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Posted on: December 23, 2008
 Highway Officials Ask for Cooperation With Weight and Speed Limit Restriction on Little Cypress Creek Bridge in Hickman County
Continued disregard for restrictions
may force bridge to close
Posted on: December 19, 2008
By: Photos by Ivan Potter
 Dexter is a self respecting farm dog well trained by his master, Jerry Berry, to patiently wait in the bed of the pick up truck while Jerry goes into the Kountry Cafe for breakfast.
Posted on: December 19, 2008
 He may not look like Santa Claus, but Rep. Derrick Graham played the Jolly Old Elf by giving $10,000 of his re-election money to the school to help students get to Washington for Barack Obama’s Inauguration on January 20th. The trip is now a tradition. See the story here. Frankfort State Journal
Posted on: December 19, 2008
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Aretha Franklin to sing at Inauguration
Posted on: December 19, 2008
 Congratulations to Grand Rivers, Kentucky for finishing in, not one, but TWO categories in Southern Living Magazine’s Survey of Bests in the South.
Posted on: December 18, 2008
 'Twas the week before Christmas and all through the house;You could hear Mom screaming "It's time to clean up this house!"
Company was coming on Christmas Day
And no matter where we hid, we were right in the way.
Posted on: December 18, 2008
C harity surely begins at home. In the case of Senator Jim Bunning’s charitable foundation, it begins at home and stays there.
Posted on: December 17, 2008
.gif) Evidence is accumulating that girls are just as capable as boys of doing well in math. The long-held myth that girls are not as good in math as boys is just that, says Dr. Maeve McCarthy, professor of mathematics at Murray State University and executive director of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM).
Posted on: December 17, 2008
Murray State University faculty Dr. Stephanie Rea, associate professor in music; Dr. Latricia Trites, associate professor in English; and Dr. William Mulligan, professor in history, were awarded Fulbright Scholars grants for the 2008-09 academic year.
Posted on: December 17, 2008
....Under the settlement, the defendants will pay  $7 million to the attorneys general to settle allegations that the defendants made unsubstantiated and unlawful marketing claims concerning their products. The $7 million payment is the largest payment to date in a multi-state settlement with a dietary supplement producer. Kentucky will receive $150,000 from the settlement...
Posted on: December 16, 2008
The Lexington Herald has a list of potential cuts that Tourism, Arts and Heritage will have to make without new revenue. The 4% reduction is already cutting into services the agency manages. Without new income, some parks may be closed. Bluegrass Politics
Posted on: December 16, 2008
Welcome to the Hickman County Museum. Step inside and step into the past.
Posted on: December 16, 2008
By: AG's Office Press Release
Attorney General Jack Conway, along with the attorneys general of 38 other states, reached a settlement agreement today with Mattel, Inc. and its subsidiary, Fisher-Price, Inc., resolving a 16-month long investigation into the events that resulted in a voluntary recall in 2007 of the company’s toys for excessive lead paint.
- Links to Mattel Recall Notices:
Posted on: December 16, 2008
Who would have thought?  Snow in southern Louisiana!
Posted on: December 16, 2008
Check out this video from Fox News in New York City. A young reporter is interviewing a SoHo chef while he cooks. Eateries in the Big Apple are holding events to raise money for disadvantaged. She's from Louisville and so is he. "Chef Nick" is the son of Louisville friends.
Posted on: December 16, 2008
...A single payer system is the only way we can get control of the costs and yet expand and improve the care. No nation in the world has kept private profit making insurance at the core of the system and still reached universal coverage. It can't be done.
Posted on: December 12, 2008
 ..."I sense on behalf of all the legislative leaders an openness to look at all of our options. Obviously, we don’t have any commitments. They’ve just heard about my plan and will take some time to look at it. I have confidence that common ground will be found with the Legislature"
- Governor Steve Beshear in Paducah, Thursday 12/11/08
Posted on: December 12, 2008
 An MSNBC commentator on Morning Joe bemoaned the fact that "nobody in America makes anything anymore".
Not so, sir.
Artists, authors and craftspeople filled the Methodist Church's Young Center in Clinton last Saturday offering their uniquely personal works for sale.
Come and see their wares....
Posted on: December 12, 2008
 Judge Bill Cunningham said that being a West Kentuckian in Frankfort is “Wonderful. Every day when I drive up the mall and see that huge beautiful edifice and thinks of the wonderful people far away and in a different time zone that I represent, I get a high. I am just so humbled to be there.”
Photo: Judge Cunningham signs a book for me while Hickman County Judge Greg Pruitt and wife, Norma, look on.
Posted on: December 12, 2008
Last week, Ivan and I were asked to be judges at a regional debate among four local high schools . Carlisle, Hickman, Fulton Counties and Fulton City Schools all sent students from their high school advanced programs to compete.
What an honor and delight to see such bright young people listen to each other's arguments and use logic in their own to win the day!
Posted on: December 12, 2008
By: Ivan Potter, News Analysis
 No one in my family went shopping on Black Friday. We all are making gifts or buying locally made foods and crafts for gifts this year.
Somewhere past a grandson taking his first step into the arms of his soldier father and a forty year in the making family dinner, I found my Thanksgiving spirit of saying “Thank you, God, for my joys and wealth.”
Posted on: December 12, 2008
 Missy Jenkins Smith was at the Hickman County Arts, Crafts, Book and Food Fair last Saturday. A lovely young woman, Missy visited with old friends and new while she signed and sold copies of her book, "I Choose to Be Happy". Next to her in the photo is husband, Josh.
Posted on: December 12, 2008
By: Ivan Potter from Mississippi River Journal
 It is amazing how pecans from Kentucky Nut Corporation’s Kentucky Kernel find their way into the best kitchens of America, be it a place like Lynn’s Paradise Café or your home.
Posted on: December 10, 2008
Posted on: December 9, 2008
This morning's news presents a contrasts between Governor Beshear and Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Kentucky's Governor is taking a voluntary pay cut. Illinois' Governor is taking the perp walk. For more, read on.
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