“Norman” might have been Lexington’s earliest winter casualty.
During the city’s first significant snowstorm a couple of weeks ago, a car jumped the curb in front of 203 South Limestone Street “and just hit him and killed him stone dead,” said Liza Hendley Betz. “Everybody was just heart-broken.”
You see, Norman is the 3-foot tall wooden leprechaun [...]
Pittsburgh Steelers fans should get to know Royce Pulliam. He’s about to get connected with the best seats in Heinz Field, where the Steelers play their home games.
Here’s how it works.
Pulliam is the founder and chief executive of the Lexington-based Urban Active Fitness chain.
Urban Active is partially owned by Laurel Crown Partners LLC, a Los [...]
Got a letter from my bank the other day.
It said I had written a check that bounced, but my bank’s overdraft-protection program had covered it.
The amount was $800,085.
My brain swelled as I tried to figure how long it would take to repay this debt on a journalist’s wages.
I stopped counting at about 40 years when [...]
The problem is in the name.
They are “Christmas tree farms” so naturally we think they are in rural areas.
Actually, three of the 22 Christmas tree farms in Kentucky are in Lexington and one is in Louisville, according to the Kentucky Department of Agriculture.
These farms are a mile or two from the suburbs or maybe on [...]
Toyota or Chevy.
Japanese or American.
Rock or hard place.
Ask Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard.
He recently bought 85 Toyota Camry Hybrids, instead of Chevrolet Malibu Hybrids, for the Indianapolis police.
Good move?
Kentuckians think so. The Toyotas are made in Georgetown.
Indianapolis auto workers are mad and Ballard’s political foes want an investigation.
He faced a tough choice.
Malibu Hybrid parts are made [...]
Imagine not having to leave your seat and stand in line to get food and drink during University of Kentucky games at Rupp Arena.
The Cats always make a big play when your back is turned and if you wait for halftime, the crowds are huge.
Collin Wallace and David Ward have got you covered.
They are co-founders [...]
Some people know him as C.M. “Bill” Gatton. Others as Carol Martin Gatton. Either way, they take note when he speaks.
The Kentucky native has made millions from cars, banks, real estate and other businesses — enough to endow UK’s Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics with $14 million in 1995.
A year earlier, he [...]
“We know times are tough, but we want people to feel secure and happy,” says Ruth Ann Childers of Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington.
So the hospital gave each of its 2,300-plus employees a turkey just before Thanksgiving, “a nice $100 bill” on Wednesday and a free meal on Thursday.
The employees could donate their turkeys to [...]
LeRoy Neiman couldn’t attend Tuesday’s unveiling of his official painting for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games so he sent his “electrons,” as one speaker put it.
He sent a short video message that began: “I’m LeRoy Neiman and I’m a New York painter.”
That’s like saying “I’m Barack Obama and I’m an Illinois politician.”
At 87, Neiman [...]
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