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FRANKFORT - One of the highlights early in a legislative session is the State of the Commonwealth address, a time when a governor has the full attention of the General Assembly and a statewide audience. This speech gives governors a chance to say where they think Kentucky stands, and what their vision for the future is. It paints a broad outline that is filled in later in the month in even-numbered years, when the governor's budget proposal is presented. On Monday last week, Gov. Steve Beshear dutifully noted in his first-ever remarks to the House and Senate that the revenue outlook for Kentucky during the next two years is "grim.

The tobacco leaf in Carl Waits’ hand was brittle, and the grim look on his face told the story of the Level-1 drought Jessamine County is currently in. “It’s worse than anything I’ve ever seen,” Waits said. Like many other forms of farming, Waits is dependent on rain, and after a rain-soaked spring and early summer season, mud puddles have been replaced by dust, and the grass once green is withered and brown. And that’s not good when your crop requires moisture.

It seems a lot of growers around the area have received letters from the tobacco companies showing that residues of MH are above the company's maximum level. This has created some concern among growers as to how to effectively control MH residues on this year's crop. In this column I am sharing some tips put together by Dr. Bob Pearce, UK tobacco specialist to reduce or control these residues. His tips are: â?¢ Use an appropriate amount of MH. The maximum amount of MH that can be applied to burley tobacco is three pounds active ingredient (a.i.

100 years ago - 1906 Jim Warner and Dick Kennedy met each other on McGrorty Avenue at 6 p.m. and began emptying their revolvers "at the bodies of each other. " Warner received a wound to his thigh but "Kennedy was fortunate to escape the bullets from Warner's pistol. " Chief of Police Wood arrested Warner at his home and took him to the county jail. Kennedy had sworn out a warrant for Warner's arrest charging him with malicious shooting. "When the officers questioned the duelists each claimed that he was looking for another man and both had opened fire on the wrong person.

Democratic primary election candidates and Jessamine County voters filled the halls of the county courthouse for a forum last Thursday, and one message echoed throughout the evening: Democrats are hoping for a comeback this November. "We have an outstanding array of candidates that can win in November and we're going to have a strong ticket from top to bottom," said Dick Robinson, a secretary of state candidate running against MaDonna White and Bruce Hendrickson in the May primary.

Even before he could read, David McComb's father read to him from a book called "Best Loved Poems of the American People. " McComb's love of poetry blossomed from his father's readings and grew to a desire to write it as well. By the time he was in his early teens, McComb says, he kew he "never wanted to do anything else but write. And poetry was always my first love. " McCombs is a Kentucky native who won the Yale Younger Poets Prize for his first volume, "Ultima Thule," and the Tupelo Prize for "Dismal Rock," which was published in 2007.

If the walls of the soon-to-be toppled Farmers Tobacco Warehouse No. 1 could talk, their stories would fill volumes. Owner Jerry Rankin has heard most of them over the years. “This has just been a special place,” Rankin said. Rankin confirmed Tuesday that a deal with Centre College is being finalized that will sell the landmark that has stood on the corner of Russell and Hope streets since 1927. He declined to discuss the specifics of the sale until it is finalized, only saying Centre paid a fair price for the property.

Worship service set In honor of those who worshipped 200 years ago, there will be no pipe organ, praise band or cushioned pews, only rough wooden benches, 10 a.m. Sunday during a pioneer worship service at Constitution Square State Historic Site. The Rev. Donald Drewry, a living historian and retired Methodist minister, will conduct a worship service much as it would have been conducted during the time the log meeting house was an active place of worship. The service is sponsored by the Drewry Family Historical Production Co. Everyone is welcome.