“We are hearing a lot of horror stories” because of the recession, says Gene Williams, a partner in Natasha’s Bistro & Bar on The Esplanade downtown. “This is actually good news.”
Natasha’s is finishing a remodeling of its physical space and a restructuring of its business to create what Williams calls a “hybrid restaurant” that is in [...]
WARNING: The following item contains references to poop, manure, fecal matter, crap, turds and neckties. Those with weak dispositions should skip to the next item.
Pat Kelly was scooping along in a customer’s back yard in his role as Lexington’s Pet Butler franchisee.
He was thinking about the upcoming Pet Butler annual convention and what new product [...]
Kentucky usually lands only one or two companies on the Inc. 500 list of the nation’s fastest growing small businesses.
This year, the total was one: No. 47, Integrity Asset Management of Louisville.
But there’s another company on the list that, as the older generation might say, bears watching. It’s No. 12, Hollingsworth Capital Partners in Clinton, [...]
Like the old song says, “All the boys will sing and the girls will shout and the ladies they will all turn out” when the No. 66 Hunt Brothers Chevrolet rolls into Paris on Aug. 26 and Frankfort on Aug. 27.
Some will turn out to see a new addition to NASCAR racing while others will [...]
Americans have freedom of speech — and William “Chip” Wood believes in using it.
Wood owns about 50 TireDiscounters stores in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.
About twice a week, he sends faxes to his managers to tell them what messages to put on the double-sided signs in front of his stores, including two in Lexington.
New messages went [...]
Pearse Lyons is an Irishman.
“The Irish are the laziest men in the world,” he told the Kentucky Chamber’s Economic Summit and Annual Meeting on Tuesday.
(You could almost hear someone say, “How lazy are they?”)
“We always marry pregnant women,” he said, without missing a beat.
There was a twitter of laughter that quickly became a roar as [...]
The sacred and secular collided in Flatbush, N.Y., last week, and both came away winners.
Our Lady of Refuge Church got a 24-foot fan to cool its sanctuary and Lexington’s Big Ass Fan Co. got national publicity from its “wicked name,” said the New York Daily News.
“Oh my gosh!” church administrator Judy Agard told the Daily [...]
Lowell and Betty Nigoff had thought about retiring, but their thinking turned serious when they were introduced to Lexington residents Rob and Suzanne Morris through a mutual friend.
“After getting to know this younger couple, we decided we would entrust Lowell’s to them,” the Nigoffs said in an email to their friends and customers.
They have sold [...]
“We have kind of labeled ourselves ‘dairy goat pioneers,’” says Todd Harp. “There are several people across the state who are watching Susan and me to see how it goes.”
Harp operates Foxhide Farm in Bourbon County and last week, he made the first official shipment of goat’s milk in Kentucky, according to state inspectors.
It went [...]
We all love getting something for nothing, especially if the freebie is for something we are doing anyway — like shopping for a house.
Realtor Teresa Parks-Crumbie, for example, is marketing a new house at 188 Berkshire Lane in Georgetown’s Stonecrest Subdivision.
She realized that there is only one way into the subdivision, located off U.S. 25 [...]
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