With streams and rivers beginning to clear, lake levels falling to near-normal levels, and water temperatures in the 60s, fishing conditions are improving rapidly. Now is the time to go fishing. Here’s some gear to make your fishing trips more enjoyable and productive: Tyepro This handy fishing tool, produced in two models by Topnotch Innovations,…
By Steve Flairty NKyTribune columnist I’ve always liked to sell things, even at an early age. I helped Mom sell strawberries picked from our patch on our three-and-a half acre farm in Claryville. I tried selling greeting cards, though with little success. My brother, Mike, and I sold the brown leaves snatched off the bottom…
By Lee McClellan Special to NKyTribune FRANKFORT, Ky. – Elkhorn Creek in central Kentucky, the city of Elkton in Todd County and Elkhorn City in Pike County are modern day reminders of the elk that inhabited Kentucky when the pioneers arrived. The elk disappeared from the state in the decades after the Civil War. In…
Governor Steve Beshear, Toyota and United Way today announced the expansion of innovative early childhood academies to 36 more schools across the state. The initiative is funded by Kentucky’s Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge federal grant and Toyota’s manufacturing operations in Kentucky. The United Way Born Learning Academies meet a critical need in…
A new National Park Service report shows that 1.82 million visitors to Kentucky’s four national parks spent $114.7 million in the state in 2014. That spending resulted in 1,816 jobs and had a cumulative benefit to the state economy of $146 million. “This new report shows that national park tourism is a significant driver in…
By Brenna R. Kelly Special to NKyTribune As her teacher placed alternating large and small plastic stepping stones across the floor of her preschool classroom, student Khloe Dempsey called out “Ok, we’re doing a pattern.” “We’re all working together to ask, ‘How do we get this working so that we are all sharing information and…
Belterra Park in Cincinnati, Ohio opened for training on Tuesday for what will be a 93-day meet live racing, beginning May 1 and running through Oct. 11. Similar to last season, live racing will take place primarily on a Thursday through Sunday, with the exception of two holiday weeks. Post time is 1:45 p.m. every…
Yippee! The Devou Park trails are open again. After a long winter’s nap, the trails reopened earlier this month, allowing runners and bicyclists to get back to nature. Well, most of the time. The trails remain responsive to the variances of weather, so Sunday was not a good day. Rain and people biking and running…
This column on bullying in schools will run periodically on the NKyTribune. By Melissa Martin Special to NKyTribune Is empathy and emotional regulation the answer to bullying? Consider the story of Cinderella. Step into her scuffed shoes as a mistreated and bullied stepdaughter and describe how it might feel to be rejected. Put your foot…
By Kevin Kelly Special to NKyTribune FRANKFORT, Ky. – The wait is almost over for turkey hunters in Kentucky. A calendar shift pushed the state’s 23-day general spring wild turkey season back this year to the third weekend in April. It opens Saturday, April 18, and runs through May 10. Last spring, hunters in Kentucky…
By Mark Hansel NKyTribune contributor The family of Samantha Ramsey has filed a civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit, naming Boone County, Sheriff Michael Helmig and Sheriff’s Deputy Tyler Brockman as defendants. Ramsey was shot and killed by Brockman as the deputy was attempting to stop the vehicle she was driving while leaving a field…
Are you ready to see a good show and help a charity in the process? The Village Players of the Fort Thomas Woman’s Club have just the ticket for you. The Village Players of the Fort Thomas Woman’s Club presents Blood Relations, written by Sharon Pollock, directed by Jeff Brown, and produced by Wayne Kirsch….
Gateway Community and Technical College and the City of Covington announced today the intent to form a unique partnership that will create a new site for the college’s transportation program and the city’s fleet maintenance operations. The college has agreed to purchase the former Robke Auto Dealer property at 1051 Dudley Road, Fort Wright. In…
Edward Jones, Your Community Bank and River Road Asset Management have been ranked the 2015 Best Places to Work in Kentucky by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and the Kentucky Society for Human Resource Management. During the 11th annual Best Places to Work in Kentucky awards ceremony in Frankfort, presented by Kentucky Career Center and…
If you were up early and out and about Saturday morning in Covington, Newport, or downtown, you probably ran into a traffic jam. No, not the kind that regularly afflicts the highways and byways in the area. Instead, I am talking about the one on the sidewalks, as hundreds of runners looped around the cities,…
Contractors began marking detour routes today for the seven-month closure and painting of the Carl D. Perkins Memorial Bridge at South Portsmouth. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet project, a complicated job requiring specialized equipment and 12,000 gallons of industrial-grade paint, is focused on preserving the bridge for the thousands of travelers who use it daily to…
By Steve Flairty NKyTribune columnist Steve Flairty grew up feeling good about Kentucky. He recalls childhood day trips (and sometimes overnight ones) orchestrated by his father, with the take-off points in Campbell County. The people and places he encountered then help define his passion about the state. After teaching 28 years, Steve spends much of…
Staff report April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and law enforcement agencies in Kentucky and around the country are stepping up efforts to encourage drivers to keep their eyes on the road, their hands on the wheel and their minds on what they’re doing. * * * * * * * * * *…
By Lee McClellan Special to KyForward (This is the sixth installment of the “Spring Fishing Fever” series of fishing articles. Produced by the Kentucky Afield Outdoors staff, this series details productive fishing opportunities across Kentucky. It will continue until early summer). FRANKFORT – Many of us who remember the March 1997 floods in Kentucky recently…
In an examination of the causes of worker fatalities in Kentucky, the Labor Cabinet found that heart attack was the No. 1 cause of death on the job. In the three years 2012-14, 87 Kentuckians suffered fatal heart attacks while on the job. In that same time period, there were eight other deaths from natural…
Due to calendar shift, Kentucky’s spring wild turkey season opens and closes as late as it can be. By regulation, the season starts on the Saturday closest to April 15 and runs for 23 days. This year’s season starts on April 18 and will continue through May 10, 2015. “I know we’ll get some feedback…
The stereotype has your average runner slipping on a pair of earbuds before heading out for a run, ready to crank up the perfect playlist of inspirational running songs. But, oh, if it were that simple. Some runners prefer the sounds of silence. They disdain streaming music as an intrusion to the peaceful allure of…
