Oh, Kentucky

Ringing in the new, for the first time in London.

Happy last year, says the governor.

Hiring in Madisonville.

List price for a Latonia golf course and club built in 1927 is just short of $4 million, reports Covington's River City News.

Newport's Mitchell's Fish Market is no more, reports WLWT from across the river.

A tense Paintsville Tourism Commission meeting ends with a long executive session and layoff of the manager of Staffordsville's Mountain HomePlace. Aaron K. Nelson delivers strong play-by-play in The Paintsville Herald.

Julianna Leach looks back in The Morehead News of a local father-son framing business's eight-year rise. "Great things came come from Morehead."

A Hopkinsville native who contributed to Lexington's rise says Somerset is "primed and ready to be a major tourist destination," and maybe 39 signs of that optimism just fell out of the sky and into his yard. Here's the neat, twisty/turny feature from Christopher Harris in the Commonwealth Journal.

How to start a business, at Murray State in Paducah.

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Kentucky for sale (but not anymore--this dude was gone about five minutes after it posted yesterday, sold for $7):

Kentucky is not joining the constitutional-convention bandwagon (for now).

Georgetown is considering considering a fairness ordinance.

Henderson is going to take a long look at World War I.

Good jobs news from Hanson (thanks to expansion of one of the companies that sponsors the fantastic Bob Mays KHSAA-history site).

A bridge inspector and maintenance superintendent took a break from their Kentucky Transportation Cabinet duties last week to read to Staffordsville Head Start students.

"If you have to decide if you have enough gun on you for an event, perhaps you should rethink going to that event."

What up 41075. Your city is the safest in Kentucky. https://t.co/aGwPKY7Xe4 pic.twitter.com/QrqWdlSi4Z

— Fort Thomas Matters (@FtThomasMatters) March 6, 2017

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Jenkins, KY - forest fire at night. pic.twitter.com/pwWpjQMQwg

— Jeff Hawkins (@HawkinsatKVEC) November 7, 2016

Burn-ban status:

Carter Caves, Columbus-Belmont, Fort Boonesborough, General Butler, Lake Cumberland, Paintsville Lake and Levi Jackson state parks plan to stay open all winter.

One of Louisville's Krogers is closing.

Christmas parades: Owensboro, Nov. 19; Ashland ("largest Christmas parade in the state of Kentucky"), Nov. 22; Bardstown, Dec. 1; Monticello and Richmond, Dec. 2; Berea, Glasgow, Madisonville (with history of grand marshals and themes) and Winchester, Dec. 3; Boyce and Owenton, Dec. 4, and Cave City, Elkton, Hopkinsville and Pikeville, Dec. 10.

Waiting for the polls to open. I'm 12th in a long line.

— Billy Reed (@BillyReedSays) November 8, 2016

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A lot of Kentuckians will be able to much more quickly access The Heath Post soon.

Few University of Kentucky football coaches took the job with seemingly as good of chances for success as has Joker Phillips. Check out Page 2 of Brett Dawson's story.

Speaking of Phillips, who quarterbacked the Wildcats to two Class 3A state championships, it appears that he and Kenny Perry might not have overlapped at Franklin-Simpson High School. They are within three years of age of each other, but Perry wasn't at F-S long before his family moved to Paducah.

Before heading out with his team for three exhibitions in Canada later this month (the first of which is already sold out), University of Kentucky men's basketball coach John Calipari was in Maysville looking for the next Darius Miller.

A new book looks back on Louisville's baseball history.