Lindsey Bridges, a teacher at Lyon County Elementary School, organized an Oct. 24 softball tournament to raise funds for Book for Hope, which helps families that have children with cancer.

The Brighter Futures Learning Center provides tutoring and other academic support for local students, and it has found a new clientele with the struggles that students are experiencing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sam Meeks opened the Bella Marie Boutique in Princeton in April 2013 as a means of providing a service to Princeton.

Experts say job-related stress costs businesses millions of dollars each year due to unanticipated absences. In fact, work is the foremost source of stress for many adults.

Small business is big business. Though it’s easy and not necessarily inaccurate to associate small businesses with Main Street, small- and medium-size companies are players in the international trade arena as well.

At its peak in 1999, the American workforce was dominated by female workers. At that time, 76% of women, including those who had children at home, worked outside of the home, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The tides have since shifted, and rates of female employment in the…

Note: Mary Alexia is the daughter of Marc and Judi Wells of Princeton.

Hunters can learn the age of their harvested deer and help the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources monitor the health of the state’s deer and elk herds through a new voluntary program available this fall.

As harvest is in full swing here in Kentucky, the Kentucky Soybean Board reminds motorists to share the road. “We know that farm equipment is slow and takes up a lot of room on the road,” said Board Chairman Jed Clark, of Sedalia. “Farmers don’t want to be on the road, we want to be in the f…

There’s something, or more accurately, someone, familiar about the new Lyon Family Dental office.

Farmers in Caldwell, Lyon, and northern Trigg counties are working through a soil conservation pilot project to ensure that the 27,622 acres of cropland they farm will last.

Lindsey Bridges, a teacher at Lyon County Elementary School, organized an Oct. 24 softball tournament to raise funds for Book for Hope, which helps families that have children with cancer.

The Brighter Futures Learning Center provides tutoring and other academic support for local students, and it has found a new clientele with the struggles that students are experiencing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sam Meeks opened the Bella Marie Boutique in Princeton in April 2013 as a means of providing a service to Princeton.

At its peak in 1999, the American workforce was dominated by female workers. At that time, 76% of women, including those who had children at home, worked outside of the home, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The tides have since shifted, and rates of female employment in the…

Experts say job-related stress costs businesses millions of dollars each year due to unanticipated absences. In fact, work is the foremost source of stress for many adults.

Small business is big business. Though it’s easy and not necessarily inaccurate to associate small businesses with Main Street, small- and medium-size companies are players in the international trade arena as well.

Note: Mary Alexia is the daughter of Marc and Judi Wells of Princeton.

As harvest is in full swing here in Kentucky, the Kentucky Soybean Board reminds motorists to share the road. “We know that farm equipment is slow and takes up a lot of room on the road,” said Board Chairman Jed Clark, of Sedalia. “Farmers don’t want to be on the road, we want to be in the f…

Hunters can learn the age of their harvested deer and help the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources monitor the health of the state’s deer and elk herds through a new voluntary program available this fall.

There’s something, or more accurately, someone, familiar about the new Lyon Family Dental office.

Farmers in Caldwell, Lyon, and northern Trigg counties are working through a soil conservation pilot project to ensure that the 27,622 acres of cropland they farm will last.

Paul S. Franks, 59, of Kuttawa, was arrested Thursday and charged with robbery in the first degree and tampering with physical evidence.

“Information superhighway” in the 1990s referred to the internet. In 2020, at least locally, it could easily and accurately refer to the intersection of U.S. Highway 62 and Ky. Highway 93 at Eddyville.

“Broadbent’s Country Ham, Bacon & Sausage” tops the sign high above the building, followed below by “Kentucky Proud Gourmet Market,” “Home Office,” and “Café.”

Although Lyon County currently is listed in the COVID-19 red zone, the highest category of active cases, the Lyon County School District does not plan to close.

Students in the Lyon County Schools will have another resource when they return to in-person instruction, following the school board’s regular monthly meeting Monday.

“You can’t go home again,” novelist Thomas Wolfe once wrote. He obviously never met Amelia Gilley, the new pharmacist at Lyon Drug Store.

The Eddyville Riverport and Industrial Development Authority and the Paducah-McCracken County Riverport Authority are two of five riverports Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear recently announced would receive $450,000 total in grants for critical repairs and equipment.

“Reading is fundamental” speaks to the importance of literacy. Two men who certainly agree are Lyon County High School Principal Thomas Radivonyk and the late J.L. Turner, a co-founder of Dollar General Stores.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. As COVID-19 evolves from spring to fall, that old adage becomes increasingly relevant for owners of businesses of all kinds, including Eddy Nickell, pharmacist and owner of Lyon Drug Store, 201 Main St., in Eddyville.

Venture River Water Park in Eddyville found itself vulnerable this summer from the procedural changes and safety precautions arising from the global pandemic.

While most of America was social distancing, one Paducah native took it to new heights by completing a trek of the Appalachian Trail just days ago.

Kentucky ranks among the top five states nationwide in drug overdose deaths since 2017, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Lyon County Sheriff Brent White sees that as a major problem now affecting the region.

Former Kuttawa City Clerk Katie L. Harrison, 42, who had been sentenced to nine years imprisonment, was paroled and released after serving seven months and three weeks. The Kentucky Department of Corrections notified Lyon County Sheriff Brent White of the decision Thursday, the same day she …

The “new normal” might be the term most closely associated with the coronavirus pandemic. Others, such as unpredictability and uncertainty, perhaps most accurately describe the path from the old normal to the new.

Last Thursday’s regularly-scheduled KHSAA Board of Controls meeting ended at the same result with which it started.

When members of the Lyon County middle and high schools’ bands and their parents heard that the new band director spent nearly a quarter-century in the U.S. Army, most probably thought about the discipline and precision he would bring to the job.

Maybe he was tired of self-isolating during the pandemic. Maybe he just wanted a trip into town. Or, maybe he was flashing back to the commonwealth of Kentucky’s former slogan, “Unbridled Spirit.”

As an agriculture student at Caldwell County High School just a few years ago, Matthew McIntosh thought he knew what it would be like to become a high school agriculture teacher.

CADIZ — Jill Clark returned to the Trigg County Courthouse on Tuesday where she had presided over the 56th Judicial District Court of Kentucky for 20 years, but the occasion was not a matter of law.

Three families, like so many other small business owners, are weathering the economic storm of the COVID-19 pandemic by continuing to operate the Eddyville restaurants they originated.