West Kentucky Journal

Sleet started in Clinton around four, then turned to snow by 5:00 p.m.

Bad weather headed to parts of Purchase - pretreating beginning

Posted on:

January 15, 2013

By:

Keith Todd, KYTC

(Tuesday, January 15, 2013) - ...The National Weather Service has placed portions of Western Kentucky under a Winter Weather Advisory until 2:00 a.m., CST, Wednesday. An area of wintry mix that is expected to hit northwest Tennessee could move northward to impact a number of Kentucky counties. The forecast includes a chance of sleet, freezing rain, and/or snow south of a line from about Mayfield to near Owensboro...

See the full story ...

Climate change is already affecting us" Todd Sanford, a UCS climate scientist. Pictured: more precipitation ahead

Federal Advisory Committee Releases Draft National Climate Assessment

Posted on:

January 15, 2013

By:

Union of Concerned Scientists www.ucsusa.org

..The impacts of climate change – including increasingly high temperatures and rising sea levels -- are more apparent and extreme impacts are becoming more likely as global emissions rise...

See the full story ...

Paducah Tilghman Speech and Forensic Team

PTHS speech team win something to brag about

Posted on:

January 15, 2013

By:

Wayne Walden, Paducah Tilghman

(Paducah, KY January 15, 2013) - The Paducah Tilghman Speech and Forensic Team took First Place out of 10 teams competing in the Marshall County Speech Tournament on January 12, 2013. The team scored 231 points to the 195 points earned by 2nd place finisher Calloway County. Third place went to Henry County High of Paris, TN, with 110 points.

See the full story ...

Dippin' Dots lives again

Posted on:

January 15, 2013

By:

Press release - with WKJ photos by Mary Potter

Gov. Beshear Announces Dippin’ Dots to Expand Manufacturing in Paducah, Create 30 Jobs

Iconic ice cream products maker to invest $3.1 million in the Commonwealth

See the full story ...

Unionist KY Governor James F. Robinson condemned Emancipation Proclamation.

Kentucky: pro-Union, pro-slavery and anti-Lincoln

Posted on:

January 15, 2013

By:

Berry Craig

...The Emancipation Proclamation took effect on Jan. 1, 1863, brewing a “storm of disapproval that…had never been equalled up to that time,” E. Merton Coulter wrote in The Civil War and Readjustment in Kentucky.

The proclamation did not affect Kentucky, a loyal state. It declared slaves free in Rebel-held territory...

Nonetheless, even the most ardently pro-Union newspapers in the Bluegrass State, including the powerful Louisville Journal, lambasted Lincoln.

See the full story ...

I watched as water kept coming from about 100 acres of farmland now acting as a large lake.

Nude Fields and Insane Rains

Posted on:

January 15, 2013

By:

Ivan C. Potter, Publisher West Kentucky Journal

Naked before the storm, the last clumps of grass fought against the ripping grips of winds they were unwilling to move or resist. Explosions after explosion tore into the fragile soil as the raindrops bore down on the uncovered field. Within minutes of the first wave of storm rains, the naked fields started to shed rivers of muddy waters.

See the full story ...

Archives

FrontPage News

Education

Community and Regional News

Berry Craig's History Bits

The Futurist's Corner

The browser you are using is outdated!

Archives

FrontPage News

Education

Community and Regional News

Berry Craig's History Bits

The Futurist's Corner

The browser you are using is outdated!

Log In to West Kentucky Journal

Not a Member?