Oh, Kentucky

Ninety-three and still counting, and one yet to go!

And, actually, we might be up to 94 parades, if this Daily Mail story--"Decline of the town that coal built ..."--is correct that Lynch was hosting one this month. But the town Facebook page that Ann Schmidt mentions appears to be on the fritz, and there is no specific date for the parade provided.

So, for now, I'm saying 93 confirmed Christmas19 parades: Sharpsburg, Nov. 9; Owensboro, Nov. 23; Central City, Nov. 24; Lebanon and Louisville, Nov. 29;  Greensburg, Guthrie and Pikeville, Nov. 30; Boyce, Dawson Springs, Murray, Salem and Sebree, Dec. 1; Bardstown, Dec. 5; Clay, Fredonia, Harrodsburg, Irvine/Ravenna, London, Maysville, Monticello, Pineville, Richmond, Smiths Grove, Stanton and Trenton, Dec. 6; Arlington, Barbourville, Beattyville, Berea, Bloomfield, Bowling Green, Bromley/Ludlow, Brownsville, Cadiz, Calvert City, Carlisle, Clinton, Columbia, Corbin, Cynthiana, Danville, East Bernstadt, Frankfort, Glasgow, Grayson, Greenville, Hawesville, Henderson, Horse Cave, Inez, Lawrenceburg, Leitchfield, Lexington, Madisonville, Marion, Middlesboro, Morgantown, Munfordville, Murray, Owingsville, Paducah, Paintsville, Prestonsburg, Rabbit Hash, Raceland, Russell Springs, Salyersville, Scottsville, Shelbyville, Somerset ("highlighted by football team's appearance"), Trenton, Versailles, Whitley City and Winchester, Dec. 7; Auburn, Georgetown and New Haven, Dec. 8; Augusta, Benton, Burkesville, Burnside, Campbellsville, Cave City, Edmonton, Elkton, Franklin, Hopkinsville, Louisa, Mayfield, Providence, Tollesboro, Williamsburg and Woodburn, Dec. 14, and Cerulean, Dec. 21!

In Prospect, they discovered gold--in a Salvation Army red kettle outside the Kroger.

Spreading Christmas "clipper love" in Paducah.

Meanwhile over in Harlan County, Hannah Reynolds from WYMT reports, there was no opposition voiced at the fiscal-court meeting when the Second Amendment-sanctuary deal came up (and quickly passed).

Curtains for curbside recycling in Warren County?

"Camp Restoration," a tiny-home community for homeless vets, is being planned off Dixie Highway in Louisville.

Quintessential American journalist Douglas White of Henderson's Gleaner delivers his typically stellar reporting and writing on local momentum toward large-scale solar-energy production. 

Elizabethtown's News-Enterprise weighs in on Vine Grove's city-hall crisis.

Cory Claxon in The Morehead News looks back on the busy first fourth months of the local Laughlin Health Building.

Oh, Kentucky

An early-morning fire today has staggered Ferrell's, which arrived in Madisonville when my dad was 4, remained his standard for hamburgers the rest of his life and became mine once my wife and I moved to town in 2008.

On the better-news-from-here front, Madisonville Community College has graduated its first class of utility lineman, and more than half are reported to be already employed.

Aluminum to the rescue, in coal country, per Forbes.

Hiring (at a coal mine) in Hazard.

The University of the Cumberlands is cutting tuition for undergraduate students by 57 percent.

A new clinic "to extend the healing ministry of Christ to everyone" in Manchester.

Kentucky considers boosting its animal-cruelty penalties, and The Horse takes hopeful note.

USA Today reports on a nationwide effort is underway to save 458 pigs rescued from a Falmouth farm.

The state has a new Boxing and Wrestling Commission chair, and he's a former Somerset High Briar Jumpers football star with a "mind for money" and solid résumé of excelling on state boards, reports Christopher Harris in the Commonwealth Journal.

Joe Asher in the Harlan Daily Enterprise delivers a comprehensive report on the fiscal court's tourism priorities and efforts to refresh the county's parks.

Oh, Kentucky

Hopkins County results in D presidential and R congressional races. #KYPrimary #Comer #Sanders pic.twitter.com/u0MM7puChr

— Will Cox (@WillCoxKY) May 18, 2016

The NRA wrapped up its big convention in Louisville on Sunday.

Flatwoods strikes back at the federal directive on bathroom usage by transgender people.

The new Kentucky State Police cadet class has arrived in Frankfort.

They shan't drive 55, across U.S. 45 and U.S. 641.

A couple of new U.S. Department of Agriculture grants are intended to help spur job creation and aid utility management in "persistent poverty areas" of Kentucky.

CovCath is launching random drug testing for all students next school year.

Kentucky for sale:

The Freakin' Weekend (1969)

Huge 1969 weekend for sports, beginning with Friday night, Oct. 10, ...

The defending state champs are Lynch East Main in Class A, Fort Thomas Highlands in 2A and Louisville Trinity in 3A. Here are the Kentucky High School Athletic Association alignments for 1969 and '70 ...

 

Friday's local-ish games of import to Hoptown 1969 me are the city Tigers at Mayfield and Trigg County at Murray.

"Hoptown and Trigg County will be involved in situations that can only be labeled absolute musts," reports the Kentucky New Era in an Oct. 10, 1969, article with no byline (which was more the industry norm unless a story was clearly a feature or opinion piece until somewhere in the 1980s).

I'm going to have to see how the playoffs are set up (my guess is that Hoptown 1969 me was so busy getting rich until now that he didn't follow this stuff that closely until now), but I think we're going to have playoffs where district champions play each other for regional titles and then the four regional champions play two rounds of games to figure out state titles. In any event, Hopkinsville and Trigg County are 0-1 in Class 2A, Region I, District 1 and Class A, Region I, District 1, respectively. And both Mayfield (ranked No. 5 statewide in 2A) and Murray (ranked No. 4 in A) are very good, so it will take huge road upsets if either my Tigers or Wildcats stay in contention for district championships after tonight.

My plan is to leave early in the afternoon and drive north of the lakes, get something to eat and then go out to Mayfield for the Hoptown game. If things are out of hand by halftime or so, I'll bug out to Murray to see what's going on with Trigg. Then I'll drive home to Hoptown over the Eggner's Ferry Bridge. The games don't start until 8, so, unless they're huge, huge blowouts and I bail early on both, there's no way I will be home in time to watch tonight's 10:30 Touchdown Preview on Channel 4. 

It didn't work out for my A's this year, but I still plan to watch the World Series. The Mets' season has been such a big deal that it even made Page 1 of the Kentucky New Era when New York clinched the National League East last month.

Saturday's Game 1 pits New York's Tom Seaver against the Orioles' Mike Cuellar, in Baltimore.

Then, of course, there's more football.

There's so much interesting sports going on, in fact, that I've barely had time for anything else on TV.

Kentucky High-school Football, Class A State Champs

Fun night ...

Congratulations boys on your win over Raceland. #jacketprideworldwide #StateBound pic.twitter.com/y7h6A3MSfk
— WHS Pep Club (@WHSPep) November 29, 2014

Fun week ...

MHS STATE WEEK SPIRIT DAYS: Mon.-pajama day; Tues.-mismatch day; Wed.-nerd day; Thurs.-loser day; Fri.-RED&BLACK with a pep rally @2:00.
— MayfieldSchools (@MayfieldSchools) November 30, 2014

The Cardinal football team visited Mayfield Elementary School students before heading to BG. #GoCards pic.twitter.com/KnGT4rlLuU
— MayfieldSchools (@MayfieldSchools) December 5, 2014

Good morning ...

Gameday #state pic.twitter.com/O1SXkcZKsj
— Kane McCord (@Kmccord_61) December 6, 2014

Williamsburg and Mayfield on the field warming up. Class A state final kicks off in about half an hour. pic.twitter.com/FmiOyLsKx4
— Tanner Hesterberg (@TannerWYMT) December 6, 2014

Coach Herron rocking some shorts on this chilly morning in Bowling Green pic.twitter.com/gNLV9zxOZV
— Lauren Cash (@LaurenWYMT) December 6, 2014

Mayfield is awaiting its entrance to the field. pic.twitter.com/T3kNmngy1C
— Mike Stunson (@Mike_Stunson) December 6, 2014

Williamsburg is represented well. pic.twitter.com/vsxYJvGnaj
— The EndZone (@Theendzonett) December 6, 2014

It was defending runners-up and not the defending champs who got off to the quick start ...

Mayfield starting to wake up. Finally moving the ball, down 10-0. pic.twitter.com/ikoojkHnqf
— Tanner Hesterberg (@TannerWYMT) December 6, 2014

But Mayfield scored a couple of touchdowns in the second quarter to take a 14-10 lead at halftime ...

Class 1A FInals KHSAA halftime score. Mayfield. 14. Williamsburg 10 pic.twitter.com/gFwefspyMq
— cn|2 Sports (@cn2_Sports) December 6, 2014

Midway through the fourth quarter, the Yellow Jackets pulled within two points on a fantastic, one-handed touchdown catch and then drew even on a flip pass to a back releasing from a block for the conversion ...

 
Williamsburg immediately intercepted, drove into Mayfield territory and positioned for a 34-yard, game-winning field-goal try ...

No good! And the game went to overtime.

Williamsburg scored a touchdown but missed its extra point to open overtime. Then Mayfield's No. 22, Trajon Bright, caught a touchdown pass to even things ...

And the kick ...

Congratulations, Mayfield Cardinals!

Final Mayfield 28 Williamsburg 27 pic.twitter.com/JZxC27IgW4
— The EndZone (@Theendzonett) December 6, 2014

KHSAA Class A football champions:

2014 Mayfield

2013 Mayfield

2012 Mayfield

2011 Hazard
2010 Mayfield
2009 Lexington Christian
2008 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
2007 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
2006 Newport Central Catholic
2005 Newport Central Catholic
2004 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
2003 Danville
2002 Mayfield
2001 Danville
2000 Danville
1999 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1998 Middlesboro
1997 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1996 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1995 Mayfield
1994 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1993 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1992 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1991 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1990 Russellville
1989 Pikeville
1988 Pikeville
1987 Pikeville
1986 Heath
1985 Crittenden County
1984 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1983 Russellville
1982 Paris
1981 Paris
1980 Russellville
1979 Bellevue
1978 Fort Campbell
1977 Bellevue
1976 Fort Campbell
1975 Ludlow
1974 Murray
1973 Paris
1972 Trigg County
1971 Trigg County
1970 Bardstown
1969 Mount Sterling
1968 Lynch East Main
1967 Bardstown
1966 Dayton
1965 Erlanger Lloyd Memorial
1964 Elkhorn City
1963 Lynch East Main
1962 Versailles
1961 Murray
1960 Lynch East Main
1959 Lynch East Main

Previous reports from the 2014 Class A playoffs:

-- Round of 32 preview and wrap

-- Round of 16

-- Round of eight preview and wrap

-- Semifinals preview and wrap

-- Championship preview

Kentucky High-school Football, Class A Champions

Class 1A State Championship: Mayfield takes the field against Williamsburg! Game about to begin! @PaducahSunNews pic.twitter.com/TaHwF1fILJ
— James D. Horne (@bigdog_JamesD) December 6, 2013

So the Mayfield Cardinals on Friday beat the Williamsburg Yellow Jackets, 42-0, for the KHSAA Class A football championship. That makes 10 (!) state championships for Mayfield, and that's the fourth highest for any school in KHSAA football history. As noted by Mike Fields in the Lexington Herald-Leader, current Cardinals coach Joe Morris now has the same number of state championships (four) as his dad, former Cardinals coach Jack. Mayfield finished 14-1 this season.

Here are the year-by-year Kentucky Class A football champs:

2013 Mayfield

2012 Mayfield

2011 Hazard
2010 Mayfield
2009 Lexington Christian
2008 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
2007 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
2006 Newport Central Catholic
2005 Newport Central Catholic
2004 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
2003 Danville
2002 Mayfield
2001 Danville
2000 Danville
1999 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1998 Middlesboro
1997 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1996 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1995 Mayfield
1994 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1993 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1992 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1991 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1990 Russellville
1989 Pikeville
1988 Pikeville
1987 Pikeville
1986 Heath
1985 Crittenden County
1984 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1983 Russellville
1982 Paris
1981 Paris
1980 Russellville
1979 Bellevue
1978 Fort Campbell
1977 Bellevue
1976 Fort Campbell
1975 Ludlow
1974 Murray
1973 Paris
1972 Trigg County
1971 Trigg County
1970 Bardstown
1969 Mount Sterling
1968 Lynch East Main
1967 Bardstown
1966 Dayton
1965 Erlanger Lloyd Memorial
1964 Elkhorn City
1963 Lynch East Main
1962 Versailles
1961 Murray
1960 Lynch East Main
1959 Lynch East Main

The only teams still playing Class A football who have won Class A state championships are Mayfield, Hazard, Beechwood, Russellville, Pikeville, Crittenden County, Paris, Bellevue, Ludlow and Dayton. The other teams who are part of Class A are Fulton City, Fulton County, Bardstown Bethlehem, Horse Cave Caverna, Louisville Holy Cross, Louisville Kentucky Country Day, Bracken County, Eminence, Frankfort, Berea, Campbellsville, Lynn Camp, Williamsburg, Harlan, Jenkins, Pineville, Westood Fairview, Nicholas County, Paintsville, Raceland-Worthington, Allen Central, Phelps and South Floyd. 

Oh, Kentucky

"We wonder where it is that our leadership has gone."

Europe.

Murray State is hiring.

Middlesboro's Oasis Pizza Palace has been hanging in there. Paris's blackberry gum is just getting started. So's Moore's Karate in Shelbyville. Draffenville's Ponderosa is celebrating 25 years. Maybe a Kroger in Union?

Living the good life for less in Paducah.

The widow of the head of security at a Lynch coal mine for 33 years tells her "story of intrigue, heartbreak" to Dr. Vivian Blevins for The Middlesboro Daily News.

Northern Kentucky's only homeless shelter is on the move.

Caldwell and Lyon counties want to get all of their residents connected.

Here's how Butler Countians' tax dollars are spent.

Columbia's Dakota Meyer is advocating for more U.S. State Departmetnt support of Afghan translators.

A revealing map of Louisville's 2013 homicides.

A helpful guide to Kentucky's fall foliage.

The Milton-Madison Bridge is no longer one of them, but Kentucky numbers 145 bridges that are deemed both "structurally deficient" and "fracture critical." Not good.

Lewisburg School has inducted its first class of hall-of-famers. Great!

We just completed Week 2 of the KET News Quiz season, and I'm dominating these HeathPostdotcom fantasy-league standings.

Oh, Kentucky

KHSAA football season starts just four Fridays from tonight. They're scrimmaging at Mason County and Perry County Central, mulling helmet colors in Middlesboro and voting to stay the course at 56.2 percent of 210 of Kentucky's 220 football-playing schools.

Kenny Perry is probably back home in Kentucky studying up on how his old Lone Oak boys are blending in with the McCracken County Mustangs, who open Saturday, Aug. 24, against the Paducah Tilghman Blue Tornado. But Saint Mary's doesn't play football, so Paducah's Russ Cochran is over in England--he played the first round of the Senior British Open Thursday in 1-over, currently tied for 20th and five strokes off the lead.

Back to school in West Paducah.

"(W)e should not have to tear down every vestige of that past to make room for progress;" that said, Owen County paved an old house that was built by a Christian County emigree in 1870 and passed on to his colonel son so that it could put up a new Dollar General.

Comments about Miscellaneous Ramblings from a Paducah City Commissioner.

Looks like Maiden Alley made it!

Surely, Jennifer Lawrence isn't actually calling her mother, "mum," right? Surely, that was just how the Kiwis at NZCity.co.nz heard it but not how Jennifer Lawrence said it ..., right?  

The UMC women's Mission U at LWC.

In Kentucky, unemployment is highest in Magoffin County and lowest in Woodford. And, by the way, there are no more "unemployment offices" in Kentucky.

Good jobs news from Lexington, Louisville, Owensboro, Winchester and (more from) Versailles.

Getting a first look at the new KFC Eleven restaurant on Baxter. No giant buckets here! More at 4 and 6 on @WHAS11 pic.twitter.com/pRHIZrMSLo
— Michelle Arnold (@WHAS11Michelle) July 25, 2013

Rest in peace, Mr. Kelly, a Bostonian who didn't initially know much about horses but moved to Lexington and helped bring the 2010 World Equestrian Games there.

Rock on, Mr. Sanchez-Blazquez, a 112-year-old Spaniard who came to the United States via Cuba and through Ellis Island and then worked for years in the coal mines at Lynch.

Oh, Kentucky

Rest in peace, Mr. Sullivan, Kentucky Utilities transmission supervisor, Burgin Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) deacon and Kentucky High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame umpire.

My favorite NFL player, Yeremiah Bell, really, really liked The Roy Kidd Show.

Your Kentucky Colonels

have really come to play!

"If it's 6 o'clock in the morning and you want a shrimp dinner, you'll get a shrimp dinner."

"If you're a ventriloquist, it's the cultural center of your world."

@Kentuckyweather Cumberland Falls yesterday - quite powerful to see in person all flooded from all the rain here! pic.twitter.com/2YF9SywFN8
— Jessica Blankenship (@kycountrymusic) July 8, 2013

Good jobs news from Hoptown and Lexington. Also, Covington? Bad from Lexington.

Ray Long's winding journey through Bell County grocery history.

Lynch's new police chief is 23.

No. 14 in the nation!

Not so fast, Wickliffe.

The 270 is going to 10-digit dialing.

Take that, haters!

Take that, ... um ... what?

Oh, Kentucky

Don't call it a comeback! Dippin' Dots has been here for years, and now it's blowing up all over again.

Danville's city commissioners, however, reportedly plan to keep praying.

Lyon County goes wet.

The book on "Team Toyota."

Etown downtown: "All that’s lacking is the plan and a few daring dreamers."

“We know all of this food is coming into Floyd County, but where is it coming from?”

The Winchester George Rogers Clark High Lady Cardinals started playing basketball in 1975 and won a regional title, and it was "super easy," the former coach told Keith Taylor of The Winchester Sun. "Most of them had probably been playing in the back yard with their dad."

Rest in peace, Mr. Miracle, coach of the 1959, '60, '63 and '68 Kentucky Class A football champion Lynch Golden Bulldogs; roommate in college and neighbor in retirement of Roy Kidd, and believer that "students should be involved in everything in school so they could find what they were really good at."

HP SPECIAL REPORT: Heath wins Kentucky's 1986 Class A high-school football championship!

This is a Heath Post special report ... Mayfield today beat Westwood Fairview, 55-8, to reclaim Kentucky's Class A high-school football championship. This is the Cardinals' ninth state football title, including four in Class A.

2012 Mayfield
2011 Hazard
2010 Mayfield
2009 Lexington Christian
2008 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
2007 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
2006 Newport Central Catholic
2005 Newport Central Catholic
2004 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
2003 Danville
2002 Mayfield
2001 Danville
2000 Danville
1999 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1998 Middlesboro
1997 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1996 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1995 Mayfield
1994 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1993 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1992 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1991 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1990 Russellville
1989 Pikeville
1988 Pikeville
1987 Pikeville
1986 Heath
1985 Crittenden County
1984 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1983 Russellville
1982 Paris
1981 Paris
1980 Russellville
1979 Bellevue
1978 Fort Campbell
1977 Bellevue
1976 Fort Campbell
1975 Ludlow
1974 Murray
1973 Paris
1972 Trigg County
1971 Trigg County
1970 Bardstown
1969 Mount Sterling
1968 Lynch East Main
1967 Bardstown
1966 Dayton
1965 Erlanger Lloyd Memorial
1964 Elkhorn City
1963 Lynch East Main
1962 Versailles
1961 Murray
1960 Lynch East Main
1959 Lynch East Main

Oh, Kentucky

Good jobs news from Georgetown. Great from Winchester.

Ford ramps up, too.

The Baptists retool.

Bell County passes.

"Downtown Louisville ... is well-positioned to continue to be the area’s and the state’s economic engine, officials said."

Western Kentucky tourism ascends.

H&S Charolais Farm near Caneyville reportedly has broken the record at the Mid-Kentucky Livestock Market in Upton, with the auction of a 1,480-pound cow for $1 per pound.

Here's the beef.

Among Kentucky's new "Ones:" Bardstown's Stephen Foster Story, Danville's Great American Dollhouse Museum, Horse Cave's Kentucky Down Under, Lexington's American Saddlebred Museum and Headley-Whitney Museum, Louisville's American Printing House for the Blind and KentuckyShow!, Lynch's Portal 31 Exhibition Mine, Petersburg's Creation Museum, the Pikeville Cut-Through Project and Winchester's Beer Cheese Festival and Ale-8-One.

The Middle Creek Clock invented by Thomas Zane Roberts includes a "Seth Thomas timepiece, a planetarium, a lunarium, and a dial showing the days of the week. ... The planetarium contains an abbreviated model of the solar system, built to scale, and shows the earth’s position relative to Jupiter, Mars and Venus. The orbit of each planet is precisely geared: while Venus gains one degree of arc in 1,656 days, Jupiter loses one degree of arc over 250 years."

Tougher tests.

A new library for New Haven.

Vine Grove, too?

But not Goshen.

HP SPECIAL REPORT: Hazard wins Class A this year

This is a Heath Post special report ... Here's Heath 1986 and the other teams that have won Kentucky's Class A football championships.

2011 Hazard
2010 Mayfield
2009 Lexington Christian
2008 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
2007 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
2006 Newport Central Catholic
2005 Newport Central Catholic
2004 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
2003 Danville
2002 Mayfield
2001 Danville
2000 Danville
1999 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1998 Middlesboro
1997 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1996 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1995 Mayfield
1994 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1993 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1992 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1991 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1990 Russellville
1989 Pikeville
1988 Pikeville
1987 Pikeville
1986 Heath
1985 Crittenden County
1984 Fort Mitchell Beechwood
1983 Russellville
1982 Paris
1981 Paris
1980 Russellville
1979 Bellevue
1978 Fort Campbell
1977 Bellevue
1976 Fort Campbell
1975 Ludlow
1974 Murray
1973 Paris
1972 Trigg County
1971 Trigg County
1970 Bardstown
1969 Mount Sterling
1968 Lynch East Main
1967 Bardstown
1966 Dayton
1965 Erlanger Lloyd Memorial
1964 Elkhorn City
1963 Lynch East Main
1962 Versailles
1961 Murray
1960 Lynch East Main
1959 Lynch East Main

Oh, Kentucky

"Just set is at my (office) door or leave it at the fire department, nothing will be said."

Voter turnout Tuesday was strong in Lynch.

This looks like tons of fun.

Good jobs news from Louisville, bad from Paducah.

Why not Knifley, too?

Scandal in Scottsville.

Oh, Kentucky

A romance 62 years in the making, three years in duration and remembered 27 years later.

Good jobs news from Somerset, bad from Barbourville. Rumors of good from near Fulton County. Optimism from Ballard. Making do in Livingston and Hopkins.

Meanwhile, I am happy to report that Dippin' Dots was soldiering on bravely, for sale at the Garrison Keillor show in Murray on Saturday.

The president of the opening-soon Juicy’s Sports Bar and Grill on Bowling Green's Park Row "had been considering a more titillating name for the business, but changed it after hearing objections from other downtown business owners and residents." Hmmm ...?

The KHSAA soccer championships were decided over the weekend: Louisville Saint Xavier beat Union Larry A. Ryle, 3-0, in the boys' final; Park Hills Notre Dame beat Louisville Sacred Heart, 2-0, for the girls' crown. Previously this fall, we've identified the state's best boy and girl golfers, and, back on Oct. 29, Louisville Assumption completed a 42-1 season in volleyball with a 25-13, 25-18 championship victory over Bowling Green Greenwood. The next KHSAA championships on the docket are the Nov. 12 cross-country races (boys and girls in three classes) in Lexington.

One of the more interesting local races in tomorrow's elections figures to be Lynch mayor.

As goes the hellbender, ...