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Tyler Bowling will find himself paired with some elite company during his next trek on the dirt bike circuit. Bowling, 6, will be competing in the AMA/Air Nautiques Amateur National Motocross Championship at Loretta Lynn's Dude Ranch in Hurricane Hills, Tenn. The five-day event begins Monday and will conclude on Aug. 4. Bowling will be one of 1,386 racers competing in the prestigious event. More than 20,000 racers from across the nation competed to earn a spot in the event.

Stanford Police Det. Barry Allen recovered three dirt bikes Friday and arrested an 18 year old for receiving stolen property. Allen took Josh Johnson into custody at 242 Singleton Road and recovered two of the four dirt bikes that were stolen the previous week from Jeff Smith's cycle shop on U.S. 150 in Stanford. Allen said Johnson told the resident of Singleton Road, "I can't keep them at my grandmother's house because she doesn't like motorcycles. " The friend was not charged, Allen said.

The Battle of Perryville is a weekend of rehearsed re-enactments, but to three men following the Confederates' retreat route it means digging up their own small pieces of history. Mark Kitchen, John Hiett and Rick Xedos have been metal detecting - also known as digging or dirt fishing - together for years. They hold an annual camp out on a Garrard County farm during the weekend of the Perryville re-enactment. For the past couple of years, they also have camped one night at Perryville.

We were driving back from Walmart one day last week. When we passed by the local bank we use here, Gene turned into the parking lot, saying he might as well deposit a check we'd just received. The air was still and warm, the sun was out and I told him I would just wait for him in the car while he did the bank business. Almost immediately I felt too warm sitting there, so first I opened the passenger window, and followed that up by opening my car door to let the warm air mix with a breeze just kicking up. What happened next could only happen in Colorado.

Clark County deputies Paul Howard and Ernie Evans, right, top photo, investigate an accident involving a Winchester Municipal Utilities spreader truck and a dirt bike ridden by Hunter Blythe, 13 of Los Angeles, Calif., about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday on Van Meter Road. Blythe and three other teens were riding dirt bikes and a dune buggy up a private lane when Blythe couldn't stop and rode into the path of the truck driven by 41-year-old Anthony C. Crouch of 2299 Crowe Ridge Road. Blythe was transported to Clark Regional Medical Center and airlifted to the University of Kentucky Medical Center.

A group concerned about conditions at Bellevue Cemetery will take its complaints to Danville City Commission tonight. Jim Talley said relatives of people buried at the cemetery are upset about upkeep and have photos illustrating their concerns. "This is very disappointing to the families of our community who have loved ones buried there," Talley said of the conditions. He, along with others, plan to ask who at city hall is responsible for overseeing the contractors and workers at the cemetery.

The remains of the Barber Grist Mill in Lower Howard's Creek Nature and Heritage Preserve served as a backdrop for a history lesson by archeologist Chuck Niquette of Cultural Resource Analyst with a group of third-graders from Shearer Elementary School Thursday morning. Niquette was telling the students the history of the of the area and how the grist mill operated. Sixty-four students visited the preserve and Fort Boonesborough as part of their social studies on communities of the past.

ARCHDALE, N.C. ? Dunnville native Brad Neat is moving up the ranks in the driving world. Neat, 29, has signed with Bobby Labonte Racing for the 2010 season. Neat will join BLR to drive the No. 41 dirt late model for a full season of competition beginning in 2010. Neat will run in addition to five-time national late model dirt series champion Earl Pearson Jr., who will continue to pilot the No. 44 BLR Dodge Charger. Neat will make his debut with BLR Feb. 1 when the team travels to Florida for the 34th annual DART Winternationals.

The Boyle County Fair on Monday night started slow for some and ended fast for others. And for one Danville duo, now the reigning "Boyle County's Ultimate Couple," a near disaster transformed into victory. In the Diaper Derby, it took 9-month-old Hannah Barrett 40.28 seconds to cover the 15-foot runway and reach her dad, Brandon Barrett of Junction City, despite his lure of a baby bottle filled with formula. The women on each side of the runway, who were there to keep the kids from wandering off stage, drew more attention from Hannah than dad and the drink.

Starting a new business has its share of challenges, and Doug Lindle and Byron Skaggs, owners of BEJA (bee-juh) Environmental Inc., - a construction sweeping company - have discovered this to be true. The company opened in August 2006. "It's been a little more difficult than we've anticipated," Skaggs said of starting BEJA. "We're in the process of educating folks. " The biggest challenge has been overcoming the public perception that street cleaning is simply sweeping dirt and debris away.

Earth Day is a great time to do something special for your yard and neighborhood. You can plant a tree, make a new effort to recycle your trash or find creative ways to reuse something in your garage. Here are some easy ideas to help you celebrate Earth Day 2013. Start a new garden. This is a great time to split many flowers. Lilies, irises, bee balm, ivys, hostas and decorative grasses are at a perfect size to transplant. If you have flower beds that are getting too full, just dig up some starts and make a new garden.

We were driving back from Walmart one day last week. When we passed by the local bank we use here, Gene turned into the parking lot, saying he might as well deposit a check we'd just received. The air was still and warm, the sun was out and I told him I would just wait for him in the car while he did the bank business. Almost immediately I felt too warm sitting there, so first I opened the passenger window, and followed that up by opening my car door to let the warm air mix with a breeze just kicking up. What happened next could only happen in Colorado.

Tyler Bowers has raced all over the country and overseas, won titles and has had great success four years into his professional dirt-bike racing career. But no race has the Danville native as excited as the one Saturday. He'll finally get a chance to race in front of a hometown crowd because Bowers will be in Rupp Arena as the AMA Arenacross Series comes to Lexington. “I think the closest I've been Danville was the Dayton (Ohio) race (two weeks ago), and that was three or four hours away.

A 9-year-old boy was killed Friday when his motorcycle collided with a pickup truck, according to the Clark County Sheriff's Office. The boy was identified as William Whitt Goff, according to a statement issued by Clark County Coroner Robert Gayheart. Goff, who was riding a dirt bike, was traveling on Elkin Station Road toward Old Boonesboro Road about 7:30 p.m. with two other children on dirt bikes, Sheriff Berl Perdue Jr. said. The driver of the oncoming pickup, which was towing a lawn mower on a trailer, lost control and struck the boy, he said.

It appears copper thieves may have discovered a new place to find the lucrative metal that keeps the crime undetected for months. Jonah Mitchell of Jonah Mitchell Real Estate said thieves stole copper wiring and pipes from at least three of his for-sale or managed properties over the past several months. “It’s a new twist in copper thefts,” Mitchell said. “It remains undetected because there is not any visual damage. It used to be they would pull the write though the dry wall; that was too obvious.

Brad Neat said his job has gotten much easier. The Dunnville native will be driving late models for Bobby Labonte Racing next season, allowing him to concentrate solely on driving. "My job now is just to drive the car, where in the past I was dealing with everything day in and day out," Neat said. "It took all my time throughout the week. Now I can just stay around closer to home throughout the week and spend tie with my wife. "It will also take some of the work off of my father (Greg)

ARCHDALE, N.C. ? Dunnville native Brad Neat is moving up the ranks in the driving world. Neat, 29, has signed with Bobby Labonte Racing for the 2010 season. Neat will join BLR to drive the No. 41 dirt late model for a full season of competition beginning in 2010. Neat will run in addition to five-time national late model dirt series champion Earl Pearson Jr., who will continue to pilot the No. 44 BLR Dodge Charger. Neat will make his debut with BLR Feb. 1 when the team travels to Florida for the 34th annual DART Winternationals.

It was nice, REALLY NICE, to see the White House press corps drilling into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) last week over her ever-evolving account of what she knew about "enhanced interrogation techniques ? like waterboarding ? and when she knew it. This spark of life amongst the group that has been set to "drool" since President Obama's inauguration was a refreshing surprise. After clumsily re-re-restating her denial of any culpability in approval, tacit or otherwise, of the use of torture on terror suspects, Speaker Pelosi looked at the reporters as if they had all suddenly begun shouting at her in Urdu when they tried to get her to acknowledge that she has repeatedly revised her story as document after document emerged contrary to her version on what the CIA had briefed her. Madam Speaker was clearly taken aback by the temerity of a previously accommodating press corps.

From the eyes of a boy, barely five years of age, mornings promised many things. Some would be good and others not so good, but when you've lived only five years almost everything is brand new. The day started with breakfast and a quick maternal inspection of ears, knees and tangled hair. When approved, the morning became the canvas upon which the encounters would be painted and stored in the mental lock box for future reference. This particular day, in early April, circa 1937, a sanitary sewer system was being installed on my street.