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- Ky. Olympic Athletes Home From World Games
Kentucky's Special Olympic athletes returned home on Oct. 13, but not without a big greeting first. The fifteen athletes and eight coaches returned to Louisville from the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Shanghai, China.
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- Tobacco's Role in Logan County Changes Over the Years
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?
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- Pancake Fry Helps Out Boys and Girls Club
The flap jacks were flipping high at the Boys and Girls Club on Oct. 11 for the annual "Houchens Industries Civic Club Pancake Fry."
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- Hotel Tax May Help SkyPAC Get Off the Ground
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.
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- WKU Theatre Dept. Makes Room for New Costumes
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.
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- Bowling Green Man Receives National Award
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.
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- Team USA Achieves Olympic Gold
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.
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- Wear Pink to Work Day
First Lady Glenna Fletcher is leading the push to encourage Kentuckians to focus attention on Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October.
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- Nursing Home Conference Helps Better Assist Residents
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.
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- Circus Square Breaks Ground in Downtown Bowling Green
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.
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- Boy Scouts Clean Up the Past
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.
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- Bowling Green Businesswoman Named Athena Award Winner
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.
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- Local Solar Tour Addresses Energy Issues
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.
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- Train Rides Through Bowling Green For First Time in Decades
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.
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- Farm Day Gives Visitors Look at Shaker Life
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.
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- Passenger Train Rolls Through South-Central Ky. This Weekend
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.
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- 1,123 Pound "PumpKing"
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.
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- Concert Benefits Blind Child
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.
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- Heart Walk Helps Raise Money
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.
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- A Walk Around Kentucky
Hot temperatures didn't stop people from lacing-up their tennis shoes for the third-annual Epilepsy Walk.
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- Warren East HS 10 Year Reunion
Warren East HS 10 Year Reunion - BRASS "Freedom from Violence" Auction & Dessert Fair
The Barren River Area Safe Space is holding its "Freedom from Violence" Live Auction and Dessert Fair on Thursday, August 2nd. - Annual Picnic Gaining National Attention
This 2007 annual Fancy Farm Picnic is attracting national attention and it's not because of the politics.
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- Help Kids Gear Up For School
You can help needy children gear up for the school year by donating supplies. - Oklahoma Comes to the Capitol
Have you been wondering why Shane Holinde has not been doing the ten o’clock this week? - Balloons, Tunes and Barbecue
United Way of Southern Kentucky announced details of the U.S. Bank Balloons, Tunes and Barbecue Festival the morning on July 10, 2007. - Alex's Lemonade Stand Comes to Town on 7-7-07
Lots of lemonade was prepared on the night of July 6, 2007, as nearly 200 kids geared up for Alex's Lemonade Stand. - BG City Commission Passes Budget
Bowling Green's City Commission passed its 2007-2008 budget at a special meeting on June 28. - BG Kids Spread Holday Cheer During Summer Vacation
Summertime is a great time for families to join the effort to share shoe boxes gifts of hope with millions of suffering children. - BG Chamber Orchestra Names Orpheus and Conductor’s Award Recipients
The Bowling Green Chamber Orchestra Board of Directors has awarded its annual Orpheus Award to the Carolyn and Lowell Guthrie Family. - Kelly Autism Program hosts Financial Protection for our Children with Special Needs
The Kelly Autism Program is hosting a conference on May 12, 2007. - PSA: David Ives and The Etcetera Theatre Company come to Bowling Green
David Ives strikes again! The Etcetera Theatre Company is performing his new collection of six quirky one-acts, Time Flies and other short plays, at the Phoenix Theatre on Friday, April 27th and Saturday, April 28th. Performances start at 7 p.m. on Friday, and 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday. - PSA: Community Education Offers Classes for all
Community Education is offering several new classes such as classes on crafts, sign language, how to start a personal web site, floral design and your investments. - PSA: Taking the Initiative: Global Aids & Poverty
This past February over half a million teens nationwide went without food for 30 hours to raise awareness and funding for children and families in poverty around the world. - PSA: BG Skate Park Grand Opening on April 14, 2007
The Bowling Green Skate Park at Roland Bland Park will celebrate its Grand Opening April 14, 2007. The ribbon cutting will take place at 10 a.m. followed by open skating for the rest of the day. Designer Wally Hollyday will be in attendance. - PSA: WKU Sigma Chi Fraternity Hosts Charity Boxing Event
Sigma Chi Fraternity at Western Kentucky University will be holding a philanthropic event/boxing tournament to help raise money for the Huntsman Cancer Institute. - PSA: Community Education of Bowling Green Starts Spring Term
Community Education of Bowling Green will be starting their Spring Term March 19, 2007. Watch for new programs! - PSA: BG Christian Academy ACSI State Spelling Bee
Bowling Green Christian Academy congratulates ACSI State spelling bee winners. - PSA: The Eloise B. Houchens Center Celebrates Black History Month
The Eloise B. Houchens Center is hosting a celebration of Black History Month with exhibits by 3 local artists. - PSA: Southern Kentucky Soccer 2007 Spring Youth Soccer Registration
Southern Kentucky Soccer registration for the 2007 spring season is now open and conducting registration for area youth. - PSA: Let BGCO Take You Around the World
The Bowling Green Chamber Orchestra will take you on a musical world tour 7:30 p.m. January 22 at Living Hope Baptist Church. - PSA: The Public Theatre of Kentucky Proudly Presents Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. - PSA: Barren River Asset Building Coalition’s Free Tax Preparation Services
Tired of tax preparer’s fees cutting into your refund every year? - PSA: Spell-a-Bration 2007
Community Education is currently taking registrations for its 2nd Annual Adult Spelling Bee: Spell-a-Bration 2007.
