighters. The city has a budget for 59. (Paducah fire chief Steve) Kyle said the department currently employs 54."

Goodbye to Gunny: LMPD's sniper team leader retires after 42 years of service https://t.co/N1qKbnFGba pic.twitter.com/xXXAaUq6CW

— WDRB News (@WDRBNews) May 31, 2019

No. 1 for purchasing power among Kentucky's 120 counties? Oldham. For cost of living? Owsley. For median income? Back to Oldham. So says SmartAsset, "a financial technology company aiming to provide the best personal finance advice on the web."

Kentucky's safest city? Vine Grove, says Safewise, "a resource for safety and security issues."

And the safest college? University of the Cumberlands, per "a new report released by safety experts at Your Local Security."

Hiring in Ledbetter (to operate the water and sewer systems).

Oh, Livingston County

Christmas17 at the courthouse:

Downtown Smithland, 1935:

"Let's Go Crazy" in Grand Rivers:

Revved up in Salem:

The Tiline Mafia:

Three hundred seconds over Carrsville:

Touchdown in Burna:

Overflow in Birdsville:

Waterfall in Joy:

Rest in peace, Ledbetter Bridge (1931-2014):

Oh, Kentucky

Check out these fantastic aerial shots of the work going on at the stadium, compliments of Rick Lohre (CCH '92). We're getting close! pic.twitter.com/koNPkt5zuz

— CCH Football Alumni (@CovCathFBAlumni) August 7, 2017

Everything must go from Frankfort's Capital Plaza Tower.

Knox County Public Schools faculty and staff are taking it to the streets Wednesday.

The Kentucky Wired statewide-broadband project is behind schedule. Securing rights-of-way is the primary current hurdle, East Kentucky Broadcasting reports from Pikeville.

Rick Cochran--I'm pretty sure he's Russ Cochran's nephew and an old Heath High Pirate--won the West Kentucky Open pro-golf tournament for a record fifth time.

The Elkton Dairy Queen is hiring ("Will be some day shift but must be available Mon through Sun from 5:30am to 10:30pm. 36-40 hours a week.").

Reidland Ponderosa, we hardly knew ye.

Every day is Lighthouse Day in Fort Thomas.

Oh, Kentucky

A whole new life awaits the winning bidder in Ledbetter.

Regarding some old jobs news in Lancaster: "So far the goals laid out in incentive plan have remained out of reach," writes David Brock in a very good Advocate-Messenger story.

On boosting kindergarten readiness in Perry County.

Kentucky high-school football: Marion County has promoted from within to replace its head coach who died in November ... Damien Harris of Berea Madison Southern signed with Alabama yesterday ... Caldwell County's Elijah Sindelar, with Purdue ... Jack Haskins's seat at McCracken County High remains open.

Based on Litkenhous Ratings, possible Boys' Sweet 16 quarterfinals: Oldham-Henderson NewCath-PRP Trinity-LexCath Bowling Green-Knott CC
— Jason Frakes (@kyhighs) February 5, 2015

Fan Bus, Part V

Continued ...

I've never taken that upper arm of the Y on eastbound U.S. 60 that runs with the Ohio River. Hmmm ...

Fan Bus, Part IV

Continued ...

Livingston County!

Oh, Kentucky

This fantastic 1930 map shows how U.S. 41 from Henderson to Madisonville didn't even run through Sebree--but instead ran along what is now U.S. 41-A, through Dixon and Providence. I'm about to go through a giant Webster County stage, so gird yourself for that.

 

If you like to watch stuff being blown up, Channel 6 has some video for you.

A dog park is opening in Etown: "It's going to be great."

The sound of eastern Kentucky, 1937.

The sound of eastern Kentucky, 2014.

Good jobs news from Hebron, Lebanon, London, (west) Louisville, (more) Louisville, Mount Sterling, Simpsonville, Trenton and (Dave Cowens Drive in) Newport.

Oh, Kentucky

Player intros underway for the 2014 KHSAA Boys Tennis Championship Team Finals. St. X vs McCracken Co. #khstn pic.twitter.com/dlr1aW86A4
— Joe Angolia (@jangoliakhsaa) May 15, 2014

And then Louisville Saint Xavier and Sacred Heart repeated as the boys' and girls' KHSAA tennis champions.

Memorial Day is May 26, but Whitesville isn't going to wait.

The John Hunt Morgan exhibit is charging into Fairview before riding on to Columbus.

If it's election time in Elkton, it's a little tougher to get your hands on a Todd County Standard.

The Old Ledbetter Bridge isn't just falling down; it's coming down--starting June 10.

And: "We just started the new Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Burrito, but it’s for a limited time only. So, if you like hot, I recommend getting one."

Also, it's time to get your act together if you're going to enjoy Lewisburg's spectacular Purple Martin Festival.

We Believe In Owensboro (WBIO) calls the drop in Kentucky joblessness to 7.7 percent is "encouraging," but the jobs news is, on balance, bad, says the state's chamber-of-commerce director.

Oh, Kentucky

"It wouldn’t be a Whitley concert without a little rain."

I'm totally poised to leap on the NaviGo bandwagon.

I also am totally down with the drinks mantra of Dr. Nikki Stone with the Ronald McDonald dental van: "Water, whenever; milk, only with meals; juice, just once; and pop, only at parties."

Lebanon is looking for some of the travel writers' love.

Good job news from Russellville, too.

Back in the 1980s, the on-campus housing people at WKU were insistent that the Herald stop calling them "dorms" and instead use the term "residence hall." I'm wondering if some of those folks are now working for Warren County Parks, which yesterday cut the ribbon on a new "athletic complex" (is that a gym?) and a couple of public tornado shelters at Basil Griffin Park (which back in the 1980s was still known as "Three Springs Park").

Fun at the Ole ballpark! #Breds celebrate winning run 12th to beat Kentucky 4-3 at Brooks Stadium in Paducah: pic.twitter.com/rxCtmJUNw2
— Dave Winder (@RacerDave23) May 14, 2014

(Old) Ledbetter Bridge is falling down.

Logan County has a new schools superintendent, and he's a West Point grad and Desert Storm vet who was the No. 2 person in Madison County.

Barren County High's historic Class of '74 is reunioning. 

Oh, Kentucky

Went big and went home to Sonora a Jeopardy record-breaker, baby! Rock on, 12-year-old Skylar Hornback! 

Heath Eric--of Heath and Molly, who are back in Kentucky after playing in the Czech Republic earlier this summer--selected a more lively path than did Heath Me.

The bridge is back, Ledbetter than ever!

A Lawrenceburg-based preview of the 26th edition of the "World's Longest Yard Sale" (yeah, whatevs, U.S. 127) and a Clinton County-and-Shoney's-centric look back of the last five.

Good jobs news from Hickman (hooray for Fulton County!) and Paducah. About the bad there and in and around Fort Knox and Hazard.

Seven relentlessly grim minutes on the pending transition to 10-digit dialing in The 270/364. And an angry two cents from Columbia.

Dispatches from the front lines of the culture wars: About the Hawesville mayor's "inherently exclusionary column that contains explicit references to God and Jesus Christ," about the Gideons' distribution of Bibles in state schools, about the business of birthing in and around Hardin County.

Rest in peace, Mr. Crawford, author of "Pressbox Paragraphs" and imaginer of "Corbin County."

Oh, Kentucky

I love Oprah.

Becoming Mustangs.

Excellent point from Mark Maynard in Ashland's Daily Independent: J.R. "VanHoose may be the only non-UK player to receive two standing ovations in Rupp Arena."

Deming High survived an attack on its Black Devils nickname and a consolidation bid, but a July 17 fire was especially devastating.

Good, wonkish story from Amelia Holiday in The Hazard Herald about the Dustbowl League basketball played for 25 years on the city's bright blue, downtown, outdoor courts.

Madisonville's city clerk of more than 30 years says when.

Good jobs news from London and Louisville.

Mariott is coming to Murray, and Glasgow (and the gov) cut the ribbon on the state's new nursing facility.

Pine Mountain State Resort Park is becoming part of Pineville, paving the way for booze to come to Pine Mountain State Resort Park.

Accolade parade: Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken Franchisee of the Year goes to a Bardstown entrepreneur! ... Kentucky's fastest-growing city is Hoptown! ... Owen Countian of the Year goes to a volunteer firefighter of more than 40 years!

Phew! The U.S. 60 desk needs a vacation ... route news from Ledbetter and en route to Hinkleville.

Beautiful crisp morning @wfpark http://t.co/nMIxXEMrN5
— Downtown Louisville (@Downtown_Lou) July 24, 2013

Oh, Kentucky

The Letcher County Central band of Whitesburg marches on Washington.

Andre Woodson of Radcliff touches down in Morehead.

Freakwater of Louisville ramps it back up in Ann Arbor, Mich.

"Satan tried taking it from me. But God will give it back."

Harlan County coal and Logan County baseball are being chronicled. History-rich Boyle County is being preserved.

PublicLibrary.org has a new director.

Stick with it and save, at Union College.

1s: Trinity and Marion County. 

The first Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame inductees class is to be revealed this week.

This week in Kentucky history, via the (awesome) Kentuckeean.

Rest in peace, Mrs. Hough, owner of Augusta's Folk Art Shop, founding member of the Bracken County Historical Society, former Bracken County tourism director, "admiral of the Augusta Sternwheel Regatta" (?) and mom of five.

Oh, Kentucky

Want to meet the new mayor, see the Blue Man Group or change your life in Paducah this new year? Well, you're too late.

Want to tour Danville by smartphone? Well, you're in luck.

"Back to kind of old school policing" in Vicco.

Letcher County Central's marching band reportedly has raised about $30,000 of the $75,000 it will cost for it to play at the president's inauguration.

Martin's mayoral race was decided by three votes, and the candidate on the slightly shorter end of the stick is claiming that 19 votes were counted from nonresidents of the town.

Wetter in Etown? No.

"The Boston Post Office is not closing." But plenty of changes are coming, and the hows and whys are detailed vividly in this Kentucky Standard story.

"There is no plan or specified date to close the U.S. 60 Tennessee River Bridge at Ledbetter." But the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet assures that it is at the ready to act.

Oh, Kentucky

The boys on the Christmas-parade desk never take their eye off the ball (Owensboro, Nov. 17), but they manage to squeeze in a little Labor Day duty, too (Paducah).

The 56th-annual Channel 6 Telethon of Stars is coming together.

Community gardening in Madisonville and Maysville.

The Kentucky Historical Society looks back in Stamping Ground. The guv pushes ahead the in Ledbetter.

The KHS might need to do a little maintenance in Princeton, by the way, given this discovery in our scrap-metal-recycling place in Madisonville yesterday:

A Cecilia author pens his third Kentucky-oriented Civil War book.

"Apocolypse Meow" and more winners.

"Miracle at West Liberty?"

Fulton County no longer has the state's highest unemployment rate.

Archery, bass fishing and competitive cheer are new to the KHSAA championship docket. As the future founder of the Kentucky Olympic Committee, I especially applaud the sanctioning of archery.

Kenny Perry this weekend continues his Champions Tour Charles Schwab Cup chase--and his career discernment. "So I still haven't quite figured it out, you know, which direction I'm leaning towards."

Oh, Kentucky

Good jobs news from Bardstown, Lexington and west Louisville. Bad from Madisonville.

Pizza availability in Columbia is up 33 percent--and soft-serve futures appear strong.

Broadband rollout in Lyon County progresses.

The new new normal, in Grand Rivers.

It would be stone-cold awesome to dress up a whole house like a state-park lodge.

Miss Talley remained among the leaders as the first West Kentucky College Golf Showcase closed (and a Heath girl stakes claim to the graduated Caldwell Countian's prep dominance).

My main man--in Washington?

Coach Calipari's Commonwealth tour continues to Corbin (and this time he brings along Jon Hood).

Welcome to Lexington.

Jalapeno Smoked Porter ... interesting.

Oh, Kentucky

Ask and receive. Ask and give.

The Kentucky Derby is hiring.

Um, Miss Talley isn't just "among" the leaders going into today's final round.

Ashland and Etown natives won Tonys.

Bear near Breeding.

Healthcare in Bardwell.

Tops in Shepherdsville.

KHS in Louisville and McKinney.

From Jackson: news of another bridge on the move. The bridge beat has been among the Kentucky desk's busiest in 2012.

Honoring "Cold War Patriots," quiltstyle.

"Maple bacon" cupcakes ... interesting.