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..."Before we get too excited about all the low-cost goods and services our generation can summon with an app, we need to understand that even these features of the "sharing economy" are making some people above us very rich while we become a generation that owns virtually nothing."

Paducah, KY - Aug. 31, 2015 - Heart attack treatment at Baptist Health Paducah was recently recognized among the nation's best by the American College of Cardiology for the third year...

PADUCAH, KY (August 31, 2015) - Rose Point Navigation Systems has donated its Rose Point ECS software to the Inland Logistics and Marine Institute at West Kentucky Community & Technical College, college officials announced today...

MURRAY, Ky. -- Women of all ages and in all walks of life are invited to take part in a day of discovery of the leader in them through "Leadership Launch" at the Murray State Paducah Regional Campus. This day of information and inspiration, set for Friday, Sept. 4, is for women who lead in their families, communities, businesses and the public sector. The event runs from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. and will be held at the Crisp Center on the MSU Paducah campus located at 4430 Sunset Avenue.

For registration information, follow the jump.

According to the Department of Defense, Capt. Matthew D. Roland, 27, of Lexington, Kentucky, died of wounds suffered Aug. 26 when the vehicle he was traveling in was attacked near Camp Antonik, Afghanistan. Capt. Roland was assigned to the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Florida.

...At one time, Kentucky's state parks were crown jewels enticing millions of tourists to the state. Shrinking resources have changed those parks from jewels to being described as "sad" and "dilapidated" by the candidates of the two major political parties. Instead of pledging increased support to polish the jewels, Conway and Bevin are willing to foist the parks off to private industry.

Have we learned nothing from privatizing jails?...

In horse and buggy days, a physician could only cover so much territory. Consequently in the early 1900s there were as many as 28 doctors in Hickman County, "from Columbus to Clinton and from Oakton to Springhill."

Dr. Thomas Lenard Lamkin was one of these "horse-and-buggy doctors." His one-room office, located in the Springhill community, had all the necessities: an operating table, a life-sized skeleton, and castor oil in a whiskey bottle.

Dr. Lamkin's office has been relocated several times but now it has a permanent home. Thanks to its most recent owner, Carlean Black, the old doctor's office is now being restored and is part of the Hickman County Museum in Clinton...

Amendment XIX

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

..Today, Lt. Governor Crit Luallen will take part in a commemoration at the Kentucky State Fair of the 95th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution which gave women the right to vote.

Would the women who fought the long battle to get the vote make of universal suffrage in 2015?..

Three plaintiffs joined in a class action suit filed in federal court in Louisville this afternoon. The Plaintiffs claim that they are receiving a cut in benefits because of mismanagement of the retirement fund.

Chris Tobin, author of Kentucky Fried Pension, sent the press release that follows.

Senator Rand Paul got what he wanted from the Republican Executive Committee on Saturday when it voted to pull out of the May presidential primary and hold a March caucus instead.

If reports coming from Frankfort are accurate, what will he owe Senator McConnell for the change?

Archery is growing in popularity regionally and nationally. With Graves County High School student Dustin Johnson's success over the past two years as a state and national champion and recipient of tens of thousands of dollars in scholarships, interest is especially high in western Kentucky. Interested Graves County Middle and High school students as well as sixth graders at five of the district's elementary schools may join the schools' teams and they don't even have to own a bow!

Clinton, KY. August 20, 2015 - Once again the urgency to consider hemp as an alternative crop comes out of the blue. The closing of the Wickliffe paper mill and loss of those very good jobs, the quietly sinking price of row crops and the need for jobs in counties that may be "work ready in progress" but have few new prospects, leave me to wonder why hemp research is dragging on for at least another year.

MURRAY, Ky. -- Dr. Brian Parr has joined the Hutson School of Agriculture at Murray State University in the department of agricultural science as professor and head. Parr, who previously got his professional start in higher education at Murray State, has returned after seven years at Auburn University...

Verso Announces Plans for Major Reductions in Coated Paper and Pulp Production Capacity

Actions at Androscoggin and Wickliffe Mills Will Reduce Production Capacity by 430,000 Tons of Coated Paper and 130,000 Tons of Dried Market Pulp

Just seven months after purchasing the paper mill formerly known as NewPage and formerly-formerly known as Westvaco, Verso Corp is closing the plant down. To read the reasoning for the shut down, read the press release posted on the company website after the jump:

MURRAY, Ky. -- Christian Faculty Network (CFN) is sponsoring a speaker event, "God's Blueprint: Scientific Evidences for a God-Designed Universe," on Monday, Aug. 31, at 7 p.m. in the Curris Center Theater, located on the third floor. The event is open to all students, faculty, staff and members of the surrounding community.

MURRAY, Ky. -- Murray State University's office of regional outreach is announcing its 2015-16 grant funding cycle. Now in its eighth year, the Regional Outreach Grant Program provides funding for new and innovative educational programming for West Kentucky youth and adults alike...

For the first time in anyone's memory, three women are on the ballot in November as running mates to gubernatorial candidates.

That's groundbreaking. No matter who wins the governor's chair, a woman will win the second chair.

Graves County Judge Jesse Perry and activist Lynda Winfrey were named Graves County Democrats of the Year at the Graves County Democratic Breakfast.

Apologies to those I promised that I would post their pictures during 2015 Fancy Farm coverage.

Editor's Note: more events have been added to this week's festivities - Mayor Phyllis Campbell invites visitors to stop by City Hall on S. Jefferson Street (behind the Hickman County Courthouse) on Thursday for refreshments. Hickman County Homemakers will be providing cookies downtown on Wednesday morning.

Hickman County has a history worth knowing about and celebrating. With a dramatic view of the Mississippi River and some of the most fertile hills, valleys, and woods in the upper South, this place was off and running from the beginning...

Heritage Days, a week-long event spearheaded by the Hickman County Museum and Hickman County Historical and Genealogical Society, is a time for Hickman Countians to reflect on their local history and applaud those communities and individuals of Hickman County who helped establish a legacy worth remembering.

It is time for the Kentucky General Assembly to step up and make alcohol sales legal statewide. Nibbling around the edges with ridiculous exceptions like having a golf course with lots of holes or a restaurant that is big, big or old, old is hypocrisy at the top. Wet. Dry. Damp.

Enough. Enough. Enough.

The Graves County Truck Pullers Association hosted its eighth annual truck and tractor pull Saturday night, Aug. 15, at the Mayfield-Graves County Fairgrounds.

On Saturday, the Kentucky GOP will decide whether to abandon the presidential primary this year to let a favorite son run for two offices simultaneously.

No matter what happens on Saturday, a reconsideration of how Kentucky chooses its presidential candidate is in order.