The Buzz

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 [...]

Thanks to his friend Bill Ambrose, Barry McNees is now the proud owner of a fifth of 100 proof James E. Pepper Bourbon that came out of the barrel in 1945.
A 63-year-old bourbon calls for a very special occasion and McNees, who is developing the $190 million Distillery District arts and entertainment area in Lexington, [...]

Remember the Mark Twain novel Tom Sawyer?
Remember how Tom got a fence whitewashed by making his friends think whitewashing was fun and they had to try it?
The folks at Maker’s Mark have read the book.
On Sept. 6-7, the bourbon distiller is hosting the first Maker’s Mark On the Rocks! workshop to teach “the ancient craft [...]

Commerce Lexington members were in Washington, D.C., recently for briefings on urban issues by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Lots of brochures and other materials were handed out.
On the front of one brochure was a photo of a familiar place: A row of colorfully painted buildings in downtown Danville.
“Don’t know where or how the Chamber picked [...]