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"While in the audience of that open meeting, Mayor Perros made a joke about Convention and Visitors Bureau Director Jennifer Kirchner not wearing socks as she gave a presentation, which Magistrate Phil Sammons took to another level by commenting on the attractiveness of her legs." Bobbie Curd, in Danville's Advocate-Messenger, delivers another example of contemporary American journalism's typically stellar meeting coverage.

Even if the grid fails, Fort Knox reportedly--by the garrison commander, to the Hardin County Chamber of Commerce, via Mary Alford in Elizabethtown's News-Enterprise--can power itself back up within 11 minutes.

Deborah Fallows in The Atlantic:

Reporting from those who live or spend time in Kentucky, be that in newsletters or rural press, adds a nuance of understanding that delivers insistent stories of a contaminated water supply, leaky and crumbling pipes, wastewater pipe shortages, industrial leaks and spills, a declining tax base from mine closures, rising water costs, and all the humanly compelling drama that ensues. 

Then the cascade begins. The women bathe the babies, who then develop rashes. The women drive them long distances to see doctors, which is costly and time-consuming. Researching medical counsel or the alternatives of telemedicine often demand broadband connections, which are scarce, spotty, or thin in poor, rural America. Navigating coverage of telehealth from insurance companies is, as you’d imagine, complicated. And of course, all these steps require technology, transportation, and bill-paying, not to mention the wherewithal to accomplish them.

Hiring in Barbourville, Booneville, Frenchburg and Prestonsburg.

Silver Grove Independent School is no more.

Turning to sports, Sunday's your day for (free) ice skating in Corbin; Emma Talley looks back on "the hardest year of my golf career" (and reflects on Jeremiah 29:11), and WKU's Ty Storey is your Manning Award Quarterback of the Week!

Christmas parades: Sharpsburg, Nov. 9; Owensboro, Nov. 23; Louisville, Nov. 29; Pikeville, Nov. 30; Boyce, Dawson Springs and Murray, Dec. 1; Bardstown, Dec. 5; Harrodsburg, Hopkinsville and Monticello, Dec. 6; Berea, Bowling Green, Calvert City, Danville, Frankfort, Glasgow, Henderson, Lawrenceburg, Lexington, Madisonville, Paducah, Scottsville, Shelbyville, Trenton, Versailles and Whitley City, Dec. 7; Georgetown, Dec. 8; Cave City, Dec. 10, and Burnside, Elkton and Williamsburg, Dec. 14.

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A former EKU cheerleader who grew up in Winchester was working at a Las Vegas Hooters, where she met a model. They started dating. Then he got a job as a server at a restaurant featured in a Bravo reality-TV series. Then the guy and the woman from Winchester ended up getting their own Bravo spinoff, and on Saturday they got married at the Kentucky Castle in Versailles. People has exclusive photos and coverage--including details such as that former 'NSYNC performer Lance Bass officiated and that rentals were provided by Bryant's Rent-all of Lexington. "Mr. Vernon Bryant started in the rental business in Lexington, Kentucky in 1953, as a United Rent-All franchise store. His store was located at 531 South Limestone, just opposite the University of Kentucky. This was the first equipment rental store in central Kentucky. The telephone book did not have 'rental' as a heading at the time, so Mr. Bryant was the first business under that heading."

A mechanic decided to shift to law enforcement in 1957. He retired Friday from the Campbell County Sheriff's Office.

Hazard's new police department is an old McDonald's.

The U.S. Postal Service says Louisville's Girard Drive has gone to the dogs, and so they aren't going there for now.

Good jobs news from Wurtland.

World's largest pocketknife, in Radcliff.

"That's OK if you don’t believe in it, but it’s all about everybody being treated fairly." Shamarria Morrison has an interesting feature on Paducah's "safe spaces" for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or sexual-identity-questioning people.

Christmas parades: Dawson Springs and Murray, Dec. 1; Hopkinsville, Dec. 6, and Henderson and Scottsville, Dec. 7.

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So Long, Silver Grove Big Trains and Lady Trains?

For all of the bad stuff that has gone on with journalism and particularly newspaper business in the last 20 years, I believe that civic-meeting coverage has vastly improved over that time--more detailed, more nuanced, more lively, just better-reported and -written than it very recently was, period. And I think it makes sense when you think about how the industry segment has changed. As editorial staffs have contracted to just a half-dozen or three or one body in some towns, those individuals have to be very choosy about where they spend their reporting time. They can't afford to lose a day sniffing around for possible stories; they need to be able to schedule their investment of in-the-moment presence and after-the-fact sense making to a specific amount of time and know they are going to walk away with fodder for X inches of verifiable body copy. Civic meetings lend themselves quite well to this new spartan world of community journalism, and, so, we readers are getting fantastic stuff like Melinda J. Overstreet's simply brilliant dispatch in the Glasgow Daily Times from "the Planning and Development Committee of the Glasgow Common Council, also known as the Parks and Recreation Department." The chase of Overstreet's report is that it is thought that it will take about a half-million bucks to move the needle on the local parks sitch. However, if you can spare 10 or 15 minutes, her story is better than any high-school civics class you ever had in terms of seeing how American society actually works together in its little clumps of people here, there and yonder across the country to keep each other safe, honest and happy.

Paradise no more. TVA votes to close iconic coal-burning power plant in Kentucky.https://t.co/tHcLQZuCod pic.twitter.com/ozZj8taXsr

— Lexington Herald-Leader (@heraldleader) February 14, 2019

Rely on your assets, Gov. Bevin tells western Kentucky (via Channel 6). Take the Ohio River, for example. "We’re talking to metal producers. We’re talking to manufactures that use these metals. We’re talking to a number of people that need access to that water, so I think it’s just a matter of time."

Louisville's Young People in Recovery, on the Indiana slopes.

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Twenty-five years.

“It’s a small town and you hear things said."

Bellarmine faces Minnesota State at 5 p.m. Central in today's NCAA Division II men's basketball semifinals. (So does West Liberty after the dude from Silver Grove scored 21 to lead the team to victory in the quarters yesterday.) The Knights' Scott Davenport coached Louisville Ballard to the 1988 KHSAA boys' basketball title.

Liz Taylor in Kentucky.

Kentucky en route to Newark.

"... His publicist, Melany Ethridge of A. Larry Ross Communications in Dallas, referred the Herald-Leader to Ham's Facebook page. ..."

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We were close to having an all-commonwealth NAIA Division I men's basketball championship matchup, but, as the Twitter feed documents, Georgetown fell short. This will keep The Heath Post Kentucky Bureau from figuratively donning a John Y. Brownish Pikeville-orange-on-one-side/Georgetown-orange-on-the-other blazer for tonight's 9 Central tilt. Go, Pikeville Bears!

Meanwhile, the NCAA Division II men's tournament provides us the opportunity to discover Silver Grove School.

If you're looking for a belated birthday gift for Darius Miller, this biography of another Maysville native might be an appropriate choice.

Good jobs news from Frankfort: "We love your beautiful Commonwealth with its great location, business climate, business networking opportunities, quality of life and last, but certainly not least, the very hospitable and talented residents." (Henderson, too.)

Girls, well done.

HPK/10* is checking just how hot is the iron. (Meanwhile, here's a story that HPKBK/10* wants you to read.)

How about "Haven Gillespie Highway" for old Ky. 17?