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The proposed Farmers Market development plan for Lexington’s Cheapside Park would give John C. Breckinridge a new view of the world, so to speak.
A statue of Breckinridge, who served as vice president and U.S. senator before joining the Confederacy during the Civil War, has stood along Cheapside for about a century.
The statue faces the old [...]

J. Robert Owens says it’s “kind of a wintertime hobby. I play golf in the summer.”
He wasn’t referring to skiing or coin collecting.
Owens, who is known to friends as “Bobby” and to many other people as the new chairman of the Blue Grass Airport board, rebuilds historic warplanes.
Hundreds of his fellow members of the Rotary [...]

If you’re waiting for Keeneland to roll out its new master plan, the racetrack’s president says hold your horses.
In August, Keeneland hired the architectural firm HOK Sport to develop a plan to expand the historic Lexington track to accommodate the larger crowds that had been coming to the races.
Nick Nicholson, Keeneland’s president and chief executive [...]

Venza is for lovers — pet lovers, that is.
Made by Toyota at Georgetown, the vehicle is a “crossover,” a mix of car and SUV, that looks like a tall Camry wagon.
The Venza’s target audience is empty-nesters and young families, many of whom have pets.
So Toyota is sponsoring “pet-centric ride and drive events” and joining with [...]

Dennis Frommeyer was annoyed.
When he trimmed the bushes in his yard, the clippings had to be raked up — or picked up by hand if they fell into the landscaping material around his plants.
He vented to his wife, Michelle, and “she told me to invent something,” Frommeyer wrote in an e-mail.
Out of that remark came [...]

Caller Enterprises just bought 60 percent of Chevy Chase Plaza, but the changes Steve and Bret Caller are planning might make a 100 percent difference in the business climate at East High Street and Euclid Avenue.
The Callers paid $3.2 million for the first, second and third floors of the five-story building, plus the 200-space parking [...]

Jim Sawyer was driving to his rural Fayette County home one evening after the recent ice storms when he saw some Kentucky Utilities workers using bucket trucks and flood lights to work on power lines damaged by the ice.
When he got home, he learned that the outside temperature was in single digits and the wind [...]

We’ve all heard the warnings about scammers taking advantage of homeowners after the recent the ice storm.
But Sharron Townsend says we should also be alert for legitimate tree services making “honest mistakes.”
Townsend and her husband, Larry Bender, have a house surrounded by trees in Lexington’s Lansdowne neighborhood.
“A tree service came to our house BY MISTAKE [...]

Toyota, long branded an innovative company, is holding a contest to get even more creative ideas from anyone anywhere.
The grand prize includes a $13,000 VIP tour of its Georgetown plant, its largest North American facility.
The company has a Web site, ToyotaWhyNot.com, where it encourages individuals to submit ideas related to safety, water, land, air, community [...]

If Dairy Queen’s new Sweet Deals option turns out to be a roaring success, Warren Buffett will have Lexington to thank for it.
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. investment firm owns International Dairy Queen and Buffett is a big fan of DQ food. He is often seen having lunch at a DQ near his office in Omaha, [...]