http://www.kentucky.com/601/index.xml News, sports, and entertainment from Kentucky.com en-us Copyright 2008 Kentucky.com Related Content 60 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:49:47 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's Workbench webmaster@kentucky.com http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/613198.html http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/613198.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:36 EST try{f_cbload("c8521000f4g9h5g1d1b5f4a8i2h1","http:");}catch(v_e){;}
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December
12/2/2008 North Laurel at Clark Co.
12/4/2008 Ballard at Scott Co.
12/11/2008 Lexington Catholic at LCA
12/12/2008 North Laurel at South Laurel
12/12/2008 Montgomery Co. at Clark Co.
12/16/2008 Clay Co at Knox Central
January
01/02/2009 - 01/03/2009 LCA Classic
01/03/2009 South Laurel at North Laurel - Girls
01/05/2009 Whitley Co. at Williamsburg
01/06/2009 Henry Clay at Scott Co.
01/06/2009 Corbin at Bell Co.
01/09/2009 Mayson at Scott Co.
01/13/2009 Madison Central at South Laurel
01/15/2009 Lexington Christian at Lexington Catholic
01/16/2009 Clay Co. at North Laurel - Boys and Girls
01/22/2009 - 01/25/2009 Laurel County HoopFest
01/29/2009 Tates Creek at Madison Central
01/27/2009 Corbin at South Laurel
01/29/2009 Whitley at Bell *Tri County
01/30/2009 Corbin at South Laurel - Girls
February
02/02/2009 North Laurel at South Laurel - Girls
02/03/2009 Pulaski Co. at North Laurel
02/06/2009 Mayson Co. at Clark Co.
02/10/2009 Lexington Catholic at Madison Central
02/10/2009 Clay Co. at Clark Co.
02/12/2009 Pulaski Co. at Southwestern
02/13/2009 South Laurel at North Laurel
02/14/2009 Corbin at Lynn Camp
02/17/2009 Campbell Co. at Scott Co.
02/20/2009 Louisville Christian at LCA
02/20/2009 Wayne Co. at Lexington Catholic]]> http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/611986.html http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/611986.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:49 EST try{f_cbload("c8521000h8h8j9j3b0h2e8f0g3d3","http:");}catch(v_e){;}
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Lexington's 2008 Christmas Parade will begin at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at Main Street and Midland Avenue.

The parade will continue down Main Street to North Limestone, ending at Barr Street.

After the parade, you can join Santa Claus and Mayor Jim Newberry at the Robert S. Stephens Courthouse Plaza, where they will throw a switch, turning on thousands of lights for the opening of the holiday Celebration of Lights. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/607011.html http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/607011.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:49 EST
We'll report from Hamburg Pavilion, Fayette Mall, Toys R Us, and even the first Black Friday for the new Richmond Centre.

If you have a Twitter account, you can get instant updates sent to your cell phone all morning, so you'll know the latest on parking, traffic, lines, and sell-outs at some of your favorite stores. You can also send out updates from your phone for other holiday shoppers following the conversation.

To join in, register for a free account at Twitter.com, then search for and follow the “heraldleader” feed. Then just wait for our Twitter posts to show up on your cell phone as text messages. Want to contribute? Send a direct message to heraldleader from your cell phone, and it'll be automatically distributed to everyone else following our feed.

If you're staying home, you can follow the Twitter updates on Kentucky.com. You can also fill out a form and tell us about your Black Friday shopping experiences. If you leave your number, a reporter might call you and include your tale in a story for Saturday's paper.]]> http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/606442.html http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/606442.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:16 EST
The Herald-Leader is looking for people to serve as correspondents for Scott, Bourbon, Clark, Madison and Franklin counties in 2009.

Candidates should have some writing or blogging experience; be involved in or knowledgeable about various community organizations such as the YMCA, nonprofit groups, arts groups and school PTAs; and be willing to spend about five hours a week gathering information and news about their county. Web experience (MySpace, Facebook, etc.) and basic knowledge of how to use a digital camera or audio/video equipment is a plus.

Each correspondent would be responsible for blogging about events in and news from their counties, posting photos and/or video from events in their county, and urging members of their community to do the same.

If you are interested, email the following to Communities Editor Risa Richardson at rrichardson@herald-leader.com by Dec. 24:]]> http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/603061.html http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/603061.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:17 EST
Michael Gobb, the airport's executive director, spent tens of thousands of dollars on gifts, entertainment and other purchases from the end of 2005 through March 2008, according to credit card and other records provided to the Herald-Leader by the airport.

Bernard Lovely, chairman of the airport's board of directors, said purchases Gobb made, such as $1,200 at Kansas City Steak Co.; $287 at Harbor Sweets, a Massachusetts candy company; and $750 at Penzeys, a gourmet-spice business, were used for gifts.

Included in Gobb's expenditures for tickets to entertainment events were $1,700 for performances in Vienna and London. Those tickets were used by airport clients, Lovely said. The airport also entertained guests at the Singletary Center and at Lexington Legends games.

In March, Gobb made a $650 contribution to the Washington National Opera. The airport "was planning to host an event with the Washington National Opera to promote its non-stop air service to Washington, D.C.," according to Lovely.]]> http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/602786.html http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/602786.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:10 EST
Earlier this month, a group appointed to review travel and expense policies for the Dallas/Fort Worth airport recommended wide-ranging changes, including limiting hotel costs for domestic travel, using the federal per diem rate for meals and beverages, and eliminating car allowances and first-class travel.

The audit followed a KTVT television report that questioned whether airport officials were traveling lavishly in violation of airport policies. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/602771.html http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/602771.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:01 EST
Lexington Mayor Jim Newberry and airport board officers and members were asked to comment on the expenses of Michael Gobb, executive director of Blue Grass Airport.



"They do spend a lot of money on marketing. It's paid off."

J. Robert Owens, treasurer president of Risk Placement Services of Lexington ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/602772.html http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/602772.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:11 EST


The Herald-Leader made requests for the records of Michael Gobb, Blue Grass Airport's executive director. Using credit-card and travel-agency statements and other documents released by the airport, specific trip and retail expenditures were calculated. The documents reflected bills from January 2006 through March 2008. Numbers in the articles were rounded.

Numbers from other airports are not always exactly comparable to Blue Grass figures because of different budgetary cycles or categories. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/602773.html http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/602773.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:10 EST
Lexington's Blue Grass Airport is well represented in Hawaii at the American Association of Airport Executives Aviation Issues Conference each year.

This year, executive director Michael Gobb and four other airport officials attended the conference, which was Jan. 6 to 10. The cost to the airport was more than $26,000.

Bernard Lovely, chairman of the airport board, said the conference is an important one that is attended by members of Congress who deal with air travel issues and by others in the industry.

Lovely, Gobb, operations director John Coon, marketing and community relations director Brian Ellestad and vice chairman of the board James Boyd attended the conference. The airport paid for 10 nights in a hotel for Coon; eight nights each for Gobb and Ellestad; six for Boyd; and five for Lovely, according to Blue Grass Airport expense reports. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/602768.html http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/602768.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:10 EST
Michael Gobb came to Blue Grass Airport 10 years ago from Bradley International Airport in Hartford, Conn., where he oversaw a bigger airport and a bigger budget.

He had been on the job at Bradley for five months when he decided to accept the Lexington position, with a starting salary of just over $92,000, more than what he was making at the much larger Bradley.

"This opportunity came along and was just too good to pass up," Gobb, then 36, told the Hartford Courant.

At the time, Lexington was divided about whether to add a 9,000-foot runway at the airport. Gobb was praised for his skill in communicating with various groups about airport expansion. Eventually, the airport board decided to extend the general aviation runway instead. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/602769.html http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/602769.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:58 EST
Michael Gobb, executive director

Salary: $219,450.

Car: Unrestricted use of a 2009 Ford Expedition. Airport pays for gas, insurance and maintenance.

Communications: Two cell phones with Internet data packages, $475 a month; $45 a month for home Internet service. The two services cost more than $6,000 a year. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/600902.html http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/600902.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:53 EST try{f_cbload("c8521000e2j4g8i3f7d3d5j7b0i0","http:");}catch(v_e){;}
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If you've ever wondered about how Kentucky's great outdoors stacks up against the world, the answer now is available in words and pictures.

Wildlands Philanthropy: The Great American Tradition is a just-off-the-presses coffee-table book featuring 40 places around the globe that are protected because people loved them enough to give money to make sure they were never developed.

Three of the 40 are in Kentucky.

They are Flora-cliff, a 278-acre nature preserve in southeast Fayette County; Blanton Forest, a 3,000-acre expanse of old-growth woods in Harlan County, and Bernheim Forest, a research forest that sprawls over 14,000 acres of knobby hills south of Louisville. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/592903.html http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/592903.html Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:48 EST
In the early 1990s, Marc Evans was looking at aerial photos of Eastern Kentucky when he saw something that made him think his eyes were playing tricks.

There, on the side of Pine Mountain in Harlan County, was what appeared to be more than 2,000 acres of really big trees.

Evans, then acting director of the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission, had found an expanse of old-growth forest that somehow had been missed by chain saws and scientists. Many of the hemlocks, oaks, beeches, tulip poplars, maples, black gums and birches are hundreds of years old, and they form the largest old-growth woods left in what was once a wilderness.

Evans persuaded the heirs of Grover Blanton to sell the land. Then, with Hugh Archer, he formed the Kentucky Natural Lands Trust to pay for it. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/592901.html http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/592901.html Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:48 EST
Kentucky was good to Isaac Wolfe Bernheim, and he returned the favor.

Bernheim was born in Germany in 1848 and came to this country 18 years later, with $4 in his pocket.

A promised job had vanished in a post-Civil War recession, so young Isaac tried being a traveling peddler. The low point of that endeavor was when he saved his money to buy a horse, and the horse died.

Bernheim and his brother Bernhard eventually made it to Paducah, then Louisville. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/592905.html http://www.kentucky.com/601/story/592905.html Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:48 EST
Mary Eugenia Wharton lived 77 of her 79 years in a house on Fayette Park near downtown Lexington, but her life's love was wilder places.

She taught generations of students at Georgetown College, where she was chairwoman of the biology department from 1947 to 1974. She championed a number of environmental causes, including the successful effort to prevent a dam from flooding the Red River Gorge. And she left a legacy of several books, including, with Roger Barbour, A Guide to Wildflowers and Ferns of Kentucky .

But her most lasting legacy is a little bit of nature. Starting in 1958, she began putting part of her teaching salary toward buying land in and around Elk Lick Creek in southern Fayette County.

By the time of her death on Thanksgiving Day 1991, she had amassed 278 acres. ]]>