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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun Wayne Sellars (left), Principal Art Davis, Dorris Lamb and Joyce Goodman discuss the new look of the auxiliary gym at an open house allowing the public to view the completed renovations at Paducah Tilghman High School. The renovations took approximately three years and cost $9 million.
Paducah Tilghman renovations bring smiles
When Paducah Tilghman High School students stepped through the doorway Thursday on the school year’s opening day, the once familiar hallways they knew became a faint memory. Replacing it was the sc...
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The Lineup
Monday SNbSAllied/Honeywell retirees, 8 a.m., The Waffle Hut near Interstate 24, Exit 3.   West Kentucky Songwriters Chapter, Nashville Songwriters Association International, 6-8 p.m., Curri...
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Memories, bad and good, as big as the Olympics
As the London Olympic games come to an end today, I feel a bit conflicted, which is different than how I have felt with other sets of Olympic games. The United States did well this year. Michael Ph...
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Dogs go downtown
Volunteers and staff with the McCracken County Animal Shelter have been taking advantage of Paducah’s downtown foot traffic to help find new homes for dozens of pets. The shelter has been bringi...
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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun A&K Construction employee Blake Minnis operates a forklift at the construction site on Thursday afternoon. A lawsuit the McCracken County Board of Education filed in August 2011 against the Paducah-McCracken County Joint Sewer Agency over sewer pipeline at the new high school has been resolved and construction continues at the site.
School district resolves sewer pipeline lawsuit
A lawsuit the McCracken County Board of Education filed against the Paducah-McCracken County Joint Sewer Agency regarding sewer pipeline at the new high school has been resolved. Paducah attorne...
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Dog Park officially opens
Dog owners looking for a place all their own will be able to officially unleash their pets Aug. 15 after a ribbon cutting for the Paducah Dog Park. After years of fundraising efforts, the Parks ...
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Reunion
n Former Navy crew members of the USS Sylvania (AKA-44 & AFS-2) plan a reunion Aug. 17-19 in Nashville, Tenn. For information, contact: John Pierce at 616-897-5178 or 517-927-3312 or e-mail pierces...
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A piece of Paducah
ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun Paducah Ambassadors tour guide James Scott gives a tour of the floodwall in downtown Paducah on Saturday afternoon. Paducah Ambassadors, sponsored by the city, offers fr...
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Fire blamed on equipment
GOLDEN POND — Agricultural workers may have ignited a wildfire Saturday afternoon that spread across the northern end of Land Between the Lakes, destroying more than 100 acres of forest, police sai...
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In our schools
n Lone Oak High School SBDM — 4 p.m. Thursday, conference room. n Clark Elementary School SBDM — 3:15 p.m. Monday, guidance office. n Marshall County Board of Education — 7 p.m. Thursday, boa...
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Man arrested on meth charge
A Paducah man was arrested Friday, accused of manufacturing methamphetamine while on parole from a previous manufacturing charge. McCracken County sheriff’s deputies investigated a tip that Jame...
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CORIANNE EGAN | The Sun Paducah Mayor Bill Paxton sits at his desk Friday in front of an easel displaying his priority list before leaving office. Paxton has added an eighth objective: break ground on the Olivet Church Road widening project.
Hotel tops mayor’s swan song list
One month ago, Paducah Mayor Bill Paxton made a list. That list, now written on a 6-foot-tall easel next to his desk, has seven objectives to complete before he leaves office in January. Among t...
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Veteran raising funds for Wounded Warriors
A severely injured Iraq war veteran wants others to know how uplifting a simple word of thanks can be. Retired Master Sgt. Gordon Ewell met with dozens of veterans and their family members Friday i...
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The Lineup
Today SNbSMilitary Order of the Purple Heart for Western Kentucky, Chapter 585, monthly meeting, 9 a.m., Smokies Restaurant, 5th. Ave., Calvert City, Ky.   Dance, 7-10 p.m., American Legion ...
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Kirksey regains postal service
KIRKSEY — Residents have regained postal service at a popular gathering spot in the western Kentucky community of Kirksey. The Murray Ledger & Times reports the Kirksey Store has become a new V...
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