Oh, Kentucky

Flanked by outriders the hearse carrying @johnasher made two laps around @ChurchillDowns on Tuesday morning. Asher died of a heart attack last week. @courierjournal pic.twitter.com/yDdO0jf2Wo

— Michael Clevenger (@MClevenger_CJ) September 4, 2018

Harlan is getting a museum, thanks, in part, to Cawood Ledford.

Jim Beam is expanding in both Boston and Clermont.

Good jobs news from Horse Cave, Pikeville and Roxana.

Gov. Bevin announces more funding for the healing in Draffenville.

Secretary of State Grimes announces the voting is coming to four state veterans centers.

Princeton's WPKY ... still local after all of these years.

One of the Paxtons of Paducah is bringing up to 12 Taco John's restaurants to central Kentucky--the first to be opened in Glasgow. Here's the whole, excellent scoop from Melinda J. Overstreet in the Glasgow Daily Times.

Ghostbusters, obviously the greatest movie of our Class of '86 lives, is classing it up with an Orchestra Kentucky performance in Bowling Green.

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Christmas parades: Bowling Green, Dec. 1.

The "Kentucky 120 United" Bible-reading marathon, kicked off by a Somerset minister, continues through Thursday.

"Kentucky is unique in a way that it's not sure whether it's Southern or Midwestern."

Wow! AmerAsia in #CovingtonKY is packed on this #Christmas night.
A line out the door! pic.twitter.com/YPpvWrtdKI

— The River City News (@theRCnews) December 25, 2017

 

"I can't get over how many times I've been invited to someone's home to eat."

"Who else in Logan County took their retirement and placed it on hold to tackle a city on the brink of backlash with its wastewater woes?"

"We are sad to say that Grant County Upward Sports has been canceled for 2018."

Noting the calendar turn in Corbin, Williamsburg and Barbourville.

The rare snowy owl in Wilmore, a probably-abandoned alligator in Harlan County.

Good jobs news from Madisonville and Marion.

Oh, Kentucky

Game 1, starting at 10 a.m. Central today, pits McCracken County against Hazard!

Day 1 of the Rawlings/KHSAA Baseball State Tournament at Whitaker Bank Ballpark #khsba pic.twitter.com/AlTin6VMd8
— Joe Angolia (@jangoliakhsaa) June 2, 2014

The gov's giving the commencement address at Transy.

I think we have more bees around western Kentucky this spring than we have the last couple of years. In related news, here's a heck of a good little story about the return of running buffalo clover and some research and efforts around that by some EKU people.

A former Miss America is Kentucky's new Veterans Affairs boss, and what of it?

Bad jobs news from Frankfort.

An almost totally positive, crowd-sourced restaurant review for Hampton's Dairy Mart of Elkton.

"Hoodyhoo" gets the baseball party started in Madisonville.

Oh, Kentucky

Controversy comes to Gethsemane.

Louisville's getting a bunch more trees.

Madisonville's narrowing down to just one.

Owensboro is showing off its new riverfront at this weekend's International Barbecue Festival.

They're coming to your town (Glasgow and Morgantown); they're help you party down; they're the Kentucky Historical Society.

The @sports_cj front today after a historic #NFLDraft by Louisville football. pic.twitter.com/3VFgWNOQhL
— Creig Ewing (@acewing) May 9, 2014

Oh, Kentucky

Rest in peace, Mr. Thomason, Korean War vet, frequent nursing-home visitor, Disneyworld grandchildren chaperone and provider of air conditioning to those in need.

Of Obamacare, per Paducah and Owensboro.

The U.S. Post Office in Buffalo is closing, but I'll bet it's not why you think.

Bullying just stinks.

From the county-fair beat: It's a (happy) wrap in Owen County.

Congratulations to Sims Dairy Queen of Flemingsburg!

CELEBRATING 60 years in business. July 4th. We want to say a BIG THANK YOU to all of our customers and look forward to another 60 years!!
— Sims DQ (@SimsDQ) July 4, 2013

Adair County High School's baseball coach was sorry for something he did at a Little League game in May, and some people are upset that he apparently lost his job Tuesday over the matter, and some people think whatever it was he did was bad enough that it could not be tolerated.

TUCFRC.

"Take On Me" by A-ha is (so far) this year's 182nd-most-requested song for Wedding Bells DJ Entertainment, for whom the Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce threw a ribbon-cutting last week. Without checking this link of the full top 200, can you guess No. 1?

Oh, Kentucky

Three (!) more Fridays until KHSAA football season. One more season until the McCracken County Mustangs join Class 6A.

Twenty-three faces of Wilmore. 

Fifth class of inductees for the Kentucky Motorsports Hall of Fame in Bowling Green. 

Third home for the Barren River Imaginative Museum of Science, in Park City?

Wet: Franklin, La Grange and Murray. Dry: Marshall County. Princeton?

In Prestonsburg, anyway, "aging should be a process of continued development instead of decline."

In Mayfield, the web site is now for kids, too.

The fun's not over in Happy Chandler's hometown, which ousted its mayor earlier this week.

Oh, Kentucky

"Kentucky won the 2012 NCAA title by dispatching Kansas less than three months ago. The Wildcats won again Thursday night in Newark, N.J."

Belatedly: Rest in peace, LeRoy Neiman.

ACA/SCOTUS aftermath, Dawson Springs/Frankfort and Fort Wright/Louisville editions.

Interesting point about Owensboro: "Though it's cut off from Interstate access, its still the fourth largest city in the Commonwealth."

Elizabethtown's Boxwine sings of Highlights and Lowlifes (on mattresses.)

To Bowling Green, to "rebuild the Nappy Roots movement."

To Tomahawk, for "an important example of how the Postal Service is changing to better meet America’s needs."

To Fancy Farm? We'll see.

Good jobs news from Leitchfield. Good in Bardstown, too? Lively from Shively?

Welcome to Hoptown. And Madtown.

Brooklawn School, Maryhurt School and Peace Academy in Louisville; Calloway County Day Treatment Center in Murray; McDaniel Learning Center in London; Morehead Youth Development Center; Providence School in Wilmore, and Ramey Estep High in Rush are deemed the state's best alternative-education programs.

On the other hand, The Messenger reports this morning that our jailer right here in Hopkins County has been voted Kentucky's best. Rock on, Joe Blue (Class of '86!)

Oh, Kentucky

100 years for the Ursuline Sisters in Marion County.

82 years of Wingo Trade Days in Graves County.

25 years of rescued primates in Jessamine County.

20 years of Larry A. Ryle High in Boone County.

Everything's coming up Cadiz. Outdoor Life identifies it as the nation's 21st-best "Fishing and Hunting Town."

Opinion roundup ... Per wet-dry in Hindman: "Parents and residents of Knott County need to give their children and themselves more credit."  ... Per bullying in Hazard: "Childhood is supposed to be a time of learning and development, and when some of our children are opting to end their lives when they should have so many years ahead of them, then we as adults need to stand up and address this issue." ... Per mail service in Lovelaceville: "'I got people to carry me, I paid for 'em, just to get somebody to sign who's along this route.'"

$100,000!

Play on, musicians in Louisville! Roll on, filmmaker in Owensboro! Rock on, photographer in Columbia!

Rest in peace, Mr. Zuniga, Paducah composer and producer of music.

Oh, Kentucky

Your First Region boys' soccer champions are the Heath Pirates! It'll be Henderson County at Heath on Monday in the round of 16, and it appears that the Pirates could be playing at home all the way to the championship if they keep winning.

The marching-band playoffs are also in progress.

I'm looking to a big second season of Fantasy Legislature.

Here are your top teachers of the year. (WKU, represent!)

Rest in peace, Mrs. Moosnick, friend of the arts, and Mr. Reinke, photographer of everything in Kentucky.

Who will get the new VA hospital?

Made in (Jessamine County) U.S.A.

Turning to the routes beat ...

Good jobs news from Florence and Lebanon, bad from Madisonville and PR jive from Frankfort: the state's jobless rate "went" to 9.7 percent last month.

Moving on in Louisville.

I'd never heard of East Ridge High School or Lick Creek.

"Turtleman" is an occasional Joe B and Denny caller.

Joe B is so right about rugby, by the way.

Oh, Kentucky

This isn't exactly news, but Uncle Lee's is no more in Paducah. Gone, but not forgotten. And it's not gone from Greenville.

COC ... yeah, you know me! Cutting heads for Christ! Love it.

Drugs stink.

The Harlan Writer's Guild is incentivizing the behavior it desires.

Kentucky's "Green Bank."

Thank you, Hardin County extension agent Amy Aldenderfer and Sarah Berkshire of The News-Enterprise, for this news I can use. Great point about the lack of stem.

What to make of the surge in homeless voters?

The new local economic-development director "said it was while he was living away that he would think often of the untapped potential of Lewis County."

His will not be an easy job.

Behind the good jobs news from E-town.

Michelle Bachmann or Sarah Palin in Richmond?