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The Ashland Commercial Historic District is a designated historic district bounded by 13th Street, Carter Avenue, 18th Street, and Front Street in Downtown Ashland, Kentucky. [2] It is composed of 84 properties, including such prominent buildings as the Camayo Arcade , Crump and Field Grocery Company , First Presbyterian Church , Paramount Arts ...
Longtime Ashland media member Larry Stine died suddenly Saturday. He was fondly remembered for the huge role he played in promoting Ashland community.
Ashland, first known as "Poage Settlement" and "Poage's Landing", was settled by at least two related groups of the Poage family of Virginia.Robert Poage and his sons Robert Jr., and George, along with Major George Poage and his son John, held title to thousands of acres obtained by assignment from the William Bell patent and treasury land warrants.
Ashland is home to two newspapers: The Independent and The Greater Ashland Beacon. The Daily Independent is a five-day morning daily newspaper which covers the city and the surrounding metropolitan area. In addition, it offers national, state and regional news/sports coverage via reprints of Associated Press and CNHI wire reports and columns ...
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He was raised in the small town of Dawson Springs, where his father owned a furniture store, operated a funeral home, and served as mayor. [2] His father, grandfather, and uncle were Primitive Baptist lay ministers, and in his childhood years, Beshear attended both his father's church and the Christian Church where his mother was a member. [3]
O n Nov. 18, 2014, Mats Steen died from Duchenne muscular dystrophy.The 25-year-old Norwegian video gamer had been diagnosed with the disease as a toddler, started using a wheelchair at age 10 ...
Boyd County was the 107th of 120 counties formed in Kentucky and was established in 1860 from parts of surrounding Greenup, Carter, and Lawrence Counties. [3] It was named for Linn Boyd of Paducah, former U.S. congressman, speaker of the United States House of Representatives, who died in 1859 soon after being elected lieutenant governor of Kentucky.