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A steamy Sunday afternoon in early August, 1963. Crosley Field, the old baseball park in Cincinnati, and the Pirates are in town to play the Reds in that long lost treasure called the “Sunday doubleheader.”

Cheers for Beshear

For the 300,000 Kentuckians living on the edge of the federal poverty line,  Gov. Steve Beshear’s action this week couldn’t come soon enough. And it makes a nice Mother’s Day surprise for everyone without health coverage who fears getting sick or hurt. Kentucky Youth Advocates reports an estimated 162,000 uninsured parents in Kentucky, and expanding Medicaid will provide 

coverage to 97,000 of those parents.

After helping lead the charge for policy change on industrial hemp in Kentucky, state Sen. Paul Hornback (R-Shelbyville) took his campaign to Washington D.C., last week, and returned expressing optimism about what he heard there.

 “It went really well,” he said of the trip. “Of course we met with all of our congressional representatives and also with representatives from the Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture and [the] Obama administration. The lady we met with at the Department of Energy was actually even wearing a hemp dress.”

Don and Brenda Richardson announce the engagement of their daughter Courtney Allison Richardson to Philip Cameron Sturgill, son of Ken and Leslie Sturgill, all of Georgetown.

She is the granddaughter of Lucille Stucker of Shelbyville, the late Gilbert Stucker, the late Howard Richardson and the late Hazel Richardson. He is the grandson of Tom Sturgill, D.J. Fendley, the late Pat Sturgill and the late Ken Fendley.