Oh, Kentucky

On the Monday after Father's Day, Madisonville took a pass on Sunday alcohol sales. Opines Bro. Bill Adcock at SurfKY.com, "Isn’t it ironic that the day after Father's Day of honoring our earthly father, the Madisonville City Council was faced with honoring or dishonoring our Heavenly Father? ... My verdict is ya'll 'Done Good' fellas."

Resetting in Columbus.

Sheltering in Tompkinsville.

Restructuring in Glasgow.

"Not much remains of the home, except the UK sign, which was untouched by the slide. Now Bowen will have to start over, and the family is asking the community for help." Garrett Wyler of Lexington's WDKY Fox 56 heads to Powell County and comes back with a very gripping story.

"This megabuck competition may be Louisville’s to lose." There's millions in it, reports Dianne Timmering at The Lane Report--"it," being them thar aging people.

Kentucky lawmakers are skeptical that squirrels are to blame for a delay in spreading internet access throughout the state. https://t.co/GQNdJ5ZzxC pic.twitter.com/Jvz2tS31mW

— WDRB News (@WDRBNews) June 20, 2019

Sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders from Floyd, Johnson and Pike counties are STEM-ing it up this month at Big Sandy Community and Technical College in Prestonsburg.

New deals with Mattress Firm and Big Lots mean lots of hiring for Lexington-based Temper Sealy International.

Rest in peace, Mr. Kenny ("KY," "Shorty" or "Shortman") Short of Robards, friendly mentor to fellow millwrights, Henderson Moose Lodge 732 cards enthusiast, U.S. Army sharpshooter, Poole Missionary Baptist Church magi portrayer and hunting and fishing buddy of Sterling's. "To know Kenny," reads the beautiful obituary, "was to love him."

Oh, Kentucky

SNOW DAY!

Luke Short reports at www.iSurfHopkins.com that it was a March 1901 fire that destroyed 17 buildings that spurred support around Madisonville to finally launch a fire department.

Pretty interesting thing from a state legislator, Rep. David Floyd (R-Bardstown), about how he might vote on issues in relation to how he personally feels on them.

Bardstown, by the way, is "not a bland hodgepodge of small-town stereotypes or merely a strip of developed highway, but a unique and firmly rooted place that is, quite simply, unlike any other place I’ve known, no matter the size," writes a Kentucky Standard reporter bolting for St. Louis.

Louisville's new mayor is pushing the local-food economy.

Good jobs news from Hopkinsville: "DENSO Air Systems, a global automotive parts manufacturer, ... will locate a new manufacturing operation in Hopkinsville," a release from Gov. Steve Beshear's office said. "The Japanese-owned company is planning a phased investment totaling more than $4.2 million and will initially create 80 new jobs, growing to 105 over the next several years."

SNOW DAY!

Facebook love in Liberty.

Why not the Bison?

www.getoutKY.com.

Open-mike night in Middlesboro.

Banks in Bardstown and a lot of western Kentucky are short on dough.

It would be like when President Nixon re-emerged in Hyden.

Meanwhile, back in Lexington, ...

This will only add fuel to the burgeoning Mustangs-Tornadoes rivalry.

ARRAh, Paducah.

Congratulations, Bill Bartleman, Jackie Hays (who was at Channel 6 before she went to Louisville), et al.