Today's News

Three young adults were killed in two separate wrecks that occurred within hours of each other Saturday morning in Nelson County.

Morehead State University student Molly McBride, 21, was killed in a wreck at 6 a.m. Saturday on Blue Grass Parkway near Bardstown, according to a news release from the university.

McBride was a junior biomedical sciences major and daughter of the university’s dean of the Caudill College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, according to the release. A funeral is scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday in Morehead.

“What are you doing, Dad?” my son asked when he called me on his cell phone.

I was sitting on our back patio, admiring the work I’d done, having just planted the first third of my garden with the non-genetically modified seeds I had oh-so carefully selected. I wanted to come as close as I could to having an organic garden.

Then just as I as I leaned back to relax, I stood up straight, squinting at the tractor spraying the field behind my house. It was coming closer and closer to my garden.

When Vine Grove Elementary School interim assistant principal Kerry Reeves walked the halls of Clarkson Elementary School in Grayson County in the late ’60s and early ’70s, it was as a student.

When he walked them in 1979, it was as a custodian.

When he walks them this fall, it will be as principal.

“I truly am going back home,” Reeves, 51, said.

He will work with teachers who were students at the elementary school when he was custodian.

Lora Carson still has the last letter Lt. John Douglas Hale wrote her before he was lost in Vietnam.

The Brandenburg man’s letters were usually brief and down-to-earth.

Carson, of Brandenburg, dated the man before he was deployed, and she still has the journal entries she wrote when he left and when word came that the helicopter he was on was shot down March 8, 1971.