Oh, Kentucky

Cave City can hardly wait for Karst Beach and Boo Boo Playground.

Christmas parades: Bowling Green, Dec. 1, and Hopkinsville, Dec. 8.

Kentucky Opera Night at Louisville City FC is scheduled for June 30.

Corbin's third-annual Burger Week begins Monday. 

Are food trucks and restauranteurs getting too close for comfort in Owensboro?

Dalton Godbey for WBKO 13 looks at Prints of Peace, a jobs-training program for teen-agers, launched by Broadway United Methodist Church and the Bowling Green Housing Authority.

The senior center in Liberty is offering painting classes on Thursday afternoons, and its instructor hails its cognitive and social-skills benefits, per Zach Johnson in The Casey County News.

Hiking trails have come to Hazard, and Buckhorn,  Leatherwood, Viper and other Perry County communities are up next, reports Destiny Caldwell in The Hazard Herald.

Checking in on the vice-presidential campaign of Matt Bevin of Shelburne, New Hampshire, ...

Alliance Coal needed new warehouse space, so a spec building constructed by Madisonville-Hopkins County Economic Development in 2003 has a new owner.

Good jobs news from Bardstown, Florence and Franklin.

Rest in peace, Ronny Smith, publisher of Beauty of 3/Pinnacle VIEW Magazine, park ranger at Cumberland Gap National Park and volunteer photographer at Middlesboro ARH.

Oh, Kentucky

"No reasonable excuse exists for the horrible mistake that occurred Thursday in The News-Enterprise."

“All the people that might consider bringing industry and jobs to Paducah, they're not going to bring anything to Paducah.”

"Look at all that pavement."

On Perry County's jailer with no jail.

2014 in Cadiz: more citations, fewer wrecks.

Good jobs news from Bardstown and Calvert City. "Rapid Response" to the very bad in Henderson and Union counties.

And, in Paradise and elsewhere around Muhlenberg County, collateral damage in the "war on coal"?

More entrepreneurship push.

The Berea Madison Southern running back, Damien Harris, who is considered to be the nation's No. 1 running-back prospect, is scheduled to announce his college decision today, and the Class 3A-champion Belfry coach, Philip Haywood, who last year was voted the nation's top high-school coach, has a book out.

Happy 75th, WHOP!

And happy 64th to Crystal Gayle of Paintsville!

Oh, Kentucky

Wikipedia (so great) lists six towns and cities of Union County: Breckinridge Center, Morganfield, Sturgis, Sullivan, Uniontown and Waverly. That picture of Morganfield is from the summer of 2010. This picture, from near Waverly on U.S. 60, is from 1993 or so.


The map of Union County that appears at the front of Union County Past and Present--a Kentucky Writers' Project/Work Projects Administration publication that was part of the American Guide Series and printed by Schumann Printing Co. of Louisville in 1941--does not show Breckinridge Center from the Wikpedia list but does include 12 other places: Arnold, Bordley, Boxville, Caseyville, Curlew, DeKoven, Grove Center, Henshaw, Herman, Hitesville, Pride and Spring Grove. This picture was shot in 2010, facing eastbound on Ky. 56, just after you cross the Shawneetown Bridge over the Ohio River (so terrifying) and before you get to Spring Grove.



And, so, the HP's cavalcade of Union County continues, with the UC High Braves tied with Campbell County for the lead in the KHSAA wrestling championships and action set to resume in Lexington at 8:30 Central this morning. Furthermore, the Kentucky desk is tuning back in "today's country and (my) all-time favorites" on Morganfield's WMSK 101.3 FM so as not to miss any of the interruptions with the state's only live radio coverage of the event at the Alltech Arena at Kentucky Horse Park.

Now, of course, the wrestling championships are not the only item of interest to the Kentucky desk this morning, but just those communities of Union County and the seat of Campbell (Alexandria) suck up all the label space for this post. So, we're going to go ahead and wrap up with a mention that UK's national-champion rifle team is today amid a qualifier to return to its NCAA tournament. This event is actually occurring at this very moment, and we can watch! (I'm not sure what's happening in this sport either, but ... wow! The Internet is so awesome.) This Brian Rickerd feature on the UK rifle team in Frankfort's State-Journal is pretty interesting. ("Take Anthony Davis. If I said to Davis, ‘Okay, there’s no time left and we’re down 99 points, and you have to make 100 straight free throws in front of 23,000 people.’ ...")

In conclusion: Hooray for Brian Rickerd, and hooray for the UK rifle team! Sorry to Frankfort for the lack of label. Hooray for WMSK, and hooray for Union County! Sorry to Campbell County, about which I don't have a lot of books and pictures and things because it's not where a lot of my wife's family is from. Hooray for the Internet, and, finally and as always, hooray for Kentucky!

Oh, Kentucky

A Clarkson boy and his big pig rocked the state fair.

A Hardinsburg hopes to remake "homemaker" marketing.

I'm not going to get this done nearly early enough to include any Joe B and Denny Show snippets in the comments, but almost-83-year-old Joe B is on the air again this morning going on and on about how much he loves Kentucky. Today he's talking about how beautiful the U.S. highway routes are out of Lexington (he's right), about the great-looking pleasure horses that people parade around various county fairs around the state (new to me and interesting) and about how excited he is about the UK-WKU football game Thursday. He's on for two hours almost every day, and he's pretty much like this all of the time.

The ColumbiaMagazine.com community is having a blast remembering various old local restaurants. Grilled honey buns really are fantastic.

Depp does Hunter S. Thompson, again.

Hooray for fan buses!

"Helping Neighbors" around Ashland.

Watch out for opossums.