Boone Avenue pilot shows safer street possibilities

Boone Avenue’s tem­po­rary white posts may have looked awk­ward, but they helped Winchester test a safer future for a neigh­bor­hood street. In this res­i­dent per­spec­tive, Brandi Peacher reflects on how the quick-build pilot changed dri­ver behav­ior, made cross­ings feel more vis­i­ble, and opened a broad­er con­ver­sa­tion about what Boone Avenue could become. The project was not meant to pro­tect plastic... 
Conceptual future vision for Boone Avenue, illustrating how lessons from the quick-build pilot could inform a more permanent neighborhood street with wider walking and biking space, safer crossings, landscaping, trees, and pedestrian-scale lighting. This image is AI-generated and illustrative only and is not an adopted City of Winchester or KYTC design.

Habitat breaks ground on new Lincoln Street home

Habitat for Humanity sup­port­ers gath­ered on Lincoln Street to wel­come Crystal and Nathan Primrose and their daugh­ter, Kyrie, as the non­prof­it began work on the family’s future home. The project marks the sec­ond phase of Habitat’s part­ner­ship with Winchester city gov­ern­ment to revi­tal­ize the neigh­bor­hood through new hous­ing on donat­ed lots. The Primroses, who have rent­ed in Richmond for nine... 
Bryan Kirby, board president of Habitat for Humanity for Madison and Clark Counties, speaks at a groundbreaking ceremony for the home of the Primrose family, right. They are Nathan, his wife, Crystal, and their daughter, Kyrie.(Randy Patrick)

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  • Kentucky agriculture has moved beyond tobacco. Some wonder what’s been lost.

    Kentucky agriculture has moved beyond tobacco. Some wonder what’s been lost.

    Kenneth Anderson’s father taught him what to look for in high-qual­i­ty tobac­co, cured for weeks in the rafters of a Clark County barn. How to “grade” or rate the qual­i­ty of the dif­fer­ent parts of the plant, look­ing for slight vari­a­tions of the deep brown col­or of the dried leaves.  “Tobacco’s always been a crop that you sur­vived on,” Anderson said as he drove his truck over the rolling hills of… 

    Read more: Kentucky agri­cul­ture has moved beyond tobac­co. Some won­der what’s been lost.
  • Habitat breaks ground on new Lincoln Street home

    Habitat breaks ground on new Lincoln Street home

    Habitat for Humanity sup­port­ers gath­ered on Lincoln Street to wel­come Crystal and Nathan Primrose and their daugh­ter, Kyrie, as the non­prof­it began work on the family’s future home. The project marks the sec­ond phase of Habitat’s part­ner­ship with Winchester city gov­ern­ment to revi­tal­ize the neigh­bor­hood through new hous­ing on donat­ed lots. The Primroses, who have rent­ed in Richmond for nine years, said the oppor­tu­ni­ty to become first-time home­own­ers is emo­tion­al and… 

    Read more: Habitat breaks ground on new Lincoln Street home
  • Little Lambs Playpen gives kids room to imagine

    Little Lambs Playpen gives kids room to imagine

    Winchester par­ents look­ing for a safe indoor play option for young chil­dren now have one down­town. Little Lambs Playpen, opened in July by Amy and Tim Keltner, offers imag­i­na­tive play, birth­day par­ty space, a nurs­ing room and a chang­ing room at 16 North Main Street. Amy says the idea grew from want­i­ng a local place where fam­i­lies could get kids out of the house with­out leav­ing town. The playpen wel­comes children… 

    Read more: Little Lambs Playpen gives kids room to imagine
  • Humanism, community, and the ten commitments

    Humanism, community, and the ten commitments

    The lat­est episode of the Voices of Winchester pod­cast has dropped, and it’s one that should appeal to any­one look­ing for belong­ing and accep­tance and a non-reli­gious com­mu­ni­ty of com­pas­sion­ate friends. In this episode, Pete Koutoulas and Rebecca Ison have a wide-rang­ing con­ver­sa­tion about human­ism, what it means to live with­out reli­gious belief, and how human­ists try to build a bet­ter com­mu­ni­ty through action. They also walk through the Humanists of… 

    Read more: Humanism, com­mu­ni­ty, and the ten commitments

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