Archive for the 'People' Category

You can be the president of Macroneaux

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

John Peterman topped himself on Wednesday.
Among his “unusual and unique and different-type stuff” on the jpeterman.com Web site was Macroneaux, a tiny (about 6 acres) country between France and Spain that was priced at $750,000.
Along with Macroneaux was a collection of truly rare items, like baseball glove leather pants for $479, Napoleon’s three-inch shoe lifts [...]

Hot Brown or flat tire, which did economist enjoy most?

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Richard Yamarone, the chief economist of Argus Research in New York, gave the keynote address at the 2009 Bluegrass Business Summit on Thursday.
He was introduced by Insight Communications’ John Dobken, who mentioned that Yamarone had been treated to his first Kentucky Hot Brown shortly after he arrived in the state.
Yamarone apparently wasn’t impressed with the [...]

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is working in Lexington

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Did you see a leprechaun on St. Patrick’s Day?
You know, short guy, bald head, biggish nose, broad smile and friendly eyes?
You did, you say — or was it maybe Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon.com?
Bezos, one of the world’s wealthiest entrepreneurs, happens to look a little like a friendly leprechaun.
He arrived unannounced in [...]

Stop, thief! Put down that stove!

Friday, March 13th, 2009

During her years in the restaurant business, Lucie Slone Meyers has been around a lot of really hot stoves.
But now there’s a stove that didn’t even make it to her kitchen before it became hot — in other words, stolen.
Hunting for a bargain, Slone Meyers paid about $1,200 for a used, dual-convection, six-burner stove that [...]

John C. Breckinridge, a Main Street kind of guy

Friday, February 27th, 2009

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 [...]

KU storm workers have a free dinner in their future

Friday, February 13th, 2009

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 [...]

Lexington paved the way for Buffett’s second billion

Friday, February 6th, 2009

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, [...]

Neiman paints eight in one, and “signs” both sides

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

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 [...]

Kentucky’s man in Baghdad is Bond, Maurey Bond

Friday, November 7th, 2008

“Iraq is open for business,” says Maurey Bond.
He should know. He’s been working in Baghdad since February.
The 31-year-old Lexington native and University of Kentucky graduate is general manager of the Iraqi Airways International Business Center near the Baghdad International Airport.
The center is in an economic zone that also has a convention center, a 100-room hotel, [...]

As the fan turns, the kids learn to be winners in life

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Lexington’s Big Ass Fans and the television show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition have teamed up to help a once-promising boxer pass along his talents to the next generation.
“Tim Hill was an aspiring boxer whose boxing dreams collapsed when he broke his back on a construction site,” Big Ass says. “But Hill found a way to [...]