Showing posts with label Simpsonville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Simpsonville. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Oh, Kentucky


WKMS also has the full text of the House resolution, which passed despite the "no" vote of U.S. Rep. Comer of Tompkinsville.

"Obviously, I want you to read all of bell hooks books. I mean, I want to read all of her writing. She does it with passion and grace that leaves me in an awe that is difficult to describe. Recently, she has released a string of children’s books that I hope you’ll also read. I hope that this will give you a little teaser into what she is capable of.  Her writing is so important right now. She writes with a grace and love that is difficult to come by. Whew, are we really hurting for some real love right now." Brandie Derusha enrolls us in bell hooks, at Book Riot.

A native western Kentuckian comes home, and he's focused on re-introducing Mayfield's YMCA to the region. Eric Walker has an interesting report in the local Messenger.

Pine Mountain Settlement School drops the soup-to-nuts farming 411--"from seed to table and even marketing"--on the kids.

There's a name change, but Wyatt's--a locally owned grocery in Falmouth for more than 70 years--rolls on.

Ingram Barge of Paducah, Louisville Metro Corrections and The Entrepreneur Source of Simpsonville are among the employers to be represented at today's hiring/networking event hosted by Fort Campbell's Soldier for Life Transition Assistance Program.

Stories about retail development are among contemporary journalism's hottest click properties, and, for sure, I quickly clicked on this Channel 6 survey of new stuff coming to Kentucky Oaks Mall.

A nonprofit that runs homes for people with disabilities--with reported revenue growth of $70 million over the last three years--is pulling out of Kentucky because it says it is having funding problems with the state. I found this (fantastic) Leah Shields/Justin Jones report for WPSD was considerably less fun to digest.

The eastern Kentucky miners whose pay was reportedly taken back from a bankrupt coal operator got a boost from a Harlan priest this week.

Thursday, July 11, 2019

Oh, Kentucky


Kentucky's local "Lights for Liberty" vigils to end family separation and human concentration camps are scheduled to take place Friday at 9 p.m. locally in Danville, Florence, Frankfort, Lexington, Louisville and Paris so far.

$477 million in federal grant money for airport infrastructure is rolling in to Campbellsville, Falmouth, Greenville, London, Owensboro and Sparta, announced U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao (McConnell).

Spoiler alert: Probably not, surmises FiveThirtyEight.

At the Northpoint Training Center in Burgin, the state is piloting a program designed to help inmates not return to using illegal drugs after their release.

Shelby County's volunteer fire departments are shorthanded.

Southern Living is all about the free Kentucky River water-quality knowledge that Kentucky State University is dropping on us this summer.

I think the Chemical Coaters Association Intl. (CCAI) of Independence made an outstanding choice for its James F. & David J. Wright Lifetime Achievement Award winner.


Rest in peace, ex-UK Wildcat Jared Lorenzen, and way to go, former U of L Cardinals Deion Branch, Jamon Brown and Chris Redman.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Oh, Kentucky

This fantastic 1930 map shows how U.S. 41 from Henderson to Madisonville didn't even run through Sebree--but instead ran along what is now U.S. 41-A, through Dixon and Providence. I'm about to go through a giant Webster County stage, so gird yourself for that.


If you like to watch stuff being blown up, Channel 6 has some video for you.

A dog park is opening in Etown: "It's going to be great."

The sound of eastern Kentucky, 1937.

The sound of eastern Kentucky, 2014.