Sand sculptor crafts 20-ton bluegrass band in Triangle Park
Mr. Sandman brought a band to Triangle Park in downtown Lexington this week.Damon Farmer, a Woodford County sculptor, shaped 20 tons of Cincinnati glacial sand into a Bluegrass band, including a turtle with a banjo, a rabbit playing guitar and a Kentucky Wildcat on the fiddle. The work took about four days.The sculpture, funded through donations from Bluegrass Sotheby’s International Realty and Hilliard Lyons, will remain on display for about two weeks.The public submitted proposals for a sand ..>> view originalMan charged in two Lexington gas station robberies
A man was arrested Sunday in connection to armed robberies at two Lexington gas stations last week.Jesse R. Walker, 48, was being served an unrelated misdemeanor warrant Sunday when an officer recognized him from surveillance footage of the robberies, Lexington police said. After being interviewed by a detective, Walker was charged with two counts of first-degree robbery. At about 9 p.m. last Tuesday, a suspect took beer and cash from the Thorntons gas station at 802 North Broadway, Lexington p..>> view originalBam Adebayo ready to ball for Kentucky next season
When five-star recruit Bam Adebayo informed John Calipari of his intention to sign with the University of Kentucky last November, the Wildcats’ coach had a simple message for his future player.“You better ball,” Calipari told him.That shouldn’t be a problem.Adebayo – a 6-foot-9, 260-pound behemoth of a basketball prospect — is known in recruiting circles as one of the hardest-working, highest-motor players in the country.The breadth of his game was on display at Monday’s practice for this week’..>> view originalState budget negotiators clash over pension solutions
House and Senate budget negotiators remained far apart Monday in trying to solve the state’s pension problems.The budget conference met for about 90 minutes Monday afternoon without resolving how to address the financially strapped Kentucky Teachers’ Retirement System and Kentucky Retirement System.Top lawmakers agreed to meet again Monday night but talk arose that this year’s law-making session might end without a new state budget.“I think the tone has turned toward that direction” of not agr..>> view originalLexington attorney sees possibilities, not disability
Amy Dougherty has never felt a sense of limitation.She is a partner at Bluegrass Elderlaw in downtown Lexington, a former attorney with the state’s Public Service Commission, an active church member who has frequently traveled to Nicaragua to do volunteer prison ministry.Dougherty has arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, a condition that causes some joints to be stiff and crooked at birth. People with AMC lack normal range of motion in one or more joints.“A lot of one’s self-perception is lookin..>> view originalFamily displaced after house fire in Lexington
Family displaced after house fire in Lexington 0 Comments for this article Submitted: 03/28/2016 - 9:23am Tags: Displaced, family, Fire, Hawkins Avenue LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – A Lexington family is without a home after a fire over the weekend.Firefighters say they got the call around 4:30 Sunday morning on Hawkins Avenue. A family of five lived in the home.Firefighters say a daughter woke up and managed to get everyone out safely.Crews say one person was treated for smoke inhalation.The ho..>> view originalObama phones families of Lexington native, husband who died in ...
President Barack Obama on Sunday called the parents of Lexington native Stephanie Shults and her husband, Justin, who were killed in last week’s terror attacks in Brussels.Betty Newsom of Lexington, Stephanie’s aunt, said that Obama offered his condolences but that she couldn’t speak to her sister and brother-in-law’s reaction.The White House said Obama praised the couple as epitomizing all that was good about America, and he assured their parents that the thoughts, prayers and resolve of the n..>> view originalOrange crush: Syracuse men, women in Final Four
Out of the blue — or make that orange — Syracuse finds itself in the best of all places — the men's and women's Final Four.The feat has been accomplished by only eight other schools, most recently by UConn in 2014 when Kevin Ollie's men and Geno Auriemma's women won titles. Both teams of Huskies also won national championships in 2004, the only other time that's happened.In all, UConn has placed both its teams in the Final Four four times. Syracuse is happy just to join the party because no one..>> view originalWestern Kentucky names Stansbury new basketball coach
Rick Stansbury wants to take Western Kentucky basketball to the next level.The Hilltoppers on Monday afternoon put their men’s basketball program in the hands of the veteran college coach, who has spent the last couple of seasons as an assistant at Texas A&M after more than two decades at Mississippi State.“I’m not here to rebuild or change the culture,” Stansbury said during a news conference. “We have a winning culture here.”Stansbury, 56, had spent the past two seasons as associate head coa..>> view originalESPN to show Kentucky-Texas Western championship game
The University of Kentucky’s historic 1966 national championship basketball game against Texas Western will be aired twice in the next week on ESPN channels.The first showing will take place Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on ESPN. The presentation will be re-aired Sunday at 11 a.m. on ESPN2.The broadcast celebrates the 50th anniversary of Texas Western’s 72-65 victory, which became a watershed moment in sports history because it was the first time a college basketball team started five black players in..>> view original
Monday, March 28, 2016
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