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Thomas Chenault: May 25, 1939 - Aug. 14, 2011
Thomas Elwood Chenault, 72, a native of Hazard, Ky., born May 25, 1939, died Aug. 14, 2011, at the Galatin Health Care Center in Warsaw, Ky. He was formerly a resident of Thomson-Hood Veterans Center. He was a widower, retired mechanic, and veteran of...Tags: Indiana
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25 Years Ago: Aug. 18, 2011
Aug. 18, 1986
A new state law and a Clark County Board of Education decision will combine to substantially relieve teachers’ non-instructional duties starting today. Teachers in Clark and around the state won’t have to accompany students to...Tags: Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Kentucky, Montgomery County (Alabama)
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Wilmore mission group plans relief trip to Alabama
mmoore@jessaminejournal.comIt’s been just more than four months since a massive tornado tore through the western Alabama city of Tuscaloosa, killing dozens. In all, more than 240 died in Alabama in the tornado outbreak April 27. While a short period of time has passed, much...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Travel
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State obesity rates rising
Kentuckians are getting fatter. That’s not an opinion, it’s a fact, according to the latest study of obesity rates in the United States by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Kentucky ranked sixth in...Tags: Health, Agricultural Research and Technology, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Tennessee, Elections
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Feulner: Hurting heroic helpers
When the news hit that tornadoes had ripped through Alabama, helpers sprang into action. They handed out water and medical supplies. They provided food, clothing and shelter to the many victims and cleaned up the mess that Mother Nature left behind.
FEMA?...Tags: Protestant Convention, Human Interest, Baptist, The New York Times, Elections
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Johns: Carver, retirement and salad
“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting system through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only tune in.” —George Washington Carver
I learned to read at Poage Elementary School in Ashland. The library was located in...Tags: Butter, Human Interest, Peanut Butter, The Happiest News!, African Americans
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Religion briefs for July 21
news@jessaminejournal.comNicholasville Church of Christ welcomes minister on ‘Friends and Family Day’ Nicholasville Church of Christ, located at 701 S. Main St., is hosting a special "Friends and Family Day" on Sunday, July 24, to welcome new minister Jordan Guy...Tags: Christianity, Baptist
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In search of 9/11 stories
mmoore@jessaminejournal.comThe memory of that day will forever be burned into my mind. I was working at The Phenix Citizen, in Phenix City, Ala., a small town located in southeastern Alabama, that September morning. I walked into the office, and I was walking past my publisher&...Tags: Human Interest, September 11, 2001 Attacks, New York
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Prep Baseball: Boyle coaching job attracts 'a lot of interest'
marsee@amnews.comBoyle County has taken steps toward hiring a new baseball coach, but the final steps are still at least a week or two away. Boyle principal Will Begley said there has been “a lot of interest” in the job, but he said the school will wait to see...Tags: High School Sports, Kentucky, College Baseball, Mississippi
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UK Basketball: Injury put new staffer on different basketball path
larry@amnews.comHis father was a high school coach and athletics director in Carbondale, Ill., with a lot of Division I players in his program, so Chris Woolard grew up with basketball as a major part of his life. That didn’t change when his father became associate...Tags: High School Sports, United Kingdom, UCLA Bruins, Conference USA, John Calipari
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Cattlemen cookouts serve up good food for great causes
Journal columnistIt’s hard to resist the aroma of grilling out. This past Saturday, my self-control was completely undermined, and my husband and I turned into the Tractor Supply parking lot to enjoy the fare at the Jessamine County Beef Cattle Association cookout....Tags: High Bridge, Human Interest, Hot Dogs, Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Centre College leaving SCAC to join new eight-team conference
ATLANTA — Seven members of the NCAA Division III Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) announced Tuesday that they are leaving the conference effective July 1, 2012, to form a new athletic conference beginning with the 2012-13 season....Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Atlanta, Birmingham , Colleges and Universities, Education
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