Oh, Kentucky

Christmas18 parades (FINAL REPORT): Owensboro, Nov. 17; Ashland, Nov. 20; Brownsville, Nov. 24; Cumberland and Fredonia, Nov. 30; Arlington, Barbourville, Berea, Cadiz, Calvert City, Carlisle, Clinton, Columbia, Corbin ("downtown Corbin is alive and let's keep it that way," writes the editor of Ashland's Daily Independent), Hawesville, Jenkins, Lawrenceburg, Leitchfield, Lewisport, Madisonville, Marion, Murray, Paducah, Somerset and Whitley City, Dec. 1; Bowling Green, Dawson Springs, Glasgow and Salyersville, Dec. 2; Lexington, Dec. 4; Bardstown and Greenup, Dec. 6; Frankfort, Maysville, Monticello, Perryville, Richmond and Smiths Grove, Dec. 7; Benton, Cave City, Elkton, Eubank, Harlan, Hopkinsville, Horse Cave, Loretto, Louisa, Middlesboro, Munfordville, Quality, Park City, Pikeville, Prestonsburg and Stamping Ground, Dec. 8; Grayson, Dec. 11; Whitesburg, Dec. 14; Burnside, La Center, Manchester, Neon and Rabbit Hash, Dec. 15.

It's back to the capitol and (real) legislature for the Kentucky Council of Churches "to pray for government officials and act on behalf of Kentucky’s most vulnerable citizens."

Way to ruin an entertaining @Imaginedragons half-time concert with the weird rantings of a tired, has-been like @LilTunechi... One act still rising...The other, not so much...

— Matt Bevin (@MattBevin) January 8, 2019

Paducah and McCracken County officials talk prioritizing economic-development activities such as arts support and airport expansion, via WKMS.

KFVS is all excited about the possibilities of flying from Cape to Barkley Regional, and so am I.

Hiring in Fulton.

Suicides, fatal auto accidents, homicides and overdose deaths were down; SIDS and drownings, up—for a net decrease of 78 deaths from 2017 to 2018 in Warren County, per WKYU FM.

Christmas19 parades: Scottsville, Dec. 7.

Oh, Kentucky

The people, yes!

Booneville's mayor is 99. He was first elected in 1958 and has never been opposed for re-election. He won again Tuesday.

It's Global Entrepreneurship Week next week, and, by the way, "KY Innovation’s 120-county effort to modernize Kentucky’s support for high-tech, high-growth potential businesses" is said to reportedly include more than a doubling of funding to regional efforts to support entrepreneurs and startups.

Christmas parades: Owensboro, Nov. 17; Berea, Bowling Green, Cadiz, Lawrenceburg, Madisonville, Paducah and Park City (also, very cool about the new "rescue house" in Edmonton for folks who lose their homes to fire, etc.), Dec. 1; Richmond, Dec. 7; Hopkinsville, Dec. 8, La Center, Dec. 15.

Oh, Kentucky

Out of 754 Econo Lodges in the United States, No.' 1 is Russellville.

Good jobs news from Danville, Eubank, Park City and Shepherdsville. 

Businesses in Kentucky filed 189,132 annual reports for 2016, and Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes reports that's a new record.

Lily is getting a mini-golf course!

I don't much care to fish, but I love reading stories about big fish.

There's a new wrestler called the Progressive Liberal and the fans love to hate him https://t.co/QXYYNUTLRW pic.twitter.com/OeRqhCobYV

— deathandtaxes (@DeathAndTaxes) June 26, 2017

"One of his on-camera routines is correcting people’s pronunciation of 'Appalachia' and 'hollow.'"

It's almost time "to celebrate the greatest tradition in the Ohio Valley Conference"--and, specifically, Popeye Jones!

Oh, Kentucky

I voted "maybe"!

Need to see something festive on this gloomy day? Check out this pic from last night's Luminate Lexington parade! pic.twitter.com/MyFuUJb18b
— LG&E and KU (@lgeku) December 3, 2014

Christmas parades: Catlettsburg, Russell and Taylorsville; Dec. 4; Central City, Danville, Monticello and Smiths Grove, Dec. 5; Berea, Bowling Green, Cadiz, Calhoun, Calvert City, Columbia, Fordsville, Frankfort, Glasgow, Harlan, Hopkinsville, Horse Cave, Island, Madisonville, Morganfield, Munfordville, Murray, Paducah, Park City, Scottsville, Shelbyville, Tompkinsville and Winchester, Dec. 6; Dawson Springs and Evarts, Dec. 7, and Benton, Livermore and Sacramento, Dec. 13.

Good jobs news from Hopkinsville and Lewisport.

The road to I-69.

Newest Mexican restaurant (37th) in the great Mexican restaurant wars of #somky in #Pulaski county. Who will win? pic.twitter.com/znwx07LcaI
— Hacksaw Lee Duggan (@DraftCats) December 2, 2014

Boys' Basketball Poll

Here's the latest top 10 from the Kentucky AP high school boys' basketball poll.  All ten teams were ranked last week as well.  Note that CovCath beat Holmes 87-77 back on January 7, and Lafayette beat Lexington Catholic 63-56 on January 14:

1.  Lou. Ballard:  14-4
2.  Lou. Trinity:  11-2
3.  Hopkinsville:  13-2
4.  Cov. Catholic:  12-0
5.  Scott Co:  14-2
6.  Montgomery Co:  15-0
7.  Cov. Holmes:  12-3
8.  Newport Central Catholic:  11-3
9.  Lex. Lafayette:  10-5
10.  Lex. Catholic:  12-4

Oh, Kentucky

#SpikeatMurrayState.

Maysville in Manhattan.

Rainbow-trout time in Union County.

It has been almost a year since a tornado ripped through Magoffin County.

Good jobs news from Covington, Morehead and Paducah.

The governor is home from an unannounced trip to Germany. Just in time.

Barren County's small biz of the year has been selling lumber for 121 years. Its farmer of the year milks 750 cattle three times a day.

Owensboro's blue bridge over the Ohio River is going to close for six months--but not until after the local barbecue festival.

The commissary at the old Hardburly coal camp has burned.

Unless we build it, they will go.

Rest in peace, Chief Master Sergeant Steele, native of Kenvir and veteran of two wars separated by 15 years.

Oh, Kentucky

Three (!) more Fridays until KHSAA football season. One more season until the McCracken County Mustangs join Class 6A.

Twenty-three faces of Wilmore. 

Fifth class of inductees for the Kentucky Motorsports Hall of Fame in Bowling Green. 

Third home for the Barren River Imaginative Museum of Science, in Park City?

Wet: Franklin, La Grange and Murray. Dry: Marshall County. Princeton?

In Prestonsburg, anyway, "aging should be a process of continued development instead of decline."

In Mayfield, the web site is now for kids, too.

The fun's not over in Happy Chandler's hometown, which ousted its mayor earlier this week.

Oh, Kentucky

Let's see ... what were we all doing a week ago?

"Dear Mr. Barnhart, ... My family has a long and proud tradition of following UK sports. We are lucky to be longtime season ticket holders for our men’s basketball team. My grandfather got his first set of tickets in the late 1940s when we were still playing games in Alumni Hall. I went to my first game as a young boy while Rex Chapman was playing for Eddie Sutton. ..."

Meanwhile, my dad once conceived of a hoax letter to the editor of The Paducah Sun in which he was going to explain that the town was settled by Jews who had named the town after their "Rabbi Hacudap." In his story, the Jewish settlers all eventually fled because of anti-semitism, and the remaining townspeople reversed the name of the town to "Paducah" and created the Chief Paduke legend. I'm pretty sure that he never actually wrote the letter.

"They got more dad-gumb degrees than a thermometer, but that don't make them good people."

iHarrodsburg.

The U.S. county with the lowest percentage of college-grad adults in Kentucky's Clinton. And it's really not very close.

Good jobs (and smart grid!) news from Park City.

A Winchester GRC/Clark County/The George product (and my favorite NFL player) is moving on.

"Coach Ray Harper did not respond to multiple messages left by The Courier-Journal. But in an interview posted on YouTube by the WKU student newspaper, the College Heights Herald, ..."

Mmmm ... "Tasty Chocolate" ... sounds tasty.

Oh, Kentucky

Rest in peace, Freddie Goode, 1993 Liberty mayoral-election winner by 11 votes and farm-gate vendor.

Poetry readings in Columbia.

"The City of Paducah is the recipient of a national award that will be officially announced this Wednesday at a ceremony starting at 10:30 am at Paducah Tilghman High School."

It's shaping up as a very lively Wednesday for the Kentucky desk, in fact.

"(A)nd one great great great grandchild." Wow.

Hooray for grand openings!

"Murray was magical for me."

New newspaper for Union and environs.

This story is just full of fun things to think about and explore--what Ruritan Clubs might do, "the old Pembroke school gym," the National Ruritan president's potential route from Pine Hall, N.C., to Pembroke, ...

Smart Grid!

The shift from club to varsity status for a high-school sport invites all sorts of complications

Kentucky Minute: Ky. 70, Central City to Cave City

OK, here we go. Let's see how many wireless networks I can find along this route.