The Buzz

The next time your alarm clock goes off and you feel like you can’t face another work day, think of Nancy Larkin.
The Glasgow resident is 83 years old and still working as a Holter heart monitor and pacemaker technician for Cardiology Associates of Southern Kentucky. She also runs a pacemaker clinic.
Larkin received her medical certification [...]

There’s just so much good stuff going on in some people’s lives that they can’t keep up with it all.
LoriAnn Lowery is one of those lucky folks.
Lowery was named president of Lloyd’s America in April after a 20-year career in insurance.
She told the company’s Kentucky agents last week at Keeneland that she is a sixth-generation [...]

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Irish tenor Ronan Tynan, known for singing “God Bless America” at Yankee Stadium, thrilled guests at Ashford Stud outside Versailles during a party Saturday.
The Ryder Cup-related visit of Irish tourism minister Martin Cullen prompted the festivities, reports Herald-Leader Editor Linda Austin.
More than 100 guests dined under the stars at the Coolmore-owned horse farm on Irish [...]

The Weaver family of New Castle in Henry County has owned eight Volvos since 1994.
Their vehicles have been in three mishaps over the years and the occupants have always walked away.
“The Weaver family should be on a survival TV show,” Volvo declares in a press release.
The son’s Volvo went off a road and down a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Technology is great, right — as long as it does what we want it to do.
If not, there can be red faces all around, like those at the American Family Association and its Onenewsnow.com Web site.
Onenewsnow handles a lot of Associated Press copy and its small staff doesn’t always have time to read every item [...]

It’s a tradition at the U.S. Embassy in Paris to hold a huge garden party on July 4th to celebrate our independence and the French role in defeating the British.
About 2,400 people attended this year and many of them may have noticed that the party had a distinctly Bluegrass flavor.
The explanation begins last spring when [...]

Carl Howard has two decades of restaurant experience so he knew where to find Fazoli’s heart and soul.
Within days of arriving in Lexington as the “fast Italian” chain’s new CEO, Howard began reporting for work in the kitchens of local Fazoli’s restaurants.
“I really wanted to get in and get to know how things work,” the [...]

Carl Howard has two decades of restaurant experience so he knew where to find Fazoli’s heart and soul.
Within days of arriving in Lexington as the “fast Italian” chain’s new CEO, Howard began reporting for work in the kitchens of local Fazoli’s restaurants.
“I really wanted to get in and get to know how things work,” the [...]