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

Alles Brothers furniture in Henderson to close after more than century in business https://t.co/40NPdfjqCw pic.twitter.com/oiAk7CkPyx

— The Gleaner (@TheGleanerNews) July 25, 2018

 

Don't go back to Pineville.

Bloomberg comes to Wickliffe; Richard Russo calls on West Paducah. Both stories are unhappy.

Oldham County is hiring a full-time security officer (at $32 per hour) for seven public schools, and Pike County has backed off a plan to arm its teachers and school staff (with concealed weapons).

The state's funeral directors got together for their 136th annual convention in Louisville last month. They learned about opioids, toured various vendor exhibits and enjoyed a luau. And Rusty Preston went home to Paintsville as the association's new president-elect.

Good jobs news from Mayfield.

Dress like the Colonel.

Oh, Kentucky

There's an alleged (balding) stereoscope thief on the loose in or around Paducah.

Jacob Ryan with the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting dives into the link between availability of public trash cans and poverty across Louisville.

Bad jobs news from Winchester.

The WKMS Battle of the Bands entry deadline is March 4.

Hiring in Madisonville (production technician starting at $15.36 an hour or receptionist for $10-$12 per).

Rep. Toby Herald (R-Beattyville) has proposed a 54-county Kentucky, and Ralph B. Davis with EKB-TV gives us the 411 of what that would look like.

Eighty-nine women filed to run for seats in the state legislature.

Oh, Kentucky

I had never seen this picture of Jim McDaniels with his Italian pro team, Snaidero Udine, in 1974-75. Once again, rest in peace, "Big Mac:" I worked with Jim at Jim Johnson Pontiac nearly 21 years ago. I was blessed with my first granddaughter while we worked together. He would bring all his customers to my office to see a picture of the new baby. Will always remember him holding her and his hand was bigger than her back. He called her "the baby" and we taught her to call him "Uncle Jim". Sweet memories. ... I was at Diddle area for a Murray game when he did the "illegal" dunk. Watched Big Mac beat UK. And almost watched a national champion. Great memories! ... Talk to Jim a lot when I worked at CDS drug store. He was always very nice he will be missed. ... Last time we talked he told me about nearly drowning on our Sr. Trip in a swimming pool somewhere we were. Said Coach Cline saved his life. I'd never known that story before. ... We grew up together, went to the same 3 room school, and later the same high school. I'll treasure those memories. May God give you peace in your grief. ... I will miss him coming to Wendy's getting he's food when I work there Going to miss you he was so nice when he came in we talk the longest on my break break b over prayers are with the family he was a Great friend ... When we were in school, he always sat behind me. Back then we had to set in abc order. He would have to put one leg on one side of my desk and the other on the other side. His feet was always in front of my desk. Every time I had to get out of my desk, he would have to stand up to let me out. That is if he thought I needed to get out. if not I had to set there. I left Scottsville after graduation but still kept up with his career. I was living in Florida and believe it was then that our 25th reunion came around. I was battling cancer and could not come. Somehow he found out and sent me a very nice letter and a picture of him and Jabar. Said I hear he is your favorite. After I moved back home I ran into him at Dumplings. Was surprised he knew me ( I don't look the same as high school). He gave me his number and told me to keep him informed when the group was getting together for one of our breakfast. I did and he and his lovely wife came. Was really happy to see how happy they were. ...

I really would like to know who donated a book to the Livingston County Historical Society and what the local education board's solar-panel plans are.

Guthrie Strong.

The Kentucky Emergency Management Association hails the Lewis County judge-executive for his work in getting that county "Storm Ready."

Graves County has mobilized its future workforce in the campaign to bring Mazda and Toyota manufacturing there.

Covington is incentivizing small businesses like crazy. I am particularly interested in the new restaurant named after Walt "Smoke" Justis of the 1913 Federal League Covington Blue Sox.

Larry Rowell in The Casey County News details the local food-insecurity situation.

Here's a pretty Maira Ansari feature for WAVE 3 on an Elizabethtown boy being made able to hear for the first time.

I enjoyed this Melinda J. Overstreet/Glasgow Daily Times piece on the local Kiwanians' 50 years of service, but I was hoping it would also have the date of the Glasgow Christmas parade.

Seen on C-SPAN2: U.S. Senate votes to table (kill) Senator @RandPaul's amendment to repeal AUMFs for Iraq & Afghanistan wars, 61-36. pic.twitter.com/cZFkyu4Ux0

— CSPAN (@cspan) September 13, 2017

Yes, we did have a 64-percent decline in the percentage of Kentucky's population without health insurance since 2013. (Gov. Bevin: Hold my beer.)

Alexandria is getting a new library!

Oldham County made The New York Times!

Paducah made Snopes!

Oh, Kentucky

Checking in on the playing and player hating in Louisville, ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders in Louisville, opens up talking about Woody Guthrie union tune "Which Side Are You On?" pic.twitter.com/XGFh3xiWAM

— Ryland Barton (@RylandKY) April 19, 2017

... Frankfort (via Fort Knox, New Hampshire and Denver), ...

Heard there was a whine tasting event for socialists at the Palace Theater tonight in Louisville, hosted by @BernieSanders and @TomPerez...

— Matt Bevin (@MattBevin) April 19, 2017

... Harlan ...

Coal trains in Harlan! More proof we voted wisely for Gov. and President. @jmnemes @realDonaldTrump @GovMattBevin pic.twitter.com/ZSOSQTp9mt

— Russell Alred (@russell_alred) April 19, 2017

... and New York (via New York, Morehouse and Versailles) ...

If O'Reilly is fired from Fox for sexual harassment it'll basically mean the standard for a @FoxNews host is higher than President of the US

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) April 19, 2017

The Louisville suburbs per Niche.com:

1. Anchorage
2. Indian Hills
3. Hurstbourne Acres
4. Hurstbourne
5. Crestwood
6. Windy Hills
7. Barbourmeade
8. Prospect
9. Pewee Valley
10. Beechwood Village

Some of the Handmade in Hindman classes are full, but you can still get in on the instrument making, spoon carving and iron casting.

If you're on the market for another of the Greatest Generation's institutions to worry about the future of, you might enjoy WKDZ's report on first two nights of the Hopkinsville Rotarian Auction.

Oh, Kentucky

Shaun King of the New York Daily News and Woodford County High: "What I am doing is not enough, though. Police brutality, by every statistical measure is the worst it's ever been. Racial terror is real in this country. The deadliest hate crime against African Americans in the past 85 years didn't happen in 1955, 1965, or 1975, but happened LAST YEAR in Charleston. LAST YEAR. On our watch, in our lives. Police are murdering are sons and daughters, mothers and fathers with relative impunity all over this country."

Prayers for the flooded.

In Dunnville--and, apparently, across south-central Kentucky--"(l)ack of workers is now my No. 1 inhibiting growth factor, bar none."

An Owensboro Independence Day party never stops.

We've made the turn to the back nine toward Christmas, and early next week in Berea is the time to get your act together.

Good things ahead! An update on the upcoming expansion of the @BSCTC05 Pikeville Campus from Pres. @DevinStephenson: pic.twitter.com/QmYw6UwhxQ

— City of Pikeville (@PikevilleBuzz) July 6, 2016

Oh, Kentucky

Maybe it is, indeed, "about how you were brought up."

Thank you, WKDZ of Cadiz, for posting this photo of John Y. Brown (with the lovely Mrs. George Brown) in the famous blue-and-red coat.


Rest in peace, Coach Green, coach of the runnersup for the 1965 KHSAA Class 2A football championship (which went to a legendary Hoptown team), member of three halls of fame and Mrs. Green's husband of 56 years. Wrote Eastern Kentucky University's two-time-national-champion football coach Roy L. Kidd at Creech Funeral Home's site: "Walt Green was an outstanding football coach, someone I had great respect for. He was a teammate of mine at EKU. He always called me 'Peanut' even though he was not much bigger than me. Walt's passing is a great loss to his family, friends, former teammates and ALL the ex-players he coached." And Mickey Wilson, a coach from Conway, S.C..: "Dear family, I was so hurt to hear of Coach's passing. He had alot to do with me becoming a coach. I will never forget the days at the YMCA and the 1960 season. I learned alot of FB from him, but more I learned about life. May God bless you and comfort you during this time." And a former student from Pineville: "I was having this problem understanding the teacher at Southeast. Walt met me at class the next day and set my chair four feet from the teacher. That solved the problem. He was a great student motivator."

Coach Green's funeral was Friday evening at Middlesboro's Binghamtown Baptist Church. There's one for Mr. Morgan at Hensley Chapel Baptist Church tomorrow night, and it sounds like it's going to be a barn-burner, too. "Morgan Furniture, owned and operated by Morgan, has been a landmark on Lothbury Avenue for over 50 years. From his store, Morgan ran political campaigns, conducted city business, helped friends, shared his wisdom, witnessed to customers about his Lord and Savior, and yes even found time to sell some furniture and appliances."

Great jobs news from Cadiz.

Community gardening in Paducah.

Building bridges with Indiana in Louisville and Prospect.

I had never seen the Marching Maroons' logo, but it is freaking fantastic.

Oh, Kentucky

The Telegraph reports that Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsular is claiming responsibility for the Sept. 23 cargo-plane crash in Dubai that killed a Prospect man.

It turns out that Madisonville's terrific mayor, Will Cox, isn't the only person to lose his job (if only indirectly) because of Kentucky's U.S. Senate race.

Meanwhile, Andy Barr has thrown the red challenge flag on The Heath Post's perfect record in predicting the Kentucky's federal races.

Speaking of former Paducah Sun writers, ...

Bidding is open until Nov. 12, and that giant E would look fantastic affixed to the top of my house.