Daniel Boone News

Before European settlers followed James Harrod and Daniel Boone into Kentucky, the Bluegrass region for centuries had been home to native people the Europeans called Indians.

When the school year began in August, there was a fair share of new faces in the classrooms.

Search teams entered their seventh day looking for a McCreary County man whose canoe overturned last week on the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River near Alum Ford.

Retired circuit judge William Jennings, along with Dr. Virgil Grant, pastor of Eastside Community Church and president of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, will serve as honorary co-chairs for the annual "Heroes" campaign for the Daniel Boone Chapter of the American Red Cross.

As their first guest speaker of 2011, the Madisonville Rotary Club welcomed the Commissioner of Kentucky's Department of Parks, Gerry van der Meer, who spoke out on the history surrounding our state's parks, their financial impact on the commonwealth, and their importance within today's modernized world.