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Tom Eblen: Stone sculptor has shown little of her work here until now

Stalwart is a horse sculpture by Julie Warren Conn in Colorado marble.

Julie Warren Conn has work is in places ranging from the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., to the Holiday Inn headquarters in Stamford, Conn. A collection of Conn's sculptures, titled Stories in Stone, will be featured during Gallery Hop, 5 ... 15 minutes ago

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DAILY BUSINESS REPORT

Tom Eblen: Equus Run Vineyards marks 15 years, looks toward expansion

Cynthia Bohn lived all over the country, and in England and the Netherlands, during her 30-year career as an IBM computer engineer and executive. Collecting wine became her hobby.
CLARK COUNTY

Tom Eblen: Winchester man caught up in FBI 'Anonymous' Internet probe

Deric Lostutter, a Winchester 26-year-old who goes by KYAnonymous online and records hip-hop music under the name Shadow, finds himself in the middle of a federal investigation — and center stage in the national debate about 'hacktivists,' web privacy and online vigilantism.
NEIGHBORS

Tom Eblen: Civic and business leader John Bradford featured in Georgetown exhibit

Words in a Changing World: From Bradford to Bloggers, opened the Georgetown museum's first exhibit, a display of original and facsimile copies of the Kentucky Gazette, which Bradford published off and on from 1787 until his death in 1830.
BUSINESS

Tom Eblen: Family-owned Sonny's Cleaners sold to another family

Some of Tommy Hicks' earliest memories are of watching the construction of his late father Sonny's dry cleaning shop in Chevy Chase Shopping Center off South Ashland Avenue in 1964.
NEIGHBORS

Tom Eblen: Larkspur Press founder honored for 40 years of service

More than 130 writers, artists, friends and fans gathered at the University of Kentucky's Margaret I. King Library to honor Gray Zeitz for the 40th anniversary of his Larkspur Press printing company.
DAILY BUSINESS REPORT

Tom Eblen: Ky.'s industrial history is visible at Lower Howard's Creek

WINCHESTER — A trip to the Lower Howard's Creek Nature and Heritage Preserve is more than a hike in the woods; it is a journey back into Kentucky business history. This area is now a remote corner of the rural Bluegrass on Athens Boonesboro Road behind Hall's on the River restaurant. But ...
NEIGHBORS

Tom Eblen: Poet Nikky Finney offers farewell gifts to Carnegie Center

Shortly after Nikky Finney joined the University of Kentucky's English faculty in 1993, she discovered the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Gratz Park. She has been a near-constant presence there ever since, and as she prepares to move to South Carolina, her last two public appearances...
BUSINESS

Tom Eblen: Alltech's symposium offers look at fascinating innovations

The symposium looks at the future of food and agribusiness from the perspective of natural systems and processes, which has always been Alltech's approach.
BOOKS

Holler Poets celebrates five-year anniversary May 29

As the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War approached in March 2008, Eric Scott Sutherland was frustrated and angry. So he fought back the best way he knew how: with poetry.
NEIGHBORS

Tom Eblen: Metal detectorist seeks legitimacy more than treasure

Scott Clark, an Internet business consultant in Lexington, has been an avid metal detectorist since 1985. And he has become quite skilled at it — and increasingly passionate about improving the ethics and image of his hobby.