Mike Tussey: Coming up – Country Music Month, play-off baseball, NFL, college football, Halloween
Y’all ready for this?
In early September the stores began filling the shelves with costumes of skeletons, ghosts, vampires, witches, along with cob webs and headstones.
It’s a good bet that a neighbor of yours has already decorated their house while waiting for Tuesday October 31. My neighbor’s front yard is in full Halloween mode right now.
October is known as “Country Music Month” and...
Kentucky by Heart: Inventor John Fitch, who had ties to Nelson County, built America’s first steamboat
By Steve Flairty
NKyTribune columnist
Back when I was an elementary student, I was taught that Robert Fulton was the inventor of the steamboat, pure and simple. Likely most students across our country were given the same information. Kentucky even named one of its 120 counties after the man. But maybe another person should have received more of the credit. Likely the people around the town of Bardstown...
Our Rich History: How softball joined the ranks of elite sports at Thomas More — Bors and Wegman stand out
By Michael Pagano
Thomas More University
The Saints softball program is one of the most successful on the Thomas More University campus.
Bors delivers a pitch against Trine University. (Photo by Richard Fields.)
Eight conference tournament championships and 10 NCAA tournament appearances since 2005 will put any program on the map not only regionally but nationally.
That said, it was a rocky road for...
The River: As a second grader, he was glued to the radio listening to the tragic news of the Island Queen
By Capt. Don Sanders
Special to NKyTribune
(The riverboat captain is a storyteller, and Captain Don Sanders is sharing the stories of his long association with the river — from discovery to a way of love and life. This story was first told in 2021.)
I was born before television became a required fixture in every American home. Radio provided the primary contact with the world beyond our family home...
The Bean Bash to celebrate 50th Anniversary Sept. 30 in new location at Erlanger Lions Club in Florence
Staff Report
The Bean Bash, an annual fundraiser benefiting disabled children and adults in the Northern Kentucky region, will celebrate it’s 50th anniversary September 30.
What began in 1974 as a political event started by State Represenative Bill McBee and a small group of individuals, has grown into one of the Northern Kentucky’s largest annual fundraisers drawing thousands of attendees...
DCCH Lasting Legacies Family Festival September 30 will celebrate organization’s 175th year
DCCH Center for Children and Families will celebrate 175 years of caring for Kentucky’s most vulnerable children and families with a family-friendly festival Saturday, September 30 from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Festival fans will enjoy a family friendly festival similar to the “good ole days” with live music from great local bands, Children’s Corner with games and inflatables, a corn hole tournament,...
Super Jox Lunch group unites for lunch with radio legend Gary Burbank (and all his characters)
By Andy Furman
NKyTribune reporter
It’s been dubbed The Super Jox Lunch by non-other than Tribune columnist Mike Tussey, a radio legend himself.
The get-togethers are usually quarterly, held at Barleycorn’s in Lakeside Park – yet the next luncheon was scheduled for October. The fellas – sorry ladies it was a male-dominated group – met Wednesday for one reason – Gary Burbank was in town.
The...
Mike Tussey: More Murphy’s Law — and another recipe for disaster
Recently, I examined Murphy’s Law and how it affected me drastically while broadcasting a football game in September a few years ago. For those of you who haven’t heard of Murphy’s Law, it’s simply defined in this small phrase: “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.”
The aforementioned football game on a sweltering 96 degree day in September a few years ago, in reality totally prevented...
Kentucky by Heart: ‘Healthy Aging Summit’ inspires goals for a positive lifestyle at 70 and beyond
By Steve Flairty
NKyTribune columnist
The “Healthy Aging Summit” I attended last week in Versailles came at a good time. Two days afterward, on September 10, I would reach the age of “three score and ten years” — that’s seventy, in non-Abe Lincoln talk.
And though I physically and emotionally feel pretty good, the thought of being 70 has caused me to pause and think of my own...
Our Rich History: Olivia Huber Bryant, a standout Thomas More performer in soccer and basketball
By Raymond Hebert
Thomas More University
Sources for this article include: Statistics provided by Michael Pagano Co-Director of Sports Information, TMU Athletics, and print media as noted.
In the spring 2016 issue of Moreover, the Thomas More alumni magazine, Judy Crist described Olivia Huber’s athletic successes as a “sports career for the ages,” adding that “Olivia Huber’s college athletic...
The River: The sounds of riverboat calliope bring fond memories – and of Homer Denny’s rise to top
The riverboat captain is a storyteller, and Captain Don Sanders will be sharing the stories of his long association with the river — from discovery to a way of love and life. This a part of a long and continuing story. This column first appeared in February, 2021.
By Capt. Don Sanders
Special to NKyTribune
Which looked the whitest, the fading snow on the roof outside the window or my computer screen...
Thomas More Biology Field Station to host ‘Living Story’ motivational retreat September 24
Thomas More University Biology Field Station, located in California, will host “Living Story,” a motivational retreat designed to help people to move forward in creative projects on Sunday, September 24 from 12:30 – 5 p.m.
Dr. Sherry Cook Stanforth, an author, professor and founder of Originary Arts Initiative, and Stacy Smith Rogers, a freelance journalist, entrepreneur and founder...
Read Ready Covington Early Childhood Festival Saturday to celebrate learning through fun
A Saturday morning of games, raffles, face painting, music, touch-a-truck, and more is part of an organized effort aimed to help Covington children learn and thrive.
Saturday’s 2nd Annual Early Childhood Festival is at the Lincoln Grant Scholar House, at 824 Greenup St., and runs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.. The free event is sponsored by the Read Ready Covington Coalition, a collaboration of early educators,...
Bluegrass Wildlife: Think about it — to bait or not to bait? There are ethics involved in the decision
By Howard Whiteman
Murray State University
A few years ago I observed a sign above a pallet of feed corn in the sporting goods section of a local Walmart: “If you feed them, they will come” – signed “Redneck Hunter.”
At about $10 for a 40-lb bag, it is a cheap way to increase your success. Baiting is illegal in many states, but in Kentucky it is only illegal to bait on public land. Baiting...
Mike Tussey: Sheila Gray is WKRC Local 12’s ‘gal about town’ — and Ambassador of Goodwill
The City of Cincinnati and Local 12 WKRC not only has a Gal about town, but also has an Ambassador of Goodwill.
Sheila Gray is a dynamite stick full of energy, sheer talent, and personality. Add these facts up, and you have a solid pro who loves her job and her home town.
Currently, Sheila is the Local 12 WKRC Morning Anchor who begins her day in the middle of the night and heads to her studio at WKRC...
