Clark County nonprofits celebrate record-breaking fundraiser
On Tuesday, February 17, Clark County nonprofits gathered at Leeds Center for the Arts to learn more about the Clark County Community Foundation (CCCF) and to celebrate the incredible success of Bluegrass Gives 2025.
CCCF — not to be confused with the Greater Clark Foundation — is a fund managed by Bluegrass Community Foundation (BGCF) and directed by a local board...
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King rallies crowd on Main Street
Vaché King won’t be on the ballot until November, but she’s getting an early start running for county judge-executive. The only Democratic candidate held a gathering Feb. 26 at Thee Cake Carpenter on South Main Street to meet voters, rally supporters, and raise money for the general election. The meet-and-greet, which began at 5:30, had attracted about 30 people within the first half hour.
City official Cox runs for county judge
After nearly three decades in city government, Shannon Cox has set his sights on the top job in county government. The Winchester city commissioner is one of four candidates vying for the Republican nomination for county judge-executive.
He has served in local government in Clark County longer than any current official on the May 19 primary ballot.
“I’ve got the experience. I’ve been in government for a long time, through some very good times and some very...
The Myth of Hora: Daylight Saving Time
Long before clocks glowed blue on nightstands and phones adjusted themselves in the dark, time did not follow a straight path. It was a living thing. And every spring, Time grew restless.
Her name was Hora, the Keeper of Hours, and she served beside the sun god Helios, who drove his blazing chariot across the sky.
Through winter, Helios travels slowly, his horses drowsy, his light thin as silk. The world needs rest then. Seeds dream...
‘Open for business’ or ‘body count?’
Kentucky regulators would have to wait until people are actively being harmed before issuing regulations to protect public health and the environment under a bill that is backed by lobbyists for manufacturers and the state Chamber of Commerce.
Senate Bill 178, which moved out of a Senate committee on a party-line vote Wednesday, also would block state public health regulations from being more stringent than existing federal regulations or law.
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When grief has two shadows
There are losses that walk straight toward you, clean and heavy and unmistakable.
And then there are the other ones — the ones that slip sideways through your life, carrying a kind of ache that doesn’t announce itself so much as unravel you thread by thread.
When my mother passed a year ago, February 2025, the grief came in two forms:
the grief for the mother I had, and the grief for the mother I never got to have.
Both were real. Both were sharp. And both asked me to set down things I had carried my whole life.
The Seven Sisters
On the night of February 23, 2026, a small cluster of shimmering blue stars called the Pleiades will appear very close to the moon, creating an occultation-like passage where the Moon sweeps past these glittering stars as Earth rotates.
The Pleiades are sometimes called the Seven Sisters. Long ago, when the sky was still being arranged and the constellations had not yet agreed upon their places, there were seven sisters born to Atlas and Pleione: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope, and Merope.
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