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The Herald-News is a part of the Horse Cave-based Jobe Publishing's news and advertising network that, in addition to Metcalfe County, also serves neighboring Barren and Metcalfe Counties, along with Butler, Edmonson and Hart Counties by virtue of Jobe's ownership of weekly newspapers in the aforementioned counties. [1]
Tompkinsville is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Monroe County, Kentucky, United States. [4] The population was 2,309 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] The city was named after Vice President Daniel D. Tompkins who served under President James Monroe , for whom the county was named.
Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
Kentucky is one of just three states in the nation to elect its next governor in 2023, and the official field of candidates is crowded. Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, is seeking his second term in ...
The Tompkinsville National Cemetery was located on the corner of 2nd & Emberton Streets in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky. The cemetery is known today as The Old Soldiers Cemetery . The old Civil War cemetery was marked with a Kentucky Historical Society Roadside Marker on July 9, 2012.
President Abraham Lincoln's half third cousin, Thomas Lincoln (1780–1844), lived in the Meshack Creek area of present-day Monroe County and served two terms as constable of Cumberland County in 1802 and 1804. In 1810 he left Kentucky and migrated to Ohio and Indiana.
Kentucky Route 163 (KY 163) is a 29.823-mile-long (47.995 km) state highway that traverses through two counties in south-central Kentucky.It runs from Tennessee State Route 51 at the Kentucky-Tennessee border south of Hestand to U.S. Route 68, Kentucky Route 80, and East Stockton Street in Edmonton via Tompkinsville.
In 2020, KY 163 was rerouted to the new Tompkinsville Bypass, which was opened to traffic after almost three years since construction began in November 2017. [2] Once the bypass route was completed and opened to traffic in 2020, KY 163 was rerouted onto the bypass; the old alignment of KY 163 in Tompkinsville was redesignated as KY 375.