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Murray's Relay For Life begins next weekend
Murray and Calloway County's fundraising fight against cancer goes on ...
Murray and Calloway County's fundraising fight against cancer goes on all year round, but with the annual Relay for Life main event coming up next weekend, Chairman Tracy McKinney sits down with Chris Taylor to tell us more.
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Glory Days at the World's Biggest Fish Fry
The annual World's Biggest Fish Fry was in full swing ...
The annual World's Biggest Fish Fry was in full swing this week, and a new event drew hungry competitors to the fish tent. The fish fry began as a mule pull in 1938 and after they began serving fish to participants, the tradition caught on. This
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Kentucky government could partially shutdown in July
On July 1st, if Kentucky is still without a state ...
On July 1st, if Kentucky is still without a state budget, a partial shutdown of state government will ensue. Non-essential services, like state parks, will close. Kentucky Public Radio's Tony McVeigh explains why the commonwealth finds itself in
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Sally Struthers, Mike Gallagher Star at the Alhambra
Sally Struthers may be most known as Archie and Edith ...
Sally Struthers may be most known as Archie and Edith Bunker's daughter on the 1970s television series All in the Family, a role which earned her two Emmies. Tonight, the Kentucky Repertory Theatre brings Struthers and her co-star Mike Gallagher
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Maestro Raffaele Ponti named Artistic Director for Paducah Symphony Orchestra
The Paducah Symphony Orchestra has chosen its next artistic director, ...
The Paducah Symphony Orchestra has chosen its next artistic director, who was the third candidate previewed in its season-long search. He conducted the Nature's Glory Concert on stage in the Carson Center on February 20. The ebullient Maestro
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White nose syndrom may threaten Kentucky bats
A researcher with the USSA Forest Service says its just ...
A researcher with the USSA Forest Service says its just a matter of time until bat populations in Kentucky are threatened by a fungus that has been killing bats in several states. Dan Modlin of Kentucky Public Radio has this update.
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Elk thrive in Eastern Kentucky, frustrating locals
Frustrated residents of southeastern Kentucky are hoping attempts to curb ...
Frustrated residents of southeastern Kentucky are hoping attempts to curb the budding elk population will succeed and keep elk off the roads and out of their gardens. But as the Ohio River Radio Consortium's Kristin Espeland Gourlay reports, the
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Struthers and Gallagher headline in Hopkinsville
All in the Family's Sally Struthers and national radio talk ...
All in the Family's Sally Struthers and national radio talk show host Mike Gallagher headline A.R. Gurney's Love Letters at the Alhambra Theatre in Hopkinsville next Tuesday. It's a presentation of the Kentucky Repertory Theatre in
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Murray State professor conducts Paducah Symphony Orchestra's season finale
The season finale by the Paducah Symphony Orchestra, tomorrow night ...
The season finale by the Paducah Symphony Orchestra, tomorrow night at 7:30, includes two vocal masterpieces, Mozarts's Requiem and Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein. Mark Welch spoke recently with conductor Dr. Bradley Almquist, director
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Banjo virtuoso Alison Brown is featured artist at MSU's Provost's Concert
Banjo virtuoso Alison Brown is featured at Murray State's annual ...
Banjo virtuoso Alison Brown is featured at Murray State's annual Provost's Concert next Thursday at 8 pm in Lovett Auditorium. Brown is a Harvard graduate, secured an MBA at UCLA, worked as an investment banker and later formed Compass
