Oh, Kentucky

Rest in peace, Mr. Thomason, Korean War vet, frequent nursing-home visitor, Disneyworld grandchildren chaperone and provider of air conditioning to those in need.

Of Obamacare, per Paducah and Owensboro.

The U.S. Post Office in Buffalo is closing, but I'll bet it's not why you think.

Bullying just stinks.

From the county-fair beat: It's a (happy) wrap in Owen County.

Congratulations to Sims Dairy Queen of Flemingsburg!

CELEBRATING 60 years in business. July 4th. We want to say a BIG THANK YOU to all of our customers and look forward to another 60 years!!
— Sims DQ (@SimsDQ) July 4, 2013

Adair County High School's baseball coach was sorry for something he did at a Little League game in May, and some people are upset that he apparently lost his job Tuesday over the matter, and some people think whatever it was he did was bad enough that it could not be tolerated.

TUCFRC.

"Take On Me" by A-ha is (so far) this year's 182nd-most-requested song for Wedding Bells DJ Entertainment, for whom the Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce threw a ribbon-cutting last week. Without checking this link of the full top 200, can you guess No. 1?

Oh, Kentucky

Paducah's old Kresge is coming down, but, thankfully and gloriously, MP3s of its old overhead background music can be downloaded from OddioOverplay.com (5 stars, highly recommended!).

All the people we used to know

They're an illusion to me now

Some are mathematicians

Some are carpenter's wives

Don't know how it all got started

I don't what they're doing with their lives

This week's #TBT at Kentuckeean.com features downtown Lexington, 1973.

I'd never heard of Rudell Stitch.

"This is a way I can keep it alive and let them know Tollesboro was something."

Reliving the beginnings of the Metcalfe County High marching Hornets.

Could we be at the end for the West Jessamine marching Colts? 

Gov. John Y. Brown opened an economic-development office for Kentucky in Japan in 1983. This guy was the first employee, and now he's retiring.

"Hardin County is sitting on a great series of reports. It has the attention of the state. Things are going well and it’s time now to push ourselves to another level. Don’t be content. Go all in."

Magnolia boom, too.

Louisville's Dizzy Whizz: still going, still reportedly good.

"Where Special People Matter" in Berea.

Battle of the #kyproud wines.

Transylvania's faculty want the university president to go.

UK's coach needs ("respectfully") the shipments to his house to stop.

What was Greg Oden doing in Bowling Green?

The show, which didn't, won't go on in Mayfield.

All systems are go for Frankfort's Funnel Cake 5K, however.

Also, I know we've noted the ongoing 400-mile yard sale across U.S. 68 a few times already this week, but I'm doing so again today just to have an excuse to use the following picture from 400mile.com.