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Across the Kentucky Color Line – Lee Durham Stone’s First Book

Muhlenberg County native and Historian Lee Durham Stone, Ph.D., has published his first book – Across the Kentucky Color Line: Cultural Landscapes of Race from the Lost Cause to Integration, which focuses on filling in many important missing pieces of racial interaction in the historical literature of Western Kentucky, specifically from the post-Civil War to…

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One of America’s last aluminum smelters just closed. Let’s rescue Kentucky’s from that fate.

The aluminum industry’s decline is risks hobbling Kentucky’s clean energy supply chain as the electric vehicle industry should be taking off. Electric cars, above, charged at a public charging station in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Since Ford Motor Co. announced a series of major electric vehicle battery plants, anchored in Kentucky and…

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HealthForce hopes to inspire students to pursue careers in health care

HealthForce One, a mobile technology center through the HealthForce Kentucky Program, was available for students to explore at the Winter Community Pep Rally on the HCMS/HCHS Campus Monday, November 27th. The mobile center offers simulations for a hands-on experience with real feature cadavers, 3D anatomy and more. HealthForce Kentucky was created to inspire students to…

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Caleb Farkas with HPC speaks at Hancock County Chamber Breakfast

The Hancock County Chamber of Commerce Breakfast was held November 14th at the Lewisport Branch Library.  Hospice & Palliative Care (HPC) of Western Kentucky sponsored the meeting. JJ’s Pizza provided breakfast. Business Development Manager for HPC of Western Kentucky Caleb Farkas talked about some of the services they offer. https://www.hpcwky.org/ “There are often misconceptions of hospice…

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Kenergy Announces start of high-speed internet construction

On Tuesday, August 9 it was announced by Kenergy that they are partnering with internet service provider Conexon Connect (CC) in order to bring world-class broadband to rural areas across the state. This is Connect’s first partnership in KY, and will deliver high-speed internet access to homes and businesses across 14 counties: Hancock, Daviess, Henderson,…

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Hancock Fiscal Court joins lobbying group

Hancock County Fiscal Court held its monthly night meeting Monday evening, and a light agenda greeted magistrates. The meeting started at 6 pm, and ended before 6:30 pm. Hancock County Judge/Executive Johnny “Chic” Roberts informed the court of a lobbying group being created by the Pennyrile Area Development District to help bring state monies to…

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