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Attention all of you social media know-it-alls that are constantly complaining about state government. The same goes for the Grumpy Gus’s, who are griping all of the time about the this and thats, which Frankfort does. Guess what? We have an election next week to decide who the...

When you envision the landscape of downtown Williamsburg, chances are that the marquee of the old Lane Theater will be among the first images that come to mind. Although it has largely sat empty for decades, the Lane Theater is one of the predominant structures on Williamsburg’s...

For about 10 minutes last Wednesday afternoon, I got really excited. My wonderful wife, Cecelia, and I were having lunch when she noticed on Facebook that a $1 million winning Mega Millions ticket had been sold at the Circle K on Gordon Hill. Since this is where I almost always...

You would be hard pressed to find anyone, whose hasn’t known someone that died by suicide. A few years back, I had gone over to the courthouse to speak with an official and bumped into an old friend, who was there to see the same official. We sat around for probably 30 minutes...

Last week’s 40th Annual Old Fashioned Trading Days festival proved to be a hit as always. Although I wasn’t down at the festival Friday and Saturday, I spent most of the day and part of the early evening in downtown Williamsburg Thursday enjoying the festival and getting other...

When I first started covering Old Fashioned Trading Days in Williamsburg nearly 30 years ago, I learned one thing pretty quickly. If you referred to it simply as “Trading Days” then Old Fashioned Trading Days founder and coordinator Teresa Estes was NOT going to be happy about it...

Over the years I have written about a great many crimes. Some are for really stupid things, such as indecent exposure. As my buddy and former co-worker, Dean Manning, used to point out, there is almost always a funny story that goes along with somebody being arrested for indecent...

When it comes to the economy, tourism generates some big bucks in Kentucky and locally, but I daresay that most people don’t realize just how big that the economic impact is. Some recent numbers might surprise you. In 2022, Kentucky tourism generated $12.9 billion in total...

So which of these amounts would you think is correct for a 30-day supply of a routine medication that has been around for at least 45 years? Is it $16.90, $118, $240, or all of the above? If you guessed all of the above, then you would be correct for a medication that a family...

Goodbye and good luck to two friends of mine, who have recently retired from working in emergency services. I’ve known Danny Moses pretty much as long as I have been at the News Journal, which is close to 30 years. I first got to know Danny when he was a member of the Whitley...