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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 [...]

They looked like respectable young professionals — well-dressed, well-groomed, educated, honest.
“Never in a million years would I have thought they were scammers,” says Anna Marletta, general manager of Bellini’s on Main Street in Lexington.
The two men came into the restaurant one evening recently, had a couple of beers and paid with American Express gift cards.
They [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Jason Sheer is a hands-on businessman in the truest sense.
“I’ve got the hammer in my hand and we are going at it,” the co-owner of the Tin Roof said Tuesday in a telephone interview.
Sheer was working at South Limestone and Maxwell streets where the live-music restaurant chain is about to open its newest location, probably [...]

“Norman” might have been Lexington’s earliest winter casualty.
During the city’s first significant snowstorm a couple of weeks ago, a car jumped the curb in front of 203 South Limestone Street “and just hit him and killed him stone dead,” said Liza Hendley Betz. “Everybody was just heart-broken.”
You see, Norman is the 3-foot tall wooden leprechaun [...]

The problem is in the name.
They are “Christmas tree farms” so naturally we think they are in rural areas.
Actually, three of the 22 Christmas tree farms in Kentucky are in Lexington and one is in Louisville, according to the Kentucky Department of Agriculture.
These farms are a mile or two from the suburbs or maybe on [...]

Imagine not having to leave your seat and stand in line to get food and drink during University of Kentucky games at Rupp Arena.
The Cats always make a big play when your back is turned and if you wait for halftime, the crowds are huge.
Collin Wallace and David Ward have got you covered.
They are co-founders [...]