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Local area students included in University of Kentucky Dean’s List

More than 8,500 students qualified for the Fall 2022 University of Kentucky Dean’s List for the Fall 2022 semester. To make a Dean’s List in one of the UK colleges, a student must earn a grade-point average of 3.6 or higher and must have earned 12 credits or more in that...
Posted On 16 May 2023
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Whitley County Cooperative Extension’s Community Arts office offering classes for all ages

The University of Kentucky’s Whitley County Fine Arts Extension offers a wide variety of programs and activities for the local community. Among those are the classes offered by the Extension’s Community Arts center, located at 428 Main Street in downtown Williamsburg.

Local students make UK Dean’s List

The University of Kentucky has released its Dean’s List for the Fall 2022 semester with several local residents making the list. A total of 8,512 students were recognized for their outstanding academic performance. To make a Dean’s List in one of the UK colleges, a student...
Posted On 11 Feb 2023

University of Kentucky students make large donation to local Toys for Tots campaign

Photos by TIMOTHY WYATT A group of students from University of the Kentucky delivered more than 700 toys to the South-Central Toys for Tots Campaign on Monday. The students had held a months-long toy drive in anticipation of donating them to the campaign. While there are Toys for...

Book Review: House of Champions a celebration of history in more ways than one

For longtime fans of UK Wildcat basketball, the names and faces of top players and influential coaches will forever be well known. Details of important contests – rivalry games, championships, and even particularly painful losses – are seared into the memory. But what about the...

Local residents make President’s List, Dean’s List at numerous colleges, universities

Several college and university students with local ties have been honored for their hard work in the classroom by being named to their school’s Dean’s List or President’s List. Belmont University Jaylen Gambrell of Williamsburg qualified for the Spring 2022 Dean’s List at Belmont...
Posted On 03 Jul 2022
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Two Whitley natives help plan DanceBlue

When University of Kentucky student Nick Joseph,  a senior from Lexington, was traveling through an airport recently, the UK T-shirt he was wearing and a yellow DanceBlue ribbon pinned to his backpack caught the eye of another traveler. The curious traveler struck up a...
Posted On 16 Jan 2022

Longmire commits to University of Kentucky

After it came down to West Virginia, Louisville, Kentucky, Virginia Tech and a couple others, Treyveon Longmire told Kentucky Sports Radio Friday that he has committed to play football at the University of Kentucky. Longmire said, “For the next three to four years, I will be...

The University of Kentucky, in partnership with Baptist Health Lexington and Norton Healthcare in Louisville, has been selected as a testing site for possible COVID-19 vaccine

The University of Kentucky, in partnership with Baptist Health Lexington and Norton Healthcare in Louisville, has been selected as a testing site for the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson’s Phase 3 clinical research study, called the ENSEMBLE trial, to...
Posted On 06 Nov 2020
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Jay Atkerson: Memories of a UK championship

No matter where you live in Kentucky or what month it is, Kentuckians are ready to talk a little basketball. With summer all-star games, college recruitment and NBA playoffs in the news, it seems fitting to tell a basketball story that has been lost to the ages. If you will step...
Posted On 24 Jun 2019