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NICHOLASVILLE — Sharon Cook is either a hero or a villain. She is either due your thanks for doing everything in her power to protect children from obscenity or she is due your disdain for wantonly taking away the constitutional rights of the people of Jessamine County.
When people in Lexington talk about great high school marching bands, the names Lafayette and Paul Laurence Dunbar always come up. But as with many things in Kentucky, there is a lot of greatness beyond the big cities, out in the small towns and rural counties that so often define this state’s character.
Finally, Gen. Casimir Pulaski became an American citizen on Friday, 230 years after the Polish nobleman died fighting for the as yet-unborn United States.
Jack Parrish, an actor and director from Richmond, Va., who spent the last few years of his life enriching the Central Kentucky theater scene, died Thursday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 56.
A calendar listing on Page 25 of Friday's Weekender and online at calendar.kentucky.com gave incorrect times for the Broadway Live production of The Wizard of Oz at the Lexington Opera House. Shows are at 1 and 7 p.m. Nov. 7 and 8. Tickets, $55-$75, are available by calling (859) 233-3535 or via www.ticketmaster.com.