New unified soccer club launches in Clark County
A new, unified youth soccer organization is launching in Clark County as Winchester Soccer Club consolidates the county’s previously separate soccer programs. Organizers say the move is intended to improve transparency, streamline player development, and strengthen community involvement.
Jacob Varner, president of the newly formed Winchester Soccer Club, spoke with WinCity Voices in a recent telephone interview.
“One of our main focuses...
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KFB supports bill on labeling chemicals
Manufacturers would not have to label certain pesticides and herbicides as potentially carcinogenic under a Senate bill that passed both chambers last week and was sent to the governor for his signature. During a Clark County Farm Bureau appreciation breakfast on Saturday, lobbyists and lawmakers who support SB 199 discussed why it is important.
Marked at the threshold: Old doorway blessings for tender faith
There are places where the soul slows down without being asked.
The porch step.
The creek crossing.
That narrow bend in the road where your foot lifts off the gas, even though you’ve driven it a hundred times.
And the doorway.
In the hills where I was raised, doors were never just doors. They were watched. Tended. Respected. You didn’t barrel through a threshold. You paused — even if only in your body. Even if you couldn’t have told me...
Glenn ‘Red’ Wilson was a basketball star, Navy pilot, and conservationist
Glenn Wilson (1916−2004) was born in Owsley County and grew up on Cow Creek, about two miles outside Booneville (population 150). His parents were poor, and most of their food came from the garden. He walked to the one-room schoolhouse in town every day.
In high school, he wanted to play basketball but didn’t make the team because he was too short. He showed up for practice anyway. He kept it up until the coach finally...
SAVE Act addresses an issue that doesn’t exist
The SAVE Act: Almost everyone has heard something about this piece of legislation that is working its way through Congress. As with so many acts and bills before Congress and state legislatures, the title does not truly reflect its purpose.
More specifically titled the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, it purports to provide security in voter registrations when, in fact, it is simply a solution searching for a problem.
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Reel Classics: ‘School of Rock’
Today’s Reel Classic takes us back to the year 2003, where we first entered into the School of Rock. Our teacher, Dewey Finn (Jack Black), is an unemployed musician who was recently booted from his band, No Vacancy, and is staying with his best friend, Ned Schneebly (Mike White). Ned once had dreams of being a rock star, but has settled into the role of being a substitute teacher. Also sharing the apartment is Ned’s girlfriend, Patty Di Marco (Sarah Silverman). She sees Dewey more as a leech and is constantly trying to get Ned to throw Dewey out. Dewey...
A silence that isn’t peace
There are moments when the quiet feels louder than shouting.
Lately, I have been listening to that quiet.
I live in a small town. I sit in social groups, committees, and auditoriums. I stand in line at the grocery store and make polite conversation about the weather. And underneath all of it — underneath the casseroles and committee meetings and Friday night lights — there is something else humming.
It is not hysteria.
It is not drama.
It is not politics.
It is rage.
Not the loud, breaking-windows kind. The deep, Appalachian kind. The kind that settles low in a woman’s bones and waits.
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