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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun Paducah Ambassadors answer questions about the Paducah area and direct people to other attractions Friday at the AQS Quilt Show. Since most Quilt Week attendees are from out of town, the Ambassadors provide directions, recommend restaurants and help them learn the area.
AQS: Additional venues won’t hurt Paducah’s crowd
It is a tourism official’s worst nightmare: another show, dangerously similar to a city’s main attraction, opens  only a short distance away. Initial reactions to hearing of the American Quilter’s ...
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Chase leads to charges
A Kevil resident was arrested Friday after being accused of taking items from a vehicle and then running, according to a McCracken County sheriff’s news release. Deputies said they responded to ...
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I-24 work zone returns Sunday
A work zone along Interstate 24 between the 3 and 9 mile markers in McCracken County which was temporarily removed to accommodate heavy traffic during the AQS Quilt Show will go back up on Sunday. ...
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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun Paducah police officers stop traffic to allow quilt show attendees to cross Park Avenue on Friday. With almost every parking lot filled early each day with Quilt Week attendees and workers, cars usually end up lining the I-24 Business Loop of Park Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive.
Tourism strains city parking
It is impossible to miss. The usually quiet, roomy streets of Paducah are overflowing with an influx of vehicles with out-of-town plates for one week every spring during the American Quilter’s Soci...
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The Lineup
Today SNbSDance, 7-10 p.m., American Legion Post 26 Hall, Mayfield. Just Friends. $5. SNbS  n n n   Items for the Lineup must be received in writing five days in advance. Mail to: Lineup,...
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Board approves health department bids
BENTON — Without soliciting any outside funding, a more than $2 million construction project to bring the new Marshall County Health Department building up to code is officially under way. Board...
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Schools set assistant principals
When three high schools merge into one larger high school, most parents and students fear getting lost in the shuffle. McCracken County Schools took another step toward making sure that won’t happe...
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The innocence of quilting
People study Hollis Chatelain’s quilt “Innocence” Friday at the Quilt Museum. The quilt is considered one of the world’s most valuable quilts, worth an estimated $170,000. It won the Viewer’s Choic...
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Meth case leads to 6 arrests
Law enforcement disrupted a large methamphetamine network, arrested six Mayfield residents and seized several pounds of methamphetamine Friday, Graves County Sheriff’s Deputy Steve Halsell said. ...
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Horoscopes by Holiday
Saturday, April, 27, 2013 ARIES (March 21-April 19). Big opportunities hang in the balance today. All you have to do is show up -- over and over and over. The rest of it will be worked out in th...
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Police warn of phone scams
The Paducah Police Department is warning residents of several scams operating in the area. According to a police news release, one local woman received two telephone calls in less than a week. T...
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Correction
In the photo associated with the story “County to request DES funds from city” on page 1A of the April 25 edition, the gentleman pictured was Jeremy Jeffrey, a paramedic with Mercy Regional EMS, an...
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Art school changes name, offers open house
Paducah School of Art has changed its name to the Paducah School of Art & Design to reflect an expanded vision for its programming, which includes graphic design, officials announced Thursday. T...
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AQS features quilters from afar
When Bonnie Browning met Terek Abouelenin and Hosam Hanafy, it was under very different circumstances. Browning, American Quilter’s Society executive show director, had traveled nearly 7,000 miles ...
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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer chats with Brad Clapp (left) Thursday evening at The Pasta House. Comer was a guest bartender at a St. Nicholas Family Clinic fundraiser. He also lobbied for Kentucky Proud products. 
Comer talks Kentucky Proud, Farmer
In the midst of pushing for the federal legalization of industrial hemp to ensuring the utmost departmental transparency, Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer found time Thursday to promot...
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