By Terry Boehmker NKyTribune sports reporter Conner High School students changed the theme for Friday’s homecoming parade and football game to pay tribute to a beloved teacher and coach who passed away earlier this month. Shawn Garnett lost his battle with pancreatic cancer on Sept. 6. During his teaching career at Conner, he was head…
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s recently installed health commissioner is a 30-year-old doctor, two years short of being a surgeon, a goal he still plans to achieve. But right now he’s in charge of public health in a state with huge health issues, and local health departments with big financial issues. Dr. Jeffrey…
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today If you thought the automotive industry was Kentucky’s biggest exporter, think again. It’s the aerospace and defense industry. Stewart Ditto, executive director of the Kentucky Aerospace Industry Consortium, told the General Assembly’s Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Protection Committee the industry has over 600 companies, employs 17,000 and exported $11.7…
The City of Covington is giving seven small businesses help with first-year rent and façade improvements. The incentives – representing the first round of funding through the City’s expanded and upgraded Small Business Program – were approved Tuesday night by the Covington City Commission on a series of 5-0 votes. The incentives will benefit an…
NKyTribune staff Kentucky agencies are offering relief to those fleeing areas in the path of Hurricane Florence or truck drivers headed to affected areas to deliver supplies. Kentucky State Resort Parks offering discounted rate for East Coast residents seeking shelter Kentucky State Resort Parks are offering a discounted rate of $49.95/night on lodge rooms to…
Richard Taylor, a professor of English and Kenan Visiting Writer at Transylvania University, explores the natural history, early inhabitants, and commerce along an eight-mile stretch of the main stem of the Bluegrass Region’s most esteemed waterway in his new book Elkhorn: Evolution of a Kentucky Landscape, published by University Press of Kentucky. Focusing on the…
Boater Brandon Houston of Burlington, Kentucky, won the T-H Marine FLW Bass Fishing League (BFL) Buckeye Division tournament on Indian Lake Sunday with a two-day cumulative catch of 10 bass weighing 19 pounds, 2 ounces. Houston took home $4,944 for his win. “I started out fishing pads on Saturday, but I didn’t have a fish…
The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) awarded two new retail concession packages to Paradies Lagardère, which will bring 16 new shops for travelers. The new concepts will give travelers a sense of place and celebrate what the region has to offer. Storefront renovations are scheduled to begin Oct. 1 with opening dates ranging from 2nd…
According to statisticbrain.com, 9.6 percent of Americans (26 million people) have played 18 holes of golf at least once in the past 12 months. A lot of business is conducted on a golf course, but the industry itself is enormous. According to a 2015 Forbes magazine article, it is estimated to be a nearly $70…
Staff report Duke Energy deployed over 1,000 employees and contract workers from Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana to help with restoration efforts from Hurricane Florence. The team left yesterday morning from the Florence rest area with 30-40 bucket trucks headed for Raleigh. They are expected to arrive Thursday. From there they will be dispatched to the…
Fans of urban living, architecture and interior design are invited to the September 30 Beyond the Curb Urban Living Tour. To celebrate the 5-year anniversary of the event’s presenting organization, the Catalytic Fund, the tour has been expanded to showcase cool and interesting properties in all five of NKY’s urban river cities. The one-day, self-guided…
Staff report The NKY Workforce Investment Board and Brighton Center, Inc. are holding a Ribbon Cutting / Open House at the new Kentucky Career Center site in Grant County on today from 3-6 p.m., with the formal program scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. The Kentucky Career Center officially opened their Williamstown location, in Midway Plaza,…
By Mark Hansel NKyTribune managing editor Former Rabbit Hash mayor and write-in presidential candidate Lucy Lou has died. The 12-year-old border collie died Monday from kidney failure attributed to her age, according to the Rabbit Hash Historical Society. Lucy Lou lived her whole life in Rabbit Hash and was a familiar face in the community,…
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today The 2019 General Assembly doesn’t convene until January, but lawmakers have already prepared more than 30 pieces of legislation for consideration. The topics range from gun safety to sports wagering and from utility rates to tax exemptions. Here is a look at some of them: – Sen. Gerald Neal, D-Louisville,…
Gov. Matt Bevin announced that Nucor Corp. plans a $650 million, 70-job expansion at its mill near Ghent, Nucor Steel Gallatin, and thanked the company for its ongoing commitment to the Commonwealth. “Nucor is doing incredible things at its Kentucky steel mill. We are excited that, after a substantial investment in 2017, the company has…
On the heels of the new Kentucky Bourbon Trail Welcome Center opening in Louisville, Gov. Matt Bevin praised Kentucky’s signature Bourbon industry and declared September as “Bourbon Heritage Month” in the Commonwealth. “The roots of Kentucky’s Bourbon industry run deep, and we are pleased to recognize the contributions of this economic engine during the month…
The many beautiful, free-flowing streams of Central Kentucky spawned more than bountiful populations of black bass. They encouraged generations of 19th-century anglers turned inventors to build and perfect fishing reels that would spark the popularity of sport angling in America. The first of the Kentucky reel makers was George W. Snyder (1780–1841) a watchmaker in…
By Terry Boehmker NKyTribune sports reporter Danielle Wells, an assistant on the Holmes girls basketball coaching staff last season, has been put in charge of the highly successful Bulldogs program. Wells was hired to replace Greg Ash, who resigned as Holmes head coach after just one season. His team was 9th Region runner-up and finished…
Arthur (Art) L. Schmidt, a Northern Kentucky legend for his service to the legislature and the community, died Sunday. He was 91. Schmidt was born May 1, 1927, in Cold Spring to Joseph and Elizabeth Schmidt who preceded him in death. He served 18 years in the Kentucky House of Representatives, representing the 69th District,…
Kentucky Health News As a $3 million Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky grant program that focuses on children’s health moves into its fifth and final year, the foundation says it will conduct the final evaluations of the seven grantee programs at the end of this year and then share the results with other communities. The…
NKyTribune staff Kenton Circuit Judge Patricia Summe this week followed the recommendation of the jury and sentenced Daniel Greis to 20 years in prison. Greis was found guilty of five counts of murder June 29, in a crash that killed a family in October in southern Kenton County. Greis, 58, had a blood alcohol content…
Pedestrians who walk under the Caroline Avenue underpass in Latonia have a choice: Step out into the street for a quick detour, or tip-toe through puddles of gooey, dark greenish-colored mud. The stuff that is seeping out from seams in the retaining wall and covering the sidewalk on the southwest side of the underpass is…
