A new anchor will join the morning lineup at Lexington’s WTVQ ABC 36 later this month. T. Walker Simmons, who comes to WTVQ from an NBC affiliate in Charleston, S.C., will join the station June 24, anchoring “Good Morning Kentucky” from 5 to 7 a.m. and reporting during the 9 a.m. to noon time slot, […]
Incumbent District 4 Urban County Council member Brenda Monarrez and Emma Curtis will face one another in the upcoming November election after securing the top votes on Tuesday night. Monarrez, who narrowly won over Brack Marquette in November 2022, is the first person of Latin American descent to serve on the council. She said she’s […]
The new United Way of the Bluegrass Marksbury Family WayPoint Center has opened in Lexington’s east-end neighborhood. The renovation of the center, which previously was a vacant building that at one point was slated for demolition, was funded by the Marksbury Family Foundation. It will provide opportunities for under-served families and individuals to take advantage […]
Randy Edwards knows exactly where he was the night of Oct. 2, 2015. It was the start of the weekend that lives on in local memory as the “1,000 year flood” after the Columbia area was inundated with more than 20 inches of rain in four days, busting several small dams, including two crucial ones […]
A parent and member of the Fayette Schools’ Equity Council Committee said she will contest a decision announced Tuesday night not to add a sixth grade program to Rise STEM Academy for Girls as planned. The magnet school opened in 2020 and initially launched with grades kindergarten through second with a long-term plan to expand […]
When you think of the American Dream, the familiar image of a sunny home ringed in by a white picket fence might come to mind. The home at 403 Queensway Drive in Lexington, the latest home we’re featuring in our Million Dollar Listing series, comes pretty close to that vision, albeit with its own Kentucky […]
In 1958, Lexington pharmacist William K. “Buddy” Wheeler opened what he once said he thought would be “a small drugstore that I could operate for a few years, then move on to having a big store.” Instead, Wheeler Pharmacy became a Romany Road landmark that remains in operation 66 years later. Wheeler, 89, died Thursday. […]
A 29-year-old man has died in Lexington’s first homicide this year, according to the Lexington Police Department and the Fayette County Coroner’s Office. Lexington police say they were called to the 1000 block of McClain Drive just before 3:30 a.m. Sunday for a shooting with a victim. Officers found a victim who had been shot […]
The Town Branch, the waterway Lexington was founded on, has largely been hidden from view for a century. But workers are now cleaning out vegetation and restoring the banks of part of the creek that will be a focal point for the new $39 million Town Branch Park, a roughly 10-acre park in the center […]