Community and Regional News

Courage calls to courage everywhere theme of Heritage Days

Jun 27, 2019 at 03:06 pm by admin

Hickman County will celebrate Heritage Days from Tuesday September 3 to Saturday September 7th. The county, state, nation and world of 1919 will be the focus this year. A loos.... Read More

Purchase Poet, Dorothy Nell Harper, dies at 102

Jun 18, 2019 at 03:10 pm by admin

Dorothy Nell Harper passed from this world to the next at her home on Harper Road yesterday. In her 102 years of life, she touched many of us with her wit, her charm and her k.... Read More

Murray State University Bass Anglers ranked second in country ahead of national championship appearance

May 14, 2019 at 10:50 am by admin

MURRAY, Ky. -- The Murray State University Bass Anglers fishing team is making waves in the middle of one of its strongest seasons. The team is ranked second in the entire cou.... Read More

When the Carnival Comes to Town

May 02, 2019 at 02:58 pm by admin

Pope's Concessions rolled into Clinton on Thursday April 25th for the Spring Chicken Festival on the court square. The colorful rides, concession stands and supporting vans an.... Read More

Remembering Kane School - black children, now adults, recall segregated education

Apr 25, 2019 at 03:15 pm by admin

Kane School was remembered as part of Black History Month on Saturday February 16th at a program at the Historical & Genealogical Society on North Washington Street in Cli.... Read More

Court of Appeals Judge Nickell running for Kentucky Supreme Court

Apr 25, 2019 at 02:22 pm by admin

Kentucky Court of Appeals Judge Shea Nickell is running for the seat vacated by First District Supreme Court Justice Bill Cunningham. Judicial races in Kentucky are nonpartisa.... Read More

Governor requests Presidential Disaster Declaration

Apr 09, 2019 at 11:28 am by admin

FRANKFORT, Ky. (April 9, 2019) - Gov. Matt Bevin last week sent a letter to President Donald Trump, requesting a Presidential Disaster Declaration for 58 Kentucky counties tha.... Read More

Award-winning Mystery-Romance Novelist to Visit WKCTC April 10

Apr 04, 2019 at 09:39 am by admin

PADUCAH, KY (03/30/2019) Author Michelle Cox will share about her award-winning mystery, romance book A Girl Like You: A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel, at West Kentucky.... Read More

St. Louis Federal Reserve Report 5 Years of Depression for Region Farmers

Mar 26, 2019 at 03:02 pm by admin

This quarter's survey assessed the economic and financial conditions in the District's agricultural industry from the perspective of agricultural bankers. For the 20th (5 year.... Read More

Are Extreme Weather and Flooding Events Signs of Climate Change Tipping Point in Far Western Kentucky?

Mar 26, 2019 at 02:52 pm by admin

Next to and along the roaring waters of the Mississippi River that border the counties of Ballard, Carlisle, Hickman and Fulton Kentucky are new signs of extreme changes in lo.... Read More

Cadiz resident, Michael Greene, receives Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship

Jan 09, 2019 at 01:28 pm by admin

MURRAY, Ky. -- Murray State University is pleased to announce that Michael Greene of Cadiz has been selected to receive the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Schola.... Read More

Parnassus Books - a Southern Heaven for Book People

Oct 18, 2018 at 03:06 pm by admin

For book people in the mid-South, heaven is a place called Parnassus Books. Located in a strip mall in Nashville, the store is full of new releases, classics and staff picks..... Read More

Town and Gown and Chamber host political forum

Oct 10, 2018 at 03:18 pm by admin

MURRAY, Ky. -- Town & Gown at Murray State University is partnering with the Murray-Calloway County Chamber of Commerce to host a political forum Oct. 16 at 6 p.m. in Love.... Read More

Purchase lags behind rest of state

Sep 13, 2018 at 11:23 am by admin

Chamber report: Purchase Economy lags That there are more new business and industry announcements coming out of Northern and Central Kentucky than out of eastern and western e.... Read More

Symsonia Elementary School sorts students, teachers, staff into 'houses'

Sep 11, 2018 at 02:24 pm by admin

"It's our 'house' reveal day at Symsonia Elementary School," said Principal Alison Gregory. "We're sorting our kids into five different houses that represent five different ch.... Read More