Updated: 3:42 PM On Oct. 14 , the Logan County Tobacco Festival came to a close. The county-wide gathering was a celebration of the tobacco crop, but has the importance of tobacco in Kentucky changed over the years?

Updated: 11:24 PM The flap jacks were flipping high at the Boys and Girls Club on Oct. 11 for the annual "Houchens Industries Civic Club Pancake Fry."

Updated: 7:10 PM If passed on the second reading, the two-percent tax increase at hotels would create between seven and ten-million dollars. This money would go toward getting the Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center off the ground.

Updated: 7:34 PM WKU's Department of Theatre and Dance held a costume sale at Downing University Center. It was a chance to make room for new costumes and raise some money for the department at the same time.

Posted: 11:12 PM A Bowling Green man receives a national award for his work as a code enforcement officer. David Herrman was named the 2007 Code Enforcement Officer of the Year at a conference last week.

Updated: 10:52 PM First Lady Glenna Fletcher is leading the push to encourage Kentuckians to focus attention on Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October.

Updated: 5:59 PM More than 2,000 residents of the Barren River area are living in long term care facilities. On Oct. 9, over 100 of them were able to come together.

Posted: 6:09 PM Team USA continues putting Bowling Green, Ky. on the map by striking gold at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in China. The Kentucky girls basketball team defeated Tunisia 21-to-16 to bring home Olympic gold in its division.

Updated: 10:39 PM The sound of loud applause could be heard Oct. 9 as Bowling Green finally breaks ground on one of its most ambitious projects for downtown.

Updated: 7:07 PM Boy Scouts of America are committed to being responsible, participating citizens and leaders in their communities. On Oct. 8, members of Scout Troop 79 got up early to clean more than 300 tombstones at Bowling Green's Mount Moriah Cemetery.

Updated: 6:10 PM Bowling Green businesswoman Regina Webb receives a prestigious award. The Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce and Martin Automotive Group named Webb the 2007 Athena Award Winner.

Updated: 4:34 PM BG-Green Partnership for a Sustainable Community and the WKU Alive Center hosted the solar tour. The local solar tour showed people how they could use solar energy to trim energy bills, increase energy independence and take steps to address global warming.

Posted: 4:24 PM After a departure from Bowling Green, one train's arriving right on time, at the Russellville Depot. Grass has grown over the long abandoned tracks, but young and old train lovers alike, are just glad to be traveling town to town, the old fashioned way.

Posted: 4:12 PM Visitors to the South Union Shaker Museum found re-enactors in full Shaker costumes shucking corn, weaving blankets and stirring up a supply of apple butter.

Updated: 7:13 PM History comes alive this weekend when a passenger train rolls down the tracks through South-Central Kentucky. Three deluxe heritage cars will take 88 passengers from Bowling Green to Russellville.

Updated: 7:15 PM A new record is set for the largest pumpkin in Kentucky. Two state records fell at the inaugural Atlantic Giant Pumpking Weigh-Off in Pulaski County.

Updated: 6:48 PM Jackson Blackford is one of five children in the entire world to be selected for a research study using umbilical cord stem cells. Jackson was born with "Optic Nerve Hypoplasia," which left him blind.

Updated: 5:32 PM Experts say cardiovascular disease claims the lives of 42 Kentuckians each year. On Sept. 22, many people got their heart pumping and walked to raise money for the cause.

Updated: 6:08 PM Hot temperatures didn't stop people from lacing-up their tennis shoes for the third-annual Epilepsy Walk.

Updated: 9:21 AM Warren East HS 10 Year Reunion

Updated: 8:37 AM The Barren River Area Safe Space is holding its "Freedom from Violence" Live Auction and Dessert Fair on Thursday, August 2nd.

Updated: 6:33 PM This 2007 annual Fancy Farm Picnic is attracting national attention and it's not because of the politics.

Updated: 8:48 PM You can help needy children gear up for the school year by donating supplies.

Updated: 9:33 PM Have you been wondering why Shane Holinde has not been doing the ten o’clock this week?

Updated: 4:12 PM United Way of Southern Kentucky announced details of the U.S. Bank Balloons, Tunes and Barbecue Festival the morning on July 10, 2007.