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"Your Voice" is a blog on amnews.com where Roger Trent, director of the Boyle County Health Department, will answer questions and post the latest developments as officials monitor the spread of swine flu in Kentucky and around the globe. "Your Voice"on amnews.com also provides general precautions to guard against the H1N1 flu and related information. The blog, which allows readers to post comments, can be found in the pulldown menu under Blogs on the homepage. Also on amnews.

Maria Montgomery's supporters in her quest to win the title of Miss USA have a chance to vote on pictures of Montgomery in which she looks like a 1940s glamour girl. To view them and vote, go to www.missusa.com , then click on photos. Anyone voting has to create an account, but it is a simple process. Montgomery's supporters also can vote for her in the area of "Best hair. " See Maria's blog posts leading up to the pageant on the amnews website. Under the pull-down menus of "blogs," Montgomery's blog is Pageant Preview.

Maria Montgomery, a Boyle County native who is Miss Kentucky in the Miss USA pageant in April, has been super busy preparing for the big event in Las Vegas. Montgomery is now blogging about events leading up to the pageant for amnews.com. Her blog is called Pageant Preview. See her posts and photos as she is "On the Way to Miss USA" by going here.

It wasn't a surprise that George Rogers Clark won the 40th District Tournament last week at Bourbon County. The Cardinals had solid individual performances, including senior Robert Hatton, who scored his 1,000th career point in a win over Paris in the opening round. The most interesting statistic is that fact that Hatton scored 22 points in each of the two games. Hatton became the second Clark player to eclipse the 1,000-point mark this season. Sophomore Robbie Stenzel, who has been playing since the eighth-grade, reached the milestone earlier this month.

Christina Miller, a Boyle County native attending Campbellsville University, is blogging for amnews.com about her trip to the presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. She is in a group of about 40 students making the trip. Read her observations and see her photos at the Day of Change blog. Go to: http://kyvoice.com/amnews/dayofchange/ or use the pulldown menu on blogs at amnews.com.

Christina Miller, a Boyle native attending Campbellsville University, will blog for amnews.com about her trip to the presidential inauguration. She will be in a group of about 40 students making the trip. Read her observations and see her photos at the Day of Change blog. Go to: http://kyvoice.com/amnews/dayofchange/ or use the pulldown menu on blogs at amnews.com.

Have you have considered starting your own online blog or blogging for your local newspaper?w to write news stories, press releases or opinion pieces for print? Interested in acquiring skills in the use of video? If so, you will want to attend the Kentucky Press Association's Citizen Journalist Workshop on Thursday, Nov. 13. The event is open to the public and to Kentucky newspaper staff members. The Citizen Journalist Workshop will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Paroquet Springs Conference Centre at Shepherdsville, approximately 15 miles south of downtown Louisville.

Rich Brooks deserves credit for calling out a fraction of fans for voicing their displeasure on the quarterback rotation last Saturday night at Commonwealth Stadium. After Randall Cobb had directed Kentucky to three touchdowns, including two on his own in a 38-3 domination over Norfolk State, Brooks reinserted starting quarterback Mike Hartline back into the lineup to start the second half. That's when a few fans decided to let their feelings be known to Brooks on the sideline.

Governor comes to town Gov. Steve Beshear and First Lady Jane Beshear visited George Rogers Clark High School on Thursday night for a town hall meeting. With photos and video. By Mike Wynn Local Alzheimer's patient found in Lexington A local Alzheimer's patient who had fought with his son at a Chevron station walked off Thursday night, then was found early this morning on Leestown Road in Lexington. By Fred Petke Kentucky writer to blog from Beijing A recent Asbury College graduate will travel to Beijing to work as a camera assistant.

In the sea of media coverage for the Beijing Olympic Games later this summer, it may be hard to find an angle that won't be covered. From NBC's coverage to print media, it will be covered like no other recent event. But what about a local, behind-the-scenes angle? And what if you live in central Kentucky? The Winchester Sun will host on its Web site, winchestersun.com, a blog with a different viewpoint of the Beijing Olympics. The blog originates from a sister newspaper of the Sun, The Jessamine Journal, in Nicholasville, and will also be on the sites of two other newspapers in the Advocate Communications Inc. group, the Advocate-Messenger in Danville and The Interior Journal in Stanford.