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Again, Pikeville's Mountain Top News does just a fantastic job on covering the conversation in Whitesburg ...

"I have an alternate proposal. Suppose both sides of the story are told."

Midway will celebrate Juneteenth, officially.

The Bowling Green-Warren County Coronavirus Workgroup had a happy surprise on its regular conference call Wednesday.

Bardstown and Nelson County roll out another round of small-biz relief.

A weekend Kentucky Headhunters show at the Beaver Dam Amphitheatre delivered a big boost for the Ohio County food pantry.

Gabe's is (almost) gone.

Fancy Farm is happening.

Mercer County might be getting its second solar farm.

Vanceburg police is hiring. So's the forthcoming Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel.

The #ohky desk's DQ beat is blowing up of late. You might remember yesterday's dispatch from Columbia. Well, there are Blizzards in the forecast for Princeton, too.

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Stay in a covered wagon, in Louisa.

Winchester Municipal Utilities is out of the recycling business.

Oak Grove's oldest restaurant, Foxx's Restaurant, is closing May 25. It started as an A&W in 1956, reports Jimmy Settle in The Leaf Chronicle of Clarksville, Tennessee. "We've just decided to enjoy life a little," the owners told him.

After more than 50 years, Gordon's Photo Service will be no more in Hazard after May 24. "I was just ready to retire and take it easy and not have to report to work every day and have a schedule," Paul Gordon tells the Hazard Herald's Destiny Caldwell. “I’m glad I got to sell my building and it not sit here and fall down like a lot of these businesses in Hazard. I’m just so happy the building is going to be used because I live in Hazard and I love Hazard."

Age wasn't the candidate's problem, argues Oldham County Police.

Good jobs news from Bardstown, Hebron and Louisville.

Just a remarkable, miraculous rescue story from Magoffin and Floyd counties.

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"We understand the violence, we understand the drugs. But one fact remains, many of our children are innocent. Police need to find a better way." Prayers for real peace in Louisville (and great reporting and writing by Andrew Wolfson in The Courier-Journal).

Turning to sports, a former Murray State University history professor has a new book out on a certain old University of Kentucky basketball coach.

Groundbreaking is afoot for (horse) racing in Oak Grove.

Preparations are underway for (motocross and car) racing in Nebo.

Madisonville has expanded its annual women's conference (coming up next week), and the keynoters are from Turkey (via Lexington and NKU) and Marshall County.

Henderson's first Tech on Tap is.

Good jobs news from Louisville.

Hiring in Berea (for positions in central Kentucky), Morehead (for a local police dispatcher) and south of Dawson Springs (for Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park housekeepers).

Remember the Holy Cross High valedictorian whom the Diocese of Covington wouldn't let speak at commencement? He's now a University of Louisville freshman and Hugh Hefner Foundation First Amendment Award winner.

Rest in peace, Michael Hardin, a U.S. Army dental-lab specialist who served in Vietnam and will be buried at the veterans cemetery in Hopkinsville. "He had no known surviving family members and VFW Post 4730 in Dover, Tennessee put out a call this week asking for anyone who can to attend and honor the fallen veteran," reports WHOP.

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Christmas parades: Owensboro, Nov. 17; Ashland, Nov. 20; Brownsville, Nov. 24; Cumberland and Fredonia, Nov. 30; Arlington, Barbourville (thank you, Mountain Advocate, for the video above), Berea, Cadiz, Calvert City, Carlisle (thank you, Carlisle Mercury, for the video above), Clinton, Columbia, Hawesville, Jenkins, Lawrenceburg, Leitchfield, Lewisport, Madisonville, Marion (thank you, Crittenden Press, for the video above), Murray, Paducah, Somerset and Whitley City, Dec. 1; Bowling Green, Dawson Springs, Glasgow and Salyersville, Dec. 2; Lexington, Dec. 4; Greenup, Dec. 6; Frankfort, Monticello and Richmond, Dec. 7; Benton, Elkton, Eubank, Harlan, Hopkinsville, Horse Cave, Louisa, Munfordville and Stamping Ground, Dec. 8; Whitesburg, Dec. 14; Burnside, La Center, Manchester (thank you, Manchester Enterprise, for the news) and Neon, Dec. 15.

The disappearance in Paducah of a legendary San Francisco radio host has been solved, sadly, but the case appears to be not at all closed.

The expansion of the Paxton Media Group engulfs another half-dozen papers in western Kentucky.

The Bellevue-Dayton Fire Department is getting serious about the help it needs. So's Clear Creek Baptist Bible College in Pineville.

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Also this weekend, old friends Sen. McConnell and President Trump shared a car ride to a rally in Richmond and celebrated their successes, such as efforts to "change the court system forever!" (I'd really like to know more about that limousine trip, the route they took and whether they got something to eat along the way.)

Good jobs news from Millville.

"Why Whitley"? Why not? Congratulations, Williamsburg, on its first River Fog Festival.

More racing is coming to Franklin and Oak Grove.

Manufacturing Day was a couple of Fridays ago, but Manufacturing Month rolls on.

Morning Edition is coming to Lexington.

The sad story of an allegedly persistent (read the comments) panhandler at Kentucky Oaks Mall.

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Good jobs news from Glasgow.

IGA and Kroger (along with a bunch of other workplaces) will be going head to head for employees at a hiring fair in West Liberty next week.

Opening in Fort Mitchell. Closing in Owensboro. Coming back in Madisonville. Came back in Beattyville.

I am tempted to enroll as a nontraditional, commuter student at Hazard Community and Technical College just to give this cool-looking CDL simulator a spin.

The nation's highest-paid state CIO is the one in Frankfort, per Lexington's Council on State Governments, reports Louisville's Courier-Journal.

Essential Hendersonian Douglas White weighs in with a typically outstanding update on the back and forth on the former Player's Club golf course.

The horse-racing track that Churchill Downs and Keeneland are planning to open in Oak Grove has moved a step closer toward a projected 2020 opening.


Heavenly Treasures shared in Washington County and beyond.

The alleged Nancy apple bandits have been apprehended.

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Christmas parades: Irvington and Owensboro, Nov. 18; Ashland, Nov. 21 (but the party has already started); Lebanon, Nov. 24; Danville, Nov. 25; Greenup, Nov. 28; Cumberland (for the whole "Tri-City"), London, Monticello and Richmond, Dec. 1; Barbourville, Beaver Dam, Fordsville, Georgetown, Harlan ("It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"), Hartford, Henderson, Lawrenceburg, Madisonville, Murray, Somerset and Winchester, Dec. 2; Dawson Springs and Evarts (the football team is serving as grand marshals), Dec. 3; Mount Sterling, Dec. 4; Lexington, Dec. 5; Bardstown, Dec. 7 (Leigh Ann Florence, creator of "Woody, the Kentucky Weiner," will be grand marshal); Frankfort ("Saving Christmas" and "Votes For Women"), Dec. 8; Augusta, Cave City, Elkton, Hanson and Hopkinsville, Dec. 9, and Oak Grove (no downtown/no problem), Dec. 16.

This dude has been living the dream. One of my dreams, in fact. Good for him.

This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and his wife Cathleen, touring Red River Gorge in opposition to a proposed dam. See Tom Eblen’s story of the Nov 1967 visit https://t.co/3C8Pu3pn6t pic.twitter.com/M4peeqgcDT

— KY Photo Archive (@KYPhotoArchive) November 19, 2017

Godspeed, Mr. Cox, 1990-94 mayor of Madisonville, President Carter-appointed federal highway administrator, a man who knew his way around Frankfort, husband of the former Ms. Pritchett of 54 years and purveyor of "exciting adventures, fits of laughter, political stories and other tall tales, and a treasure trove of fond memories."

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BREAKING: @ChurchillDowns & @keeneland proposing construction of race tracks in Corbin & Oak Grove, KY pic.twitter.com/mtNWG6y2ZN

— Paul Miles (@PaulMiles840) September 15, 2017

Sure enough ... good jobs news from Corbin and Oak Grove.

Hiring in Hazard ($110-$120 per day, paid vacation and holidays ... but insurance?).

Is La Grange getting a Starbucks? Compelling local play-by-play from Glen Jennings in The Oldham Era.

A Kentucky Minute from Powell County, brought to us by Stanton's WSKV 104.9 FM "Pickup Country" ...

Georgetown considers joining Lexington and Pikeville in stiffening mask regulation.

The champion of Carlisle County's enhanced 911 rollout is hailed.

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I think the Paducah Student Christmas Ornament Contest entry criteria are exceptionally well crafted. I will absolutely steal them the next time I am involved in organizing a Christmas-ornament contest.

It's National Honey Month, and the state apiarist sees a market opportunity for more Kentuckians in beekeeping.

It's a new day in Pioneer Village--new flag, new motto and no more 1996-tornado debt.

Louisville, not Kentucky.

Great to have @NBA @WashWizards star @paulpierce34 in Diddle this afternoon. @WKUSports @spalding pic.twitter.com/M4lP0SM6Ly
— WKU Sports Pics (@WKUSportsPics) September 15, 2014

"We're all on the same team, anyway."

"There is little evidence that the expansion of health coverage will help Kentucky Democrats in this fall’s midterm elections."

Good jobs news from Danville and Louisville.

They paved Wendy's, and they're putting up another Wendy's--in Glasgow.

Revolutionizing the southern tip of Radcliff.

Another media merger, in the Pennyroyal.

Shelby County Schools is experimenting with IEEE 802.11™-based wireless Internet connectivity on its buses. (Products based on IEEE 802.11-2012 “Standard for Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange between systems Local and metropolitan area networks--Specific requirements Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications” are often branded as “Wi-Fi^®” in the market.)

A pay-what-you-can restaurant has opened in Danville.

Is 9-1-1 a joke in this town?

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Hey, Kentucky made 60 Minutes last night!

Shutdown watch.

Here is a WKDZ/WHVO story and some pictures from a big butterfly release in Oak Grove last week.

Lake Barkley State Resort Park--100 of its picnic tables, the deck around Windows by the Water Dining Room and the chef's home--have undergone a sprucing, thanks to a bunch of student volunteers, also reports WKDZ/WHVO.

Hazard's monthly poetry series is celebrating its one-year anniversary.

Seventy-nine percent of the state's heroin arrests transpire in Kenton County?

50,000 words in 30 days?

Who was the last Kentuckian on the U.S. Supreme Court?

Here's a picture of the post office in Symsonia.

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“It feels great to come in here and win it after Emma, who was my role model.”

The KHSAA boys' golf tournament starts tomorrow in Bowling Green (not today, as previously said here. The Kentucky desk regrets the error.)

Good jobs news from Lexington.

A mall is in the works for Oak Grove, and a 12-screen theater is part of the plan.

The coolest items among this menu of stuff for sale at Webster County's surplus auction in Providence is the jail's old deep fryer and golf carts from Wildwood Golf Course.

Ungrounded on Lake Barkley.

Can you find Christians in Lawrenceburg? 

Kentucky's Disciples of Christ are assembling in Louisville.

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One-hundred 17 days until Christmas.

Happy 50th, Western Baptist!

Good jobs news from Owensboro and job news from Lawrenceburg.

"Retail voids" in Bradenburg, Hodgenville and Munfordville to be filled. 

Hey, Jack Givens and James Lee are coming to Graves County High, too!

Back to the Hill comes Olympic gold medalist Claire Donahue.

They're already having basketball pep rallies at Clinton County High.

Extending their first season in existence, the Christian County Outlaws edged their longest-standing rival in the Gridiron Developmental Football League playoffs.

A Prestonsburg drag-race organizer has taken his frustration with the local tourism director to the press and, reportedly, to the track PA system.

Rest in peace, Josh Ferguson, Elliottville volunteer firefighter and Morehead son.

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This Murray State Racer is No. 5 in the nation and gearing up for tourney time.

State champs!

District champs!

County champs (sound good!)

It's always Christmas-parade season on the Kentucky desk.

Good jobs news from Bowling Green, bad for Sen. McConnell.

Opening in Cadiz, Oak Grove and Hoptown. Lagging in Etown.

Sprucing up in Somerset. Tuning up in Glasgow.

Reading in Bardstown. Rigging in Paducah?

KET news quiz!

Rest in peace, Rev. Huff, "a leader politically, a leader spiritually and a leader personally."

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UK-Duke. 

Somerset goes all John Denver on us. Madisonville goes all Atlanta Rhythm Section on us. 

Boo to church thieves. 

Is it the Oak Grove or Christian County Outlaws football team? The baseball team is reportedly the Madisonville Tradewater Pirates. 

Good jobs news from Dixon, Paducah and the state as a whole.

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It's morning in Hardin County again.

Some of my wife's family moved from western Kentucky to Detroit during the Great Depression, too.

Paducah Tilghman High product George Wilson, the strong safety of the 4-1 Buffalo Bills, continues to excel.

Meanwhile, a Kentuckian has already qualified for the Puppy Bowl.

The HistoryMobile rolls on. As does the Historical Marker Program. The Kentucky Historical Society gets around.

Not County?

The Hoptown paper has a new editor, new production schedule and new opinion-page focus.

The Kentucky desk will be monitoring the development of the Oak Grove Outlaws.